- Location(s): Hamburg, Paris
- Genre(s): Espionage, Thriller
- Era(s): Turn 21st Century
The new high-stakes spy thriller from a master of the genre transports the reader to Paris and Hamburg, and deep into the conspiracy behind the 9/11 attacks. Paris, October 1999. CIA agent Claire Saylor is looking after low-level surveillance...
- Location(s): Akranes
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Late 20th Century and 2017
When a body of a woman is discovered at a lighthouse in the Icelandic town of Akranes, it soon becomes clear that she’s no stranger to the area. Chief Investigating Officer Elma, who has returned to Akranes following a...
- Location(s): Caribbean
- Genre(s): RomCom
- Era(s): Current
Three friends set sail on a luxury cruise… will they be able to catch a husband on the open seas? Leaving behind the heartache, guilt and disappointment of their real lives and suddenly single in their sixties, Kath, Jane...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
When a troubled model falls to her death from a snow-covered Mayfair balcony, it is assumed that she has committed suicide. However, her brother has his doubts, and calls in private investigator Cormoran Strike to look into the case....
- Location(s): Oxford, Jamaica
- Genre(s): Future, Fiction
- Era(s): Future
Living forever can be lethal… Ruth is a law-abiding elder, working out her national service, but she has secrets. Her tireless research into the disease that killed her young daughter had an unexpected outcome: the discovery of a vaccine...
- Location(s): The Lake District
- Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Simmy Brown is four months pregnant, working partly from home, partly from her Windermere florist shop and very much feeling her age when her husband, Christopher, asks her to deliver flowers to Eleanor Padgett. As an expert in antique...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1979
‘Conjures a gritty, populous, affectionate portrait of 1979 New York City’ Jennifer Egan, author of Manhattan Beach It’s the fall of 1979 when 23-year-old Anton Winter, back from the Peace Corps and on the mend from a nasty bout...
- Location(s): Black Forest
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
One wet and misty weekend in October, the Niemann family find a stranger in their garden. He is armed and tries to force his way into the house, but disappears as soon as the police are alerted. That night...
- Location(s): Crete
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
This captivating Mediterranean novel was written by Lawrence Durrell immediately after finishing his exquisite vignette about Corfu, Prospero’s Cell, and a decade before Justine. The story is set on Crete just after the War, as an odd assortment of English travellers...
- Location(s): Brazil, Minas Gerais
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
‘There were times I felt I would always be death’s passenger. It moved one step ahead of me wherever I went, letting its shadow fall across me. It carried me on; shaded me from the world other people lived...
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