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A Very Lucky Christmas

A Very Lucky Christmas
  • Author(s): Lilac Mills
  • Location(s): Worcestershire
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Things can’t get worse for Daisy Jones… can they? Christmas is meant to be the happiest time of year so why is absolutely everything going wrong for Daisy? Reeling from a bad breakup, moving back in with her parents...

Adrift

Adrift
  • Author(s): Will Dean
  • Location(s): The Midlands
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Three of them adrift on the narrowboat. Mother, son, and wickedness. Peggy Jenkins and her teenage son, Samson, live on a remote stretch of canal in the Midlands. She is a writer and he is a schoolboy. Together, they...

All the Little Children

All the Little Children
  • Author(s): Jo Furniss
  • Location(s): Shropshire
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When a family camping trip takes a dark turn, how far will one mother go to keep her family safe? Struggling with working-mother guilt, Marlene Greene hopes a camping trip in the forest will provide quality time with her...

Blood-Tied

Blood-Tied
  • Author(s): Wendy Percival
  • Location(s): Shropshire
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Present day

Esme Quentin is devastated when her sister Elizabeth is beaten unconscious, miles from her home. Two days later Esme discovers that Elizabeth has a secret past. Desperate for answers which the comatose Elizabeth cannot give, Esme begins a search...

Brazen Escape

Brazen Escape
  • Author(s): Diane M Dickson
  • Location(s): Oxfordshire, The Midlands
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Present Day

In the aftermath of an horrendous motorway pile up and body is found that doesn’t appear to be a victim of the crash. When DI Tanya Miller and her team investigate the pursuit takes them to the South Coast...

Chinglish

Chinglish
  • Author(s): Sue Cheng
  • Location(s): Coventry
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): 1980s

It is difficult trying to talk in our family cos: a) Grandparents don’t speak English at all b) Mum hardly speaks any English c) Me, Bonny and Simon hardly speak Chinese d) Dad speaks Chinese and good English –...

Christmas Every Day

Christmas Every Day
  • Author(s): Beth Moran
  • Location(s): Sherwood Forest
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Jenny inherits her estranged grandmother’s cottage in Sherwood Forest, she has nothing to lose – no money, no job, no friends, no family to speak of, and zero self-respect. Things can only get better… Her grumpy, but decidedly...

Darkness, Darkness

Darkness, Darkness
  • Author(s): John Harvey
  • Location(s): England, Nottinghamshire
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern and 1980s/90s

Thirty years ago, the British Miners’ Strike threatened to tear england apart, turning neighbor against neighbor, husband against wife, father against son―enmities which still smolder. Charlie Resnick, recently promoted to Detective Inspector and ambivalent, at best, about some of...

Dead Ground in Between

Dead Ground in Between
  • Author(s): Maureen Jennings
  • Location(s): Ludlow
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1940s

It’s late 1942; the war is still raging and the upcoming Christmas season looks bleak. Detective Inspector Tom Tyler is settling into his placement in Ludlow, Shropshire, a small town jammed with people sent there by the conflict. On...

Dead Man’s Daughter

Dead Man’s Daughter
  • Author(s): Roz Watkins
  • Location(s): The Peak District
  • Genre(s): Crime, Paranormal, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A DI Meg Dalton thriller, Book 2 She was racing towards the gorge. The place the locals knew as ‘Dead Girl’s Drop’… DI Meg Dalton is thrown headlong into her latest case when she finds a ten-year-old girl running...

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