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Murder At Abbeymead Farm (Flora Steele #6)

Murder At Abbeymead Farm (Flora Steele #6)
  • Author(s): Merryn Allingham
  • Location(s): Brighton, London, Sussex Downs
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery, Crime
  • Era(s): 1957

Amateur detective duo Flora Steele and Jack Carrington have gained a reputation for crime-solving. But will they be able to untangle the latest baffling murder in the cosy village of Abbeymead? Sussex, 1957: When Flora and Jack hear that...

Mystery By The Sea (Lady Eleanor Swift #5)

Mystery By The Sea (Lady Eleanor Swift #5)
  • Author(s): Verity Bright
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): 1920s

A magnificent seaside hotel, striped deckchairs, strawberry ice cream… and a rather familiar dead body? Lady Swift is on the case! Spring, 1921. Lady Eleanor Swift, explorer extraordinaire and accidental sleuth, hasn’t had a vacation since she arrived in...

Not Dead Enough (Roy Grace 3)

Not Dead Enough (Roy Grace 3)
  • Author(s): Peter James
  • Location(s): Brighton, Munich
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Not Dead Enough marks another welcome appearance for the author’s quirkily characterised policeman Roy Grace (who we’ve already met in Dead Simple and Looking Good Dead). Here, Grace is investigating the bizarre slaying of a member of Brighton’s social...

Not Dead Yet (Roy Grace 8)

Not Dead Yet (Roy Grace 8)
  • Author(s): Peter James
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

For LA producer Larry Brooker, this is the movie that could bring the fortune that has so long eluded him . . . For rock superstar, Gaia, desperate to be taken seriously as an actor, this is the role...

Out of Sight

Out of Sight
  • Author(s): Isabelle Grey
  • Location(s): France, London, Sussex
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2005 - 2011

Patrick is a loving husband and father, but when his parents come to stay one summer, he is desperate to escape the memories they provoke. Their departure leaves him exhausted and overwhelmed. The last thing he remembers is strapping...

Picture You Dead

Picture You Dead
  • Author(s): Peter James
  • Location(s): Sussex
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Detective Superintendent Roy Grace finds himself plunged into an unfamiliar and rarefied world of fine art. Outwardly it appears respectable, gentlemanly, above reproach. But beneath the veneer, he rapidly finds that greed, deception and violence walk hand-in-hand. Harry and...

So Pretty

So Pretty
  • Author(s): Ronnie Turner
  • Location(s): Rye
  • Genre(s): Gothic, Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Fear blisters through this town like a fever… When Teddy Colne arrives in the small town of Rye, he believes he will be able to settle down and leave his past behind him. Little does he know that fear...

Starlings

Starlings
  • Author(s): Erinna Mettler
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): 1960s, Modern

Starlings is a daisy-chain novel set in Brighton. Each chapter tells the story of one of its varied inhabitants. Disparate lives collide in surprising ways, showing that destinies are often shaped by those we live beside. In a coastal...

The Bookshop Murder

The Bookshop Murder
  • Author(s): Merryn Allingham
  • Location(s): West Sussex
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1950s

Join Flora Steele – bookshop owner, bicycle-rider, day dreamer and amateur detective as she tackles her first case! Sussex, 1955: When Flora Steele opens up her bookshop one morning she’s in for the surprise of her life! Because there,...

The Closer I Get

The Closer I Get
  • Author(s): Paul Burston
  • Location(s): South London, Hastings
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

’An intense, tightly calibrated thriller’ Huffington Post Tom is a successful author, but he’s struggling to finish his novel. His main distraction is an online admirer, Evie, who simply won’t leave him alone. Evie is smart, well read and...

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