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The Soft Whisper of Dreams

The Soft Whisper of Dreams
  • Author(s): Christina Courtenay
  • Location(s): Devon
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Some dreams shouldn’t come true… Maddie Browne thought she’d grown out of the recurring nightmare that plagued her as a child, but after a shocking family secret is revealed, it comes back to haunt her – the same swing...

A Crime Through Time (Miss Darcy investigates)

A Crime Through Time (Miss Darcy investigates)
  • Author(s): Amelia Blackwell
  • Location(s): Derbyshire, Plymouth
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery

The gripping debut from Amelia Blackwell, A Crime Through Time is the start of a quirky series where Jane Austen, time travel and crime collide. Pemberley, 1799. When Miss Georgiana Darcy attempts to escape an unwanted marriage proposal, she...

The Act of Roger Murgatroyd

The Act of Roger Murgatroyd
  • Author(s): Gilbert Adair
  • Location(s): Dartmoor
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 1930s

Boxing Day circa 1935. A snowed-in manor on the very edge of Dartmoor. A Christmas house-party. And overhead, in the attic, the dead body of Raymond Gentry, gossip columnist and blackmailer, shot through the heart. But the attic door...

The New Wife

The New Wife
  • Author(s): Sue Watson
  • Location(s): Devon, Dartmoor
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

You can never truly know what goes on behind closed doors… My darling son, Sam, is marrying his childhood sweetheart and I couldn’t be prouder of the man he’s grown into. Walking out on his abusive father all those...

The Sanctuary

The Sanctuary
  • Author(s): Charlotte Duckworth
  • Location(s): Okehampton
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Four pregnant women. Three nights of pampering at an exclusive yoga retreat. One too many deadly secrets . . . On a remote farm in the deepest Devonshire countryside, four pregnant women arrive at an exclusive yoga retreat for...

The Unlikely Pilgramage of Harold Fry

The Unlikely Pilgramage of Harold Fry
  • Author(s): Rachel Joyce
  • Location(s): Northumberland, Devon
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Retired couple, Harold and Maureen, are living in Devon, when something happens that will change their future. Aletter arrives for Harold from a former colleague of his at the brewery, Queenie Hennessy. He takes his reply to the postbox...

A Clattering Beneath the Woods

A Clattering Beneath the Woods
  • Author(s): Sally J Hubbard
  • Location(s): Cornwall, Devon
  • Genre(s): Children, Fantasy
  • Era(s): Present

Polly has enjoyed an idyllic life but now everything is changing. Her family is in danger of losing their home in the Tamar Valley and the beloved woodland which surrounds it. But then a very peculiar encounter introduces her...

A Collection of Lies

A Collection of Lies
  • Author(s): Connie Berry
  • Location(s): Devon
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Present day

In USA Today bestselling author Connie Berry’s fifth Kate Hamilton mystery, American antiques dealer Kate Hamilton follows bloodstained clues to discover the truth about the murder of a modern-day Victorian gentleman. As Kate Hamilton and her new husband, DI...

A Deadly Walk in Devon

A Deadly Walk in Devon
  • Author(s): Nicholas George
  • Location(s): Devon
  • Genre(s): Mystery, LGBTQIA+
  • Era(s): Contemporary

For fans of M.C. Beaton, Martha Grimes, and Alexander McCall Smith, the first in a charming new mystery series set in the English countryside, as a retired San Diego police detective embarks upon group walking tours in England’s most...

A Gathering of Ghosts

A Gathering of Ghosts
  • Author(s): Karen Maitland
  • Location(s): Dartmoor
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Gothic
  • Era(s): 1300s

1316. On the wilds of Dartmoor stands the isolated Priory of St Mary, home to the Sisters of the Knights of St John. People journey from afar in search of healing at the holy well that lies beneath its...

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