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The Hog’s Back Mystery

The Hog’s Back Mystery
  • Author(s): Freeman Wills Crofts
  • Location(s): North Downs
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): First half 20th Century

Dr James Earle and his wife live in comfortable seclusion near the Hog’s Back, a ridge in the North Downs in the beautiful Surrey countryside. When Dr Earle disappears from his cottage, Inspector French is called in to investigate....

The Home

The Home
  • Author(s): Sarah Stovell
  • Location(s): The Lake District
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When the body of pregnant, fifteen-year-old Hope Lacey is discovered in a churchyard on Christmas morning, the community is shocked, but unsurprised. For Hope lived in The Home, the residence of three young girls, whose violent and disturbing pasts...

The Honeymoon

The Honeymoon
  • Author(s): Rona Halsall
  • Location(s): Brighton, Menorca
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘I’m your husband, Chloe. We’re a partnership now and we do what’s best for us as a couple.’ Chloe finally feels like she’s got her life together. After a difficult childhood and losing both parents, she worked hard for...

The House at Devil’s Neck

The House at Devil’s Neck
  • Author(s): Tom Mead
  • Location(s): Essex, London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1930s

LIKE LOCKED-ROOM MYSTERIES? YOU’LL LOVE TOM MEAD’S JOSEPH SPECTOR SERIES! This gripping locked-room mystery sees Joseph Spector investigate his most sinister case yet: murderous machinations at a haunted manor house. A former First World War field hospital, the spooky...

The House at Riverton

The House at Riverton
  • Author(s): Kate Morton
  • Location(s): Essex
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1905, 20th century

Grace, erstwhile maid at Riverton Manor tells the story reflectively from a grand age. The story of a grand English country house, the home of Hannah and Emmiline Hartford. There is mystery and secrets, love, loss and tragedy. Here,...

The House by the Sea

The House by the Sea
  • Author(s): Santa Montefiore
  • Location(s): Devon, Tuscany
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 1966 forward to 2009

The Italian storyline begins in 1966 with Floriana, a ten-year-old girl who lives with her drunken father in a small village in Tuscany. 2009 we meet Marina, a woman in her fifties who runs a hotel on the Devon...

The House by the Thames

The House by the Thames
  • Author(s): Gillian Tindall
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): Various

LAvish, historical book, based on the inhabitants over the centuries of this little house near the Millenium Bridge. Meticulously researched.

The House Of A Hundred Whispers

The House Of A Hundred Whispers
  • Author(s): Graham Masterton
  • Location(s): Dartmoor
  • Genre(s): Horror, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

On a windswept moor, an old house guards its secrets… All Hallows Hall is a rambling Tudor mansion on the edge of the bleak and misty Dartmoor. It is not a place many would choose to live. Yet the...

The House on Cold Hill

The House on Cold Hill
  • Author(s): Peter James
  • Location(s): Sussex
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Suspense
  • Era(s): Modern

The House on Cold Hill is a chilling and suspenseful ghost story from the multi-million copy bestselling author of Dead Simple, Peter James. Moving from the heart of Brighton and Hove to the Sussex countryside is a big undertaking for Ollie and...

The House Party

The House Party
  • Location(s): Isle of Wight
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

At the intimate house-warming party for her glorious ‘grand design’, Kathleen confides in her best friend Beth that she is terrified of one of their close friends, but daren’t reveal which one. The guests are a tight-knit group, but...

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