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Happy Valley returns to the BBC for season three

2 December, 2022

Happy Valley might not be the best title for this hit crime drama. It’s not about a Chinese takeaway and nor does the Calder Valley, where it’s set, seem a particularly happy place. Not in a show dealing with violence against women, rape, suicide, addiction,…

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Curtain Call at the Seaview Hotel by Glenda Young

By DeathBecomesHer

26 May, 2022

The holiday resort of Scarborough, on the north east coast of England, already has a literary pedigree. Award winning playwright Alan Ayckbourn launched the majority of his work there, at the famed Stephen Joseph Theatre, while Anne Bronte, sister of Charlotte and Emily, is buried…

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Smoke and Cracked Mirrors by Karen Charlton

By DeathBecomesHer

21 April, 2022

Anyone who has ever been to York will have been struck by the city’s palpable sense of history. It boasts Roman walls and medieval streets, with the ancient York Minster imperiously towering above it all. But it is more recent occurrences that have inspired Karen…

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Murder at the Seaview Hotel by Glenda Young

By DeathBecomesHer

27 October, 2021

I’m guessing there are plenty of UK-based crime fiction lovers who’ve spent a night, a weekend or maybe even a week in a seaside B&B. They can probably tell a tale or two about dodgy landladies, uncomfortable beds and spiders in the bathroom. But how…

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Not Dark Yet by Peter Robinson

By Catherine Turnbull

13 May, 2021

DCI Alan Banks may have been off the telly for five years, but the books that spawned the police procedural series about the Yorkshire-based detective keep coming. Not Dark Yet is the 27th novel Peter Robinson has written for fans of this stubborn officer. Banks,…

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The Diabolical Bones by Bella Ellis

By Catherine Turnbull

30 December, 2020

Christmas is approaching but there is little good cheer in the bitterly cold air in Haworth, Yorkshire, in December 1845. The literary geniuses turned sleuths Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë are about to investigate their second sinister case and it has a grim gothic chill to…

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Interview: SJ Watson talks about his new book Final Cut

By Catherine Turnbull

31 August, 2020

SJ Watson’s first novel, Before I Go To Sleep, became a phenomenal international success selling over six million copies worldwide. It won the Crime Writers’ Association Award for Best Debut Novel and the Galaxy National Book Award for Crime Thriller of the Year, and has been translated…

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Mortmain Hall by Martin Edwards

By Vicki Weisfeld

23 August, 2020

Right from the title, you know the stately Yorkshire family home Mortmain Hall will play a pivotal role in this classic mystery. The legal doctrine of mortmain, after all, refers to owners’ attempts to control the fate of their property after their death. As you…

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Happy Valley returns to the BBC for season three

Curtain Call at the Seaview Hotel by Glenda Young

Smoke and Cracked Mirrors by Karen Charlton

Murder at the Seaview Hotel by Glenda Young

Not Dark Yet by Peter Robinson

The Diabolical Bones by Bella Ellis

Interview: SJ Watson talks about his new book Final Cut

Mortmain Hall by Martin Edwards

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