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- Location(s): Derby, Lake Garda
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Present looking back
One year ago, Leah’s twenty-one-year-old niece, Amy, mysteriously drowned near her family-owned luxury resort on the shores of Lake Garda. Now, returning to Italy for the first time since Amy’s death, Leah is shocked to find her family seem...
- Location(s): Derbyshire
- Genre(s): Gothic, Thriller
- Era(s): Post war period
Country houses can be such spooky places and Rhiannon Ward who has written the Derbyshire crime novels shows us one with her new novel The Quickening. Her gothic novel is about Clewer Hall. It is the country house shutting...
- 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...
- Location(s): Derbyshire
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 16th through 20th centuries
At the heart of this novel lies the fictional village of Ulverton. It is the fixed point in a book that spans centuries. Different voices tell the story of Ulverton: one of Cromwell’s soldiers staggers home to find his...