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Crosscurrents

Crosscurrents
  • Author(s): Jane Jackson
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 1800s

Appalled by the number of deaths caused by exploding steam boilers, Santo Julian is developing an entirely new and safe engine. His backer is Richard Vaughan, heir to Frederick Tregarron, owner of Gillyvean estate. Desperate to prove the viability...

Crossed Bones

Crossed Bones
  • Author(s): Jane Johnson
  • Location(s): Morocco, Penzance
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern , 1620s

This is a fictional account of a pirate raid which occured off of the Cornish coastline in the 1600s, but is actually based on historical facts that have been meticulously researched. 60 villagers are captured and stolen off to...

Daisy Darker

Daisy Darker
  • Author(s): Alice Feeney
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Daisy Darker’s family were as dark as dark can be, when one of them died all of them lied and pretended not to see . . . Daisy Darker is arriving at her grandmother’s house for her eightieth birthday....

Don’t Look Away

Don’t Look Away
  • Author(s): Rachel Abbott
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The breathless thriller from Rachel Abbott. DON’T LOOK AWAY will have you up listening late into the night, unable to tear yourself from it. From the moment I open my eyes, I know. Her bed is made, the wardrobe...

Empty Vessels

Empty Vessels
  • Author(s): Marina Pascoe
  • Location(s): Falmouth
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1920s

Meet Inspector George Bartlett and Constable Archibald Boase in their first investigation together. In the closing months of 1921, Bartlett and Boase have a missing girl on their Falmouth patch. Before long they find themselves drawn into a murder...

Fault Line

Fault Line
  • Author(s): Robert Goddard
  • Location(s): St Austell
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1960s and modern

A search for missing documents in an international mining company becomes a voyage into dangerous waters. A dead friend, a lost lover and a clutch of mysteries from Jonathan Kellaway’s youth in Cornwall and Italy in the late 1960s...

Half a Pound of Tuppenny Rice

Half a Pound of Tuppenny Rice
  • Author(s): David Coubrough
  • Location(s): Cornwall, St Ives
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back 40 years

Each summer a group of families holiday together in St. Ives, Cornwall, but in 1972 their lives are shattered and they never meet up again. In a lane in the village of Zennor a hotel porter is found fatally...

Hydra

Hydra
  • Author(s): Matt Wesolowski
  • Location(s): Cornwall, Lancashire
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 2014

In November 2014 Arla Macleod bludgeoned her mother, father and sister to death with a hammer. Now incarcerated at a medium-security mental-health institution, Arla will speak to no one but Scott King, an investigative journalist, whose ‘Six Stories’ podcasts...

Old Sins Long Shadows

Old Sins Long Shadows
  • Author(s): B D Hawkey
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Victorian

In 1868 a young woman starts a journey of self discovery and love. Yet there are those who wish her harm. Old sins cast long shadows which risk destroying her, the people she cares about and her capacity to...

Rebecca

Rebecca
  • Author(s): Daphne du Maurier
  • Location(s): Cornwall, England
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Location is based on the author’s house, possibly Cornwall. Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again . . .   Working as a lady’s companion, the heroine of Rebecca learns her place. Life begins to look very...

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