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Redhead

Redhead
  • Author(s): Stan Jackson
  • Location(s): Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Present

University professor and part-time private investigator Perry Webster takes on a new assignment when he gets an offer he can’t refuse. A previously unknown member of his wife’s family turns up out of the blue with a strange request...

Refugee Boy

Refugee Boy
  • Author(s): Benjamin Zephaniah
  • Location(s): Eritrea, Ethiopia, London
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Acclaimed performance poet and novelist Benjamin Zephaniah’s honest, wry and poignant story of a young refugee left in London is of even more power and pertinence today than when it was first published. Life is not safe for Alem....

Reliability of Rope

Reliability of Rope
  • Author(s): Samantha Priestley
  • Location(s): Lyme Regis
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern day

When a hand delivered invitation to a funeral is dropped through Kate’s door by mistake, she immediately knows she needs to attend. During the service she whispers ‘Please forgive me’ to the dead man Peter, and afterwards meets his...

Remain Silent

Remain Silent
  • Author(s): Susie Steiner
  • Location(s): Cambridgeshire
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The body of a young migrant is found hanging from a tree. No signs of struggle. No indication that it is anything other than a tragic suicide. Except for a note, pinned to his trousers, that reads ‘The dead...

Remember My Name

Remember My Name
  • Author(s): Abbey Clancy
  • Location(s): Liverpool
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour

From the moment Liverpool teenager Jess stars in the school musical, she knows that she’s GOT to be a star. Fast forward a few years and the closest the now 22 year old Jessica has got to stardom is...

Remembrance Day

Remembrance Day
  • Author(s): Leah Fleming
  • Location(s): Yorkshire, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1914 and 2003

Lest we forget… A poignant tale of love and loss for fans of Nadine Dorries and Katie Flynn. It’s 2003 and at over 100 years old, Selma Dixon is the last link to the hidden truth behind her village’s...

Reparation

Reparation
  • Author(s): Gaby Koppel
  • Location(s): Stamford Hill, Budapest, Cardiff
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

1997 and Elizabeth’s emigre parents approach retirement in straitened circumstances. Mutti has come up with a novel solution – she is going to claim compensation from the Hungarian Government – hard enough for someone with a clear mind, but...

Reprobation

Reprobation
  • Author(s): Catherine Fearns
  • Location(s): Liverpool
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern Day

Dr. Helen Hope is a lecturer in eschatology – the study of death, judgement, and the destiny of humankind. She is also a Calvinist nun, her life devoted to atoning for a secret crime. When a body is found...

Reservoir 13

Reservoir 13
  • Author(s): Jon McGregor
  • Location(s): The Peak District
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Midwinter in the early years of this century. A teenage girl on holiday has gone missing in the hills at the heart of England. The villagers are called up to join the search, fanning out across the moors as...

Revelation

Revelation
  • Author(s): C J Sansom
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 16th Century

(The Shardlake Series Book 4) The fourth novel in the Shardlake series. Spring, 1543. King Henry VIII is wooing Lady Catherine Parr, whom he wants for his sixth wife. Archbishop Cranmer and the embattled Protestant faction at court are...

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