- Location(s): Alaska
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
… though there is no fixed line between wrong and right, There are roughly zones whose laws must be obeyed. It is New Year’s Eve, nearly six weeks into an off-and-on blizzard that has locked Alaska down, effectively cutting...
- Location(s): France
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Early 2000s
Oliver Dreyfuss seems to have it all: a celebrated restaurateur with a glamorous and wealthy wife. As he travels by train to his new restaurant in Paris, there is an accident. Crawling from the debris in shock, Oliver walks...
- Location(s): Scottish Highlands
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
She was your best friend. Now she’s your deadliest enemy – and there’s nowhere to run… When Alice receives an invitation from Karen, her charismatic University friend, to stay in a remote cottage in Scotland, she can’t wait to...
- Location(s): East Africa, Kenya
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1940s
Felice Benuzzi recounts one of the most bizarre and daring prisoner-of-war and escape adventures of the past century. In 1943, Felice Benuzzi and two Italian compatriots escaped from a British POW camp in equatorial East Africa with only one...
- Location(s): Türkiye (Turkey)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
- Era(s): 1850s
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE WASN’T THE ONLY HEROINE … 1854. Britain is fighting a gruesome war. There has been no news of Lucy Gray since she eloped with handsome and impetuous Captain Charlie Harvington and embarked with him to the Crimea....
- Location(s): Cambridge, Cornwall, Maze Hill
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary and 1998
You might be paranoid, but that doesn’t mean they’re not watching you. Adam lives a picture-perfect life: happy marriage, two young children, and a flourishing career as a doctor. But Adam also lives with a secret. Hospital CCTV, strangers’...
- Location(s): Ireland
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018 Connell and Marianne grow up in the same small town in rural Ireland. The similarities end there; they are from very different worlds. When they both earn places at Trinity College in...
- Location(s): Boston
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Year’s Best Crime Novels: 2014, Booklist Dennis Lehane meets Smilla’s Sense of Snow: a big discovery in the world of female suspense, about an edgy young woman with the rare ability to withstand extreme conditions Elisabeth Elo’s debut novel...
Not Cool: Europe by Train in a Heatwave
- Location(s): Europe
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Contemporary 2019
9 cities, 9 countries, 9 days 1 ridiculously hot summer What could possibly go wrong? The latest travel memoir by Jules Brown – author of Takoradi to the Stars (via Huddersfield) – is a hot and steamy adventure (no,...
- Location(s): Odesa
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Ex-CIA man Max Rushmore travels to a still-peaceful Odesa on routine assignment. But things veer off course when the severed hand of the local governor shows up in a vat of sunflower oil. Max stumbles across a solitary toe,...
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