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The Bookshop Murder

The Bookshop Murder
  • Author(s): Merryn Allingham
  • Location(s): West Sussex
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1950s

Join Flora Steele – bookshop owner, bicycle-rider, day dreamer and amateur detective as she tackles her first case! Sussex, 1955: When Flora Steele opens up her bookshop one morning she’s in for the surprise of her life! Because there,...

33 Women

33 Women
  • Author(s): Isabel Ashdown
  • Location(s): Arundel
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When sisters Celine and Pip get a call telling them their reclusive mother has died, the women are reunited at her riverside home in Arundel to pick up the pieces. But someone is missing – their middle sister, Vanessa,...

The Last Word

The Last Word
  • Author(s): Elly Griffiths
  • Location(s): Shoreham
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Natalka and Edwin, whom we met in The Postscript Murders, are running a detective agency in Shoreham, Sussex. Despite a steady stream of minor cases, Natalka is frustrated, longing for a big juicy case such as murder to come...

The Night Out

The Night Out
  • Author(s): Wendy Clarke
  • Location(s): West Sussex
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Elise thought she had left her old life behind her when she married the love of her life and started a new family. But the shadows of her past refuse to leave her and she’s haunted by a constant...

The Postscript Murders

The Postscript Murders
  • Author(s): Elly Griffiths
  • Location(s): West Sussex, Aberdeen, Shoreham
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

PS: Thanks for the murders. The death of a ninety-year-old woman with a heart condition should absolutely not be suspicious. DS Harbinder Kaur certainly sees nothing to concern her in carer Natalka’s account of Peggy Smith’s death. But when...

The Stargazers

The Stargazers
  • Author(s): Harriet Evans
  • Location(s): Hampstead, West Sussex
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Coming of Age
  • Era(s): 1950s/1970s

It’s the 1970s, and Sarah has spent a lifetime trying to bury memories of her childhood: the constant fear, the horror of her school days, and Fane, the vast, crumbling house that was the sole obsession of her mother,...

The Taxidermist’s Daughter

The Taxidermist’s Daughter
  • Author(s): Kate Mosse
  • Location(s): West Sussex
  • Genre(s): Gothic, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1900s

Strange goings on in Bosham – near Chichester. Crows, ghosts, weird lady, an even weirder man – the taxidermist, an annual rite at the church, a tumbledown house, a body in the water. Who was the perpetrator? What is...

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