- Location(s): Leipzig
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1930s
Leipzig, 1930s Germany Hetty Heinrich is a perfect German child. Her father is an SS officer, her brother in the Luftwaffe, herself a member of the BDM. She believes resolutely in her country, and the man who runs it....
- Location(s): Bath, Lyme Regis
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
Anne Elliot, a warm hearted young woman of 19, accepted a marriage proposal from Frederick Wentworth. A clever and ambitious young man, he had no background and both Anne’s father and her sister did not approve of her choice....
- Location(s): Santiago de Compostela, Northern Spain
- Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
- Era(s): present
A woman has vanished on the Camino de Santiago, the ancient five-hundred-mile pilgrimage that crosses northern Spain. Daniel, an Irish expat, walks the lonely trail carrying his wife, Petra’s, ashes, along with the damning secret of how she really...
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
When Chief Inspector Lorimer returns from his holiday on the island of Mull, he feels a welcome sense of calm. But it doesn’t last long. Kelvin FC’s new star midfielder is found brutally stabbed to death in his own...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
There are many ways to die. Plague is just one of them. Work on a London tube line is halted by the discovery of an ancient plague pit and, within it, a very recent corpse. A day later another...
- Location(s): Sao Paulo
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 2016
SÃO PAULO, 20 MARCH 2016 A campaign for the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff is in full swing, yet 100,000 people take to Avenida Paulista in São Paulo in her support. On the same day, a young man from...
- Location(s): Singapore
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern looking back
2003. Singapore. Friendless and fatherless, sixteen-year-old Szu lives in the shadow of her mother Amisa, once a beautiful actress and now a hack medium performing séances with her sister in a rusty house. When Szu meets the privileged, acid-tongued...
- Location(s): England, New Zealand (Aotearoa), South Africa
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): WW2 forward
A fake birth certificate! No record of her existence in the UK data base. Jemima Ashton is desperate to discover her real identity. With scant information and the burning question ‘who am I?’, she embarks on an incredible journey...
- Location(s): North Carolina, San Diego
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
When the pretending ends, the lying begins . . . Molly Arnette is good at keeping secrets. As she and her husband try to adopt a baby, she worries that the truth she’s kept hidden about her North Carolina childhood...
- Location(s): London, Cambridge, Luton
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Tessa is a young, brilliant barrister. She has worked her way up from working-class origins to the top of her game: defending, cross-examining and winning. But an unexpected event forces her to confront the patriarchal power of the...
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