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Magpie Lane

Magpie Lane
  • Author(s): Lucy Atkins
  • Location(s): Oxford
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When the eight-year-old daughter of an Oxford College Master vanishes in the middle of the night, police turn to the Scottish nanny, Dee, for answers. As Dee looks back over her time in the Master’s Lodging – an eerie...

Make Her Pay

Make Her Pay
  • Author(s): Miranda Rijks
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Current Day

Leonie has just met the man of her dreams. But she has a secret. Years ago, she was involved in an accident and someone died. Now, as her wedding draws near, it seems someone is out to get her....

Making a Killing

Making a Killing
  • Author(s): Cara Hunter
  • Location(s): Oxford
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

(DI Fawley, Book 7) In 2016, eight-year-old Daisy Mason vanished from her Oxford home. Her disappearance made the national press and the final culprit shocked everyone. DCI Adam Fawley remembers the case well, he arrested Daisy’s mother for murder...

MAKING A KILLING

MAKING A KILLING
  • Author(s): Bud Craig
  • Location(s): Salford
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A private detective’s investigation into an affair hots up when the suspect is murdered When a fight breaks out at a Boxing Day fancy dress party, attendee Gus Keane puts the fracas down to festive exuberance and too much...

Making Waves at Penvennan Cove

Making Waves at Penvennan Cove
  • Author(s): Linn B Halton
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Kerra Shaw feels that all the pieces of her life are finally coming together. She has a fulfilling job helping small businesses in the local community and, most importantly, she has finally got together with her childhood sweetheart, Ross...

Mamele

Mamele
  • Author(s): Gemma Reeves
  • Location(s): Broadstairs
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘When my mother washed my hair she crooned, mamele, mamele, into my ear. Little mother, meaning little daughter, meaning you’re a good girl, Edie.’ Edie lives with her partner Joanna in a crumbling country house in Broadstairs. They have...

Man in Armour

Man in Armour
  • Author(s): Siobhan McKenna
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

How much money is enough? How powerful do you want to be? And what price will it extract from you? An intriguing, powerful and hard-hitting novel set in the world of big money and big deals, written by a...

Manchester Happened

Manchester Happened
  • Author(s): Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
  • Location(s): Uganda, Manchester
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Short Stories
  • Era(s): early 21st century

An ambitious and assured collection of short stories from the internationally acclaimed author of Kintu If there’s one thing the characters in Jennifer Makumbi’s stories know, it’s how to field a question. ‘Let me buy you a cup of...

Mark My Words

Mark My Words
  • Author(s): Muhammad Khan
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Is the truth as simple as black and white? Mark My Words is the searing novel from Branford Boase Award-winner and 2020 World Book Day author Muhammad Khan, asking who you can trust when all you see is lies....

Marking Time (The Cazalet Chronicle Book 2)

Marking Time (The Cazalet Chronicle Book 2)
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Jane Howard
  • Location(s): Sussex
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1939

Home Place, Sussex, 1939. The English family at war . . . The sunlit days of childish games and family meals are over, as the shadows of war roll in to cloud the lives of one English family. At...

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