Blogs in December 2018

Christmas at the Beach Hut 22nd December 2018

Especially Lizzy Kingham. But this year, she is feeling unloved and underappreciated by her family. The present-buying, decorating and food shopping have all been left to her. So she wonders . . . what would happen if she ran...

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A Shadowed Livery 21st October 2018

In the dying days of September 1938 the murderer of a Jewish shopkeeper is hanged in Birmingham. After witnessing the execution, Inspector James Given, who brought the killer to justice, is surprised to find he has been taken off...

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Good Samaritans 30th September 2018

Seth Beauman can’t sleep. He stays up late, calling strangers from his phonebook, hoping to make a connection, while his wife, Maeve, sleeps upstairs. A crossed wire finds a suicidal Hadley Serf on the phone to Seth, thinking she...

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The Little Stranger 5th April 2015

In a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house, once grand and handsome, is now in decline,...

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Before You Die 9th June 2014

D.I. Lorraine Fisher returns to her home town, Radcote, in fictional South Warwickshire, to stay with separated sister Jo and her nephew Freddie. The town has seen a spate of teenage suicides and when young homeless man, Dean, complete with...

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