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The Duke of Shadows

The Duke of Shadows
  • Author(s): Meredith Duran
  • Location(s): London, Rajasthan
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 1850s

The setting for the first half of the book is India during the Great Uprising of 1857. Emma is the victim of a tragic shipwreck and she is the lone survivor, on her way to meet her future husband....

The Elephant Keeper

The Elephant Keeper
  • Author(s): Christopher Nicholson
  • Location(s): Bristol, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Middle 18th Century

‘I asked the sailor what an Elephant looked like: he replied that it was like nothing on earth.’ In the middle of the 18th century, a ship docks at Bristol with an extraordinary cargo: two young elephants. Bought by...

The Final Round (DI Jim Garibaldi #1)

The Final Round (DI Jim Garibaldi #1)
  • Author(s): Bernard O'Keeffe
  • Location(s): Barnes, London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Introducing Detective DI Garibaldi, a country-music loving, self-educated detective, and the only cop in the Metropolitan Police who can’t drive a car. On the morning after Boat Race Day, a man’s body is found in a nature reserve beside...

The Fleet Street Murders

The Fleet Street Murders
  • Author(s): Charles Finch
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): Late 1800s

Amateur investigator Charles Lenox has recently become engaged to Lady Jane Grey and they live just north of London. But two Fleet Street journalists have been murdered and Lenox becomes involved. Finch brings Victorian England to life taking us...

The Flip Side

The Flip Side
  • Author(s): James Bailey
  • Location(s): Europe, Bristol, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It’s love . . . what could go wrong? When Josh proposes in a pod on the London Eye at New Years’ Eve, he thinks it’s perfect. Until she says no. And they have to spend the next 29...

The Friend Zone Experiment

The Friend Zone Experiment
  • Author(s): Zen Cho
  • Location(s): London, Singapore
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Present day

From the renowned, award-winning author Zen Cho comes a delightfully funny romance about family, class, and love in modern London. From the outside, Renee Goh’s life looks perfect. She’s thirty and beautiful, running a glamorous–and successful–fashion company in London,...

The Gilded Lily

The Gilded Lily
  • Author(s): Deborah Swift
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 1660s

Winter, 1661. In her short life Sadie Appleby has never left rural Westmorland. But one night she is rudely awoken by her older and bolder sister, Ella. She has robbed her employer and is on the run. Together the...

The Girl Who Just Appeared

The Girl Who Just Appeared
  • Author(s): Jonathan Harvey
  • Location(s): Liverpool, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 2014/1981

London 2014. Holly Smith has never fitted in. Adopted when just a few months old, she’s always felt she was someone with no history, the girl who just appeared. All she has is the address of where she was...

The Grave Tattoo

The Grave Tattoo
  • Author(s): Val McDermid
  • Location(s): London, The Lake District
  • Genre(s): Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern, various

A 200 year-old-secret is now a matter of life and death. And it could be worth a fortune. It’s summer in the Lake District and heavy rain over the fells has uncovered a bizarrely tattooed body. Could it be...

The House at Devil’s Neck

The House at Devil’s Neck
  • Author(s): Tom Mead
  • Location(s): Essex, London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1930s

LIKE LOCKED-ROOM MYSTERIES? YOU’LL LOVE TOM MEAD’S JOSEPH SPECTOR SERIES! This gripping locked-room mystery sees Joseph Spector investigate his most sinister case yet: murderous machinations at a haunted manor house. A former First World War field hospital, the spooky...

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