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Letters from the Lighthouse

Letters from the Lighthouse
  • Author(s): Emma Carroll
  • Location(s): Devon
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 1941, World War 2

February, 1941. After months of bombing raids in London, twelve-year-old Olive Bradshaw and her little brother Cliff are evacuated to the Devon coast. The only person with two spare beds is Mr Ephraim, the local lighthouse keeper. But he’s...

Liars Island

Liars Island
  • Author(s): T Orr Munro
  • Location(s): North Devon
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A remote island off the North Devon coast, Liars Island is home to few inhabitants. The rugged coastline has a history of smuggling and shipwreck, but there has never been a murder – until now. When the body of...

Lily the Tiller

Lily the Tiller
  • Author(s): Deborah McKinlay
  • Location(s): Devon
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Lily the Tiller is a nomadic gardener on the permanent lam from a bleak, abusive past. Scouring the lanes of South West England looking for temporary work, she pitches up at Motthoe, a now dilapidated, but once grand, country...

Lorna Doone

Lorna Doone
  • Author(s): R D Blackmore
  • Location(s): Exmoor, Devon
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Later 17th Century

Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor is a novel by English author Richard Doddridge Blackmore, published in 1869. It is a romance based on a group of historical characters and set in the late 17th century in Devon and...

Losing Time

Losing Time
  • Author(s): P R Ford
  • Location(s): Devon
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Science Fiction/Future
  • Era(s): Contemporary

People don’t vanish without a reason… What happens when a married man with a teenage daughter learns he has another child? What if he travels to a foster home to retrieve his son, but on the return journey something...

Lost

Lost
  • Author(s): Leona Deakin
  • Location(s): Plymouth, Exeter
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

HOW CAN YOU SOLVE A CRIME IF YOU CAN’T REMEMBER THE CLUES? There is an explosion at a military ball. The casualties are rushed to hospital in eight ambulances, but only seven vehicles arrive. Captain Harry Peterson is missing....

Masquerade on the Riviera

Masquerade on the Riviera
  • Author(s): Evonne Wareham
  • Location(s): Monaco, Torquay
  • Era(s): Modern

From Egyptian treasures on the English Riviera to a mystery in glamorous Monaco … Renowned Egyptologist Dr Elliott Elwood is slightly puzzled when he’s invited to Torquay to take part in a bizarre bidding war for a well-known artefact...

Moorlands Forensics – Devil’s Realm

Moorlands Forensics – Devil’s Realm
  • Author(s): Julie D Jones
  • Location(s): Salcombe
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Present day

On a searing summer’s day on an idyllic beach in South Devon, a young boy plunges to a horrific death from the overlanding cliffs, the tragic event graphically captured on film by the enigmatic Salcombe painter and entrepreneur Lois...

Morte Point

Morte Point
  • Author(s): Robert Parker
  • Location(s): Devon, London
  • Genre(s): Thriller

Morte Point is a wonderful spot for a holiday. Only that’s not why Ben Bracken is here. He’s here because in this sleepy part of England, events are now unfolding that could cause death and mayhem, and not just...

Murder at Honeychurch Hall (Book 1)

Murder at Honeychurch Hall (Book 1)
  • Author(s): Hannah Dennison
  • Location(s): South Hams, Devon
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Kat Stanford abandons a successful television career to help her mother Iris move into a rustic carriage house in Devon, she quickly discovers that behind the well-trimmed hedgerows, Honeychurch Hall is populated by more eccentrics than Kat had...

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