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Murder in Kentish Town: an elegant mystery set in Bohemian London

Murder in Kentish Town: an elegant mystery set in Bohemian London
  • Author(s): Sabina Manea
  • Location(s): North London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A murder disguised as suicide presents a challenge for a sharp investigator. When London police come across the body of a young woman, dead in her bathtub, it looks like a classic case of suicide. However, for deft civilian...

Murder in Primrose Hill

Murder in Primrose Hill
  • Author(s): Sabina Manea
  • Location(s): North London
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery, Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A glitzy social media influencer gets unliked in a rather drastic fashion in this unputdownable contemporary whodunnit… When celebrity baker Ruthie Simmons invited friends to her chocolate-boxy London home, she had planned only a small get-together with bubbles, a...

Murder in Regent’s Park

Murder in Regent’s Park
  • Author(s): Christina Koning
  • Location(s): London, The West End
  • Genre(s): Crime, Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1929

(Blind Detective 2) First published as Game of Chance under A. C. Koning. 1929. Blinded war veteran Frederick Rowlands has escaped the bustle of London to establish a secure life for himself and his family in the countryside. But...

Murder in the Abbey

Murder in the Abbey
  • Author(s): Susan Kiernan-Lewis
  • Location(s): The Cotswolds
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): contemporary

Situated in the rolling hills of England’s pastoral Cotswolds, the Abbey is a charming Bed & Breakfast allowing its guests to taste the pleasures of rank and prestige from a bygone era—until murder slams face first onto its welcome...

Murder in the Fens

Murder in the Fens
  • Author(s): Clare Chase
  • Location(s): Cambridge
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

As always at the Cambridge constabulary, the case turns personal. Detective Blake is exhausted after the arrival of a new baby with wayward wife Babette, and Tara is keen to put as much distance between herself and Blake as...

Murder in the Lakes

Murder in the Lakes
  • Author(s): Rachel Amphlett
  • Location(s): The Lake District
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A wedding, a missing fiancée, and a murder – Melody Harper is about to discover just how dangerous “I do” can be… Fledgling private detective Melody Harper is down on her luck and nursing a black eye when she’s...

Murder in the New Forest

Murder in the New Forest
  • Author(s): Carol Cole
  • Location(s): New Forest
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Present Day

The first gripping standalone title in a brand new detective series A woman’s body lies in the heather, her neck broken. Her horse watches nervously from a few paces away. Despite looking like an accident, it doesn’t take long...

Murder in Trafalgar Square

Murder in Trafalgar Square
  • Author(s): Michelle Salter
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1910

London, 1910 Coral Fairbanks is a suffragette, actress, and artist’s muse, whose suffragette friends help her cope with her husband’s death – though some disapprove of the nude portrait of her displayed in the National Portrait Gallery. Guy Flynn...

Murder Lust

Murder Lust
  • Author(s): Candy Denman
  • Location(s): Hastings
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Police doctor Callie Hughes is having doubts about her life on the south coast after her boyfriend’s move to Belfast, when a mysterious death draws her once again into a criminal investigation. A woman is found dead in a...

Murder Most Foul

Murder Most Foul
  • Author(s): Guy Jenkin
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery, Historical
  • Era(s): 1590s

It’s 1593, Elizabeth I is Queen and everyone is terrified of the worst outbreak of plague in a generation. Shakespeare has only written six plays and is lagging behind his friend Christopher Marlowe, London’s leading playwright. When Marlowe is...

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