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The Hero’s Way

The Hero’s Way
  • Author(s): Tim Parks
  • Location(s): Italy
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): 2019

In the summer of 1849, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italy’s legendary revolutionary hero, fled Rome and led 4,000 of his men hundreds of miles through Umbria and Tuscany, then across the Apennines, Italy’s mountainous spine, toward the refuge of the Venetian...

Dark Road Home

Dark Road Home
  • Author(s): Sheila Bugler
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In a small town, it’s impossible to hide… Two decades after she left Ireland, Leah Ryan is back. She knows she won’t get a welcome reception in her hometown of Dungarry, but she’s finally ready to face up to...

Love In Provence

Love In Provence
  • Author(s): Jo Thomas
  • Location(s): Provence
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Escape to the beautiful lavender fields of Provence this summer Del moved to the south of France three years ago and hasn’t looked back. She’s found new friends, new purpose, and new love with gorgeous Fabien. But just as...

PACIFIC ODYSSEY – The Curious Journey of Lew 2.0

PACIFIC ODYSSEY – The Curious Journey of Lew 2.0
  • Author(s): Chet Nairene
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), New Jersey, South East Asia
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction
  • Era(s): Current Day

Brilliant but shallow New York businessman Lew Clarke gets in over his head after partnering with a quirky SE Asian company located beyond the Golden Triangle. in this harrowing but delightful fantasy, calamities begin to strike his American customers,...

A Deadly Walk in Devon

A Deadly Walk in Devon
  • Author(s): Nicholas George
  • Location(s): Devon
  • Genre(s): Mystery, LGBTQ+
  • Era(s): Contemporary

For fans of M.C. Beaton, Martha Grimes, and Alexander McCall Smith, the first in a charming new mystery series set in the English countryside, as a retired San Diego police detective embarks upon group walking tours in England’s most...

In the Family

In the Family
  • Author(s): Martyn Taylor
  • Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

The past catches up with a mobster who has tried to go clean. When the head of an organized crime gang who had become a respectable businessman is found dead by shotgun in his home, the police force know...

Poor Table Manners

Poor Table Manners
  • Author(s): Steve Sheppard
  • Location(s): Cape Town
  • Genre(s): Comedy, Thriller
  • Era(s): Present Day

Dawson and Lucy hit Cape Town… and Cape Town hits back When their new employer dies in a road accident on Exmoor and his brother, a South African Government lawyer disappears, Dawson and Lucy are hurriedly recruited back into...

Status Drift

Status Drift
  • Author(s): Ian Robinson
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

Past bad choices come to trouble an undercover cop After a month of rest in a secure location in Scotland, undercover officer DS Sam Batford is given the assignment of infiltrating an organised crime syndicate. But if Batford returns...

California Sister

California Sister
  • Author(s): Gloria Mattioni
  • Location(s): Bergamo, Italy
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A sister’s love versus a cruel fate. A story of fierce love and heartbreaking grief. Claire Waters, an Italian mystery writer living in Los Angeles, rushes to Italy after her older sister’s devastating brain-hemorrhage, determined to restore her health-or...

The Coming Storm

The Coming Storm
  • Author(s): Greg Mosse
  • Location(s): Africa, Egypt, France, Spain
  • Genre(s): Dystopian, Thriller
  • Era(s): The Near Future

The hotly-anticipated sequel to Sunday Times Thriller of the Year The Coming Darkness sees the return of special agent Alexandre Lamarque. He may have saved the world from darkness, but he knows his work is not done yet. There’s...

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