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Just Like The Other Girls

Just Like The Other Girls
  • Author(s): Claire Douglas
  • Location(s): Bristol
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

She thought she was safe. So did the others . . . *CARER/COMPANION WANTED FOR ELDERLY LADY* *YOUNG FEMALE PREFERRED * COMPETITIVE SALARY* *ROOM AND BOARD INCLUDED* Una Richardson is devastated after the death of her mother. Hoping for...

Running Into Trouble

Running Into Trouble
  • Author(s): Elle Spellman
  • Location(s): Bristol
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

With little over twelve weeks until race day, three women are trying their hardest to focus on their ultimate goal – to run 26.2 miles. For Hannah, it seems near impossible, her first attempt leaving her pained, sweaty and...

The Bookseller

The Bookseller
  • Author(s): Tim Sullivan
  • Location(s): Bristol
  • Genre(s): Police Procedural
  • Era(s): Contemporary

THE SETTING When the body of a bookseller is discovered, collapsed in a pool of blood in his Bristolian bookshop, it is immediately clear that he has been murdered. What is unclear is how someone could have met such...

The Bronze Box

The Bronze Box
  • Author(s): Amy C Fitzjohn
  • Location(s): Bristol, Istanbul (Constantinople), Varna
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern and recent past

An ancient artefact is stolen, an archaeologist is killed. Dr Sasha Blake is recruited by a covert organisation, The Agency, to find the truth before the Bronze Box falls into the hands of an International criminal known only as...

The Butterfly Storm

The Butterfly Storm
  • Author(s): Kate Frost
  • Location(s): Greece, Bristol, Norfolk
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Four years ago life for Sophie Keech was perfect. A new start in Greece with Alekos, her boyfriend of just six weeks, removes Sophie from a mundane 9-5 job, takes her away from the difficult relationship she has with...

The Case of the Mad Doctor

The Case of the Mad Doctor
  • Author(s): P D Lennon
  • Location(s): Bristol, England, Jamaica
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Magical Realism
  • Era(s): 1770s

1772: Barrister’s clerk, Isaiah Ollenu, an ambitious Black married father, is sent to Jamaica against his wishes with insurance agent Ruben Ashby, a pious bachelor. Finding missing people is the goal, but confronted by prejudice, untoward characters and vengeful...

The Drowned City (Daniel Pursglove 1)

The Drowned City (Daniel Pursglove 1)
  • Author(s): K J Maitland
  • Location(s): Bristol
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1606

Gunpowder and treason changed England forever. But the tides are turning and revenge runs deep in this compelling historical thriller for fans of C.J. Sansom, Andrew Taylor’s Ashes of London , Kate Mosse and Blood & Sugar . 1606....

The Missing

The Missing
  • Author(s): C L Taylor
  • Location(s): Bristol
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

‘The Missing has a delicious sense of foreboding from the first page, luring us into the heart of a family with terrible secrets and making us wait, with pounding hearts for the final, agonizing twist. Loved it’ Fiona Barton,...

The Party

The Party
  • Author(s): Tessa Hadley
  • Location(s): Bristol
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Post war

Evelyn had the surprising thought that bodies were sometimes wiser than the people inside them. She’d have liked to impress somebody with this idea, but couldn’t explain it. On a winter Saturday night in post-war Bristol, sisters Moira and...

The Perfect Girl

The Perfect Girl
  • Author(s): Gilly Macmillan
  • Location(s): Bristol
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

‘Literary suspense at its finest’ Mary Kubica, New York Times bestselling author of Pretty Baby To everyone who knows her now, Zoe Maisey – child genius, musical sensation – is perfect. Yet several years ago Zoe caused the death of three teenagers....

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