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Five Down

Five Down
  • Author(s): Tom Sibson
  • Location(s): York
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Now

Following a horrific murder in a sleepy suburb of York, a local journalist receives a cryptic clue from someone claiming to be the killer. The clue hints at where the next murder will take place. Teaming up with the...

Fake Alibi

Fake Alibi
  • Author(s): Leigh Russell
  • Location(s): York
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A wheelchair-using woman is strangled and her son, Eddy, is arrested. When his alibi falls apart, the police are satisfied that he is guilty. Only Geraldine doubts whether Eddy is cunning enough to kill his mother and cover his...

Someone Else’s Conflict

Someone Else’s Conflict
  • Author(s): Alison Layland
  • Location(s): Croatia, Yorkshire Dales
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1990s/modern

Jay has chosen an itinerant life of busking and odd-jobbing, using rootlessness and stories to hide the guilt of his mistakes from the 1990s war in Croatia, beneath an outward layer of cheerfulness. When he arrives in the Yorkshire...

A Map of the Sky

A Map of the Sky
  • Author(s): Claire Wong
  • Location(s): North Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Kit doesn’t understand why his family has been uprooted to a remote coastal village in the North. Why did they leave so suddenly, and why has his Dad not joined them? At Askfeld Farm Guesthouse he meets an eclectic...

Bombshell

Bombshell
  • Author(s): Joanna Vaughan
  • Location(s): Scarborough
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Looking back at WW1

“Well that’s it. We’re at war! We’re at war with the blasted Hun! I hope you’re happy now, Clara!” It was the standard First World War tragedy. A young dad is killed at Ypres and never meets his newborn...

Hands Down

Hands Down
  • Author(s): Felix Francis
  • Location(s): Middleham, Oxfordshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

An old friend in need, a dangerous conspiracy – a new case for Sid Halley… Sid Halley, former British jump racing champion and private detective, is not having a good time. His wife Marina has decided she needs some...

House of Secrets

House of Secrets
  • Author(s): Lynda Stacey
  • Location(s): Scarborough, Yorkshire
  • Era(s): 1942 - present day

A woman on the run, a broken man and a house with a shocking secret … Madeleine Frost has to get away. Her partner Liam has become increasingly controlling to the point that Maddie fears for her safety, and...

Please Don’t Stop the Music

Please Don’t Stop the Music
  • Author(s): Jane Lovering
  • Location(s): North York Moors, York
  • Genre(s): Humour, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Romantic Novel of the Year in 2012 How much can you hide? Jemima Hutton is determined to build a successful new life and keep her past a dark secret. Trouble is, her jewellery business looks set to fail –...

The Memory of Midnight

The Memory of Midnight
  • Author(s): Pamela Hartshorne
  • Location(s): York
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 16th Century

One hot day in Elizabethan York, young Nell Appleby is trapped in a wooden chest, and a horror of the stifling dark – and of the man who trapped her – dogs her for the rest of her life....

The Son-in-Law

The Son-in-Law
  • Author(s): Charity Norman
  • Location(s): York, Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

On a sharp winter’s morning, a man turns his back on prison. Joseph Scott has served his term. He’s lost almost everything: his career as a teacher, his wife, the future he’d envisaged. All he has left are his...

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