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Night Watching

Night Watching
  • Author(s): Tracy Sierra
  • Location(s): New England
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

There was someone in the house. Home alone with her young children during a blizzard, a mother tucks her son back into bed in the middle of the night. Then she hears a noise – old houses are always...

The Tumbling Girl

The Tumbling Girl
  • Author(s): Bridget Walsh
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1870s

1876, Victorian London. Minnie Ward, a feisty scriptwriter for the Variety Palace Music Hall, is devastated when her best friend is found brutally murdered. She enlists the help of private detective Albert Easterbrook to help her find justice.   Together...

Go Seek

Go Seek
  • Author(s): Michelle Teahan
  • Location(s): Cork City, Dublin
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

YOU LOOKED AWAY FOR JUST A MINUTE. Your daughter is gone, and only you can find her. Because you know exactly who took her. And they’re making her pay for your past. To save one child, you must leave...

Clear

Clear
  • Author(s): Carys Davies
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1840s

1843. On a remote Scottish island, Ivar, the sole occupant, leads a life of quiet isolation until the day he finds a man unconscious on the beach below the cliffs. The newcomer is John Ferguson, an impoverished church minister...

My Favourite Mistake

My Favourite Mistake
  • Author(s): Marian Keyes
  • Location(s): Ireland, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Anna has just lost her taste for the Big Apple… She has a life to envy. An apartment in New York. A well-meaning (too well-meaning?) partner. And a high-flying job in beauty PR. Who wouldn’t want all that? Anna,...

James

James
  • Author(s): Percival Everett
  • Location(s): Mississippi, Mississippi River
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1860s

The Mississippi River, 1861. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a new owner in New Orleans and separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson’s Island...

The Children’s Bach

The Children’s Bach
  • Author(s): Helen Garner
  • Location(s): Melbourne
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s/80s

Athena and Dexter Fox are happy. They love each other. They are friends. They live with their young sons in a sparsely furnished house near the Merri Creek: its walls cracking, its floors sloping and its doors hanging loosely...

There Should Have Been Eight

There Should Have Been Eight
  • Author(s): Nalini Singh
  • Location(s): Southern Alps (NZ)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In this chilling thriller from New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh, a remote estate in the New Zealand Alps hosts a reunion no one will ever forget. Seven friends. One last weekend. A mansion half in ruins. No...

Quiet in Her Bones

Quiet in Her Bones
  • Author(s): Nalini Singh
  • Location(s): Waitakere Ranges
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In this gripping thriller set in New Zealand, New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh takes you into the twisted world of an exclusive cul-de-sac located on the edge of a sprawling forest. My mother vanished ten years ago....

The Djinn’s Apple

The Djinn’s Apple
  • Author(s): Djamila Morani
  • Location(s): Baghdad
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Crime, Historical
  • Era(s): 8th century

Historical fiction meets crime fiction in The Djinn’s Apple, an award-winning YA murder mystery set in the Abbasid period―the golden age of Baghdad. A ruthless murder. A magical herb. A mysterious manuscript. When Nardeen’s home is stormed by angry...

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