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Suicide Thursday

Suicide Thursday
  • Author(s): Will Carver
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Eli Hagin can’t finish anything. He hates his job, but can’t seem to quit. He doesn’t want to be with his girlfriend, but doesn’t know how end things with her, either. Eli wants to write a novel, but he’s...

Summary Justice

Summary Justice
  • Author(s): John Fairfax
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Suspense
  • Era(s): Eaerly 21st Century

The last time Tess de Vere saw William Benson she was a law student on work experience. He was a twenty-one year old, led from the dock of the Old Bailey to begin a life sentence for murder. He’d...

Sweet Sorrow

Sweet Sorrow
  • Author(s): David Nicholls
  • Location(s): London, Sussex
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1997

One life-changing summer Charlie meets Fran… In 1997, Charlie Lewis is the kind of boy you don’t remember in the school photograph. His exams have not gone well. At home he is looking after his father, when surely it...

The Art of Death

The Art of Death
  • Author(s): David Fennell
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Death is an art, and he is the master . . . Three glass cabinets appear in London’s Trafalgar Square containing a gruesome art installation: the floating corpses of three homeless men. Shock turns to horror when it becomes...

The Book of Lost and Found

The Book of Lost and Found
  • Author(s): Lucy Foley
  • Location(s): Corsica, London, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Early and later 20th Century

Sweeping and heartrending – the perfect summer read for fans of Victoria Hislop and Kate Morton. In many ways my life has been rather like a record of the lost and found. Perhaps all lives are like that ....

The Burning Man

The Burning Man
  • Author(s): Christopher Fowler
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Set around London – Kings Cross, Brixton, The City and Belgravia…. London is under siege. A banking scandal has filled the city with violent protests, and as the anger in the streets detonates, a young homeless man burns to...

The Cartography of Others – Short Stories

The Cartography of Others – Short Stories
  • Author(s): Catherine McNamara
  • Location(s): Ghana, Hong Kong, Italy, London, Mali, Paris, Sydney
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A Japanese soprano sets sail for arid, haunted Corsica where she seeks her lost voice. A nude woman at the window of a Hong Kong hotel watches her lover dine in an adjacent building, but is her desire faltering?...

The Cuckoo’s Calling

The Cuckoo’s Calling
  • Author(s): Robert Galbraith
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

When a troubled model falls to her death from a snow-covered Mayfair balcony, it is assumed that she has committed suicide. However, her brother has his doubts, and calls in private investigator Cormoran Strike to look into the case....

The Death of Us

The Death of Us
  • Author(s): Abigail Dean
  • Location(s): South London
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

t’s the story everyone wants to hear. That spring night in South London, when Isabel and Edward’s lives were torn apart. The night Isabel learned that the worst things wait, just outside the door. The night Edward learned that...

The Dog Walker

The Dog Walker
  • Author(s): Lesley Thomson
  • Location(s): London, Kew
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1987 and 2016

A haunted house, a broken family and a body that has never been found. Stella and Jack must reawaken the secrets of the past in order to solve the mysteries of the present. January, 1987. In the depths of...

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