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A Mystery On Tyneside

A Mystery On Tyneside
  • Author(s): Eileen Thornton
  • Location(s): Tyneside
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

(Agnes Lockwood Mysteries Book 4) Agnes Lockwood is no stranger to crime scenes, but even she is shocked when she finds the body of a man lying on the floor of the ladies’ room. With her partner Alan –...

A Time for Swords

A Time for Swords
  • Author(s): Matthew Harffy
  • Location(s): Northumberland, Lindisfarne (Holy Island)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): 790s AD

When the Vikings attack, a novice monk’s life is changed forever in Matthew Harffy’s new historical adventure. Lindisfarne, AD793. There had been portents – famine, whirlwinds, lightning from clear skies, serpents seen flying through the air. But when the...

Alice Teale is Missing

Alice Teale is Missing
  • Author(s): H A Linskey
  • Location(s): Northumberland
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Noir
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Howard Linskey writing as H A Linskey. Alice Teale walked out of school at the end of a bright spring day. She’s not been seen since. Alice was popular and well-liked, and her boyfriend, friends and family are desperate...

Angel (A DCI Ryan Mystery)

Angel (A DCI Ryan Mystery)
  • Author(s): LJ Ross
  • Location(s): The North East (England)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

FROM THE #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF HOLY ISLAND  He’ll make you his angel, but first you have to die… After a turbulent time, DCI Ryan’s life is finally beginning to return to normal and he’s looking forward to spending an...

Belle of the Back Streets

Belle of the Back Streets
  • Author(s): Glenda Young
  • Location(s): Ryhope
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1919

Belle of the Back Streets is the first of my three novels set in the north-east coal mining village of Ryhope, Sunderland at the end of WW1. ‘Any rag and bone!’ Everyone recognises the cry of Meg Sutcliffe as...

Belsay

Belsay
  • Author(s): LJ Ross
  • Location(s): Northumberland, The North East (England)
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

(The DCI Ryan Mysteries Book 23) After a long year of crime-fighting, DCI Ryan and his team are looking forward to a peaceful Christmas filled with festive treats – including the occasional turkey stottie, or three. To celebrate a...

Black Fell

Black Fell
  • Author(s): Mari Hannah
  • Location(s): Northumberland
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

The truth can be hidden . . . but secrets always surface The peace of Kielder Water is shattered when tourists open a barrel they found floating in the reservoir at dawn. Detectives Stone and Oliver are called to...

Bone Music

Bone Music
  • Author(s): David Almond
  • Location(s): Northumberland
  • Genre(s): Children, Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

This wonderful tale transports the reader from the city to the forests and fells of Northern England. Under a boundless starry sky, the unforgettable Sylvia Carr reconnects with the ancient past and discovers what it really means to be...

Boy Parts

Boy Parts
  • Author(s): Eliza Clark
  • Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Irina obsessively takes explicit photographs of the average-looking men she persuades to model for her, scouted from the streets of Newcastle. Placed on sabbatical from her dead-end bar job, she is offered an exhibition at a fashionable London gallery,...

Buried Dreams

Buried Dreams
  • Author(s): Marrisse Whittaker
  • Location(s): The North East (England), Europe, The North Sea
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Present day

A gripping crime mystery, full of suspense. A morbid discovery and a missing daughter set an ex-cop and her PI partner on a desperate search for answers . . . Billie Wilde left the police force to team up...

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