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The Shape of Darkness

The Shape of Darkness
  • Author(s): Laura Purcell
  • Location(s): Bath
  • Genre(s): Gothic, Fiction, Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 19th century

Wicked deeds require the cover of darkness… A struggling silhouette artist in Victorian Bath seeks out a renowned child spirit medium in order to speak to the dead – and to try and identify their killers – in this...

The Shell House Detectives

The Shell House Detectives
  • Author(s): Emylia Hall
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A Shell House Detectives Mystery, Book 1 Welcome to the coastal paradise of Porthpella, where murder lurks among the dunes… Late one night, a distraught young man knocks on the door of retired and recently widowed Ally Bright’s remote...

The Shifting Pools

The Shifting Pools
  • Author(s): Zoe Duncnan
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Magical Realism
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Fleeing war and the death of her family, Eve has carefully constructed a new life for herself in London. Yet she is troubled by vivid, disturbing dreams, symptoms of her traumatic past, which intrude increasingly on her daily life....

The Ship

The Ship
  • Author(s): Antonia Honeywell
  • Location(s): World, London
  • Genre(s): Dystopian, Suspense
  • Era(s): Future

Welcome to London, but not as you know it. Oxford Street burned for three weeks; Regent’s Park has been bombed; the British Museum is occupied by those with nowhere else to go. Lalla has grown up sheltered from the...

The Shopgirl of Ironbridge

The Shopgirl of Ironbridge
  • Author(s): Mollie Walton
  • Location(s): Shrewsbury
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1890s

Ironbridge, 1892. When seventeen-year-old Maria Keay is offered an exciting job in a department store in Shrewsbury, she is determined to follow her dream, even if that means leaving behind her childhood sweetheart, Charlie. At first, Maria’s new life...

The Shrouded Path

The Shrouded Path
  • Author(s): Sarah Ward
  • Location(s): Derbyshire
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1957 / 2014

The past won’t stay buried forever. November, 1957: Six teenage girls walk in the churning Derbyshire mists, the first chills of winter in the air. Their voices carrying across the fields, they follow the old train tracks into the...

The Silent Dead

The Silent Dead
  • Author(s): Graham Smith
  • Location(s): The Lake District, Cumbria
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

He’d found an angel for his collection. But one angel at a time was never enough…Detective Beth Young has just joined the Cumbrian major crimes team when a body is found posed in a ritualistic manner – arms spread...

The Silent Killer

The Silent Killer
  • Author(s): Trevor Wood
  • Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The first in a Newcastle-set police procedural series with a twist. DCI Jack Parker has a secret. He has Early Onset Dementia and he will do anything and everything to hide it from his peers and the people he’s...

The Silent Stars Go By

The Silent Stars Go By
  • Author(s): Sally Nicholls
  • Location(s): Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): 1919

Seventeen-year-old Margot Allan was a respectable vicar’s daughter and madly in love with her fiancé Harry. But when Harry was reported Missing in Action from the Western Front, and Margot realised she was expecting his child, there was only...

THE SILENT VOICES

THE SILENT VOICES
  • Author(s): Robert McCracken
  • Location(s): Liverpool
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Present day

A covert cop becomes a target when she picks the wrong cover story The Treadwater Estate has become the epicentre of a series of strange events. People go missing. Bodies are found – buried and wrapped in clingfilm. Yet...

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