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Find Them Dead

Find Them Dead
  • Author(s): Peter James
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Roy Grace, creation of the award-winning author Peter James, unearths a powerful criminal network in Find Them Dead. Ending his secondment to London’s Met Police, Roy Grace gets a tip-off about a county lines drugs mastermind operating out of...

Force of Hate

Force of Hate
  • Author(s): Graham Bartlett
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When a firebomb attack at a Brighton travellers’ site kills women and children, Chief Superintendent Jo Howe has strong reason to believe the new, dubiously elected, far-right council leader is behind the murders. Against the direct orders of her...

Goodbye Birdie Greenwing

Goodbye Birdie Greenwing
  • Author(s): Ericka Waller
  • Location(s): Brighton, Bristol
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave and impossible to forget … Birdie Greenwing has been at a loose end ever since her beloved twin sister and husband passed away. Too proud and stubborn to admit she...

Her Last Breath

Her Last Breath
  • Author(s): Alison Belsham
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Current day

The body count is rising…and the clock is ticking. When a young woman is attacked and left fighting to survive in hospital, the police are pulled into a race against time to save her life. But just 24 hours...

Here We Are

Here We Are
  • Author(s): Graham Swift
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1959

It is Brighton, 1959, and the theatre at the end of the pier is having its best summer season in years. Ronnie, a brilliant young magician, and Evie, his dazzling assistant, are top of the bill, drawing audiences each...

Jaz Santos vs. the World

Jaz Santos vs. the World
  • Author(s): Priscilla Mante
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A relatable, inclusive story about families, unlikely friendships and girl power. Perfect for fans of Ella on the Outside and Jacqueline Wilson. Olá! I’m Jasmina Santos-Campbell (but you can call me Jaz). You’ve probably heard of me and my...

Let Me Be Like Water

Let Me Be Like Water
  • Author(s): S K Perry
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Under the cathartic spell of the sea, and with a little help from a retired magician, a young woman learns how to rebuild her life in this stunningly poignant debut. Holly moved to Brighton to escape her grief over...

Looking Good Dead (Roy Grace 2)

Looking Good Dead (Roy Grace 2)
  • Author(s): Peter James
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Tom Bryce picks up a CD which has been left behind on a train seat, but when he attempts to track down the owner, he finds himself the only witness to a savage killing. Reporting the crime to the...

Love & Freedom

Love & Freedom
  • Author(s): Sue Moorcroft
  • Location(s): Connecticut, Brighton
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

New start, new love. That’s what Honor Sontag needs after her life falls apart, leaving her reputation in tatters and her head all over the place. So she flees her native America and heads for Brighton, England. Honor’s hoping...

Lydia Bennet’s Story

Lydia Bennet’s Story
  • Author(s): Jane Odiwe
  • Location(s): Bath, Brighton, Hertfordshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Regency

In “Lydia Bennet’s Story”, we are taken back to Jane Austen’s most beloved novel, “Pride and Prejudice”, to a Regency world seen through Lydia’s eyes where pleasure and marriage are the only pursuits. But the road to matrimony is...

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