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Dances with Daffodils

Dances with Daffodils
  • Author(s): Matthew Connolly
  • Location(s): Grasmere, Ullswater
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 1800s

It is spring 1802 in London and Luke Greenhead, prodigal son of a Grasmere shepherd, has squandered away half his life. In despair he returns to his Lakeland birthplace in search of home and family. By the shores of...

Dark Aemelia

Dark Aemelia
  • Author(s): Sally O'Reilly
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1592-1616

The daughter of a Venetian musician but orphaned as a young girl, Aemilia Bassano grows up in the court of Elizabeth I, becoming the Queen’s favourite. She absorbs a love of poetry and learning, maturing into a striking young...

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...

Daughters of Jerusalem

Daughters of Jerusalem
  • Author(s): Charlotte Mendelson
  • Location(s): Oxford
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Behind a crumbling facade of seeming normality, secrets begin to stir within the Lux family home. Jean Lux, constrained academic wife and guilty mother, is waiting for excitement – and it will come from an unexpected source. Meanwhile Eve,...

Dead Man’s Footsteps

Dead Man’s Footsteps
  • Author(s): Peter James
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

‘Abby stepped in the lift and the doors closed with a sound like a shovel smoothing gravel. She breathed in the smell of someone else’s perfume, and lemon-scented cleaning fluid. The lift jerked upwards a few inches. And now,...

Dead Man’s Grip (Roy Grace 7)

Dead Man’s Grip (Roy Grace 7)
  • Author(s): Peter James
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Carly Chase is still traumatised after being in a fatal traffic accident which kills a teenage student from Brighton University. Then she receives news that turns her entire world into a living nightmare. The drivers of the other two...

Dead Pretty

Dead Pretty
  • Author(s): David Mark
  • Location(s): Hull
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

No. 5 in the DS McAvoy series. Hannah Kelly has been missing for nine months. Ava Delaney has been dead for five days. One girl to find. One girl to avenge. And DS Aector McAvoy won’t let either of...

Dead Simple (Roy Grace 1)

Dead Simple (Roy Grace 1)
  • Author(s): Peter James
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

It was meant to be a harmless stag night prank. A few hours later four of his best friends are dead and Michael Harrison has disappeared. With only three days to the wedding, Detective Superintendent Grace – a man...

Death and the Conjuror

Death and the Conjuror
  • Author(s): Tom Mead
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1936

1936, London. A celebrity psychiatrist is discovered dead in his locked study. There seems to be no way a killer could have escaped unseen. There are no clues, no witnesses, and no evidence of the murder weapon. Stumped by...

Death At Eden’s End

Death At Eden’s End
  • Author(s): Jo Allen
  • Location(s): The Lake District, Eden Valley
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 2019

When one-hundred-year-old Violet Ross is found dead at Eden’s End, a luxury care home hidden in a secluded nook of the Lake District’s Eden Valley it’s tragic, of course, but not unexpected. Except for the instantly recognisable look in...

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