Blogs in December 2019

Burnt Island 12th December 2019

As the sun sets on a cold November evening, the tiny community of St Agnes prepares for their annual Fifth-of-November festivities. Moments before the fireworks are scheduled to commence, an islander discovers a charred body left on the bonfire,...

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The Royal Baths Murder 12th December 2019

A murdered crime writer. An idyllic Yorkshire town. Can DCI Oldroyd separate fact from fiction? A famous writer is found murdered at the Victorian baths in the Yorkshire town of Harrogate. In a crime worthy of one of his...

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Faith and Beauty 12th December 2019

Berlin, on the eve of war. As soldiers muster on the streets, spies circle in the shadows, and Lottie Franke, a young woman from the Faith and Beauty Society – the elite finishing school for Nazi girls – is...

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Mrs P’s Book of Secrets 8th December 2019

There are no white shrouded spectres here, no wailing ghouls. Just the echoes of those who have passed, whispering that history is set to repeat itself … The Cotswolds, Christmastime 1946: A young widow leaves behind the tragedy of...

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The Seagulls Laughter 7th December 2019

1973. Malik has always been something of a misfit. Born to a Greenlandic mother and an English-Explorer father, he has one eye of black and one of watery-blue. As a child his mother’s people refused to touch him and...

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