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Bad Summer People by Emma Rosenblum, sharp mystery set on Fire Island (a barrier island off Long Island). There has been a bit of a hoo-ha about this novel. The author has created Salcombe, a fictional village on Fire...
The Misper by Kate London, set in London and “Middleton”, somewhere in England. The Misper, by Kate London, is the fourth book in a series that started with The Tower (dramatised by ITV), though it works well as a...
The Acapulco by Simone Buchholz, a brilliant thriller set in Hamburg’s Sankt Pauli district. Translated by Rachel Ward. The Acapulco is the sixth book in Simone Buchholz’s Chastity Riley, Hamburg State Prosecutor, series. It is every bit as good...
Venom by Saneh Sangsuk, short novel set in a jungle village in Thailand. TR: Mui Poopoksakul Saneh Sangsuk wrote Venom with a second novella, The Understory, to be published separately, and if the second is as good as the...
Alone by Carlota Gurt, novel set in rural Catalonia and Barcelona, Spain Translated by Adrian Nathan West Alone, by Carlota Gurt, is a fascinating and entertaining novel with an engaging female character, set in a fictional Catalan village. A top...
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