- Location(s): St Michael's Mount
- Genre(s): Cosy Mystery
- Era(s): 1938
Josephine Tey 9 December 1938, and storm clouds hover once again over Europe. Josephine Tey and Archie Penrose gather with friends for a Cornish Christmas, but two strange and brutal deaths on St Michael’s Mount – and the unexpected...
- Location(s): Indiana
- Genre(s): Fiction, Young Adult
- Era(s): Modern
Mean Girls meets The Tudors in Hannah Capin’s The Dead Queens Club, a clever contemporary YA retelling of Henry VIII and his wives (or, in this case, his high school girlfriends). Told from the perspective of Annie Marck (“Cleves”),...
- Location(s): Ohio
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
Everyone in Painters Mill knows the abandoned Hochstetler farm is haunted. But only a handful of the residents remember the terrible secrets lost in the muted/hushed whispers of time—and now death is stalking them, seemingly from the grave. On...
- Location(s): Tunisia, Sousse
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
The Deaf-Mute Boy—equal parts travel story, love story, and a resonant confrontation with the Muslim world—is the tale of a gay American professor immersed in a North African society. Maurice Burke, an archaeologist, is invited to speak at a...
- Location(s): New Hampshire
- Genre(s): Humour, Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
An unexpectedly joyful comedy of manners that encompasses amateur dramatics, drive-by shootings, political campaigns and golf. When Sunny Batten hears from a brusque, ill-mannered stranger that her beloved mother Margaret has just died in a freak household accident, understandably...
- Location(s): Alabama
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
A terrifying new serial-killer thriller featuring Carson Ryder, hero of the bestselling The Hundredth Man. Thirty years after his death, Marsden Hexcamp’s ‘Art of the Final Moment’ remains as sought after as ever. But this is no ordinary collection....
- Location(s): Northumberland
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
When a mysterious DVD is delivered to Northumbria Police Headquarters, DS Matthew Ryan and Detective Superintendent Eloise O’Neil are among the few to view its disturbing content. With little to go on the only lead comes from the anonymous...