- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
There’s a body in the water – and she’s wearing your clothes… Impulsive and intrepid psychotherapist, Juliet Grey, can’t resist responding to an anonymous text message telling her to go to Hammersmith Bridge at dawn. But it isn’t simply...
- Location(s): Beijing (Peking)
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Mei, the protagonist, is an investigator. A friend of her mother, known as ‘Uncle Chen’, asks her to track down a Han-dynasty jade that vanished from a museum during the terrible upheavals of the Cultural Revolution. Was the jade...
- Location(s): Australia
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): 1800s
An incredible look at the history of this erstwhile penal colonly, well written and rivetting
- Location(s): Kalamata
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
The olive harvest is drawing to a close in the town of Dendra, set in fictionalised Kalamata in the Peloponnese, and when Hermes Diaktoros arrives for the celebratory festival he expects an indulgent day of food and wine. But...
The First Noël at the Villa des Violettes
- Location(s): Antibes, Strasbourg
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Current
THE LOVE IN PROVENCE CHARACTERS ARE BACK … Everything was going so well in Kat and Philippe’s life together. Then suddenly it wasn’t. Roman ruins delayed the work on the Villa des Violettes. The Russian drug gang might be...
- Location(s): Nigeria
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
Man Book Shortlisted 2015 Told from the point of view of nine-year-old Benjamin, the youngest of four brothers, The Fishermen is the Cain and Abel-esque story of an unforgettable childhood in 1990s Nigeria. When their father has to travel to a...
- Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Set within a once-stately apartment block in Istanbul, The Flea Palace tells the story of Bonbon Palace, built by Russian noble émigré Pavel Antipov for his wife Agripina at the end of the Tsarist reign. It is now sadly...
- Location(s): Florence
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): 1980s looking back to the flood of 1966
This is a dazzling Italian mystery, rich in intrigue and dark secrets, from an internationally bestselling crime writer at the height of his powers. Florence, 1986. A seemingly inexplicable attack on a church fresco of Adam and Eve brings...
- Location(s): Tokyo, Iriomote Island
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Present Day
Holly Blain wants to cover real news. The entertainment beat — pop stars and teen trends — was not why she moved to Tokyo. When she meets Inspector Tetsu Tanaka, head of Tokyo’s Metropolitan Police’s Gaikoku-jin unit, it might...
- Location(s): Italy, Rome
- Genre(s): Food and Drink, Romance
- Era(s): Modern
Cyrano de Bergerac with a modern feel….
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