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Flesh and Blood

Flesh and Blood
  • Author(s): John Harvey
  • Location(s): Nottinghamshire
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

This is the first in a trilogy featuring Frank Elder. A strong story around the release and subsequent disappearance of a young offender. Elder is drawn into the investigation when repeats of the offenders modus operandi starting happening again,...

Heartland

Heartland
  • Author(s): Anthony Cartwright
  • Location(s): Dudley
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 2000s

Football World Cup 2002. Dudley. Rob is a teacher’s assistant at a local run down school and although still young was never able to emulate his famous father’s success as a professional footballer. The Labour Party, BNP, a young...

Leave No Trace

Leave No Trace
  • Author(s): Jo Callaghan
  • Location(s): Nuneaton, Warwickshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

DCS Kat Frank and AIDE Lock return in the provocative new thriller from the Sunday Timesbestselling author of In the Blink of an Eye. ‘A smart, agile, immaculately plotted and moving thriller that is unswervingly gripping and scary, and at...

Lying Beside You

Lying Beside You
  • Author(s): Michael Robotham
  • Location(s): Nottingham
  • Genre(s): Crime, Police Procedural, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The brand-new thriller from the Richard & Judy pick author and six-million-copy best seller. Twenty years ago, Cyrus Haven’s family was murdered and only he and his brother survived. Cyrus because he hid. Elias because he was the killer....

So Many Ways to Begin

So Many Ways to Begin
  • Author(s): Jon McGregor
  • Location(s): Aberdeen, County Donegal, Coventry
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1950s onward

The book follows a Museum Curator and adopted son through his life. Forgotten times, post war Britain, this is a piecing together of one life through mementos past and present. A life set in the context of history.

The Bygones

The Bygones
  • Author(s): Jim Gibson
  • Location(s): Nottinghamshire
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Fiction

“When I met the Devil I was twelve years old. I’d just started holding hands with Holly from the top end of the village and, even though I thought she was only messing me around when she said that...

The Devil’s Dice

The Devil’s Dice
  • Author(s): Roz Watkins
  • Location(s): The Peak District
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A SHOCKING DEATH – A lawyer is found dead in a Peak District cave, his face ribboned with scratches. A SINISTER MESSAGE – Amidst rumours of a local curse, DI Meg Dalton is convinced this is cold-blooded murder. There’s...

The Dream Home

The Dream Home
  • Author(s): T M Logan
  • Location(s): Nottingham
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction, Mythology
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Adam and Jess move into a new house with their three young children: a rambling Victorian villa in a nice neighbourhood right at the very top of their price range. Before long Adam discovers a door hidden behind a...

The Little Stranger

The Little Stranger
  • Author(s): Sarah Waters
  • Location(s): Warwickshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Second half 20th Century

In a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house, once grand and handsome, is now in decline,...

The Perfect Christmas Village

The Perfect Christmas Village
  • Author(s): Bella Osborne
  • Location(s): Warwickshire
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Tis the season…. for a Christmas cynic to have his frozen heart melted by festive magic. When Christmas-hating Sam moves to Holly Cross, he thinks he’s found the perfect home, until he discovers that, each year, Holly Cross transforms...

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