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- Location(s): Dorset
- Genre(s): Romance, Mystery, Time Slip
Maddie is restless in London. She has friends, a job and a sort-of boyfriend, but something in her life is missing. Then she visits the ancient village of Walditch, deep in the Dorset countryside. Something stirs in her, and...
- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance, Suspense
- Era(s): Contemporary
Oliver Foxley is an acclaimed movie star and global heartthrob. But under the glare of the spotlight his ‘perfect’ life – and marriage – is slowly starting to crumble. Cara Penhaligon is a struggling young Cornish artist, and widowed...
The Distant Dead – (The Detective’s Daughter #8)
- Location(s): London, Tewkesbury
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): 1940s & Contemporary Dual timeline
Cleaner-turned-detective Stella Darnell connects a murder in Tewkesbury Abbey to a decades-old mystery in wartime London. London, 1940 A woman lies dead in a bombed-out house. It looks like she’s another tragic casualty of the Blitz, until police pathologist...
- Location(s): Bath
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): World War II and the present
In Second World War Bath, young, naïve wireless engineer Will meets Austrian refugee Elsa Klein: she is sophisticated, witty and worldly, and at last his life seems to make sense . . . until, soon after, the newly married...
The Girl with the Scarlet Ribbon
- Location(s): Florence, Cornwall, London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): WWII and 2019
Italy, 1943. A missing painting. A war-scarred city. A brave young girl on a black bicycle risking her life for the country she loved… When Sofia loses her adored father, famous painter Riccardo, she is broken-hearted. Desperate to bring...
- Location(s): Dorset, Italian Riviera
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1960s / contemporary
Dorset, 1965: twenty-five-year-old aspiring artist Marilyn longs to escape to London, but her family relies on her wages from the hotel on the cliff. Then one day Marilyn meets Bruno, an intriguing Italian, and the two fall madly in...
- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Away from the hotels and holiday lets, there is an unseen side of Cornwall, where the shifting uncertainties of the future breed resentment and mistrust. Melody Janie is hidden. She lives alone in a caravan in Bones Break: a...
- Location(s): Wiltshire
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
An original, intelligent and twisty thriller set in rural Wiltshire. A dead body in a crop circle sends a coded message. Can DI Silas Hart uncover the chilling truth before it’s too late? It isn’t unusual for crop circles...
- Location(s): Europe, Gloucestershire, Ireland
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): early twentieth century
GLOUCESTER, 1915. Haunted by his father’s madness, Tom Casey flees home after being falsely accused of murder. He survives the First World War and the Irish War for Independence. But survival demands a heavy price: the loss of his...
The Particular Charm of Miss Jane Austen
- Location(s): Bath
- Genre(s): Mystery, Romance
- Era(s): Present Day
It’s September, and the beautiful city of Bath is playing host to the annual Jane Austen Festival, a celebration of the famous author and her works. Rose Wallace, Bath resident and avid Jane Austen fan, can’t wait for her...
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