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The Hermitage

The Hermitage
  • Author(s): LJ Ross
  • Location(s): Tuscany, Florence, Northumberland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When an old man is found dead inside the ancient hermitage at Warkworth Castle, Northumbria CID are called in to investigate. With no apparent motive, it’s their job to unravel why he was murdered – and this time they’re...

The Infirmary

The Infirmary
  • Author(s): LJ Ross
  • Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Crime
  • Era(s): 2014

No man is an island…​ In the stifling summer heat of 2014, a killer has been stalking the streets of Newcastle causing city-wide panic. When the officer in charge of the case turns up dead, it falls upon Detective...

The Other Family

The Other Family
  • Author(s): Joanna Trollope
  • Location(s): London, Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Richie leaves his first wife and child (without going through the process of divorce) and goes off to live with another woman,and with her he fathers three daughters. His untimely death reveals the legal ramifications of his actions, and...

The Prodigal

The Prodigal
  • Author(s): Nicky Black
  • Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

The Prodigal is the first in a series of gritty crime novels set in the fictional housing estate of Valley Park in Newcastle upon Tyne. Exiled from his beloved Newcastle sixteen years ago, Detective Sergeant Lee Jamieson is returning...

The Rewilding of Molly McFlynn

The Rewilding of Molly McFlynn
  • Author(s): Sue Reed
  • Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Young Adult
  • Era(s): Covid Pandemic 2020 and 1649 Witch Trials

It’s spring 2020 and fifteen-year-old Molly McFlynn is uprooted from town life by her mam to live with her bohemian grandparents in rural Northumberland. Molly is furious – her friends abandon her, the food is inedible and her grandmother...

The Season Ticket

The Season Ticket
  • Author(s): Jonathan Tulloch
  • Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Genre(s): Humour
  • Era(s): 1990s

Once you have the rhythm of the Geordie dialect, you will be well away! Tulloch is interested in humanizing the inhabitants of modern Britain’s slums and ghettos and in this book via Gerry and Sewell, two teenage boys living...

The Sixpenny Orphan

The Sixpenny Orphan
  • Author(s): Glenda Young
  • Location(s): Ryhope
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century

‘Please, sir, take us both. We only have each other. We don’t know how to live apart.’ After the death of their parents, sisters Poppy and Rose are taken in by widow Nellie Harper. But whilst they have a...

Union Street

Union Street
  • Author(s): Pat Barker
  • Location(s): Cleveland (UK)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Vivid, bawdy and bitter’ (The Times), Pat Barker’s first novel shows the women of Union Street, young and old, meeting the harsh challeges of poverty and survival in a precarious world. There’s Kelly, at eleven, neglected and independent, dealing...

The Murder Wall

The Murder Wall
  • Author(s): Mari Hannah
  • Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Eleven months after discovering a brutal double murder in a sleepy Northumbrian town, Detective Chief Inspector Kate Daniels is still haunted by her failure to solve the case. Then the brutal killing of a man on Newcastle’s Quayside gives...

Deadly Deceit

Deadly Deceit
  • Author(s): Mari Hannah
  • Location(s): The North East (England)
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Four a.m on a wet stretch of the A1 and a driver skids out of control. Quick on the scene, Senior Investigating Officer Kate Daniels and partner DS Hank Gormley are presented with a horrifying image of carnage and...

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