- Location(s): Malta
- Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
On a Mediterranean island shaped by sunshine, stone, and centuries of history, a stolen artefact leads to a death beneath a vaulted ceiling. Can an amateur sleuth navigate a labyrinth of clues before the investigation endangers someone she loves?...
- Location(s): Canada, Cornwall
- Genre(s): Horror, Suspense
- Era(s): Present day (2014 ish)
When Mazie Reynolds was a young girl, she believed monsters lived under her bed. Now a grown, married woman, she discovers one sleeps in her bed. Mazie schemes to save herself and her daughter. Her plan will work, if...
- Location(s): Galicia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Later 1930s
Mazurka for Two Dead Men, the culmination of Camilo José Cela’s literary art, opens in 1936 at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War: Lionheart Gamuzo is savagely murdered. In 1939, as the war ends, his brother avenges his...
Mazzeri: Love and Death in Light and Shadow
- Location(s): Corsica
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1999
He had heard the spirits calling his name from the maquis and he had heard their footfalls as they passed by his window in the night. The spirits had summoned him. He could not deny them.’ It is the...
McCarthy’s Bar: A Journey of Discovery in Ireland
- Location(s): Ireland
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): End 1990s
Pete McCarthy’s tale of his hilarious trip around Ireland has gained thousands of fans all over the world. Pete was born in Warrington to an Irish mother and an English father and spent happy summer holidays in Cork. Years...
- Location(s): Edinburgh, Newcastle upon Tyne
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): N/A
Humorous and heartbreaking debut novel with the fresh, funny, honest voice of a 14-year-old Geordie lad recounting the trials and tribulations of family life and finding first love. Danny’s mam has a new boyfriend. Initially, all is good –...
- Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad), Vienna
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): 1970s
Madina’s family have fled war to seek asylum in Europe and begin a hopeful new life. An ordinary world of fitting in at school, learning the language and forging friendships lies before Madina. Yet she finds herself caught between...
- Location(s): North Carolina
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): early 2000s
Dr. Emory Charbonneau, a pediatrician and marathon runner, disappears on a mountain road in North Carolina. By the time her husband Jeff, miffed over a recent argument, reports her missing, the trail has grown cold. Literally. Fog and ice...
- Location(s): Glasgow
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Noir
- Era(s): 2015
Glasgow, 2015. When Valium addict Felix McAveety’s best friend Marina is found murdered in the local park, he goes looking for answers to questions that he quickly forgets. In a haze of uppers, hallucinogens, and diazepam, Felix enlists the...
- Location(s): Nigeria
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1960s, 1970s
Mamo and LaMamo are twin brothers living in the small Nigerian village of Keti, where their domineering father controls their lives. With high hopes the twins attempt to flee from home, but only LaMamo escapes successfully and is able...
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