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Harbour Street (Vera Stanhope #6)

Harbour Street (Vera Stanhope #6)
  • Author(s): Ann Cleeves
  • Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

In Newcastle, Detective Joe Ashworth and his daughter Jessie travel home on the busy Metro. The train is stopped unexpectedly, and Jessie sees that one woman doesn’t leave with the other passengers: Margaret Krukowski has been fatally stabbed. A...

The Art Fiasco

The Art Fiasco
  • Author(s): Fiona Veitch Smith
  • Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery, Crime
  • Era(s): Golden Age 1920s

It’s 1924 and Poppy Denby is heading up to Northumberland to celebrate her father’s sixtieth birthday. She stops off in Newcastle en route to visit her Aunt Dot, who has temporarily relocated from London to renovate a house she’s...

The Man on the Street

The Man on the Street
  • Author(s): Trevor Wood
  • Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It started with a splash. Jimmy, a homeless veteran grappling with PTSD, did his best to pretend he hadn’t heard it – the sound of something heavy falling into the Tyne at the height of an argument between two...

The Moor

The Moor
  • Author(s): LJ Ross
  • Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The circus is in town…   When a ten-year-old girl turns up on DCI Ryan’s doorstep to tell him she’s witnessed a murder, he has no idea he’s about to step into his most spellbinding case yet. The circus...

The Rock

The Rock
  • Author(s): LJ Ross
  • Location(s): South Tyneside, The North East (England)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

FROM THE SHADOWS INTO THE LIGHT…   When a fishing boat is wrecked off the treacherous North Sea coast and the body of a young woman washes up on the beach beside the iconic ‘Marsden Rock’, DCI Ryan cannot...

The Scandal (Stone and Oliver Book 3)

The Scandal (Stone and Oliver Book 3)
  • Author(s): Mari Hannah
  • Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

When an young man is found stabbed to death in a side street in Newcastle city centre in the run up to Christmas, it looks like a botched robbery to DCI David Stone. But when DS Frankie Oliver arrives...

Flying with Kites

Flying with Kites
  • Author(s): Alan Reynolds
  • Location(s): Gateshead, Kosovo, Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Recent

When you have lost everything, how far would you go?What would you do to protect your child? The war in Kosovo has already been relegated to the history books but in Flying with Kites, Alan Reynolds reminds us of...

A Mother’s Christmas Wish

A Mother’s Christmas Wish
  • Author(s): Glenda Young
  • Location(s): Ryhope
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Early 1920s

‘I hope this Christmas is better than last year’s.’ Following a scandalous affair, wayward Emma Devaney is sent in disgrace from her home in Ireland to Ryhope, where she will live with her widowed aunt, Bessie Brogan, and help...

A Woman of Courage

A Woman of Courage
  • Author(s): Rita Bradshaw
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Sunderland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): Late 19th Century

Survival means fighting back. It’s 1890, and Josie Gray is an innocent and beautiful fifteen-year old when Adam McGuigan, the youngest son of a dangerous and influential crime family spots her singing in a Sunderland public house. Adam is...

In Bloom

In Bloom
  • Author(s): Matthew Crow
  • Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Young Adult
  • Era(s): Modern

Francis Wootton’s first memory is of Kurt Cobain’s death, and there have since been other hardships much closer to home. At fifteen years old he already knows all about loss and rejection – and to top it all off...

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