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The Hideaway (Norma Curtis)

The Hideaway (Norma Curtis)
  • Author(s): Norma Curtis
  • Location(s): Bergen-Belsen, London, North Wales
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WWII / Present Day

1945. Hedi Fischer is jostled off the train and through the gates of a Nazi concentration camp. As the prisoners are pushed inside, she frantically searches for a familiar face – anybody to make her feel less alone here....

Baptism

Baptism
  • Author(s): Max Kinnings
  • Location(s): England, London, Snowdonia
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

07:45am. A monk lies dead in Snowdonia, a knife protruding from his throat. A young family is being held at gunpoint in a house in Wimbledon. The mission has begun. 08:56am. A London Underground train is stationary in a...

Crimson Shore

Crimson Shore
  • Author(s): Gillian E Hamer
  • Location(s): Anglesey
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A half-naked woman dead in a ditch. A disappearing pathologist. A teenager run off the road. For a peaceful island, Anglesey is experiencing abnormal levels of crime. What’s the connection? DS Dara Brennan has women problems. His boss, Amanda...

Eden’s Garden

Eden’s Garden
  • Author(s): Juliet Greenwood
  • Location(s): Cornwall, Devon, London, Snowdonia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 1900s, Modern

2011 Carys agrees, with mixed feelings, to look after her mother after a fall. This decision unsettles everything – her job, her plans, her relationship with Jack. Once home she is drawn back into village life, into her family history...

Mother Island

Mother Island
  • Author(s): Bethan Roberts
  • Location(s): Anglesey
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

How does it feel to come home from work one evening and find your two-year-old son gone? How does it feel to steal another woman’s child? To take a boy from his mother, and try to make him yours,...

The Detour

The Detour
  • Author(s): Gerbrand Bakker
  • Location(s): Snowdonia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

The newcomer introduces herself as “Emilie” – not her real name. That we don’t learn until the closing pages of this novel: indeed, there’s much about her we don’t know. We know only that she is newly arrived from...

The Girl Who Left

The Girl Who Left
  • Author(s): Jenny Blackhurst
  • Location(s): Anglesey
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1994 and contemporary

Twenty-five years ago, a local girl went missing. Now, another girl comes back… When five-year-old Elsie Button was snatched from a garden in a sleepy town on the Welsh island of Anglesey, and a local man later confessed, it...

The Welsh Girl

The Welsh Girl
  • Author(s): Peter Ho Davies
  • Location(s): Snowdonia, Wales
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 1940s

In 1944, a German Jewish refugee is sent to Wales to interview Rudolf Hess: in Snowdonia, a seventeen-year-old girl, the daughter of a fiercely nationalistic shepherd, dreams of the bright lights of an English city: and in a nearby...

Anglesey Blue

Anglesey Blue
  • Author(s): Dylan H Jones
  • Location(s): Anglesey
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

MURDER. BETRAYAL. REVENGE. It’s not the homecoming Detective Inspector Tudor Manx was expecting, but solving the case is just the start of his problems. Recently transferred from the London Met to the North Wales Constabulary, Detective Inspector Tudor Manx...

Body Out of Place

Body Out of Place
  • Author(s): Diane Dickson
  • Location(s): Liverpool, North Wales
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Present Day

A body in a cemetery is to be expected. A body in the wrong grave is not so usual. When the death is found to be suspicious Jordan Carr and his team have a puzzle on their hands which...

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