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Devil’s Way

Devil’s Way
  • Author(s): Robert Bryndza
  • Location(s): Dartmoor, The West Country
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 2018

Private Detective Kate Marshall 4 THE TRUTH HIDES IN THE DARK Kate Marshall’s investigation into a young boy’s disappearance sends her down an unexpectedly twisted path in a riveting thriller by multi-million bestselling author, Robert Bryndza.  When Private Investigator...

The House Of A Hundred Whispers

The House Of A Hundred Whispers
  • Author(s): Graham Masterton
  • Location(s): Dartmoor
  • Genre(s): Horror, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

On a windswept moor, an old house guards its secrets… All Hallows Hall is a rambling Tudor mansion on the edge of the bleak and misty Dartmoor. It is not a place many would choose to live. Yet the...

We Bought a Zoo

We Bought a Zoo
  • Author(s): Benjamin Mee
  • Location(s): Dartmoor
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

A few years ago, Ben and his wife, Katherine, sold their small flat in Primrose Hill and moved to France to pursue their dream of restoring an old barn near Nimes.That dream then became much, much bigger, as they...

Breaking Light

Breaking Light
  • Author(s): Karin Altenberg
  • Location(s): Dartmoor
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern looking back to childhood

Steeped in its bleak and beautiful landscape, Mortford is a place of secrets and memories: of bitter divisions and shattered dreams. Returning to this Dartmoor village where he grew up, Gabriel attempts to come to terms with what he...

The Hound of the Baskervilles

The Hound of the Baskervilles
  • Author(s): Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Location(s): Dartmoor
  • Genre(s): Fiction

The Hound of the Baskervilles is the classic detective chiller. It features the world’s greatest detective, Sherlock Holmes, in his most challenging case. The Baskerville family is haunted by a phantom beast “with blazing eyes and dripping jaws” which...

The Act of Roger Murgatroyd

The Act of Roger Murgatroyd
  • Author(s): Gilbert Adair
  • Location(s): Dartmoor
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 1930s

Boxing Day circa 1935. A snowed-in manor on the very edge of Dartmoor. A Christmas house-party. And overhead, in the attic, the dead body of Raymond Gentry, gossip columnist and blackmailer, shot through the heart. But the attic door...

The New Wife

The New Wife
  • Author(s): Sue Watson
  • Location(s): Devon, Dartmoor
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

You can never truly know what goes on behind closed doors… My darling son, Sam, is marrying his childhood sweetheart and I couldn’t be prouder of the man he’s grown into. Walking out on his abusive father all those...

A Gathering of Ghosts

A Gathering of Ghosts
  • Author(s): Karen Maitland
  • Location(s): Dartmoor
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Gothic
  • Era(s): 1300s

1316. On the wilds of Dartmoor stands the isolated Priory of St Mary, home to the Sisters of the Knights of St John. People journey from afar in search of healing at the holy well that lies beneath its...

No One Must Know

No One Must Know
  • Author(s): Susan Frances
  • Location(s): Dartmoor
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1300's

England 1330: on a remote Devonshire estate. Young and innocent Joan de Chiddleigh is struggling with her new status as Lady of the Manor. Lonely and neglected by her ambitious husband, Sir John, she strikes up a forbidden friendship...

The Missing Family

The Missing Family
  • Author(s): Tim Weaver
  • Location(s): Dartmoor, London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

One family… On a beautiful summer’s day, at a remote lake in the middle of Dartmoor, three members of the Fowler family take a dinghy out onto the water, leaving mother Sarah at the shore. Less than sixty seconds...

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