Under the Bridge: Book 1 - The Liverpool Mystery Series (The Liverpool Mysteries Series)

Literature & Fiction

Byrne, Jack

British & Irish

Northodox Press

Her Sister's Shadow: A Psychological Thriller

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Wimpeney, Catherine

Mystery

By day, Ida is a quiet, standoffish maid in the employ of spoiled Lucinda Belmonte. By night, she is the infamous sneak thief known as the Rat Prince, terrorising the wealthy inhabitants of Loxport; especially Lucinda’s lecherous suitor, Lord Devon Casterbury.\nSoon the boundaries between her dual lives begin to blur, as her mask begins to drop around a delightful waitress and a charming jeweller who both insist on befriending Ida. All the while she is thrust into a conflict surrounding new and dangerous materials that could upend the order of the city, land her behind bars or worse: in Lord Casterbury’s employ.\nA thrilling romp through the Steampunk city of Loxport, Clockwork Magpies is a story of found family, crimes plotted over tea and scones, and the sinister power of glowing gemstones.

Clockwork Magpies: A Northern Steampunk Adventure

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Whitehall, Emma

Science Fiction

Across the Water: Book 2 - The Liverpool Mystery Series (The Liverpool Mysteries Series)

The Curious Casefiles: A Collection of Six Short Stories

Willis, Susan

Short Stories & Anthologies

A model student at an exclusive private school, Junie Han is popular, bright and destined for Oxford University. Or so everyone believes.Unbeknownst to her wealthy friends and family, Junie is a gifted hacker, and is using her talents to make money as a means of escaping the life they have planned for her. As long as she can maintain her image of perfection, nothing will stop her.Whilst exploring the dark web, Junie and her fellow hacker, Yamazaki, discover a site called the Monsters Club, a place where murderers post pictures of their victims. After investigating the site, Yamazaki disappears. And Junie begins to receive alarming messages from an anonymous stranger...As Junie's two lives begin to unravel, she finds herself cracking under the pressure of keeping her secrets and her safety. Will she, or someone she loves, become the next victim posted on the Monsters Club's website?

The Monster's Club: A Young Adult Hacker Thriller (The Monsters Club Series)

Children's Books

Elliott, Lotte

Mysteries & Detectives

'Harrowing but wonderful' - Jane Jesmond 
When his beloved little brother is stolen away, five-year-old Tommy Farrier is left alone with his alcoholic mam, his violent step-dad and his guilt. Too young to understand what has really happened, Tommy is sure of only one thing. He is to blame.\nTommy tries to be good, to live-up to his brother’s increasingly hazy memory, but trapped in a world of shame and degradation he grows up with just two options; poverty or crime. And crime pays. Or so he thinks.\nA teenage drug dealer for the vicious Burns gang, Tommy’s life is headed for disaster, until, in the place he least expects, Tommy sees a familiar face… And then things get a whole lot worse.\nThe Inspiration Behind The Silent Brother 
Working in the east end of Newcastle could be pretty dispiriting. Hard as we tried to make things better, there was always someone, plenty of someones, ready to tear it down. Drug and alcohol abuse was everywhere – as was anger and frustration, vented in seemingly pointless, and often vicious violence.\nPut in a new central heating system, they’d rip it out to sell the copper pipe. Give them double-glazing, they’d put a brick through it. During the riots of 1999, local people set fire to their neighbour’s homes. In the end, it was hard to avoid feeling that these people deserved what they got.\nThey didn’t.\nThere was a time, in living memory for some, when fully half the world’s shipping was built on the Tyne, and people would joke about the obvious foolishness of bringing coals to Newcastle. Not anymore.\nThese days, when a major employer closes down, special teams are brought into the area to help with retraining and to attract new employers. But in Thatcher’s Britain, when the unions, heavy industry and even the north itself was the enemy – closing down the mines and the decline of the shipyards was an end in itself. A victory. Something like the victory in Iraq, with no plan beyond winning the 'war'. The effect on these communities was devastating. Generations of skilled workers lost their jobs. More than that, they lost their identity and their union, and often their families. How could they teach their children the meaning of a hard day's work for a fair day's pay? - in this new world of every man for himself. And why would their children listen to these old mens' stories? - when both father and children were signing on at the same dole office.\nAbandoned and useless, these once proud men faded away. Worse still, their children grew up without hope or direction. The old order was gone, and there was nothing to replace it and nothing to do, except anaesthetize yourself from day to day, until the hopelessness got too much - and erupted into violence. Ambition meant getting a few quid together, enough to score a deal to get you through the emptiness, until next week’s giro. Dignity and community were replaced by crime and booze and drugs.\nWe’re on the third generation now. For them, the glory days are something the history teacher drones on about. It has nothing to do with their lives.\nIn a community with so little hope, overstretched social services and policing priorities elsewhere, it’s easy for the gangsters to take over – and anyway, no one likes a grass. Some, heroically, stay and fight for their community. But the truth is that most of the time, those who can, get out.\nThis is the world our hero, Tommy grows up in. So if The Silent Brother is dark in places, it’s because my aim is to tell it how it is. To highlight the link between victim and perpetrator, and show you that often, they are one and the same.\nSimon Van der Velde March 2022

The Silent Brother: A Literary Thriller

Van Der Velde, Simon

Genre Fiction

Hyenas: A Horror Thriller

Sellars, Michael

The Honey Talker: A Crime Thriller (The Aidan Hughes Series)

Havard, Malcolm

Out of Human Sight: A Historical Mystery

Parkes, Sophie

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