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The Hike

The Hike
  • Author(s): Lucy Clarke
  • Location(s): Norway
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Wish you were here? Think again . . . Maggie, Liz, Helena & Joni. Old friends bound by history, adventures, old secrets. And now, bound by murder. They lace up their hiking boots for the adventure of a lifetime...

The History of Bees

The History of Bees
  • Author(s): Maja Lunde
  • Location(s): England, China, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1851 to 2098

England, 1851. William is a biologist and seed merchant, who sets out to build a new type of beehive—one that will give both him and his children honour and fame. United States, 2007. George is a beekeeper and fights...

The Hog’s Back Mystery

The Hog’s Back Mystery
  • Author(s): Freeman Wills Crofts
  • Location(s): North Downs
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): First half 20th Century

Dr James Earle and his wife live in comfortable seclusion near the Hog’s Back, a ridge in the North Downs in the beautiful Surrey countryside. When Dr Earle disappears from his cottage, Inspector French is called in to investigate....

The Holiday

The Holiday
  • Author(s): T M Logan
  • Location(s): Hérault
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Seven days. Three families. One killer. It was supposed to be the perfect holiday, dreamed up by Kate as the ideal way to turn 40: four best friends and their husbands and children in a luxurious villa under the...

The Holy Thief

The Holy Thief
  • Author(s): William Ryan
  • Location(s): Moscow
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1930s

‘Set in 1936, Ryan’s impressive debut introduces Capt. Alexei Korolev of the Moscow Militia’s Criminal Investigation Division, who looks into the murder of a young woman found butchered in a church… Ryan, who merits comparison to Tom Rob Smith,...

The Home

The Home
  • Author(s): Sarah Stovell
  • Location(s): The Lake District
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When the body of pregnant, fifteen-year-old Hope Lacey is discovered in a churchyard on Christmas morning, the community is shocked, but unsurprised. For Hope lived in The Home, the residence of three young girls, whose violent and disturbing pasts...

The Home Scar

The Home Scar
  • Author(s): Kathleen MacMahon
  • Location(s): Galway
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present looking back to 1980s

On opposite sides of the world, half-siblings Cassie and Christo have built their lives around work, intent on ignoring their painful past. When a dramatic storm in Galway hits the headlines, they’re drawn back there to revisit a glorious...

The Homecoming of Samuel Lake

The Homecoming of Samuel Lake
  • Author(s): Jenny Wingfield
  • Location(s): Arkansas
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

A bewitching debut novel in the vein of the much-loved classic Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Café. It’s 1956 and Samuel Lake, a handsome preacher, is voted out of his ministry by yet another congregation, disappointed by his...

The Honest Folk of Guadeloupe

The Honest Folk of Guadeloupe
  • Author(s): Timothy Williams
  • Location(s): Guadeloupe
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 20th Century

April 1990, Guadeloupe: French-Algerian judge Anne Marie Laveaud has been living and working in the French Caribbean department of Guadeloupe for more than a decade, but her days are still full of surprises – for example, the fact that...

The Honest Tribe: Travels in Finland

The Honest Tribe: Travels in Finland
  • Author(s): Max Boyle
  • Location(s): Finland
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Present day

At an age when many of his peers might be considering a cardigan and slippers lifestyle, Max Boyle departs his native Huddersfield for a backpacking journey in the southern regions of Finland. There he takes in the cities of...

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