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  • Location: Yorkshire

Dying in the Wool – (Kate Shackleton 1)

1920s: A fictional mill village of Bridgestead, Yorkshire, but based on the real life village of Cottingley. And it’s always a treat going back to…

  • Location: Botswana, Gabarone

The Kalahari Typing School for Men (No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency #4)

2000s: Oh there’s a bit of competition for Precious in this one….and who can resist the idea of a typing school for men?

  • Location: Istanbul

The Istanbul Puzzle

2000s: This is a booktrail waiting to happen. There’s  photographs and a trail in the book itself and the author tweets regularly about the locations…

  • Location: Botswana, Gaborone

Tears of the Giraffe (No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency #2)

2000s: Alexander McCall Smith holds the country close to his heart – he has spent time in both Botswana and lived for a time in…

  • Location: Madrid

Madrid Underground – (Supt Bernal 1)

1977:  A booktrail on the maddening maze that is the Madrid Metro is very thrilling indeed

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Estella’s Fury

1835: Great Expectations meets Killing Eve

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