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Mrs Spy

Mrs Spy
  • Author(s): M J Robotham
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

‘Dark, twisty, and thoroughly entertaining, Mrs Spy is a Thursday Murder Club for spies. You won’t be able to put it down’ – Ava Glass Get ready for a pulse-pounding, laugh-out-loud ride through 1960s London as Maggie Flynn, unexpected...

Mudlarking: Lost And Found on the River Thames

Mudlarking: Lost And Found on the River Thames
  • Author(s): Lara Maiklem
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Current

Lara Maiklem has scoured the banks of the Thames for over fifteen years, in pursuit of the objects that the river unearths: from Neolithic flints to Roman hair pins, medieval buckles to Tudor buttons, Georgian clay pipes to Victorian...

Murder at Canterbury Cathedral

Murder at Canterbury Cathedral
  • Author(s): Jim Eldridge
  • Location(s): Canterbury, London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): Summer 1941

No 2 in the Cathedral Mysteries Series. May 1941. Both the centre of London and rural Kent continue to take a battering from German bombers. Canterbury and its distinctive cathedral are among the hardest hit. The landmark and holy...

Murder at Hendon Aerodrome

Murder at Hendon Aerodrome
  • Author(s): Christina Koning
  • Location(s): Hendon
  • Genre(s): Crime, Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1931

#3 Blind Detective First published as Time of Flight under A. C. Koning May 1931. For blind First World War veteran Frederick Rowlands, the craze for flying holds little interest – after all, he is unlikely ever to set...

Murder in Constantinople

Murder in Constantinople
  • Author(s): A E Goldin
  • Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople), Whitechapel
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1854

Graham Greene meets David Lean in Murder in Constantinople – a historical murder mystery in which a wayward boy from London’s East End is pulled into the hunt for a serial killer on the eve of the Crimean War...

Murder in Drury Lane

Murder in Drury Lane
  • Author(s): Vanessa Riley
  • Location(s): Soho (London)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Turn of the 19th Century

(The Lady Worthing Mysteries Book 2) Offering “a vibrant picture of the roles Black and mixed‑race people played in Regency life” (Publishers Weekly), this unique historical mystery series, featuring a mixed-race heroine with a notorious past, will appeal to...

Murder in Hampstead

Murder in Hampstead
  • Author(s): Sabina Manea
  • Location(s): Hampstead
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Present day

A locked-room mystery about a seemingly impossible crime When lawyer-turned-interior designer Lucia Steer accepts a lucrative job renovating Beatrice Hall, a large house owned by a professor in a north London suburb, she has no idea of the impact...

Murder in Kentish Town: an elegant mystery set in Bohemian London

Murder in Kentish Town: an elegant mystery set in Bohemian London
  • Author(s): Sabina Manea
  • Location(s): North London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A murder disguised as suicide presents a challenge for a sharp investigator. When London police come across the body of a young woman, dead in her bathtub, it looks like a classic case of suicide. However, for deft civilian...

Murder in Primrose Hill

Murder in Primrose Hill
  • Author(s): Sabina Manea
  • Location(s): North London
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery, Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A glitzy social media influencer gets unliked in a rather drastic fashion in this unputdownable contemporary whodunnit… When celebrity baker Ruthie Simmons invited friends to her chocolate-boxy London home, she had planned only a small get-together with bubbles, a...

Murder in Regent’s Park

Murder in Regent’s Park
  • Author(s): Christina Koning
  • Location(s): London, The West End
  • Genre(s): Crime, Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1929

(Blind Detective 2) First published as Game of Chance under A. C. Koning. 1929. Blinded war veteran Frederick Rowlands has escaped the bustle of London to establish a secure life for himself and his family in the countryside. But...

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