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Swear Down

Swear Down
  • Author(s): Russ Litten
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Hackney. Russ Litten’s second novel, Swear Down (Tindal Street, £12.99), features fast-tracked DS Peter Ndekwe, newly arrived from across the river. His boss wants him to wrap up the murder of gang leader Aaron Stewart, found stabbed on the...

Swimming to Lundy

Swimming to Lundy
  • Author(s): Amanda Prowse
  • Location(s): Ilfracombe
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Tawrie Gunn feels stuck. She’s spent her whole life in the same seaside town with her beloved Nana and grief-stricken mum, all of them still reeling in different ways from the tragic loss of Tawrie’s dad at sea. Desperate...

Swindon Mountain

Swindon Mountain
  • Author(s): Harriet Hitchen
  • Location(s): Swindon
  • Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future
  • Era(s): present day

A mountain unexpectedly appears in the Marlborough Downs, overshadowing the city of Swindon. It arrives quietly, straddling the boundary between Oxfordshire and West Berkshire. It looks as if it has always been there. But it hasn’t. No one knows...

Swing Time

Swing Time
  • Author(s): Zadie Smith
  • Location(s): The Gambia, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Dazzlingly energetic and deeply human, Swing Time is a story about friendship and music and true identity, how they shape us and how we can survive them. Moving from north-west London to West Africa, it is an exuberant dance...

Syrup Trap City

Syrup Trap City
  • Author(s): Penny Grubb
  • Location(s): Hull
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Set in the Northern port of Hull, Syrup Trap City features private investigator, Annie Raymond, her boss, the enigmatic Mrs Peters, and Detective Ayaan Ahmed who Annie last met in very trying circumstances in York (see Buried Deep and...

TACKLING DEATH

TACKLING DEATH
  • Author(s): Bud Craig
  • Location(s): Salford
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Present day

A pacey pulp Private Eye thriller set in a northern English town Ex-rugby football player turned social worker Gus Keane is getting ready for retirement when his boss gets murdered. Finding himself under suspicion, Keane turns private detective to...

Take It Back

Take It Back
  • Author(s): Kia Abdullah
  • Location(s): East London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Jodie Wolfe, a sixteen-year-old girl with severe facial deformities accuses four boys in her class of an unthinkable crime, the community is torn apart. The defendants are four handsome teenagers from hard-working immigrant families, all with proven alibis....

TAKE NO MORE

TAKE NO MORE
  • Author(s): Seb Kirkby
  • Location(s): Florence, London, Venice
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

‘An artistic voyage in crime – thrilling and original’ Julia Blake is a conservator, working with classic art. Her expertise includes imaging beneath the surface of paintings to discover what lies beneath. She is sure that a number of...

Tales Out of School (Top of the Dale Book Two)

Tales Out of School (Top of the Dale Book Two)
  • Author(s): Gervase Phinn
  • Location(s): Yorkshire Dales
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

After an eventful start to his first ever teaching post in the sleepy village of Risingdale, Tom Dwyer is hoping for a bit of calm. Nursing a broken heart after a romantic disappointment, he just wants to keep his...

Tall Dark and Kilted

Tall Dark and Kilted
  • Author(s): Lizzie Lamb
  • Location(s): Scottish Highlands, London, Wester Ross
  • Genre(s): Humour, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Notting Hill Meets Monarch of the Glen Fliss Bagshawe longs for a passport out of Pimlico where she works as a holistic therapist. After attending a party in Notting Hill she loses her job and with it her dream...

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