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The Great Deceiver

The Great Deceiver
  • Author(s): Elly Griffiths
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1966

The next gripping volume in The Brighton Mysteries series by bestselling author Elly Griffiths. Magician Max Mephisto, now divorced and living in London, is on his way to visit daughter Ruby and her new-born baby when he is hailed...

The Ice Cream Girls

The Ice Cream Girls
  • Author(s): Dorothy Koomson
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘An instantly involving psychological thriller’ Telegraph Read the gripping, emotional thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author Dorothy Koomson. Serena and Poppy were teenagers when they were branded as the Ice Cream Girls. When they were accused of murder,...

The Penguin Killer

The Penguin Killer
  • Author(s): Ste Sharp
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1990s

Brighton, during the glorious Britpop summer of 1995.A second hand bookshop becomes the centre of a serial killer investigation when vintage penguin books are left at murder scenes. Luke Redfern has just inherited the bookshop Red Books from his...

The Posthumous Adventures of Harry Whittaker

The Posthumous Adventures of Harry Whittaker
  • Author(s): Bobbie Darbyshire
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

When Harry Whittaker, much loved star of stage and screen, dies suddenly of a heart attack, he finds himself still in this world. Trapped in a bizarre afterlife, he struggles to free himself. Meanwhile, his estranged son Richard is...

The Secret Photographs

The Secret Photographs
  • Author(s): Jacquie Bloese
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): Later 19th Century

England, 1895: In the bustling seaside town of Brighton, photography is all the rage. Ellen Harper assists her twin brother running one of the city’s seafront studios, where fashionable ladies and gentlemen pose in their finery to have their...

The Storm (The Lady of the Pier #3)

The Storm (The Lady of the Pier #3)
  • Author(s): Effrosyni Moschoudi
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Historical, Paranormal, Romance
  • Era(s): 1940s & 1980s

When Sofia falls in love, a mourning spirit begins to haunt her… The Storm is the concluding part of the trilogy where the two stories of Sofia and Laura merge into one and redemption seems finally possible… BRIGHTON 1988...

The Tattoo Thief

The Tattoo Thief
  • Author(s): Alison Belsham
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘Creepy and compulsive, this is Belsham’s first excursion into crime and it announces the arrival of a fine new voice’ Daily Mail A policeman on his first murder case A tattoo artist with a deadly secret And a twisted...

Travels With My Aunt

Travels With My Aunt
  • Author(s): Graham Greene
  • Location(s): Paris, Brighton, Istanbul (Constantinople), Paraguay
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th century

Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager, meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time in over fifty years at what he supposes to be his mother’s funeral. Soon after, she persuades Henry to abandon Southwood, his dahlias and...

What the Tide Brings Back

What the Tide Brings Back
  • Author(s): Rob Starr
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Jesse is drawn to the sea off Brighton Beach. Having newly joined a local sea swimming club he has at last found a way to clear his head from the nightmares that have terrorised him since birth. But what...

You Wish!

You Wish!
  • Author(s): James Collins
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Humour
  • Era(s): 1990s

A trainee witch, an East End lad made good, an art student and a homophobic gym instructor. Whoever could guess that a chance meeting of these five people could lead to such madness and mayhem, could cause a riot...

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