- Location(s): Robin Hood's Bay
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1700s
1779 On tumultuous waters a girl is born as pirates board the ship… Rescued at birth, Jiddy Vardy grows up in Robin Hood’s Bay, a community which harbours a dangerous secret that could get you killed. Always the outsider,...
- Location(s): Robin Hood's Bay
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1700s
Book Three: 1796 Should Jiddy stay, or should she go? When Jonas left Robin Hood’s Bay, he abandoned his vows to Jiddy. The sea engulfed Captain Samuel Ryethorpe, and his death exposed her once more as an outsider. Both...
- Location(s): Robin Hood's Bay, Yorkshire
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 18th Century
Book two in this passionate smuggling trilogy. 1797 Jiddy Vardy relishes her return to Robin Hood’s Bay… …where high spring tides can sweep unsuspecting strangers into deep water… Jiddy is immediately immersed in smuggling runs, childhood friendships and the...
- Location(s): Yorkshire, Syria
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
High-school best friends Ameena and Jamilla couldn’t be more different: while one smokes cigarettes in their school playground, the other is a member of her mosque’s discussion group in suburban Yorkshire. When heartbreak and doubt leave Ameena bereft and...
- Location(s): North Carolina
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): The Great Depression
Jim the Boy is a coming-of-age novel by Tony Earley, published by Little, Brown and Co. in 2000. It details a year in the life of Jim Glass, who lives, with his mother and three uncles, in the small...
Jim Thompson: The Unsolved Mystery
- Location(s): Thailand
- Genre(s): Biography, Mystery
- Era(s): 1967
On Easter Day, 1967, American businessmen and founder of the modern Thai silk industry James H. W. Thompson disappeared while supposedly on a stroll in the jungle-clad Cameron Highlands in Central Malaysia. Neither Jim Thompson nor his remains has...
Jobs for Angels: Veterans’ Nightmare Realities
- Location(s): Hawai'i
- Genre(s): Crime, Suspense
- Era(s): Modern Day
Both Trevor and Ashley are sleeping together in bed. While sleeping, Trevor has a dream where an enemy from his time at war goads him to attack. Trevor attacks with a knife, killing the enemy. After murdering his enemy,...
- Location(s): Mississippi
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): late 20th century
Now a major motion picture starring Nicolas Cage, directed by David Gordon Green. Joe Ransom is a hard-drinking ex-con pushing fifty who just won’t slow down–not in his pickup, not with a gun, and certainly not with women. Gary...
- Location(s): Turkmenistan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): late 20th century
Joe is an American in the strange land of Turkmenistan who finds a good friend in Azat, a Turkmen dreamer whose optimism knows no bounds. With tales of doomed desert cab rides, nights of endless vodka shots, unlikely Turkmen...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Suspense
- Era(s): Contemporary
SHORTLISTED FOR THE THEAKSTON OLD PECULIER CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA GOLD DAGGER ‘Mick Herron is fast becoming the go-to author for British espionage, and the sixth novel in his Slough House series, Joe Country,...
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