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Inspector Hobbes and the Blood

Inspector Hobbes and the Blood
  • Author(s): Wilkie Martin
  • Location(s): Cirencester
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fantasy, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Book 1 in a 4 books series set in The Cotswolds in Sorenchester – a fictional version of Cirencester. A reporter with nothing to lose. An inspector with something to hide. The Cotswolds’ newest odd couple is on the...

Inspector Hobbes and the Bones

Inspector Hobbes and the Bones
  • Author(s): Wilkie Martin
  • Location(s): The Cotswolds
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Fantasy, Humour
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Certain trouble lies ahead for Andy Caplet. Is the apparently charming young woman who attempts to seduce him merely setting him up for blackmail, or is something even more sinister afoot? Inspector Hobbes certainly believes so, and, though he’s...

Inspector Hobbes and the Curse

Inspector Hobbes and the Curse
  • Author(s): Wilkie Martin
  • Location(s): The Cotswolds
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Fantasy, Humour
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Andy Caplet becomes infatuated with a dangerously beautiful woman during Inspector Hobbes’s investigations which are apparently connected to a rash of big cat sightings; and something horrible seems to be lurking in the woods.

Inspector Hobbes and the Gold Diggers

Inspector Hobbes and the Gold Diggers
  • Author(s): Wilkie Martin
  • Location(s): The Cotswolds, Wales
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Fantasy, Humour
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Receiving unwanted attention after foiling an armed robbery, the unhuman Inspector Hobbes takes a long-overdue camping holiday, with Andy, his accident-prone friend, and Dregs, the delinquent dog. In the bleak and dangerous Blacker Mountains, Andy stumbles across something shocking,...

Instructions for a Heatwave

Instructions for a Heatwave
  • Author(s): Maggie O'Farrell
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1976

It’s July 1976. In London, it hasn’t rained for months, gardens are filled with aphids, water comes from a standpipe, and Robert Riordan tells his wife Gretta that he’s going round the corner to buy a newspaper. He doesn’t...

Interpretations of Love

Interpretations of Love
  • Author(s): Jane Campbell
  • Location(s): England, Liverpool, Oxford
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Second half 20th Century

Stretching from war-torn 1940’s Liverpool to Oxford at the end of the century, this story explores the emotional landscape of the time and the impact tiny moments of betrayal can have on our relationships in the years that follow....

Into the Fire

Into the Fire
  • Author(s): Rachael Blok
  • Location(s): St Albans
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Eleven guests. Three nights. One murderer. In a stately mansion in the Hertfordshire countryside, sisters Lois and Ebba throw a launch party for their new venture: Archipelago, a virtual reality game. In attendance are their celebrity investors including a...

Into The Unknown

Into The Unknown
  • Author(s): Lorna Peel
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): World War Two

London on 3 September 1939 is in upheaval. War is inevitable. Into this turmoil steps Kate Sheridan, newly arrived from Ireland to live with her aunt and uncle and look for work. When she meets Flight Lieutenant Charlie Butler...

Intrusion: A Novel

Intrusion: A Novel
  • Author(s): Mary McCluskey
  • Location(s): California, Sussex
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Kat and Scott Hamilton are dealing with the hardest of losses: the death of their only child. While Scott throws himself back into his law practice in Los Angeles, Kat is hesitant to rejoin the workplace and instead spends...

Invisible Borders: New Women’s Writing from Cornwall

Invisible Borders: New Women’s Writing from Cornwall
  • Author(s): Linda Cleary (editor)
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Poetry, Short Stories
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A collection of Cornwall inspired poetry and prose by twenty three new and established women writers, ‘Invisible Borders’ is a lyrical journey through the Cornish coastline, wild rural landscape and towns, reaching outward to far-flung lands in a rich...

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