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Stealth

Stealth
  • Author(s): Hugh Fraser
  • Location(s): Soho (London), London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1960s

London 1967. A working girl is brutally murdered in a Soho club. Rina Walker takes out the killer and attracts the attention of a sinister line-up of gangland enforcers with a great deal to prove. When a member of...

Steel and Shadows

Steel and Shadows
  • Author(s): Stuart Field
  • Location(s): London, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Current

No-nonsense NYPD detective Sam McCall is investigating one of the deadliest and most complex cases of her career when the mysterious, yet infuriatingly intriguing, John Steel insinuates himself into the department. What appears at first to be the work...

Stolen Brilliance

Stolen Brilliance
  • Author(s): Michael G Colburn
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Victorian

From London’s cobblestone streets to the far edges of the British empire… one woman rewrites the rules of crime. Former street urchin Edith Black has risen through the ranks of Victorian London’s underworld. Mentored by the notorious Mrs. Hill,...

Stonechild

Stonechild
  • Author(s): Kevin Albin
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Young Adult, Environmental
  • Era(s): Present day or close to.

Where do we go to when we die? Imagine human consciousness embedded in the molecules of a statue. So, when the statues of London come to life, it is a spectacle like non other. They come with a specific...

Strangers in Time

Strangers in Time
  • Author(s): David Baldacci
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

During one of the fiercest conflicts the world has ever known, three strangers’ lives collide as they confront the raining bombs of their present and the explosive secrets of their past. Journey back to wartime London in this historical...

Summer in Your Eyes

Summer in Your Eyes
  • Author(s): Chris Penhall
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): current

Sometimes life’s greatest adventures are found closest to home . . . Travel writer Holly Merriweather knows a fresh start is just what she needs to get her life back on track. Breaking up with her childhood sweetheart and...

Swear Down

Swear Down
  • Author(s): Russ Litten
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Hackney. Russ Litten’s second novel, Swear Down (Tindal Street, £12.99), features fast-tracked DS Peter Ndekwe, newly arrived from across the river. His boss wants him to wrap up the murder of gang leader Aaron Stewart, found stabbed on the...

Swing Time

Swing Time
  • Author(s): Zadie Smith
  • Location(s): The Gambia, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Dazzlingly energetic and deeply human, Swing Time is a story about friendship and music and true identity, how they shape us and how we can survive them. Moving from north-west London to West Africa, it is an exuberant dance...

Take It Back

Take It Back
  • Author(s): Kia Abdullah
  • Location(s): East London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Jodie Wolfe, a sixteen-year-old girl with severe facial deformities accuses four boys in her class of an unthinkable crime, the community is torn apart. The defendants are four handsome teenagers from hard-working immigrant families, all with proven alibis....

TAKE NO MORE

TAKE NO MORE
  • Author(s): Seb Kirkby
  • Location(s): Florence, London, Venice
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

‘An artistic voyage in crime – thrilling and original’ Julia Blake is a conservator, working with classic art. Her expertise includes imaging beneath the surface of paintings to discover what lies beneath. She is sure that a number of...

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