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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 Italian Wedding

The Italian Wedding
  • Author(s): Nicky Pellegrino
  • Location(s): London, Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance

Pieta Martinelli’s sister is getting married. Since she is a bridal designer it falls to her to make the wedding gown. But Pieta is distracted by a series of unanswered questions. Why is her father feuding with another Italian...

The Jackal’s Share

The Jackal’s Share
  • Author(s): Chris Morgan Jones
  • Location(s): Dubai, Italy, London, Marrakech
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): MOdern

Boundless wealth hides the deepest secrets . . . When a charismatic billionaire asks Ben Webster to investigate his personal affairs it isn’t long before the private spy is convinced that there is something very wrong with his new...

The Janus Stone

The Janus Stone
  • Author(s): Elly Griffiths
  • Location(s): Norfolk
  • Genre(s): Crime

The action takes place in Norfolk, from Norwich to Swaffham to Ruth Galloway’s bolt hole on the windswept North Norfolk marshes and involves Roman myths, Catholicism and missing children. Ruth’s expertise is called upon when builders, demolishing an old...

The Journal of Dora Damage

The Journal of Dora Damage
  • Author(s): Belinda Starling
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1850s

London, 1859. By the time Dora Damage discovers that her husband Peter has arthritis in his hands, it is too late – their book-binding business is in huge debt and the family is on the brink of entering the...

The Keys to the Street

The Keys to the Street
  • Author(s): Ruth Rendell
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 1990s

Regents Park forms the background to a series of murders of homeless people whom Mary Jago has befriended, and enmesh her in a an unexpected way. Another terrific murder mystery from Ruth Rendell

The Kind Worth Killing

The Kind Worth Killing
  • Author(s): Peter Swanson
  • Location(s): Boston, London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

‘Hello there.’ I looked at the pale, freckled hand on the back of the empty bar seat next to me in the business class lounge of Heathrow airport, then up into the stranger’s face. ‘Do I know you?’ Delayed...

The King’s Deception

The King’s Deception
  • Author(s): Steve Berry
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1500s and Modern

There is a secret from our history – 500 years old – startling in its revelations and devastating in its political impact. A secret that has, thankfully, stayed hidden. Until now. Former Justice Department agent Cotton Malone travels to...

The Lake District Murder

The Lake District Murder
  • Author(s): John Bude
  • Location(s): The Lake District
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century

‘Luke flung the light of his torch full onto the face of the immobile figure. Then he had the shock of his life. The man had no face! Where his face should have been was a sort of inhuman,...

The Last Judgement

The Last Judgement
  • Author(s): Iain Pears
  • Location(s): England, Paris, Rome
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Paris can do strange things to a man’s mind… like making him agree to an apparently harmless favour of escorting a picture to Rome. ‘The Death of Socrates’ is a particularly nondescript piece, so art dealer Jonathan Argyll can...

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