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The Fifth Voice

The Fifth Voice
  • Author(s): Paul Connolly
  • Location(s): Lundy Island
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present day

A poignant and comic tale of four lives and a single passion… The lives of four singers are far from harmonious. Danny’s marriage is on the rocks, while Vince is struggling with a debilitating illness. Henry is having a...

The Final Act of Juliette Willoughby

The Final Act of Juliette Willoughby
  • Author(s): Ellery Lloyd
  • Location(s): Cambridge, Dubai, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1938/1991/contemporary

Some women can’t be erased from history . . . A story of love and madness, of obsession and revenge. Paris, 1938: Runaway heiress Juliette Willoughby perishes, with her married lover, in an accidental studio fire alongside her Surrealist...

The Final Shot

The Final Shot
  • Author(s): Simon Michael
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1966

They think it’s all over… London, 1966 It’s the eve of the World Cup Final and everyone in England holds their breath – everyone except the Kray twins. The kings of London’s gangland have their minds elsewhere, on the...

The Final Solution

The Final Solution
  • Author(s): Michael Chabon
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

A brilliant reworking of the detective story by the much-acclaimed Michael Chabon, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY. In the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel ‘The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay’, Michael Chabon conjured...

The First 48 Hours

The First 48 Hours
  • Author(s): Simon Kernick
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A COP NEEDS TO CRACK A DEADLY CASE He’s a detective hunting cold-blooded killers, but does he know more than he admits? A MOTHER HAS TO SAVE HER DAUGHTER She’s a lawyer who must defend a murderer – but...

The First Act of Summer

The First Act of Summer
  • Author(s): Joanna Glen
  • Location(s): Mudeford Spit
  • Genre(s): Historical, Coming of Age, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s to 2022

As children, Hester and Elias were inseparable. Every year, their families would spend the summer together at their beach huts on a wild and windswept sandbank, where the two of them never left each other’s side. But childhood friendships...

The First Widow

The First Widow
  • Author(s): Rob Starr
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Over a hundred husbands dead. One prisoner. Countless secrets. The most horrifying case of Kiara Fox’s career . . . Kiara Fox leads a seemingly ordinary life as a highly respected fraud investigator. With a loving husband and twin...

The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
  • Author(s): Hallie Rubenhold
  • Location(s): Ashford, London
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1880s

Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met. They came from Fleet Street, Knightsbridge, Wolverhampton, Sweden and Wales. They wrote ballads, ran coffee houses, lived on country estates, they breathed ink-dust...

The Florence Letter

The Florence Letter
  • Author(s): Anita Chapman
  • Location(s): Surrey, Florence
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present looking back to WW2

Looking out over the twinkling city lights of Florence, Claire thinks of the letter that has brought her here. Written by a woman who escaped the Blitz, it holds a secret kept for a lifetime… but can Claire make...

The Flower Girls

The Flower Girls
  • Author(s): Alice Clark-Platts
  • Location(s): Devon
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

THREE CHILDREN WENT OUT TO PLAY. ONLY TWO CAME BACK. The Flower Girls. Laurel and Primrose. One convicted of murder, the other given a new identity. Now, nineteen years later, another child has gone missing. And the Flower Girls...

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