- Location(s): South Africa
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery, Thriller
- Era(s): contemporary
When freelance journalist, Crystal Nguyen, heads to South Africa, she thinks she’ll be researching an article on rhino-horn smuggling for National Geographic, but within a week she’s been hunting poachers, hunted by their bosses, and then arrested in connection...
- Location(s): Northumberland
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Just before dawn in the hills near the Scottish border, a man murders a young woman. At the same time, a hot-air balloon crashes out of the sky. There’s just one survivor. She’s seen the killer’s face – but...
- Location(s): Papua New Guinea
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Post-WWII
In 1943 on Bougainville Island, New Guinea, a Japanese officer beheads Hugh Rand, an Australian spy — a coast watcher. The spectators include villagers he terrorised as his mind frayed under the stress of pursuit by soldiers and their...
- Location(s): Newhaven
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Freddy Power walked out of her childhood home twenty-two years ago, and swore never to return. But now she’s back, helping run her family’s fishery in Newhaven in the wake of her mother’s death. It feels as if time...
- Location(s): Egypt
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): 1930s
The tranquillity of a cruise along the Nile is shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway has been shot through the head. She was young, stylish and beautiful, a girl who had everything — until she lost her life....
- Location(s): Antarctica
- Genre(s): Romance, Suspense
- Era(s): Near-future
While at an archaeology dig in Afghanistan, evolutionary anthropologist Rachel St. Claire discovers a pendant with strange shifting symbols. Not long after, she receives an urgent call from her colleague, Dr. Grace McAllister, insisting Rachel come to Antarctica to...
- Location(s): California, Florida, Georgia, West Virginia
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Lori Anderson is as tough as they come, managing to keep her career as a fearless Florida bounty hunter separate from her role as single mother to nine-year-old Dakota, who suffers from leukaemia. But when the hospital bills start...
Delhi: Adventures in a Megacity
- Location(s): Delhi
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
The author trips up over rough pavements, crosses highways, clambers onto rooftops and over 500-million-year-old rocks as he brings this city to life in the pages of his book.
Dennis Bisskit and the Basset Hound from Beacon’s Bottom
- Location(s): Kensington, Beacon's Bottom, Birmingham
- Genre(s): Humour, Crime
- Era(s): 1970
1970. Dennis Bisskit and best friend, Stinky Blackshaw are now recognised as Dudley’s finest private investigators. After foiling a gang of shoplifters at Lewis’s Department Store, they are hired by Lady Babbington-Perch, to guard her Crufts Dog Show favourite,...
Dennis Bisskit and the Man from Paris with the Very Large Head
- Location(s): Birmingham, Dudley
- Genre(s): Humour, Crime
- Era(s): 1969
Set in Dudley and Birminghay in 1969, Dennis Bisskit and best friend, Stinky Blackshaw, have recently left the army and begun a new career as Dudley’s finest (and only) private investigators. Full of the laughter and hilarious situations that...