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  • Location: Blyth, Northumberland, Middlesborough

Gone

1999, 2010 : Following on from her success with Stolen – the winner of the 2010 Northern Crime Writers competition in 2012 has done it…

  • Location: Barcelona

The South

1950s: Colm Tóibín’s first novel vividly evokes the Barcelona of the exile, as a young Irish woman starts a new life in the city.

  • Location: London

The Hourglass Factory

1912: Suffragettes, Emily Pankhurst, a mysterious hourglass factory, a female roving reporter and the world of the circus freaks…oh and a murderous plot too

  • Location: Berlin

Emil And The Detectives (Berlin)

1919 – 1933 – (Weimar republic) – Emil is only young and lives with his mum. But he leads a double life…

  • Location: Gloucestershire

The Girl in the Photograph

1890s, 1930s: Even the title is mysterious – just who is the girl in the photo? We wanted to know straight away!

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Dark Island

2000s: Midwinter in Orkney. Six hours of daylight. A race against time to catch a killer.

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