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Murder in Drury Lane

Murder in Drury Lane
  • Author(s): Vanessa Riley
  • Location(s): Soho (London)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Turn of the 19th Century

(The Lady Worthing Mysteries Book 2) Offering “a vibrant picture of the roles Black and mixed‑race people played in Regency life” (Publishers Weekly), this unique historical mystery series, featuring a mixed-race heroine with a notorious past, will appeal to...

Murder in Dublin

Murder in Dublin
  • Author(s): Christina Koning
  • Location(s): Dublin
  • Genre(s): Crime, Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1939

(Blind Detective, 7) ‘With vivid characterisation and a keen ear for dialogue, Christina Koning has all the qualities of a first-class mystery writer’ – DAILY MAIL Dublin, 1939. As the Second World War looms ever closer, blind war veteran...

Murder in Edinburgh

Murder in Edinburgh
  • Author(s): Val Penny
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery, Noir
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Detective Hunter Wilson Mysteries Book  Discover an addictive Scottish crime thriller set on the streets of Edinburgh . . . A woman’s body is found in a shallow grave on the edge of an exclusive Edinburgh golf course. The...

Murder in Grenoble

Murder in Grenoble
  • Author(s): Susan Kiernan-Lewis
  • Location(s): Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Maggie and Grace’s plan to work out their differences at a charming ski resort in Grenoble takes a deadly nose-dive when they become trapped by an avalanche with ten people–one of whom is a cold-blooded murderer. Will the two...

Murder in Hampstead

Murder in Hampstead
  • Author(s): Sabina Manea
  • Location(s): Hampstead
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Present day

A locked-room mystery about a seemingly impossible crime When lawyer-turned-interior designer Lucia Steer accepts a lucrative job renovating Beatrice Hall, a large house owned by a professor in a north London suburb, she has no idea of the impact...

Murder in Helsinki

Murder in Helsinki
  • Author(s): John Swallow
  • Location(s): Helsinki
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Present day

When a frozen corpse is discovered amid a Helsinki winter, Detective Superintendent Topias Torikka is brought in to investigate. The dead man is the husband of a beautiful and beguiling young woman, whom Topias suspects knows more than she...

Murder in Hexham

Murder in Hexham
  • Author(s): Martyn Taylor
  • Location(s): Northumberland
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Detective Pen Darling Book 3 A retirement plan gone wrong. Lawrence Mains is rich — and ready to vanish. The property tycoon has his retirement planned out and it means leaving the country. But days before he plans to...

Murder in Kentish Town: an elegant mystery set in Bohemian London

Murder in Kentish Town: an elegant mystery set in Bohemian London
  • Author(s): Sabina Manea
  • Location(s): North London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A murder disguised as suicide presents a challenge for a sharp investigator. When London police come across the body of a young woman, dead in her bathtub, it looks like a classic case of suicide. However, for deft civilian...

Murder in La Ciudad del Inglés

Murder in La Ciudad del Inglés
  • Author(s): Andrew Anzur Clement
  • Location(s): La Alberca
  • Genre(s): Adventure, Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Present day

Two murders. A missing child. And a killer searching for the treasure of the Knights Templar. As a native English speaker, Luka Williamson isn’t expecting much from La Ciudad del Ingles. He has volunteered to spend one week talking...

Murder in Matera

Murder in Matera
  • Author(s): Helene Stapinski
  • Location(s): Matera
  • Genre(s): Biography
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back

A writer goes deep into the heart of Italy to unravel a century-old family mystery in this spellbinding memoir that blends the suspenseful twists of Making a Murderer and the emotional insight of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels. Since childhood,...

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