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Read of the month

The Reckoning by Kelli Stanley

3rd January 2026

California, Southern Humboldt County, 1985. Renata Drake steps off a Greyhound bus and into small-town Garberville, hoping to disappear. She checks the papers. She’s not headline news. Not yet. But she’s made a mistake. The FBI have the cannabis…

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Featured author

Susan Parry

SUSAN PARRY is a professor of chemistry who has worked on some high-profile murder cases. Using her experience of forensics to inform her fiction, she published her first book featuring Dr Mills Sanderson, a forensic archaeologist, in 2005. All twelve books in the series are set in the Yorkshire Dal…