- Location(s): Bologna
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Daniel Leicester #3 In the sweltering heat of a Bologna summer, a murderer plans their pièce de résistance… Only in Bologna reads the headline in the Carlino after a professor of music is apparently murdered leaving the opera. But...
- Location(s): Vienna
- Genre(s): Historical, Mystery
- Era(s): 1890s
A series of accidents plague Vienna’s Court Opera and then a singer is killed during rehearsals of a new production. It would seem that someone is trying to murder Gustav Mahler. And Mahler may not be the first musical...
- Location(s): Bucharest, Iasi, London, South Shields
- Genre(s): Political, Thriller
A big meaty tale and powerfully told – Ian Rankin Stelian Munteanu has had enough of fixing other people’s problems: all he wants to do is make the long-distance relationship with his wife Sofia work. But when a notorious...
- Location(s): Glasgow, Hamburg
- Genre(s): Crime, In Translation, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Mired in grief after tragic recent events, state prosecutor Chastity Riley escapes to Scotland, lured to the birthplace of her great-great-grandfather by a mysterious letter suggesting she has inherited a house. In Glasgow, she meets Tom, the ex-lover of...
- Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur), Monaco
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Mystery
- Era(s): 1925
Mary Russell & Sherlock Holmes #16 It’s summertime on the Riviera, where the Jazz Age is busily reinventing the holiday delights of warm days on golden sand and cool nights on terraces and dance floors. Just up the coast...
- Location(s): Sussex
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Nora has come home to the Sussex coast where, every dawn, she runs along the creek path to the sea. In the half-light, fragments of cello music crash around in her mind, but she casts them out – it’s...
- Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
A novel with an incredible amount of breadth, politics, partition, the city of Mumbai – this is truly a book “set in India”.
Safari: A Memoir of a Worldwide Travel Pioneer
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1960s onwards
In this breathtaking travel memoir and adventure guide, the legendary founder of the world’s premier luxury travel company, Abercrombie & Kent, takes readers on a whirlwind tour around the globe, sharing his best-kept secrets and the story of his...
- Location(s): Vietnam
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 20th Century
An epic saga of twentieth-century Vietnam hailed by the San Francisco Chronicle as “the War and Peace of our age” Joseph Sherman first visits Saigon, the capital of French colonial Cochin-China, in 1925 on a hunting expedition with his father, a US senator....
- Location(s): Singapore
- Genre(s): Fiction
An absorbing novel which follows the exploits of an expatriate American stuck in Singapore because he never really goes anywhere else, apart from the Bandung Club.Jack flowers trawls through the streets and underbelly of Singapore.










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