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In The Blink of An Eye

In The Blink of An Eye
  • Author(s): Jo Callaghan
  • Location(s): Warwickshire
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In the UK, someone is reported missing every 90 seconds. Just gone. Vanished. In the blink of an eye.  DCS Kat Frank knows all about loss. A widowed single mother, Kat is a cop who trusts her instincts. Picked...

Old Gold

Old Gold
  • Author(s): Jay Stringer
  • Location(s): Wolverhampton
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Half-gypsy detective Eoin Miller finds people for a living-usually people who would do anything to remain hidden. Ironic considering Eoin has done all he can to lose himself in a downward spiral that has cost him his job, his...

Taunting the Dead

Taunting the Dead
  • Author(s): Mel Sherratt
  • Location(s): Stoke on Trent
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Statistics say nine out of ten murders are committed by someone the victim knows. So when Steph Ryder is found dead with her head caved in, Detective Sergeant Allie Shenton begins investigations close to home, starting with the victim’s...

Whistle in the Dark

Whistle in the Dark
  • Author(s): Emma Healey
  • Location(s): The Peak District, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): 2015

How do you rescue someone who has already been found? Jen’s fifteen-year-old daughter goes missing for four agonizing days. When Lana is found, unharmed, in the middle of the desolate countryside, everyone thinks the worst is over. But Lana...

A Patient Fury

A Patient Fury
  • Author(s): Sarah Ward
  • Location(s): Derbyshire
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modernn

When Detective Constable Connie Childs is dragged from her bed to the fire-wrecked property on Cross Farm Lane she knows as she steps from the car that this house contains death. Three bodies discovered – a family obliterated –...

A Place of Execution

A Place of Execution
  • Author(s): Val McDermid
  • Location(s): Derbyshire, The Peak District
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Present looking back to 1960s

In the Peak District village of Scardale, thirteen-year-old girls didn’t just run away. So when Alison Carter vanished in the winter of ’63, everyone knew it was a murder. Catherine Heathcote remembers the case well. A child herself when...

A Pretty Folly

A Pretty Folly
  • Author(s): Charlie Garratt
  • Location(s): Kenilworth
  • Genre(s): Historical, Crime
  • Era(s): pre-Second World War

A grisly murder case lands in Inspector James Given’s lap. A young girl’s body is found in the crypt of a prestigious school. Part-mummified, it is hard to discover how long she’s lain there. But why wasn’t she reported...

A Quiet Contagion

A Quiet Contagion
  • Author(s): Jane Jesmond
  • Location(s): Coventry
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Contemporary / 1957

Six decades. Seven people. One unspeakable secret. 1957. A catastrophe occurs at the pharmaceutical lab in Coventry where sixteen-year-old Wilf is working for the summer. A catastrophe that needs to be covered up at all costs.2017. Phiney is shocked...

A Shadowed Livery

A Shadowed Livery
  • Author(s): Charlie Garratt
  • Location(s): Warwickshire
  • Genre(s): Historical, Crime
  • Era(s): 1938

War is on the horizon… Warwickshire, England, 1938 While Hitler and Chamberlain are preparing to sign the Munich agreement, the murderer of a Jewish shopkeeper is being hanged in Birmingham. After witnessing the execution, Inspector James Given, who brought...

A Shadowed Livery

A Shadowed Livery
  • Location(s): Kenilworth
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1938

In the dying days of September 1938 the murderer of a Jewish shopkeeper is hanged in Birmingham. After witnessing the execution, Inspector James Given, who brought the killer to justice, is surprised to find he has been taken off...

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