Fiction

Private detective Cormoran Strike and his partner, Robin Ellacott are investigating a religious community in Norfolk. A great read!

A life changed by taking part in a television baking competition! A warm, comforting read.

Set largely in a writer's retreat and with a motley crew investigating some suspicious, literary, deaths, it is wonderfully compelling, and there's humour too.

Two young women go missing and the man who last saw them is under suspicion. But don't jump to conclusions...

A group of friends holiday on an island, but there's a murderer in their midst and we are constantly being wrongfooted as we learn their story.

Set in the world of politics, journalism, police and crime, in London and Crete with a romance as well as a mystery to solve.

Delores meets an animatronic being and comes to explore love, friendship, family and trauma. Extraordinary.

The story of a romance, a marriage, and a family. Wow!

Wonderfully atmospheric - this is a bitterly cold coastal Essex in 1991, where the detectives puzzle over a recent murder, suicide and arson.

A tense thriller sent in West Ireland, with all the flavour of an American western.

Wonderfully compelling thriller set in a conference in Geneva where a scientific breakthrough brings death, deception and intrigue. Loved it!

Jack Reacher seems to be on the backfoot as scientists involved in a secret project years earlier are dying. Who will be next, why are they being killed and who is the perpetrator?

Cosy crime set in Suffolk with antiques. What could be better!?

Now in her nineties, bestselling writer Ruby Devereaux thought she had put away her typewriter and is seeking a quiet life, but her publisher wants one last story telling 'warts and all'.

After 30 years of marriage, Kip leaves his wife for a younger woman. A story of the resilience of the family members as they each come to terms with this new reality.

Described as a lyrical coming-of-age narrative which 'features something very rare in literary fiction: a working-class heroine, written by a young working-class author'. Set in Sunderland, London and Ireland, what will we make of it it?

Described by one reviewer as 'a jolly dystopia', this is a quirky, entertaining and thought-provoking read. Loved it!