- Location(s): Singapore
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
They steer a tight ship in squeaky-clean Singapore. No dissent, no opposition, no criticism. It’s like an entire country run by Walt Disney. Disneyland with the death penalty, somebody once called it. A young American software engineer hangs himself...
- Location(s): Hull
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary looking back to lat 20thCentury
How far will Anna Stone, a disillusioned police officer on the brink of leaving her job, go to uncover the truth about her sister’s disappearance?Approached by Luke Carver, an ex-Army drifter she’s previously sent to prison, he claims to...
- Location(s): Isle of Jura, Brandenburg, Dublin, Frankfurt an der Oder
- Genre(s): Mystery, Crime, Literary Travel
- Era(s): Modern
(Inspector Angus Blue Book 2) Jura: where the rich and the powerful come to play away from the prying eyes of the press. But when there is an assassination attempt on a Cabinet Minister whiles he’s on his island...
- Location(s): St Michael's Mount
- Genre(s): Cosy Mystery
- Era(s): 1938
Josephine Tey 9 December 1938, and storm clouds hover once again over Europe. Josephine Tey and Archie Penrose gather with friends for a Cornish Christmas, but two strange and brutal deaths on St Michael’s Mount – and the unexpected...
- Location(s): Indiana
- Genre(s): Fiction, Young Adult
- Era(s): Modern
Mean Girls meets The Tudors in Hannah Capin’s The Dead Queens Club, a clever contemporary YA retelling of Henry VIII and his wives (or, in this case, his high school girlfriends). Told from the perspective of Annie Marck (“Cleves”),...