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Dead Hill

Dead Hill
  • Author(s): John Dean
  • Location(s): North Pennines
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern day

A man is killed by being pushed over the edge of a quarry. There is no doubt about who the culprits are, so why can’t DCI Jack Harris lay a finger on them? Surly and abrasive, veteran detective Harris...

The Crow Trap (Vera Stanhope £1)

The Crow Trap (Vera Stanhope £1)
  • Author(s): Ann Cleeves
  • Location(s): North Pennines
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Three very different women come together at isolated Baikie’s Cottage on the North Pennines, to complete an environmental survey. Three women who each know the meaning of betrayal . . . Rachael, the team leader, is still reeling after...

The Guest House

The Guest House
  • Author(s): Robin Morgan-Bentley
  • Location(s): North Pennines
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Jamie and Victoria are expecting their first baby. With a few weeks to go, they head off for a final weekend break in a remote part of the North Pennines. The small and peaceful guesthouse is the ideal location...

Error of Judgement

Error of Judgement
  • Author(s): John Dean
  • Location(s): North Pennines
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): present

Years after a fatal plane crash, the investigation is reopened when a missing body is discovered. It was a tragedy that shocked the nearby Pennine communities to the core. Several deaths were recorded, but one body was never found....

Kill Shot

Kill Shot
  • Author(s): John Dean
  • Location(s): North Pennines
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): present

City criminals get more than they bargained for when they stumble onto DCI Jack Harris’ rural patch When a pair of hen harriers return to nest in the grouse moors of the northern Pennines, Detective Jack Harris is as...

LAST MAN ALIVE

LAST MAN ALIVE
  • Author(s): John Dean
  • Location(s): North Pennines
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

It is lonely on the hills, alive or dead… On the trail of a missing man whom he suspects of having dementia and being at grave risk, DCI Jack Harris makes a terrible discovery. In a tent, nestled within...

THE GIRL IN THE MEADOW

THE GIRL IN THE MEADOW
  • Author(s): John Dean
  • Location(s): North Pennines
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): contemporary

An absolutely gripping murder mystery by the expert storyteller In its isolated spot on the slopes of a windswept hill, Meadowview House has been vacant for decades. Yet now that it has been earmarked for redevelopment by a wildlife...

The Killing Line

The Killing Line
  • Author(s): John Dean
  • Location(s): North Pennines
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Crime novel The Killing Line is published by The Book Folks and tells how a schoolgirl is found dead after taking drugs, the second death in a few weeks. DCI Jack Harris suspects that there is more to the...

The Vixen’s Scream

The Vixen’s Scream
  • Author(s): John Dean
  • Location(s): North Pennines
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Are harrowing screams heard in the night, the cries of a fox, or worse? When a woman from London reports the screams of a girl during the night, knowing better, the local police in the Pennines think nothing of...

Thou shalt Kill

Thou shalt Kill
  • Author(s): John Dean
  • Location(s): North Pennines
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): present

When a man is discovered murdered by crucifixion, an evangelical religious group falls under suspicion A dead body nailed to a shed unsettles even hardened detective Jack Harris. Despite being told that boundary feuds in allotments can easily come...

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