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A Knot of Sparrows

A Knot of Sparrows
  • Author(s): Cheryl Rees-Price
  • Location(s): South Wales
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Welsh detective Winter Meadows takes on a new murder case There were a lot of things you could call Stacey Evans. And many of them would be true. And unprintable. But did she deserve to be murdered? DI Winter...

A Shadow on the Lens

A Shadow on the Lens
  • Author(s): Sam Hurcom
  • Location(s): Dinas Powys, Wales
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1940s

1904. Thomas Bexley, one of the first forensic photographers, is called to the sleepy and remote Welsh village of Dinas Powys, several miles down the coast from the thriving port of Cardiff. A young girl by the name of...

A Stitch in Time in Applewell

A Stitch in Time in Applewell
  • Author(s): Lilac Mills
  • Location(s): Mid Wales
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): present day

It’s not just hems that are frayed in Applewell… Gracie rescues old clothes and cast offs from Applewell’s charity shop, making them into cute and fresh outfits, which she then sells in her little shop. Turning a profit is...

A Terrible Kindness

A Terrible Kindness
  • Author(s): Jo Browning Wroe
  • Location(s): Cambridge, Aberfan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Around 1960s

When we go through something impossible, someone, or something, will help us, if we let them . . . It is October 1966 and William Lavery is having the night of his life at his first black-tie do. But,...

A Time For Silence

A Time For Silence
  • Author(s): Thorne Moore
  • Location(s): Pembrokeshire
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 1930s

When Sarah, struggling to get over tragedy, stumbles across her grandparents’ ruined farm, it feels as if the house has been waiting for her. She is drawn to their apparently idyllic way of life and starts to look into...

Aberystwyth Mon Amour

Aberystwyth Mon Amour
  • Author(s): Malcolm Pryce
  • Location(s): Aberystwyth
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Late 20th Century

Schoolboys are disappearing all over Aberystwyth and nobody knows why. Louie Knight, the town’s private investigator, soon realises that it is going to take more than a double ripple from Sospan, the philosopher cum ice-cream seller, to help find...

Allegation

Allegation
  • Author(s): R G Adams
  • Location(s): South Wales
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Sandbeach, South Wales. Two women have come forward to make historical sexual allegations against a pillar of the small community. Now, child- safeguarding protocol demands social services to remove the accused from his home and family till a formal...

Anglesey Blue

Anglesey Blue
  • Author(s): Dylan H Jones
  • Location(s): Anglesey
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

MURDER. BETRAYAL. REVENGE. It’s not the homecoming Detective Inspector Tudor Manx was expecting, but solving the case is just the start of his problems. Recently transferred from the London Met to the North Wales Constabulary, Detective Inspector Tudor Manx...

Assembling the Wingpeople

Assembling the Wingpeople
  • Author(s): Nicky Bond
  • Location(s): Aberystwyth
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present Day - published in 2021

Can Tilda uproot her life and start again when her personality avoids risk-taking at every opportunity? Is Bea really in love with Mal or is her HRT causing emotional turbulence? And how long can Stewart use his estranged father’s...

August

August
  • Author(s): Gerard Woodward
  • Location(s): London, Wales
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

Ever since Aldous Jones careened over the handlebars of his bicycle in 1955 and landed next to Farmer Evans’s first field, it has become a tradition for him to take his family camping in Wales. Aldous has started to...

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