The Beginner’s Goodbye by Anne Tyler  Published by Penguin (Random House)   Not a new book, in fact I mentioned it in my round up back in 2013, but the...

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      Nevada Noir by David Arrowsmith  A trilogy of short stories Published 2020 Aptly described on the cover as ‘dark and brooding’, the three complex stories are set in Nevada....

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Emma (A modern retelling) by Alexander McCall Smith Published by The Borough Press, 2014 Not a newly published book but I was prompted to read it following recent film and tv adaptions...

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Perdition’s Child by Anne Coates Published by Urbane Publications, February 2020 Set in South east London but with a link to Cornwall: a murder takes place in one of the libraries funded by a...

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    The Other Girl by CD Major Published by Thomas & Mercer, 2020 It’s 1942 in New Zealand and 20 year old Edith has been locked in Seacliff Lunatic Asylum for...

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Death in Dulwich by Alice Castle  Published by Crooked Cat books  In these unusual and unsettling times, there’s something rather reassuring about a cosy, domestic, murder mystery. Of course, within that genre...

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South Cornwall: Falmouth and Roseland Guidebook (5th edition) Published by Friendly Guides Written by Falmouth born Neil Reid, this is an updated (2019) edition of a guide first published in 1995. It...

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Those who lie by Diane Jeffrey Published in paperback by HQ (Harper Collins), 2020 Emily Klein wakes up in hospital and is disturbed to find that there are two police officers at...

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The Good Pilot Peter Woodhouse By Alexander McCall Smith Published by Polygon, 2018 By the author of the No1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, something quite different. Set in and after the Second...

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Mapp at Fifty by Hugh Ashton – Published by j-views Publishing in 2020 Described as “a story of Mapp & Lucia in the style of the Originals by EF Benson” with characters and...

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