- Location(s): Hollywood
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1940s
It is September 1940 and Evelyn Murdoch, a translator from the Postal Censorship department, is uprooted from her home in wartime Woking and transferred to Hollywood. She is to assist a mysterious British agent in his attempts to outwit...
- Location(s): Sweden
- Genre(s): Fiction, Crime, In Translation
- Era(s): early 2000s
From the author of the international and New York Times bestseller Let the Right One In (Let Me In) comes this stunning and terrifying book which begins when a man’s six-year-old daughter vanishes. One ordinary winter afternoon on a snowy...
- Location(s): South Wales, Wales
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): contemporary
When a young woman is found in a lake, murdered, the police become intrigued by the strange dynamics within her circle of friends. It’s Alys Pugh’s birthday and her mates are organising a little surprise for her. When she...
- Location(s): Santiago
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary (post-dictatarship) Chile
Hard Bed Hotel is a humorous story that is told through the eyes of a lonely, devoted caretaker of Santiago de Chile’s General Cemetery, and those of a washed-up Latino rock star who takes up residence in the family...
- Location(s): New Jersey
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
Fugitive Apprehension Agent Stephanie Plum has a big problem on her hands: Seven-year-old Annie Soder and her mother, Evelyn, have disappeared. Evelyn’s estranged husband, Steven, a shady owner of a seedy bar, is not at all happy. During the...










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