- Location(s): New York State
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
In this family, everyone is keeping secrets – even the dead. In the quiet, wealthy enclave of Brecken Hill, an older couple is brutally murdered hours after a tense Easter dinner with their three adult children. Who, of course,...
- Location(s): Argentina
- Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2024 Three men go out fishing, returning to a favourite spot on the river despite their memories of a terrible accident there years earlier. As a long, sultry day passes, they drink and...
- Location(s): Buenos Aires
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1976
Buenos Aires, 1976. A military junta has taken power and rules Argentina with an iron fist. People are going missing. There are whispers of secret detention centres, of torture and murder behind locked doors. Pablo Morales, a young priest,...
Not an Ordinary Life, from class enemy to the Hall of Fame and a lifetime in between
- Location(s): Szeged, Budapest, Melbourne
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1940-2015
A compelling and adventurous story that unfolds in Hungary, a country caught up in the frightening political and social issues of the 40’s and 50’s. Les’ early family life was one of privilege and success, but it quickly changed...
- Location(s): Moldova (Republic of), Yorkshire Dales
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
DCI Banks 27 Murder is only the beginning for Banks and his team . . . The gruesome double murder at an Eastvale property developer’s luxury home should be an open and shut case for Superintendent Banks and his...
Not Everybody Lives the Same Way
- Location(s): France, Canada, Denmark
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
***WINNER OF THE PRIX GONCOURT*** Paul Hansen is in prison. He’s been in prison for a couple of years now, sharing a cell with a huge Hells Angel with a fear of mice and an intense love of Harley...
- Location(s): Mid Wales
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): contemporary
When her partner DI Ben James disappears with no more than a short goodbye note, journalist Stacey Logan struggles to believe he could be so callous. But DI Gareth Nettle of Dyfed Powys Police, keen to allocate resources to...
NOT FORGOTTEN: Welsh detectives search for one of their own
- Location(s): Mid Wales
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): contemporary
The search for a missing cop uncovers a dark side of Wales When her partner DI Ben James disappears with no more than a short goodbye note, journalist Stacey Logan struggles to believe he could be so callous. But...
- Location(s): Greater Manchester
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): present day
Meet the residents of ‘a shit B&B in a half-forgotten bit of East Manchester’ – Ken’s words, and he ought to know, he’s lived in room 1 for twenty-two years. Angel’s in room 3 – she’s got herself clean...
Not My Job – A Len Palmer Mystery (Book 2)
- Location(s): Japan, French Alps
- Genre(s): Adventure, Fiction
- Era(s): Current
Please read the Len Palmer books in order. This is no.2, start with Snow Job Len Palmer, a ski-lift designer, is looking for work. After the disastrous end of the HiFly megalift (Snow Job – the first Len Palmer...
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