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Mumbai Noir

Mumbai Noir
  • Author(s): Altaf Tyewala
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Short Stories
  • Era(s): Modern

Under the editorship of Altaf Tyewala. Following the Bombay Communal Riots of 1992 which saw neighbour pitched against neighbour in fierce bouts of internecine violence, came the retaliatory bomb blasts of 1993 and the name change to Mumbai in...

Munich

Munich
  • Author(s): Robert Harris
  • Location(s): Munich
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1938

September 1938 Hitler is determined to start a war. Chamberlain is desperate to preserve the peace. The issue is to be decided in a city that will forever afterwards be notorious for what takes place there. Munich. As Chamberlain’s...

Munich Wolf

Munich Wolf
  • Author(s): Rory Clements
  • Location(s): Munich
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1930s

Munich in the 1930s is a magnet for young, rich, aristocratic Brits. They come to learn German, but also to go wild, free at last from the suffocating constraints of strait-laced England. They ski in the Alps, swim in...

Munira’s Bottle

Munira’s Bottle
  • Author(s): Yousef Al-Mohaimeed
  • Location(s): Riyadh
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2nd Gulf War

In Riyadh, against the events of the second Gulf War and Saddam s invasion of Kuwait, we learn the story of Munira – with the gorgeous eyes – and the unspeakable tragedy she suffers as her male nemesis wreaks...

Munnu: A Boy From Kashmir

Munnu: A Boy From Kashmir
  • Author(s): Malik Sajad
  • Location(s): Kashmir
  • Genre(s): Graphic Novel, Coming of Age
  • Era(s): Modern looking back

A beautifully drawn graphic novel that illuminates the conflicted land of Kashmir, through a young boy’s childhood. Seven-year-old Munnu is growing up in Indian-administered Kashmir. Life revolves around his family: Mama, Papa, sister Shahnaz, brothers Adil and Akhtar and,...

Murder at an English Pub

Murder at an English Pub
  • Author(s): Alice Castle
  • Location(s): Kent
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When retired doctor Sarah Vane moves to Merstairs, she has no idea that the quaint seaside town isn’t quite as friendly it seems, and something sinister is bubbling under the picturesque surface… Recently widowed and looking for a fresh...

Murder at Big Ben

Murder at Big Ben
  • Author(s): Michelle Salter
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Edwardian

Three women hide in Big Ben, only two come out alive… 2 April 1911 is census night, when suffragettes hide overnight in parliament to force census takers to record it as their address – the only way women can...

Murder at Bletchley Park

Murder at Bletchley Park
  • Author(s): Christina Koning
  • Location(s): Bletchley
  • Genre(s): Crime, Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1941

(Blind Detective 8) Spring, 1941. The Second World War has entered a dangerous phase, with British ships being torpedoed in the Atlantic and nightly bombing raids on major ports. At Bletchley Park, top secret home of the nation’s code-breakers,...

Murder at Flood Tide

Murder at Flood Tide
  • Author(s): Robert McNeill
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Detective Jack Knox is faced with a troubling case when a woman’s body is found on a beach east of Edinburgh Police have to match her to missing persons, because her personal effects have been swept out to sea....

Murder at Hendon Aerodrome

Murder at Hendon Aerodrome
  • Author(s): Christina Koning
  • Location(s): Hendon
  • Genre(s): Crime, Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1931

#3 Blind Detective First published as Time of Flight under A. C. Koning May 1931. For blind First World War veteran Frederick Rowlands, the craze for flying holds little interest – after all, he is unlikely ever to set...

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