Sinema – The Northumberland Massacre by Rod Glenn

Title of book: Sinema – The Northumberland Massacre
Author: Rod Glenn
Synopsis:
A winter’s tale with a sting.
There’s a newcomer to the small Northumberland village of Haydon…a charming novelist and film buff, researching a crime thriller about a serial killer on a rampage in a remote Northumberland community. The only trouble is, it’s a work in progress and it’s [...]

The A.B.C. Murders by Agatha Christie

Date of Publication: 1935
Number of Pages: 184
Synopsis (from back cover): A is for Mrs. Ascher - fatally attacked in Andover. B is for Betty Barnard - strangled on the beach in Bexhill. C is for Sir Carmichael Clarke - now a corpse in Churston. If nothing else, the murderer knew is ABCs. But the alphabetical [...]

Vanish by Tess Gerritsen

Synopsis (from back page)
Stare death in the face… The beautiful woman appears to be just another corpse in the morgue. But when medical examiner Maura Isles looks down at the body, she gets the fright of her life. The corpse opens its eyes.
Now very much alive, the woman is rushed to the hospital, where she [...]

The Pirate’s Daughter by Margaret Cezair-Thompson

Jamaica, 1946. Errol Flynn washes up on the island in the Zaca, his storm-wrecked yacht. Ida Joseph, the teenaged daughter of a Port Antonio Justice of the Peace, is intrigued to learn that the ‘World’s Handsomest Man’ is on the island, and makes it her business to meet him.
For the jaded swashbuckler, Jamaica is a [...]

Finding Margo by Susanne O’Leary

When Margo misreads the map as they travel through France, her husband Alan indulges in yet another of his habitual rages. On impulse, Margo walks out of her emotionally suppressed life into the hands of fate and the vast French countryside. As her world is turned upside down, so are her expectations, and while she [...]

The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum

Synopsis (from back page)
He has no past. And he may have no future. His memory is blank. He only knows that he was flushed out of the Mediterranean Sea, his body riddled with bullets.
There are a few clues. A frame of microfilm surgically implanted beneath the flesh of his hip. Evidence that plastic surgery has [...]

Betjeman, by A.N.Wilson

Betjemin by A.N.Wilson.
Synopsis
John Betjeman was by far the most popular poet of the 20th century. His collected poems sold over two million copies. Television audiences loved his quirky evocations of landscape and architecture. As Poet Laureate, he became a national icon, but behind the public man were doubts and demons. The poet led a tempestuous [...]

The Vampire’s Betrayal by Raven Hart

Jack risks his life by opening a portal to the underworld to rescue Connie. While in the land of the dead, he witnesses an awesome ceremony as a band of honest-to-God angels swear Connie in as the vampire slayer! Using the power of his love, Jack manages to bring Connie back to the land of [...]

C’est la Folie by Michael Wright.

Synopsis
One day in late summer, Michael Wright gave up his comfortable South London existence and, with only his long-suffering cat for company, set out to begin a new life. His destination was “La Folie”, a dilapidated 15th century farmhouse in need of love and renovation in the heart of rural France.In a bid to fulfil [...]

The Fiction Class (Loving books and falling in love, Manhattan style) by Susan Breen

Synopsis 
‘You’ve known there was something special about you for a long time, haven’t you?’
On paper, Arabella Hicks is perfectly qualified to teach a creative writing class on the Upper  West Side; as well as being an author herself, she loves fiction, more than anything in the world.
‘You still feel something every time you pick up [...]