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The Rest of You

The Rest of You
  • Author(s): Maame Blue
  • Location(s): Ghana, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern / 1990s

On the cusp of thirty, Ghanaian Londoner Whitney Appiah was born with a special gift. The massage therapist can physically sense where her clients’ trauma lies and heal them. But Whitney has no idea that she too is suffering....

The Restless Dead

The Restless Dead
  • Author(s): Simon Beckett
  • Location(s): Essex
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

‘Composed of over sixty per cent water itself, a human body isn’t naturally buoyant. It will float only for as long as there is air in its lungs, before gradually sinking to the bottom as the air seeps out....

The Retail Therapist

The Retail Therapist
  • Author(s): Colette Kebell
  • Location(s): Berkshire, Surrey
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Window shopping! Don’t you just hate the term? It is like going into a sweet shop and not being able to buy anything, or not knowing what to buy first. That is exactly my line of business, helping people...

The Return

The Return
  • Author(s): Shani Struthers
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

When worlds collide… Two years ago death drove Aiden Taylor from UK shores and now death has drawn him back. Mourning the loss of his wife, he is returning to bury his father-in-law and support the remaining members of...

The Return of the Native

The Return of the Native
  • Author(s): Thomas Hardy
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 19th century

The Return of the Native is widely recognised as the most representative of Hardy’s Wessex novels. He evokes the dismal presence and menacing beauty of Egdon Heath – reaching out to touch the lives and fate of all who...

The Returning Tide

The Returning Tide
  • Author(s): Liz Fenwick
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

In wartime Cornwall, 1943, a story between two sisters begins – the story of Adele and Amelia, and the heart-breaking betrayal that will divide them forever. Decades later, the efforts of one reckless act still echo – but how...

The Revels

The Revels
  • Author(s): Stacey Thomas
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1640s

England, 1645. After his half-brother dies, aspiring playwright Nicholas Pearce is apprenticed to Judge William Percival, an infamous former witch-hunter who is under pressure to resume his old profession. In a country torn apart by civil war, with escalating...

The Revenge Killer

The Revenge Killer
  • Author(s): B L Pearce
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

A brutal stabbing puts DCI Rob Miller on the trail of a serial revenge killer in this gritty, suspenseful thriller from Amazon bestselling author B.L. Pearce. The body of a man is found in a residential home in west...

The Rich

The Rich
  • Author(s): Rachel Lynch
  • Location(s): Cambridge
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Dr Alex is psychologist to the Cambridge elite, keeper of their dirtiest little secrets. Carrie lives in a pristine mansion and tells no one what she had to do to get there. Henry has a dangerous predilection for the...

The Riddle of the Dunes

The Riddle of the Dunes
  • Author(s): James Andrew
  • Location(s): North Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1920s

After a period of calm, a new spate of murders hits a post-war Yorkshire seaside town Showing a worrying similarity to a past crime, a local woman is found dead in sand dunes near an otherwise sleepy town. Her...

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