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Angel Heart

Angel Heart
  • Author(s): Marie Laval
  • Location(s): Beaujolais, England
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): Early 19th Century

Angel Heart is a lavish mix of romance, adventure, and a hint of the supernatural, largely set in France against the turbulent background of Napoleon’s return from Elba. Devonshire, January 1815. Marie-Ange, the young widow of an English officer,...

Another Woman’s Husband

Another Woman’s Husband
  • Author(s): Gill Paul
  • Location(s): Paris, Brighton
  • Era(s): 20th Century

1911. Aged just fifteen, Mary Kirk and Wallis Warfield meet at summer camp. Their friendship will survive heartbreaks, continents, and the demands of the English crown, until it is shattered by one unforgivable betrayal… 1997. Kendall’s romantic break in...

Antidote to Venom

Antidote to Venom
  • Author(s): Freeman Wills Crofts
  • Location(s): Birmingham
  • Genre(s): Children, Mystery
  • Era(s): Turn of 20th Century

The setting is Birmingham Zoo ‘Mr Wills Crofts is deservedly a first favourite with all who want a real puzzle’ – Times Literary Supplement ‘He always manages to give us something that really keeps us guessing’ – Daily Mirror...

Arcam

Arcam
  • Author(s): Jason Minick
  • Location(s): Somerset
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): Current

DCI Jack Robson believes he is hunting a kidnapper… Away from his posting in London, Robson is asked to lead an investigation in the south west of England. But what begins as a baffling local kidnapping mystery,...

Aren’t We Sisters?

Aren’t We Sisters?
  • Author(s): Patricia Ferguson
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1930s

Norah Thornby can no longer afford to live in her grand family home in the centre of Silkhampton. Unless, perhaps, she can find a respectable lodger.   But Nurse Lettie Quick is not nearly as respectable as she seems....

Artemis (2)

Artemis (2)
  • Author(s): Julian Stockwin
  • Location(s): India, South East Asia, Surrey
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1794

In the great age of fighting sail, life ranging the seas for prey and prize money in the crack frigate HMS Artemis is fast and exciting. Now a true Jack Tar, Kydd sails into Portsmouth Harbour and a hero’s...

As the Crow Flies

As the Crow Flies
  • Author(s): Damien Boyd
  • Location(s): Burnham-on-Sea
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Rock climbing is now a blood sport. Detective Inspector Nick Dixon’s former climbing partner, Jake Fayter, is dead. Killed in a fall whilst practising a new route on High Rock, Cheddar Gorge. Convinced that Jake would not have made...

Attend

Attend
  • Author(s): West Camel
  • Location(s): Deptford
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Sam falls in love with Deptford thug Derek, and Anne’s best friend Kathleen takes her own life, they discover they are linked not just by a world of drugs and revenge; they also share the friendship of the...

Avon Street

Avon Street
  • Author(s): Paul Emanuelli
  • Location(s): Bath
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 19th Century

One night, one rash act, one crime changed James Daunton’s life for ever. Robbed of everything he once had, and trapped in a merciless vendetta, James must now take on Nathaniel Caine and his gang to survive. Alone, he...

Backhand

Backhand
  • Author(s): Liza Cody
  • Location(s): London, Sarasota
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Featuring Anna Lee, on the tennis court, where she is asked to investigate a missing person.the investigation becomes increasingly complex, taking Anna from London to Sarasota, Florida, where she is drawn into the underworld of high finance, violence, and...

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