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The Dark Months

The Dark Months
  • Author(s): Steve Chambers
  • Location(s): Northumberland, Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): early 2000's

Offering a helping hand is an instinctive human response… When Pauline takes pity on a dishevelled stranger sheltering in the local church, she’s just being a good Samaritan… …But it can have devastating consequence… The stranger is a former...

The Dark Well of Glastonbury

The Dark Well of Glastonbury
  • Author(s): Phillipa Bowers
  • Location(s): Glastonbury
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): Early 1900s

In 1903, Louisa, an impoverished young widow, goes to Glastonbury to care for her ailing aunt. One day while sitting beside the ruined abbey church, she experiences a vision from the past of a woman who was guardian of...

The Dark Wives

The Dark Wives
  • Author(s): Ann Cleeves
  • Location(s): Northumberland
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery, Police Procedural
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Vera Stanhope 11 When a body is found on the common outside Rosebank, an isolated care home for troubled teens, DI Vera Stanhope is called out to investigate. The victim is Josh, a staff member, who never showed up...

The Darkest Walk

The Darkest Walk
  • Author(s): Malcolm Archibald
  • Location(s): Manchester
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1848

Set in 1848, Darkest Walk of Crime sees recently promoted Detective Mendick sent on his first case. Disturbing new evidence suggests the working class Chartist movement is seeking violent action after years of oppression and the defeat in Parliament...

The Daughter of River Valley

The Daughter of River Valley
  • Author(s): Victoria Cornwall
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Victorian

Cornwall, 1861 Beth Jago appears to have the idyllic life, she has a trade to earn a living and a cottage of her own in Cornwall’s beautiful River Valley. Yet appearances can be deceptive … Beth has a secret....

The Day of the Roaring

The Day of the Roaring
  • Author(s): Nina Bhadreshwar
  • Location(s): Sheffield
  • Genre(s): Police Procedural
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Don’t miss this award winning debut crime thriller set in Sheffield introducing DI Diana Walker: A grizzly murder has Diana questioning everything she knows, and secrets come to light that threaten to to tear her world apart When the...

The Dead Boxes Archive

The Dead Boxes Archive
  • Author(s): John F Leonard
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Horror
  • Era(s): Various

The Dead Boxes Archive is a chilling collection of short horror stories and horror novellas. Together for the first time in one volume, seven tales from the critically acclaimed Dead Boxes series. Dead Boxes are scary things. Wonderful and...

The Dead Can’t Talk

The Dead Can’t Talk
  • Author(s): Nick Quantrill
  • Location(s): Hull
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back to lat 20thCentury

How far will Anna Stone, a disillusioned police officer on the brink of leaving her job, go to uncover the truth about her sister’s disappearance?Approached by Luke Carver, an ex-Army drifter she’s previously sent to prison, he claims to...

The Dead of Jericho

The Dead of Jericho
  • Author(s): Colin Dexter
  • Location(s): Oxford
  • Genre(s): Crime

The Dead of Winter

The Dead of Winter
  • Author(s): Nicola Upson
  • Location(s): St Michael's Mount
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): 1938

Josephine Tey 9 December 1938, and storm clouds hover once again over Europe. Josephine Tey and Archie Penrose gather with friends for a Cornish Christmas, but two strange and brutal deaths on St Michael’s Mount – and the unexpected...

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