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The Daughter of River Valley

The Daughter of River Valley
  • Author(s): Victoria Cornwall
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Victorian

Cornwall, 1861 Beth Jago appears to have the idyllic life, she has a trade to earn a living and a cottage of her own in Cornwall’s beautiful River Valley. Yet appearances can be deceptive … Beth has a secret....

The Dead of Winter

The Dead of Winter
  • Author(s): Nicola Upson
  • Location(s): St Michael's Mount
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): 1938

Josephine Tey 9 December 1938, and storm clouds hover once again over Europe. Josephine Tey and Archie Penrose gather with friends for a Cornish Christmas, but two strange and brutal deaths on St Michael’s Mount – and the unexpected...

The Death at the Vineyard

The Death at the Vineyard
  • Author(s): Emylia Hall
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

(A Shell House Detectives Mystery Book 4) At Shoreline Vines, high on the Cornish cliffs, the Harper family are preparing to welcome glamorous investor Celine Chevalier to their vineyard. They desperately need Celine’s backing to keep their business afloat....

The Death of Mrs Westaway

The Death of Mrs Westaway
  • Author(s): Ruth Ware
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Present day

When Harriet Westaway receives an unexpected letter telling her she’s inherited a substantial bequest from her Cornish grandmother, it seems like the answer to her prayers. There’s just one problem – Hal’s real grandparents died more than twenty years...

The Disappearance

The Disappearance
  • Author(s): Annabel Kantaria
  • Location(s): Cornwall, Greece, Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Dual timeline 1970s / 2017

In a family built on lies, who can you trust? Audrey Bailey will never forget the moment she met Ralph Templeton in the sweltering heat of a Bombay café. Her lonely life over, she was soon married with two...

The Double Life of Daisy Hemmings

The Double Life of Daisy Hemmings
  • Author(s): Joanna Nadin
  • Location(s): Cornwall, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 1988 / 2018

What happens when truth and lies collide? The Double Life of Daisy Hemmings is an intoxicating mystery across past and present from Joanna Nadin. 1988, Cornwall. At seventeen, Jason wants much more from life than working in his father’s...

The Draw of the Sea

The Draw of the Sea
  • Author(s): Wyl Menmuir
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Wyl Menmuir’s The Draw of the Sea is a beautifully written and deeply moving portrait of the Cornish Coast and the people who make their livings there, examining the ephemeral but universal pull the sea holds over the human...

The Farm at the Edge of the World

The Farm at the Edge of the World
  • Author(s): Sarah Vaughan
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present day and 1943-4

A timeslip story about love, loss and forgiveness. Three generations of women; a secret to atone for; all played out on a stretch of north Cornish coast. 1939, and Will and Alice are evacuated to a granite farm in...

The Feast

The Feast
  • Author(s): Margaret Kennedy
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1947

Cornwall, Midsummer 1947. Pendizack Manor Hotel has just been buried in the rubble of a collapsed cliff. Seven guests have perished, but what brought this strange assembly together for a moonlit feast before this Act of God – or...

The Ferryman’s Daughter

The Ferryman’s Daughter
  • Author(s): Juliet Greenwood
  • Location(s): St Ives, River Hayle
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): First World War

Can Hester help her family escape desperate poverty and fulfil her dreams? 1908: Hester always loved her mother best, her father had always been a hard man to like, spending more time (and money) in the local than with...

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