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The Diary of Murder

The Diary of  Murder
  • Author(s): Lee Jackson
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): Late 1800s

Jacob Jones is a respectable clerk at the Crystal Palace Company, with a pretty young bride and a delightful new home in Islington. When his wife is murdered, everything points to his guilt, even a handwritten confession. But the...

The Humans

The Humans
  • Author(s): Matt Haig
  • Location(s): Cambridge
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

From the back of the book: One wet Friday evening, Professor Andrew Martin of Cambridge University solves the world’s greatest mathematical riddle. Then he disappears. When he is found walking naked along the motorway, Professor Martin seems different. Besides...

The Lies You Told

The Lies You Told
  • Author(s): Harriet Tyce
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Sadie has moved back to London so her daughter can attend the exclusive school her domineering father has secured her a place at. It’s highly sought-after and highly competitive – just like the other mothers, Sadie soon discovers. While...

The Marrying of Chani Kaufman

The Marrying of Chani Kaufman
  • Author(s): Eve Harris
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Set in Golders Green/Hendon. Chani is a 19 year old young woman, who lives in the ultra-orthodox Jewish community of North West London. She has never had physical contact with a man, and is bound to marry a stranger....

The Perfect Lie

The Perfect Lie
  • Author(s): Emily Barr
  • Location(s): Falmouth, London, Venice
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

A girl flees to Venice to escape her dangerous past in this electrifying novel of intrigue, psychological tension and suspense… For Lucy Riddick, Venice has always been the dream destination. A dream inspired by the pretty picture pinned to...

The Thursday Murder Club

The Thursday Murder Club
  • Author(s): Richard Osman
  • Location(s): Kent
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet up once a week to investigate unsolved murders. But when a brutal killing takes place on their very doorstep, the Thursday Murder Club find themselves in the middle of their...

The Truths and Triumphs of Grace Atherton

The Truths and Triumphs of Grace Atherton
  • Author(s): Anstey Harris
  • Location(s): Cremona, Kent, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Between the simple melody of running her violin shop and the full-blown orchestra of her romantic interludes in Paris with David, her devoted partner of eight years, Grace Atherton has always set her life to music. Her world revolves entirely around David,...

The Various Flavours of Coffee

The Various Flavours of Coffee
  • Author(s): Anthony Capella
  • Location(s): Eritrea, Ethiopia, London, North Africa
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1890s

It is 1895. Robert Wallis, would-be poet, bohemian and impoverished dandy, accepts a commission from coffee merchant Samuel Pinker to categorise the different tastes of coffee – and encounters Pinker’s free-thinking daughters, Philomenia, Ada and Emily. As romance blossoms...

Tideline

Tideline
  • Author(s): Penny Hancock
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

One winter’s afternoon, voice coach Sonia opens the door of her beautiful riverside home at Greenwich, London, to fifteen-year-old Jez, the nephew of a family friend. He’s come to borrow some music. Sonia invites him in and soon decides...

True Crime Story

True Crime Story
  • Author(s): Joseph Knox
  • Location(s): Manchester
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

‘What happens to those girls who go missing? What happens to the Zoe Nolans of the world?’ In the early hours of Saturday 17 December 2011, Zoe Nolan, a nineteen-year-old Manchester University student, walked out of a party taking...

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