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The Envoy

The Envoy
  • Author(s): Edward Wilson
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Espionage, Suspense
  • Era(s): 1950s

1950s London: the height of the Cold War. Kit Fournier, senior diplomat at the US embassy in Grosvenor Square, is actually CIA bureau chief in London. The Arms Race informs much of the action in this fast-paced page turner...

The Exchange

The Exchange
  • Author(s): John Grisham
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), London, Marrakech, Rome
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The Exchange is John Grisham’s epic follow-up to his phenomenal global bestseller The Firm, the novel that launched his career as the world’s favourite storyteller – it will take you on a rollercoaster journey across the globe, from New...

The Exes

The Exes
  • Author(s): Leodora Darlington
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Natalie chose James carefully, because he’s different from all the men she’d loved before. Calm. Competent. Kind. And there are three very good reasons she needs to be so careful. Their names are Marc, Luca and George. Natalie prefers...

The Exiles

The Exiles
  • Author(s): Christina Baker Kline
  • Location(s): Australia, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 19th century

Seduced by her employer’s son, Evangeline, a naïve young governess in early nineteenth-century London, is discharged when her pregnancy is discovered and sent to the notorious Newgate Prison. After months in the fetid, overcrowded jail, she learns she is...

The Faceless Woman

The Faceless Woman
  • Author(s): J.Ewins
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Historical
  • Era(s): 1872

Set in the London of 1872 this is the first novel in the series of the Sussex labourer who becomes young Constable Jack Sargent, experiencing crime as he moves between Camberwell, Stepney and Whitechapel and learning from the men...

The Family Upstairs

The Family Upstairs
  • Author(s): Lisa Jewell
  • Location(s): Chelsea
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In a large house in London’s fashionable Chelsea, a baby is awake in her cot. Well-fed and cared for, she is happily waiting for someone to pick her up. In the kitchen lie three decomposing corpses. Close to them...

The Fascination

The Fascination
  • Author(s): Essie Fox
  • Location(s): Buckinghamshire, Herefordshire, London
  • Genre(s): Gothic, Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): !9th Century

Victorian England. A world of rural fairgrounds and glamorous London theatres. A world of dark secrets and deadly obsessions… Twin sisters Keziah and Tilly Lovell are identical in every way, except that Tilly hasn’t grown a single inch since...

The Final Shot

The Final Shot
  • Author(s): Simon Michael
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1966

They think it’s all over… London, 1966 It’s the eve of the World Cup Final and everyone in England holds their breath – everyone except the Kray twins. The kings of London’s gangland have their minds elsewhere, on the...

The First 48 Hours

The First 48 Hours
  • Author(s): Simon Kernick
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A COP NEEDS TO CRACK A DEADLY CASE He’s a detective hunting cold-blooded killers, but does he know more than he admits? A MOTHER HAS TO SAVE HER DAUGHTER She’s a lawyer who must defend a murderer – but...

The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
  • Author(s): Hallie Rubenhold
  • Location(s): Ashford, London
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1880s

Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met. They came from Fleet Street, Knightsbridge, Wolverhampton, Sweden and Wales. They wrote ballads, ran coffee houses, lived on country estates, they breathed ink-dust...

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