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Murder At the Fair

Murder At the Fair
  • Author(s): Verity Bright
  • Location(s): Bedfordshire
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1920s

Summer flowers, warm sunshine, a maypole dance and… is that another murder? A tricky case is afoot for Lady Swift! Summer, 1921. Lady Eleanor Swift, the best amateur sleuth in the country, is delighted to be in charge of...

Murder At The Priory Hotel (Flora Steele #4)

Murder At The Priory Hotel (Flora Steele #4)
  • Author(s): Merryn Allingham
  • Location(s): Sussex, Portsmouth
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): 1957

Join Flora Steele – bookshop owner, bicycle-rider, and amateur detective – as she faces her most puzzling case yet! Sussex, 1957: When Flora Steele and handsome crime writer Jack Carrington attend the grand re-opening of the Priory Hotel in...

Murder Fest

Murder Fest
  • Author(s): Julie Wassmer
  • Location(s): Whitstable
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘While Oxford had Morse, Whitstable, famous for its oysters, has Pearl’ Daily Mail Murder Fest is the sixth book in Julie Wassmer’s popular crime series – now a major Acorn TV drama, Whitstable Pearl, starring Kerry Godliman as private...

Murder In A French Village (Flora Steele Mystery #7)

Murder In A French Village (Flora Steele Mystery #7)
  • Author(s): Merryn Allingham
  • Location(s): Provence, Sussex
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): 1950s

Join bookshop owner Flora Steele and handsome writer Jack Carrington as they set off on a French adventure and solve a chilling crime! Jack is stunned to receive a call from his estranged mother, Sybil, asking him to drop...

Murder On The Pier (Flora Steele #2)

Murder On The Pier (Flora Steele #2)
  • Author(s): Merryn Allingham
  • Location(s): Sussex
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Mid 1950s

Meet Flora Steele – bookshop owner, bicycle-rider, daydreamer and amateur detective! Sussex, 1956: When bookshop owner Flora Steele goes for a walk along the pier she isn’t expecting to spot a young woman’s body in the stormy waters below....

My Only Child

My Only Child
  • Author(s): Sam Vickery
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

There he is, my baby boy. His eyes are closed, his tiny rosebud mouth is pursed in sleep. My eyes well up as I catch a whiff of his newborn skin and I swallow back a wave of emotion....

No Place to Hide

No Place to Hide
  • Author(s): J S Monroe
  • Location(s): Cambridge, Cornwall, Maze Hill
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary and 1998

You might be paranoid, but that doesn’t mean they’re not watching you. Adam lives a picture-perfect life: happy marriage, two young children, and a flourishing career as a doctor. But Adam also lives with a secret. Hospital CCTV, strangers’...

Offshore

Offshore
  • Author(s): Penelope Fitzgerald
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Novella
  • Era(s): 1961

Offshore possesses perfect, very odd pitch. In just over 130 pages of the wittiest and most melancholy prose, Penelope Fitzgerald illuminates the lives of “creatures neither of firm land nor water”–a group of barge-dwellers in London’s Battersea Reach, circa...

Old Girls Behaving Badly

Old Girls Behaving Badly
  • Author(s): Kate Galley
  • Location(s): London, North Norfolk, The Chilterns
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Gina Knight is looking forward to the prospect of retirement with her husband of forty-three years. Until, to her surprise, said husband decides he needs to ‘find himself’ – alone – and disappears to Santa Fe, leaving a Dear...

On Borrowed Time

On Borrowed Time
  • Author(s): Adam Croft
  • Location(s): Rutland
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Book two in a stunning new crime series from 2m+ international bestseller Adam Croft. Each morning, the first train of the day leaves Oakham station and thunders through a tunnel under the village of Manton. But today the driver...

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