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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...

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...

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...

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...

Marshal of Snowdonia

Marshal of Snowdonia
  • Author(s): Simon McCleave
  • Location(s): Snowdonia
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Living and working in Snowdonia was always retired detective Frank Marshal’s dream. Until a phone call asking for his help turns it into his worst nightmare.   Retired detective Frank Marshal lives in a remote part of Snowdonia with...

The Abersoch Killings

The Abersoch Killings
  • Location(s): Abersoch, Snowdonia
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Keep your enemies close and your family closer… At his beachside mansion, with his large family and beautiful wife, Jack Rush celebrated his stepdaughter’s wedding: an extravagant, happy day. But that night, the movie producer is found in a...

The Denbigh Asylum Killings

The Denbigh Asylum Killings
  • Author(s): Simon McCleave
  • Location(s): Denbigh, Snowdonia
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

DI Ruth Hunter Crime Thriller Book 15 When local teenagers discover a body at the disused Denbigh Asylum, it seems that his murder might be linked to a modern slavery ring trafficking young people from the Indian subcontinent. However,...

The Glass Class

The Glass Class
  • Author(s): Suzi Stembridge
  • Location(s): Athens, Calderdale, Snowdonia, Spetses
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance, Thriller
  • Era(s): Late 1970s

Close friends gather at the graveside of the most favoured of this group of privileged young people. Readers discover than Rosalind who has been jilted in favour of her cousin Lucinda, now the widow must suffer the indignity of...

The Snowdonia Killings

The Snowdonia Killings
  • Author(s): Simon McCleave
  • Location(s): Snowdonia
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Detective Inspector Ruth Hunter lives with the pain of her partner’s mysterious and unsolved disappearance. About to hit fifty, the veteran police officer trades in the crime-ridden streets of London for a more peaceful life in rural North Wales....

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