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Murder on the Second Tee

Murder on the Second Tee
  • Author(s): Ian Simpson
  • Location(s): Dundee/St Andrews
  • Genre(s): Crime

Murder on the Second Tee is the follow-up to the popular crime fiction novel Murder on Page One. The directors of the niche Bucephalus Bank are meeting in a St Andrews hotel. One of them is found dead on...

Murder Under the Midnight Sun

Murder Under the Midnight Sun
  • Author(s): Stella Blómkvist
  • Location(s): Iceland
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

What does a woman do when her husband’s charged with the frenzied murder of her father and her best friend? She calls in Stella Blómkvist to to investigate – however unwelcome the truth could turn out to be. ‘Stella...

My Family and Other Enemies

My Family and Other Enemies
  • Author(s): Mary Novakovich
  • Location(s): Croatia
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Turn 21st Century

Mary Novakovich’s exploration of her family’s experiences in a Serbian enclave within Croatia inevitably confronts some of the darkest chapters of recent European history, yet it brims with an infectious love of the landscape, the people, their culture and...

My Husband’s Lover

My Husband’s Lover
  • Author(s): Jess Ryder
  • Location(s): The Ardnish Peninsula, Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A wife. A mistress. A week away with no escape… As my girlfriends and I sip wine and share secrets in the flickering candlelight of our remote Scottish hideaway, we all agree we need this break. Every morning we...

My Italian Bulldozer

My Italian Bulldozer
  • Author(s): Alexander McCall Smith
  • Location(s): Montalcino
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When writer Paul Stewart heads to the idyllic Italian town of Montalcino to finish his already late book, it seems like the perfect escape from stressful city life. Upon landing, however, things quickly take a turn for the worse...

My Monticello

My Monticello
  • Author(s): Jocelyn Nicole Johnson
  • Location(s): Charlottesville
  • Genre(s): Future, Fiction
  • Era(s): Near Future

At a time of rolling blackouts and terrible storms battering America, the neighbourhood of First Street, Charlottesville comes under attack by violent white supremacists. A group of friends, families and strangers flee together in an abandoned bus and head...

My Mother Is a River

My Mother Is a River
  • Author(s): Donatella Di Pietrantonio
  • Location(s): Abruzzo
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): From 1940 to present day

The sensitive and powerful story of the love between a mother and her daughter, a love “gone wrong from the start”. When Esperia exhibits the symptoms of a disease that robs her of her memory and the very sense...

My Name is Jensen

My Name is Jensen
  • Author(s): Heidi Amsinck
  • Location(s): Copenhagen
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Guilty. One word on a beggar’s cardboard sign. And now he is dead, stabbed in a wintry Copenhagen street, the second homeless victim in as many weeks. Dagbladet reporter Jensen, stumbling across the body on her way to work, calls her...

My Only Child

My Only Child
  • Author(s): Sam Vickery
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

There he is, my baby boy. His eyes are closed, his tiny rosebud mouth is pursed in sleep. My eyes well up as I catch a whiff of his newborn skin and I swallow back a wave of emotion....

Never Again

Never Again
  • Author(s): Nicky Clifford
  • Location(s): Wengen
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

(from Amazon.co.uk) Mountains, Mystery, Romance: Can you run from your past? Harriet Anderson’s life is spiralling out of control. Unused to such mayhem, she ditches her high-powered job to take refuge in the Swiss Alps where she meets Philippe...

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