Imagine finding a notebook left in a cafe which contains the saddest thoughts of another within its pages. This is exactly what happens to Monica, a former lawyer-cum-cafe owner in Fulham, London. One day, while clearing a table she stumbles upon a green notebook, just like the ones she used…
Marie has gone to watch her friend Colleen sing. She recently won a TV Talent Show and since then has literally become one of the most popular, up and coming young singers around. For that reason, this year’s concert in Pavilions Garden Park on the west side of Birmingham City…
In the aftermath of a fire breaking out at a remote house near Aylesbury, a badly burned and blackened body is found. However, it is definitely not the previous owner of the place as she has unfortunately just passed away. Perhaps it was a vagrant trying to stay warm and…
It’s the summer of 1998 and seven friends have just finished their final exams. School is over and now all they have in front of them is warm, relaxing days before college starts in September. Coming from a small mining village in The Midlands just outside Nottingham, Neve and her…
Charlie doesn’t seem to like backpackers or the fact that they represent privilege, freedom and even perhaps naivety. All she sees is the way these individuals take over cities and countries, not necessarily thinking about the impact they have on the local communities. But then she is in Thailand herself,…
Natalie is back in town, returning from Mallorca to the firm after several years enjoying life as the landlord of her very own Spanish bar with her wayward boyfriend, Jose. Her reality check came when she received a call from her mum’s next-door neighbour explaining that Anna, her rock, had…
“Just as Nga-Yee thought everything was going back to normal, Siu-Man stepped from that window of their twenty-second-story flat.” (Page 28) Nga-Yee and her sister, Siu-Man have not had an easy couple of years. Firstly, their father had an accident at work which killed him outright and then they had…
Set in the Fictional town of Llancastell, on the Eastern edges of Snowdonia in North Wales, Harlech Beach and its surrounding area definitely see its fair share of criminal activity. From the opening pages, this is a novel that touches on extremely difficult topics including storylines of physical and mental…
“Yet there is a sneaky little part of me… that desperately wants a man to show some odd old-fashioned chivalry, to look after me a little, even if I can really look after myself is that so wrong even in the twenty-first century? Maybe this type of guy no longer…
The Honjin Murders was awarded the first Mystery Writers of Japan Award back in 1948 but for the very first time in 2020, this novel has been translated into English. Set during the winter of 1937, we are transported back in time, to the village of Okamura and the upcoming…