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The Bleeding Heart (Bryant and May #11)

The Bleeding Heart (Bryant and May #11)
  • Author(s): Christopher Fowler
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

It’s a fresh start for the Met’s oddest investigation team, the Peculiar Crimes Unit. Their first case involves two teenagers who see a dead man rising from his grave in a London park. And if that’s not alarming enough,...

The Burning

The Burning
  • Author(s): Devin Asante
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 17th Century

London 1666. Young Agnes Wilmore arrives in the bustling city from the small of Castle Combe to pursue her dreams. Robert Hubert, a romantic sociopath, takes advantage of the girl on her first night in town, and from that...

The Chase

The Chase
  • Author(s): Ava Glass
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Spy
  • Era(s): Current

These are the instructions sent to new operative Emma Makepeace. She’s been assigned to track down a man wanted by the Russians and bring him into MI5. It should be easy. But the Russians have eyes everywhere. Emma knows...

The City in Flames

The City in Flames
  • Author(s): Michael Russell
  • Location(s): Camden Town, Berlin, Ireland, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): WW2

1940. A woman lands on the Scottish coast from a German flying boat and goes to ground, hunted by British Intelligence. Suspended from the Irish police for reasons he won’t explain, Detective Inspector Stefan Gillespie is working on his...

The Distant Dead – (The Detective’s Daughter #8)

The Distant Dead – (The Detective’s Daughter #8)
  • Author(s): Lesley Thomson
  • Location(s): London, Tewkesbury
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1940s & Contemporary Dual timeline

Cleaner-turned-detective Stella Darnell connects a murder in Tewkesbury Abbey to a decades-old mystery in wartime London. London, 1940 A woman lies dead in a bombed-out house. It looks like she’s another tragic casualty of the Blitz, until police pathologist...

The Girl with the Scarlet Ribbon

The Girl with the Scarlet Ribbon
  • Author(s): Suzanne Goldring
  • Location(s): Florence, Cornwall, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): WWII and 2019

Italy, 1943. A missing painting. A war-scarred city. A brave young girl on a black bicycle risking her life for the country she loved… When Sofia loses her adored father, famous painter Riccardo, she is broken-hearted. Desperate to bring...

The Girl You Left Behind

The Girl You Left Behind
  • Author(s): Jojo Moyes
  • Location(s): France, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

France, 1916. Sophie Lefevre must keep her family safe whilst her adored husband Edouard fights at the front. When she is ordered to serve the German officers who descend on her hotel each evening, her home becomes riven by...

The House on Half Moon Street

The House on Half Moon Street
  • Author(s): Alex Reeve
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Later 19th Century

A Richard and Judy Book Club 2019 pick (A Leo Stanhope Case) Everyone has a secret… Only some lead to murder. Introducing Leo Stanhope: a Victorian transgender coroner’s assistant who must uncover a killer without risking his own future...

The Low Road

The Low Road
  • Author(s): Katharine Quarmby
  • Location(s): London, New South Wales, Norfolk
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1800-1830

Norfolk, 1813. In the quiet Waveney Valley, the body of a woman – Mary Tyrell – is staked through the heart after her death by suicide. She had been under arrest for the suspected murder of her newborn child....

The Man In The Corduroy Suit

The Man In The Corduroy Suit
  • Author(s): James Wolff
  • Location(s): London, Norfolk
  • Genre(s): Spy, Thriller

British intelligence is in a state of panic. Cracks are appearing, or so a run of disciplinary cases would suggest. To cap it all, a retired MI5 officer collapses, the victim of what looks like a Russian poisoning. Leonard...

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