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The Darkest Secret

The Darkest Secret
  • Author(s): Alex Marwood
  • Location(s): Bournemouth
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

My goddaughter, Coco Jackson, disappeared from her family’s holiday home in Bournemouth on the night of Sunday/Monday August 29/30th, the bank holiday weekend just gone. Coco is three years old. When identical twin Coco goes missing during a family...

The Family Retreat

The Family Retreat
  • Author(s): Bev Thomas
  • Location(s): Dorset
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Rob decides the family needs to get away for the summer Jess is not convinced—won’t all the things they’re escaping be waiting for them on their return? But the kids are thrilled, and before long their idyllic little...

The French Lieutenant’s Woman

The French Lieutenant’s Woman
  • Author(s): John Fowles
  • Location(s): Exeter, Lyme Regis
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Mid 1800s

Sarah Woodruff is the woman of the title, the French Lieutenant’s Woman, also known as the “Tragedy”. She lives in the coastal town of Lyme Regis, as a disgraced woman, supposedly abandoned by a French naval officer named Varguennes,...

Bay of Secrets

Bay of Secrets
  • Author(s): Rosanna Ley
  • Location(s): Barcelona, Dorset, Fuerteventura
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s to present

Spain, 1939. Following the wishes of her parents to keep her safe during the war, a young girl, Julia, enters a convent in Barcelona. Looking for a way to maintain her links to the outside world, she volunteers to...

Just Between Us

Just Between Us
  • Author(s): Adele Parks
  • Location(s): Dorset, London, Lyme Regis
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): 2020

Lost. Missing. Murdered? And both her husbands are suspects… Kylie Gillingham’s disappearance has gripped the nation: the woman with a shocking secret – married to two men at the same time – is missing, presumed dead. And both her...

On Chesil Beach

On Chesil Beach
  • Author(s): Ian McEwan
  • Location(s): Dorset
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1962

It is July 1962. Edward and Florence, young innocents married that morning, arrive at a hotel on the Dorset coast. At dinner in their rooms they struggle to suppress their private fears of the wedding night to come…

Secret of the Tides

Secret of the Tides
  • Author(s): Hannah Richell
  • Location(s): Dorset
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern looking back

The Tides are a family with dark secrets. Haunted by the events of one tragic day ten years ago, they are each, in their own way, struggling to move forwards with their lives. Dora, the youngest daughter, lives in...

The Dealer and the Dead

The Dealer and the Dead
  • Author(s): Gerald Seymour
  • Location(s): London, Portland (Isle of), Vukovar
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1990s onwards

SOMETIMES, surviving a war can almost seem worse than dying in it. In a Croatian village near Vukovar, no one who survived will ever forget the night they waited for the weapons they needed to make a last-ditch fight...

The Millionaire’s Wife

The Millionaire’s Wife
  • Author(s): Shalini Boland
  • Location(s): Bournemouth, The West Country
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Early 2000s / 2017

Everyone has their secrets. But this one could destroy your marriage. When Anna Blackwell opens an email from an unknown sender, the shocking image attached shatters her perfect world. A woman has been killed. And Anna knows who did...

The Winter Folly

The Winter Folly
  • Author(s): Lulu Taylor
  • Location(s): Dorset
  • Era(s): Modern

In this house there are many secrets… It is 1965 and young Alexandra Crewe obediently marries the man her father has selected for her. But very soon both she and her husband Laurence realize that their marriage is a...

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