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Dark Skies

Dark Skies
  • Author(s): LJ Ross
  • Location(s): Kielder
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1981 and 2016

Beware what lies beneath… One fateful, starry night, three friends embark on a secret camping trip but only two return home. Thirty years later, the body of a teenage boy rises from the depths of England’s biggest reservoir and...

Her Sister’s Killer

Her Sister’s Killer
  • Author(s): Mari Hannah
  • Location(s): Northumberland, The North East (England)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Stone and Oliver #5 What brings people together often throws them apart, especially when it involves family. Newly promoted Inspector Frankie Oliver has been consumed by rooting out her sister’s killer and bringing them to justice. But when new...

Hidden Depths (Vera Stanhope #3)

Hidden Depths (Vera Stanhope #3)
  • Author(s): Ann Cleeves
  • Location(s): Northumberland, The North East (England)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

A hot summer on the Northumberland coast and Julie Armstrong arrives home from a night out to find her son strangled, laid out in a bath of water and covered with wild flowers. This stylized murder scene has Inspector...

In A Dark, Dark Wood

In A Dark, Dark Wood
  • Author(s): Ruth Ware
  • Location(s): Kielder
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Nora hasn’t seen Clare for ten years. Not since the day Nora walked out of her old life and never looked back. Until, out of the blue, an invitation to Clare’s hen party arrives. A weekend in a remote...

In Bloom

In Bloom
  • Author(s): Matthew Crow
  • Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Young Adult
  • Era(s): Modern

Francis Wootton’s first memory is of Kurt Cobain’s death, and there have since been other hardships much closer to home. At fifteen years old he already knows all about loss and rejection – and to top it all off...

Jackdaw Summer

Jackdaw Summer
  • Author(s): David Almond
  • Location(s): Northumberland
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Modern

A long hot summer – A wild boy – An abandoned baby – An act of violence Every summer Liam and Max roam the wild countryside of Northumberland – but this year things are different. One hot summer’s day...

Maybe, Perhaps, Possibly

Maybe, Perhaps, Possibly
  • Author(s): Joanna Glen
  • Location(s): Northumberland, Norway
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern day

On the tiny island of Rokesby, Addie helps her mother run a women’s retreat. Dreaming daily of escape, she consoles herself by swimming in the ocean that surrounds them. On the neighbouring island, joined to Rokesby by a bridge...

Miss Appleby’s Academy

Miss Appleby’s Academy
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Gill
  • Location(s): Tow Law
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 1900s

Emma Appleby’s arrival in the County Durham village of Tow Law is sudden and mysterious, provoking deep suspicion in the locals. And because she has a child with her, seemingly out of marriage, they want nothing to do with...

Pearl of Pit Lane

Pearl of Pit Lane
  • Author(s): Glenda Young
  • Location(s): Ryhope, Sunderland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1919

‘Put me to work on the pit lane, would you? Is that all you think I’m worth?’ When her mother dies in childbirth, Pearl Edwards is left in the care of her aunt, Annie Grafton. Annie loves Pearl like...

Penshaw

Penshaw
  • Author(s): LJ Ross
  • Location(s): The North East (England)
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Fiction
  • Era(s): 2019

When you sell your soul, the devil gives no refunds… When an old man is burned alive in a sleepy ex-mining village, Detective Chief Inspector Ryan is called in to investigate. He soon discovers that, beneath the facade of...

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