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Sunshine Noir

Sunshine Noir
  • Author(s): Annamaria Alfieri, Michael Stanley, Stanley Trollip
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Noir, Short Stories
  • Era(s): Various

In these stories, seventeen writers from around the globe tell of dark doings in sunny places. Join them in the Dominican Republic, the Sonoran Desert of Arizona, chic Mykonos, Seville at midnight, and on the morning beachfront of Ghana...

Jazz Moon

Jazz Moon
  • Author(s): Joe Okonkwo
  • Location(s): Harlem, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s

In a lyrical, captivating debut set against the backdrop of the Harlem Renaissance and glittering Jazz Age Paris, Joe Okonkwo creates an evocative story of emotional and artistic awakening. On a sweltering summer night in 1925, beauties in beaded...

Katharina Luther: Nun, Rebel, Wife

Katharina Luther: Nun, Rebel, Wife
  • Author(s): Anne Boileau
  • Location(s): Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Saxony Anhalt
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 16th Century

On 31st October 1517 Martin Luther pinned ninety-five theses on the Castle Church door, Wittenberg, criticizing the Church of Rome; they were printed and published by Lucas Cranach and caused a storm. Nine young nuns, intoxicated by Luther’s subversive...

Angel (A DCI Ryan Mystery)

Angel (A DCI Ryan Mystery)
  • Author(s): L J Ross
  • Location(s): The North East (England)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

FROM THE #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF HOLY ISLAND  He’ll make you his angel, but first you have to die… After a turbulent time, DCI Ryan’s life is finally beginning to return to normal and he’s looking forward to spending an...

The Blood Strand

The Blood Strand
  • Author(s): Chris Ould
  • Location(s): The Faroe Islands
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern looking back to WW2

Having left the Faroes as a child, Jan Reyna is now a British police detective, and the islands are foreign to him. But he is drawn back when his estranged father is found unconscious with a shotgun by his...

The Other Side of Silence ( Bernie Gunther #11)

The Other Side of Silence ( Bernie Gunther #11)
  • Author(s): Philip Kerr
  • Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur)
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 1950s

The French Riviera, 1956. A world-weary Bernie Gunther is working under a false name as a hotel concierge. His attempts to keep his nose clean go horribly awry when a wartime acquaintance sucks him into a blackmail plot involving...

Enigma

Enigma
  • Author(s): Robert Harris
  • Location(s): Bletchley
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1940s

Bletchley Park: the top-secret landmark of World War Two, where a group of young people were fighting to defeat Hitler, and win the war. March 1943, the Second World War hangs in the balance, and at Bletchley Park a...

Fatherland

Fatherland
  • Author(s): Robert Harris
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1960s

Fatherland is set in an alternative world where Hitler has won the Second World War. It is April 1964 and one week before Hitler’s 75th birthday. Xavier March, a detective of the Kriminalpolizei, is called out to investigate the...

The red notebook

The red notebook
  • Author(s): Antoine Laurain
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Bookseller Laurent Letellier comes across an abandoned handbag on a Parisian street, and feels impelled to return it to its owner. The bag contains no money, phone or contact information. But a small red notebook with handwritten thoughts and...

Charlatan

Charlatan
  • Author(s): Kate Braithwaite
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 17th Century

1676. In a hovel in the centre of Paris, the fortune-teller La Voisin holds a black mass, summoning the devil to help an unnamed client keep the love of the King of France, Louis XIV. Three years later, Athénaïs,...

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