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Body Out of Place

Body Out of Place
  • Author(s): Diane Dickson
  • Location(s): Liverpool, North Wales
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Present Day

A body in a cemetery is to be expected. A body in the wrong grave is not so usual. When the death is found to be suspicious Jordan Carr and his team have a puzzle on their hands which...

Broken Ghosts

Broken Ghosts
  • Author(s): J D Oswald
  • Location(s): Wales
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Horror
  • Era(s): 1985

Spring, 1985. Twelve year old Phoebe MacDonald’s world is falling apart. She has just buried her parents, a fire at their family home claiming both in a freak accident. Now she must leave Scotland, the only place she has...

Buried Deep Within

Buried Deep Within
  • Author(s): Cheryl Rees-Price
  • Location(s): Wales
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): contemporary

Abduction and murder occur a little too close to home for a team of Welsh detectives A christening party turns into a terrifying ordeal when baby Cora vanishes, seemingly into thin air. A frenetic search operation gets underway immediately,...

Christ on a Bike

Christ on a Bike
  • Author(s): Orla Owen
  • Location(s): Hackney, Pembrokeshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘Cerys receives an unexpected inheritance but there are rules attached, twisted rules that have to be followed if she is to receive it in full . As she settles into her new life, she begins to feel trapped and...

Christmas in Castleby

Christmas in Castleby
  • Author(s): J M Simpson
  • Location(s): South Wales, Pembrokeshire
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Suspense
  • Era(s): Current

When Tess Dutton arrives in Castleby to help in her sister’s restaurant for the Christmas period her worst nightmare awaits. Tess finds her sister unconscious at the bottom of her stairs, and a restaurant fully booked until Christmas. Ex-Navy...

Circus of Nightmares

Circus of Nightmares
  • Author(s): Conrad Jones
  • Location(s): Anglesey
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Now

★★★★★ The draining of a pond on a construction site leads to a grim discovery which could answer the five-year-old question: what happened to a young couple last seen at the travelling circus? The Circus of Nightmares is an...

Coddling Molly

Coddling Molly
  • Author(s): Nicola Clifford
  • Location(s): Mid Wales
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Mystery
  • Era(s): contempory

“Teenager” and “Brecon” might evoke fond memories of summer backpacking in the Welsh Hills. Probably not the image of an adolescent girl’s body under a bridge in the middle of a winter night. Found by the River Usk the...

Dead In The Water

Dead In The Water
  • Author(s): Simon McCleave
  • Location(s): Anglesey
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When a seventeen-year-old girl vanishes from her home overnight, DI Laura Hart knows that time is of the essence. Then, an inmate at the local prison is murdered in her cell and suddenly Beaumaris CID is juggling two major...

Deadwater

Deadwater
  • Author(s): Sean Burke
  • Location(s): Cardiff
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Deadwater begins with the murder of a prostitute in Cardiff’s Tiger Bay. The novel’s protagonist, the alcoholic pharmacist Jack Farissey, wakes up next morning in blood-stained clothes on a plastic sheet and no memory of what happened the night...

Do Not Disturb

Do Not Disturb
  • Author(s): Claire Douglas
  • Location(s): Brecon Beacons
  • Genre(s): Domestic Noir
  • Era(s): Modern

Could your dream home be your worst nightmare? After what happened in London, Kirsty needs a fresh start with her family. And running a guesthouse in the Welsh mountains sounds idyllic. But then their first guest arrives. Selena is...

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