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The Girl with the Scarlet Ribbon

The Girl with the Scarlet Ribbon
  • Author(s): Suzanne Goldring
  • Location(s): Florence, Cornwall, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): WWII and 2019

Italy, 1943. A missing painting. A war-scarred city. A brave young girl on a black bicycle risking her life for the country she loved… When Sofia loses her adored father, famous painter Riccardo, she is broken-hearted. Desperate to bring...

The Girl You Left Behind

The Girl You Left Behind
  • Author(s): Jojo Moyes
  • Location(s): France, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

France, 1916. Sophie Lefevre must keep her family safe whilst her adored husband Edouard fights at the front. When she is ordered to serve the German officers who descend on her hotel each evening, her home becomes riven by...

The House on Half Moon Street

The House on Half Moon Street
  • Author(s): Alex Reeve
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Later 19th Century

A Richard and Judy Book Club 2019 pick (A Leo Stanhope Case) Everyone has a secret… Only some lead to murder. Introducing Leo Stanhope: a Victorian transgender coroner’s assistant who must uncover a killer without risking his own future...

The Last Letters from Villa Clara

The Last Letters from Villa Clara
  • Author(s): Sarah Steele
  • Location(s): London, Tuscany
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1939 onwards

1939. Europe is on the brink of change and in the fear and chaos of pre-war Italy, a painting disappears and is never seen again. 1963. London is on the cusp of change in the swinging 60s. Nightclubs and...

The Man In The Corduroy Suit

The Man In The Corduroy Suit
  • Author(s): James Wolff
  • Location(s): London, Norfolk
  • Genre(s): Espionage, Thriller

British intelligence is in a state of panic. Cracks are appearing, or so a run of disciplinary cases would suggest. To cap it all, a retired MI5 officer collapses, the victim of what looks like a Russian poisoning. Leonard...

The Midnight Hour

The Midnight Hour
  • Author(s): Eve Chase
  • Location(s): Notting Hill, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Gothic
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Notting Hill, London. One May evening, seventeen-year-old Maggie Parker’s mother walks out of their front door and doesn’t return . . . With her little brother in tow, desperate to find her mother, Maggie is drawn into a labyrinthine...

The Midnight News

The Midnight News
  • Author(s): Jo Baker
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s

It is 1940 and twenty-year-old Charlotte Richmond watches from her attic window as enemy planes fly over London. Still grieving her beloved brother who never returned from France, she is working hard to keep her own little life ticking...

The Misper

The Misper
  • Author(s): Kate London
  • Location(s): England, London
  • Genre(s): Suspense, Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

There’s more than one way to go missing… When Ryan Kennedy is imprisoned after killing a police officer, he knows what he has to do. Keep his mouth shut about who he was working for, keep his head down,...

The Missing Activist

The Missing Activist
  • Author(s): Louise Burfitt-Dons
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 2016

Post-Referendum Britain and a country on high alert for terrorist attacks. When a young political activist goes missing in London, off-the-wall Private Investigator Karen Andersen is called in to find him. While searching London she uncovers secrets of a...

The Old Enemy

The Old Enemy
  • Author(s): Henry Porter
  • Location(s): London, Estonia, Washington DC
  • Genre(s): Espionage, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Ex-MI6 officer Paul Samson has been tasked with secretly guarding a gifted young woman, Zoe Freemantle. He is just beginning to tire of the job when he is attacked in the street by a freakish looking knifeman. It’s clear...

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