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Slick Deals

Slick Deals
  • Author(s): Helen Carey
  • Location(s): Pembrokeshire
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

An exciting crime adventure. A child is kidnapped in Monaco. The British government is about to license oil exploration in the Irish Sea. The only person to see a link is Ella Crossley, a young oil trader in London....

Talking with the Dead

Talking with the Dead
  • Author(s): Harry Bingham
  • Location(s): Newport
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

It’s DC Fiona Griffiths’ first murder case – and she’s in at the deep end. A woman and her six-year-old daughter killed with chilling brutality in a dingy flat. The only clue: the platinum bank card of a long-dead...

The Bones Beneath

The Bones Beneath
  • Author(s): Mark Billingham
  • Location(s): Bardsey Island
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Tom Thorne is back in charge – but there’s a terrifying price to pay. Stuart Nicklin, the most dangerous psychopath he has ever put behind bars, promises to reveal the whereabouts of a body he buried twenty-five years before....

The Claude Glass

The Claude Glass
  • Author(s): Tom Bullough
  • Location(s): Wales
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980

Set in the Welsh Borders in 1980, The Claude Glass charts an unlikely friendship between two neighbours: Robin, the seven-year-old son of English hippie sheep farmers, and Andrew, a child so neglected by his impoverished parents that he is...

The Girl Who Left

The Girl Who Left
  • Author(s): Jenny Blackhurst
  • Location(s): Anglesey
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1994 and contemporary

Twenty-five years ago, a local girl went missing. Now, another girl comes back… When five-year-old Elsie Button was snatched from a garden in a sleepy town on the Welsh island of Anglesey, and a local man later confessed, it...

The House on the Cliff

The House on the Cliff
  • Author(s): Charlotte Williams
  • Location(s): Cardiff, Pembrokeshire
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Billed as the first in a series, the book begins with what looks like a straightforward case for psychotherapist Jessica Mayhew. A strikingly attractive young actor, Gwydion Morgan, turns up at her office requesting help with his button phobia....

The Little House By The Sea

The Little House By The Sea
  • Author(s): Tracy Rees
  • Location(s): South Wales, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Bluebells bob in the salty sea wind and the cottage gate swings open to reveal the inky-blue cove. It’s exactly how Kitty always pictured it… except in her head, she wasn’t standing here alone. Kitty Roberts spends her days...

The Seafarers

The Seafarers
  • Author(s): Stephen Rutt
  • Location(s): England, Scotland, Wales
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The British Isles are remarkable for their extraordinary seabird life: spectacular gatherings of charismatic Arctic terns, elegant fulmars and stoic eiders, to name just a few. Often found in the most remote and dramatic reaches of our shores, these...

The Warrior’s Princess

The Warrior’s Princess
  • Author(s): Barbara Erskine
  • Location(s): England, Rome, Wales
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Modern, 100AD

Jess, a young teacher in London, is attacked by someone she fears knows her well. Fleeing to her sister’s house in the Welsh borders to recuperate, she is disturbed by the cries of a mysterious child. Two thousand years...

The Wild Hunt

The Wild Hunt
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Chadwick
  • Location(s): Wales
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Turn of 12th Century

In the wild, windswept Welsh marches a noble young lord rides homewards, embittered, angry and in danger. He is Guyon, lord of Ledworth, heir to threatened lands, husband-to-be of Judith of Ravenstow. Their union will save his lands –...

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