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The Putney Bridge Killer

The Putney Bridge Killer
  • Author(s): Biba Pearce
  • Location(s): London, Putney, Surrey
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A brutal murder. A deadly secret. A killer who’s done this before . . . DCI Rob Miller is called to a murder scene in the early hours of the morning. A young woman’s body has been discovered under...

The Pyramid

The Pyramid
  • Author(s): William Golding
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s

Oliver is eighteen and wants to enjoy himself before going to university. But this is the 1920s and he lives in Stilbourne, a small English country town where everyone knows what everyone else is getting up to, and where...

The Pyramid Murders

The Pyramid Murders
  • Author(s): Fiona Veitch Smith
  • Location(s): Egypt, London, Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

1930: Miss Clara Vale, chemistry major turned detective, is taking a night off from sleuthing to attend the launch party of a new exhibition at the Hancock Museum in Newcastle. But when the piece de resistance, a rare ornate...

The Queen of Bloody Everything

The Queen of Bloody Everything
  • Author(s): Joanna Nadin
  • Location(s): Cambridgeshire, Cambridge
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

And in that instant I fall in love. Not just with him, though he is the better part of it, but with them both, with the whole scene: the house, the garden, the magazine perfection of it. And I...

The Queen’s Fool

The Queen’s Fool
  • Author(s): Ally Sherrick
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Tudor

A fantastic Tudor adventure from Historical Association Young Quills Award-winning author Ally Sherrick. ‘A compulsive read … I love Ally’s writing, she really has a way of making history come alive!’ CELIA REES Cat Sparrow is on the road....

The Queen’s Fool

The Queen’s Fool
  • Author(s): Philippa Gregory
  • Location(s): London, Calais
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1500s

A young woman caught in the rivalry between Queen Mary and her half sister, Elizabeth, must find her true destiny amid treason, poisonous rivalries, loss of faith, and unrequited love. It is winter, 1553. Pursued by the Inquisition, Hannah...

The Quickening

The Quickening
  • Author(s): Rhiannon Ward
  • Location(s): Derbyshire
  • Genre(s): Gothic, Thriller
  • Era(s): Post war period

Country houses can be such spooky places and Rhiannon Ward who has written the Derbyshire crime novels shows us one with her new novel The Quickening. Her gothic novel is about Clewer Hall. It is the country house shutting...

The Quiet at the End of the World

The Quiet at the End of the World
  • Author(s): Lauren James
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Future

How far would you go to save those you love? Lowrie and Shen are the youngest people on the planet after a virus caused global infertility. Closeted in a pocket of London and doted upon by a small, ageing...

The Quiet Girls

The Quiet Girls
  • Author(s): J M Hewitt
  • Location(s): Pomona Island
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Detective Carrie Flynn’s sister Hattie was kidnapped when they were both little girls. After the police failed to find the culprit, Carrie swore she would become a detective and solve the case herself. But the face of the man...

The Raging Storm

The Raging Storm
  • Author(s): Ann Cleeves
  • Location(s): Devon, North Devon
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The villages of Greystone and Morrisham are fictional. When Jem Rosco – sailor, adventurer and local legend – blows into town in the middle of an autumn gale, the residents of Greystone, Devon, are delighted to have a celebrity...

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