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The Dead of Winter

The Dead of Winter
  • Author(s): Nicola Upson
  • 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...

The Dead of Winter

The Dead of Winter
  • Author(s): Stuart MacBride
  • Location(s): Aberdeen, Cairngorms
  • Genre(s): Crime, Noir, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It was supposed to be an easy job. All Detective Constable Edward Reekie had to do was pick up a dying prisoner from HMP Grampian and deliver him somewhere to live out his last few months in peace. From...

The Dead Queens Club

The Dead Queens Club
  • Author(s): Hannah Capin
  • 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”),...

The Dead Will Tell

The Dead Will Tell
  • Author(s): Linda Castillo
  • 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...

The Dead Zone

The Dead Zone
  • Author(s): Stephen King
  • Location(s): Maine
  • Genre(s): Horror, Fantasy
  • Era(s): Modern

The two things that conjured up that horrible night, were his run of luck at the Wheel of Fortune, and the mask . . . Meet Johnny Smith. A young man whose streak of luck ends dramatically in a...

The Deadwood Encore

The Deadwood Encore
  • Author(s): Kathleen Murray
  • Location(s): County Carlow
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour

Frank Whelan is the seventh son of a seventh son, so by now should have inherited his father’s legendary healing power, but still hasn’t managed to graduate beyond small-time skin afflictions. He already feels adrift when his twin, Bernie,...

The Deaf-Mute Boy

The Deaf-Mute Boy
  • Author(s): Joseph Geraci
  • 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...

The Dearly Departed

The Dearly Departed
  • Author(s): Elinor Lipman
  • 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...

The Death Collectors

The Death Collectors
  • Author(s): Jack Kerley
  • 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....

The Death Messenger

The Death Messenger
  • Author(s): Mari Hannah
  • 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...

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