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Death on the River

Death on the River
  • Author(s): Clare Chase
  • Location(s): Cambridge
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When a body is pulled from the deep and watery fens on the outskirts of town, everybody assumes it was a tragic accident. But Detective Tara Thorpe, newly joined and determined to prove herself, suspects there’s more to the...

Death on the Thames

Death on the Thames
  • Author(s): Alan Johnson
  • Location(s): West London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Later 20th Century, Early 21st

1999. A young Detective Constable Louise Mangan crosses the Thames one misty morning in pursuit of a killer. She finds a tranquil community on a leafy island close to Hampton Court Palace, but soon realises that all is not...

Death Ship of Dartmouth

Death Ship of Dartmouth
  • Author(s): Michael Jecks
  • Location(s): Dartmouth
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Medieval

In Dartmouth, a man is found lying dead in the road. But the inhabitants of this little haven dismiss his death as a drunken accident, their attention turned to more worrying matters – piracy. A ship, the St John,...

Death Surge, A DI Andy Horton Mystery (10)

Death Surge, A DI Andy Horton Mystery (10)
  • Author(s): Pauline Rowson
  • Location(s): Isle of Wight, Gosport, Portsmouth
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A telephone call from a frantic Sergeant Cantelli to say that his nephew is missing cuts short DI Andy Horton’s sailing trip to France. What began as the hunt for a missing man becomes the search for a ruthless...

Death Waits for no Lady

Death Waits for no Lady
  • Author(s): James Andrew
  • Location(s): North Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1920s

Police are called to a large house after the parlour maid discovers the wealthy owner’s body The peace of a Yorkshire town is disturbed when one of its most prominent residents is murdered. Inspector Blades and Sergeant Peacock investigate…...

Death, Adjourned

Death, Adjourned
  • Author(s): Simon Michael
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1969

London, 1969 With the Kray twins incarcerated for 30 years, ex-boxer, ex-criminal and now successful barrister Childs Holborne seems to have checkmated his childhood adversaries. But with thousands of EastEnders crammed into Dickensian slum housing, there are even more...

Deceit in May

Deceit in May
  • Author(s): Roz Ryszka-Onions
  • Location(s): Bosham
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): contemporary

When settling in the picturesque harbour of Bosham, Keira hopes to lay the ghosts of her past to rest. Expecting a quiet life in this sleepy village, which only comes alive in the tourist season, she soon finds herself...

Decked

Decked
  • Author(s): Carol Higgins Clark
  • Location(s): The Atlantic Ocean, Oxford
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

(Regan Reilly Mysteries Book 1) The daughter of a successful mystery writer and a P.I. with pizzazz, Regan Reilly is attending her class reunion at St. Polycarp’s England, when the long-dead body of her former roommate turns up under...

Deep Blue Sea

Deep Blue Sea
  • Author(s): Tasmina Perry
  • Location(s): London, Thailand
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Beneath the shimmering surface lies a dark secret… Diana and Julian Denver have the world at their feet. With a blissful marriage, a darling son and beautiful homes in London and the country, Diana’s life, to the outside world,...

Deep Cover

Deep Cover
  • Author(s): Leigh Russell
  • Location(s): York
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

(A DI Geraldine Steel Thriller Book 16) When a sex worker dies in suspicious circumstances in York, Detective Inspector Geraldine Steel struggles to remain focused on the murder investigation. She is distracted by her worries about her colleague and...

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