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My Policeman

My Policeman
  • Author(s): Bethan Roberts
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

It is in 1950s’ Brighton that Marion first catches sight of Tom. He teaches her to swim in the shadow of the pier and Marion is smitten – determined her love will be enough for them both. A few...

Need You Dead

Need You Dead
  • Author(s): Peter James
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Lorna Belling, desperate to escape the marriage from hell, falls for the charms of another man who promises her the earth. But, as Lorna finds, life seldom follows the plans you’ve made. A chance photograph on a client’s mobile...

New Brighton

New Brighton
  • Author(s): Helen Trevorrow
  • Location(s): Brighton, Antarctica, Argentina, New York City (NYC), Portland (Oregon)
  • Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future
  • Era(s): Contemporary

During a vicious storm, a battered ship runs aground on Brighton beach. While the city on the sea comes to a ghostly standstill, the unusual event triggers an epic journey for young waitress, Robyn Lockhart. First, Robyn needs to...

Psycho by the Sea (A Constable Twitten Mystery)

Psycho by the Sea (A Constable Twitten Mystery)
  • Author(s): Lynne Truss
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Crime, Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1950s

‘A giddy spell of sheer delight!’ Praise for the Constable Twitten Series, Daily Mail In the latest installment of this funny, charming and quirky series – longlisted for the acclaimed CWA Historical Dagger – our trio of redoubtable detectives...

Queenie Malone’s Paradise Hotel

Queenie Malone’s Paradise Hotel
  • Author(s): Ruth Hogan
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Tilly was a bright, outgoing little girl who liked playing with ghosts and matches. She loved fizzy drinks, swear words, fish fingers and Catholic churches, but most of all she loved living in Brighton in Queenie Malone’s magnificent Paradise...

Ruby Baker Seaside Mystery Trilogy

Ruby Baker Seaside Mystery Trilogy
  • Author(s): Daisy White
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Cosy Mystery
  • Era(s): 1960s

3 gripping, nostalgic mysteries set in Brighton in 1963. Runaway Ruby Baker and her best friend Mary find jobs as hairdressing apprentices, but Ruby soon realizes she has a talent for solving mysteries too…

Sister, Sister

Sister, Sister
  • Author(s): Suzanne Fortin
  • Location(s): Brighton, Amelia Island
  • Genre(s): Suspense, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Alice: Beautiful, kind, manipulative, liar. Clare: Intelligent, loyal, paranoid, jealous. Clare thinks Alice is a manipulative liar who is trying to steal her life. Alice thinks Clare is jealous of her long-lost return and place in their family. One...

The Amber Pendant (The Rose Muddle Mysteries)

The Amber Pendant (The Rose Muddle Mysteries)
  • Author(s): Imogen White
  • Location(s): Brighton, Hove
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Edwardian Era

When Rose Muddle is plucked from the workhouse to become a maid in a grand mansion, she discovers that her new mistress has secret plans for her – plans which involve a strange amber pendant with extraordinary powers. But...

The Brighton Mermaid

The Brighton Mermaid
  • Author(s): Dorothy Koomson
  • Location(s): Brighton, England
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1993 and present day

Brighton Beach, 1993 Teenagers Nell and Jude find the body of a young woman and when no one comes to claim her, she becomes known as the Brighton Mermaid. Nell is still struggling to move on when, three weeks...

The Bumblebee Flies Anyway

The Bumblebee Flies Anyway
  • Author(s): Kate Bradbury
  • Location(s): Birmingham, Brighton
  • Era(s): Modern

Finding herself in a new home in Brighton, Kate Bradbury sets about transforming her decked, barren backyard into a beautiful wildlife garden. She documents the unbuttoning of the earth and the rebirth of the garden, the rewilding of a...

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