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Private Lives

Private Lives
  • Author(s): J G Harlond
  • Location(s): Bideford
  • Genre(s): Historical, Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): World War 2

Cozy crime with a sinister twist in wartime England. While reluctant wartime detective Bob Robbins is enjoying a few days’ holiday on the North Devon coast he becomes involved in a shooting incident on a derelict farm. An elderly...

Project Darcy

Project Darcy
  • Author(s): Jane Odiwe
  • Location(s): London, Steventon
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Contemporary/Regency

It is high summer when Ellie Bentley joins an archaeological dig at Jane Austen’s childhood home. She’s always had a talent for ‘seeing’ into the past and is not easily disturbed by her encounters with Mr Darcy’s ghost at...

Promise of Purity

Promise of Purity
  • Author(s): Marguerite Martin Gray
  • Location(s): Hampton Court
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1661

Is true purity found in the laws of religion or in the hearts of the faithful? East Molesey, England, 1661 With the return of the exiled king to his rightful throne, Kate Sinclair’s world of black and white now...

Proof Toxic

Proof Toxic
  • Author(s): Susan Parry
  • Location(s): Yorkshire Dales
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Current

Simon Pringle’s elderly colleague, Professor Benson, is worried that the police suspect he killed his wife, Dawn. Simon is reluctant to be drawn into the family’s trauma, but stepdaughter, Rachel, insists that he finds out how her mother died....

Psychic Surveys Book One: The Haunting of Highdown Hall

Psychic Surveys Book One: The Haunting of Highdown Hall
  • Author(s): Shani Struthers
  • Location(s): Lewes
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Paranormal
  • Era(s): Modern

The latest in a long line of psychically-gifted females, Ruby Davis can see through the veil that separates this world and the next, helping grounded souls to move towards the light – or ‘home’ as Ruby calls it. Not...

Psychic Surveys Book Two: Rise to Me

Psychic Surveys Book Two: Rise to Me
  • Author(s): Shani Struthers
  • Location(s): Lewes
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Paranormal
  • Era(s): Modern

“This isn’t a ghost we’re dealing with. If only it were that simple…” Eighteen years ago, when psychic Ruby Davis was a child, her mother – also a psychic – suffered a nervous breakdown. Ruby was never told why....

Psycho by the Sea (A Constable Twitten Mystery)

Psycho by the Sea (A Constable Twitten Mystery)
  • Author(s): Lynne Truss
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Crime, Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1950s

‘A giddy spell of sheer delight!’ Praise for the Constable Twitten Series, Daily Mail In the latest installment of this funny, charming and quirky series – longlisted for the acclaimed CWA Historical Dagger – our trio of redoubtable detectives...

Pubs & Inns of England and Wales

Pubs & Inns of England and Wales
  • Author(s): Alastair Sawday
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Food and Drink

Enjoy great food, drink and company at our favourite pubs and inns. We’ve handpicked new gems for you to explore, including our latest Award winners. Authentic favourites, city pubs, riverside inns, bars on the beach … All yours to...

Purple Shroud

Purple Shroud
  • Author(s): Susan Parry
  • Location(s): Yorkshire Dales
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Current

The body of a man lies half-hidden in the purple heather, stabbed to death on the North York Moors. Detective Sergeants Nina Featherstone and Hazel Fuller set out to discover his identity and locate the mystery woman who accompanied...

Putney

Putney
  • Author(s): Sofka Zinovieff
  • Location(s): Putney, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

It is the 1970s and Ralph, an up-and-coming composer, is visiting Edmund Greenslay at his riverside home in Putney to discuss a collaboration. Through the house’s colourful rooms and unruly garden flits nine-year-old Daphne – dark, teasing, slippery as...

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