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The Hollow Man

The Hollow Man
  • Author(s): Rachel Amphlett
  • Location(s): Vale of White Horse
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

After being summoned to a crime scene late one Friday afternoon, Detective Mark Turpin arrives to find the body of a man, his face obscured by a plastic sheet wrapped around his head. When the victim’s final moments are...

The Homemaker

The Homemaker
  • Author(s): Miranda Rijks
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Current Day

Busy Imogen is thrilled when she hires Maria, the perfect homemaker. But Maria has a sinister agenda. And when she discovers Imogen’s secret, she threatens to reveal it unless Imogen gives her control of the house. As Maria’s horrifying...

The Honey and the Sting

The Honey and the Sting
  • Author(s): E C Fremantle
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): 17th Century

England, 1628. Forcibly seduced by the powerful George Villiers, doctor’s daughter Hester is cast aside to raise her son alone and in secret. She hopes never to see Villiers again. Melis’s visions cause disquiet and talk. She sees what...

The Honey Trap

The Honey Trap
  • Author(s): Mary Jayne Baker
  • Location(s): Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The trap is set – but which one of them is the bait? Journalist Angel Blackthorne is looking for her next big scoop. When her sleazy editor asks her to use her charms on super successful – and married...

The Honeymoon

The Honeymoon
  • Author(s): Kate Gray
  • Location(s): England, Bali
  • Genre(s): Crime, Domestic Noir
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Two happy couples. One dead body. A whole load of secrets. Married life wasn’t meant to start like this. On honeymoon in Bali, you hit it off with another newlywed couple and celebrate your last night at a fancy...

The Horseman

The Horseman
  • Author(s): Tim Pears
  • Location(s): Devon
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Pre-WW1

The West Country Trilogy #1 1911. In a forgotten valley on the Devon–Somerset border, the seasons unfold, marked only by the rituals of the farming calendar. Twelve-year-old Leopold Sercombe skips school to help his father, a carter. Skinny and...

The Hounding

The Hounding
  • Author(s): Xenobe Purvis
  • Location(s): Nettlebed
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 18th Century

Many stories are told about the five Mansfield sisters. They are haughty, thinking themselves better than their neighbours in the picturesque village of Little Nettlebed. They have taken the death of their grandmother hard. They are liars, troublemakers, untamed...

The House at Ladywell

The House at Ladywell
  • Author(s): Nicola Slade
  • Location(s): Hampshire
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Romance
  • Era(s): Various

When Freya Gibson inherits an old, run-down property she has no idea she is the last in a long line of redoubtable women, including the Tudor nun who built the house. Unknown to Freya, these women, over centuries, fought...

The House in the Tuscan Hills

The House in the Tuscan Hills
  • Author(s): Anita Chapman
  • Location(s): England, Tuscany
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2 / contemporary

Italy, 1944. Despite the war raging across Europe, Liliana is overjoyed to be engaged to her childhood love Salvatore – happy enough to ignore the superstition that her opal ring is supposedly bad luck. But then Salvatore is injured...

The House of Fallen Sisters

The House of Fallen Sisters
  • Author(s): Louise Hare
  • Location(s): Covent Garden, London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 1700s

December, 1765. In the early hours of the morning, Sukey Maynard flees her home – a brothel in Covent Garden. Her maidenhood is about to be auctioned off to the highest bidder, and she is too frightened to stay....

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