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The Silent Touch of Shadows

The Silent Touch of Shadows
  • Author(s): Christina Courtenay
  • Location(s): Kent
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): Modern and 1400s

What will it take to put the past to rest? Professional genealogist Melissa Grantham receives an invitation to visit her family’s ancestral home, Ashleigh Manor. From the moment she arrives, life-like dreams and visions haunt her. The spiritual connection...

The Sixpenny Orphan

The Sixpenny Orphan
  • Author(s): Glenda Young
  • Location(s): Ryhope
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century

‘Please, sir, take us both. We only have each other. We don’t know how to live apart.’ After the death of their parents, sisters Poppy and Rose are taken in by widow Nellie Harper. But whilst they have a...

The Smoke of Her Burning

The Smoke of Her Burning
  • Author(s): M J Logue
  • Location(s): Selby
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 17th century, English Civil War

There’s a lot of miles between Essex and Cheshire…. …and newly-promoted Colonel Hollie Babbitt is cursing the most recent additions to his company, for every step of them. A scarred lieutenant with a death wish, and they don’t call...

The Soho Murder

The Soho Murder
  • Author(s): Mike Hollow
  • Location(s): Soho (London), The City of London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1940

December, 1940. The area around St Paul’s Cathedral suffers a devastating air raid and the heart of British book publishing burns to the ground. Detective Inspector John Jago must break bad news to a woman sitting in the ruins...

The Somnambulist

The Somnambulist
  • Author(s): Essie Fox
  • Location(s): Heredfordshire, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 1800s

‘Some secrets are better left buried…’ When seventeen-year-old Phoebe Turner visits Wilton’s Music Hall to watch her Aunt Cissy performing on stage, she risks the wrath of her mother Maud who marches with the Hallelujah Army, campaigning for all...

The Son-in-Law

The Son-in-Law
  • Author(s): Charity Norman
  • Location(s): York, Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

On a sharp winter’s morning, a man turns his back on prison. Joseph Scott has served his term. He’s lost almost everything: his career as a teacher, his wife, the future he’d envisaged. All he has left are his...

The Strange Michael Folmer Affair

The Strange Michael Folmer Affair
  • Author(s): John Rigbey
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern and Various

Following the murder of a prostitute in London’s East End Detective Chief Inspector Mike Gregory of New Scotland Yard is deputed to investigate what seems to be the emergence of a crazed killer bent on emulating the crimes of...

The Streets

The Streets
  • Author(s): Anthony Quinn
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 1800s

In 1882, David Wildeblood, a 21-year-old from rural Norfolk, arrives in London to start work at the offices of a famous man. As an ‘inspector’ for Henry Marchmont’s hugely successful weekly The Labouring Classes of London, his job is...

The Suffocating Sea (DI Andy Horton 3)

The Suffocating Sea (DI Andy Horton 3)
  • Author(s): Pauline Rowson
  • Location(s): Portsmouth
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery

DI Horton is called to investigate a suspicious fire on board a boat, but as soon as he arrives at the marina he experiences a premonition so strong that it’s almost audible. As he views the charred remains of...

The Sultan’s Wife

The Sultan’s Wife
  • Author(s): Jane Johnson
  • Location(s): London, Morocco
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1677

The year is 1677. Behind the magnificent walls and towering arches of the Palace of Meknes, captive chieftain’s son and now a lowly scribe, Nus Nus is framed for murder. As he attempts to evade punishment for the bloody...

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