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The Death of an Heir: Adolph Coors III and the Murder That Rocked an American Brewing Dynasty

The Death of an Heir: Adolph Coors III and the Murder That Rocked an American Brewing Dynasty
  • Author(s): Philip Jett
  • Location(s): Colorado
  • Genre(s): Crime, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

The Death of an Heir is Philip Jett’s chilling true account of the Coors family’s gilded American dream that turned into a nightmare when a meticulously plotted kidnapping went horribly wrong. In the 1950s and 60s, the Coors dynasty...

The Death of Artemio Cruz

The Death of Artemio Cruz
  • Author(s): Carlos Fuentes
  • Location(s): Mexico
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

As the novel opens, Artemio Cruz, the all-powerful newspaper magnate and land baron, lies confined to his bed and, in dreamlike flashes, recalls the pivotal episodes of his life. Carlos Fuentes manipulates the ensuing kaleidoscope of images with dazzling...

The Death of Comrade President

The Death of Comrade President
  • Author(s): Alain Mabanckou
  • Location(s): Republic of the Congo, Pointe Noire
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

In Pointe-Noire, in the small neighbourhood of Voungou, on the family plot where young Michel lives with Maman Pauline and Papa Roger, life goes on. But Michel’s everyday cares – lost grocery money, the whims of his parents’ moods,...

The Death of Ivan Ilych

The Death of Ivan Ilych
  • Author(s): Leo Tolstoy
  • Location(s): Russia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1880s

Hailed as one of the world’s supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, The Death of Ivan Ilyich is the story of a worldly careerist, a high court judge who has never given the inevitability of his...

The Death of Lucy Kyte

The Death of Lucy Kyte
  • Author(s): Nicola Upson
  • Location(s): Suffolk
  • Genre(s): Cosy Mystery
  • Era(s): 1930s

When bestselling crime author Josephine Tey inherits a remote Suffolk cottage from her godmother, it came full of secrets. Sorting through the artefacts of her godmother’s life, Josephine is intrigued by an infamous murder committed near the cottage a...

The Death of Mrs Westaway

The Death of Mrs Westaway
  • Author(s): Ruth Ware
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Present day

When Harriet Westaway receives an unexpected letter telling her she’s inherited a substantial bequest from her Cornish grandmother, it seems like the answer to her prayers. There’s just one problem – Hal’s real grandparents died more than twenty years...

The Death of Mungo Blackwell

The Death of Mungo Blackwell
  • Author(s): Lauren H Brandenburg
  • Location(s): Kentucky
  • Genre(s): Fiction

“We all need to know what’s missing in our lives. At a funeral people describe everything a person has accomplished in their life, but what if they missed something? What if there was one thing they never got to...

The Death of Murat Idrissi

The Death of Murat Idrissi
  • Author(s): Tommy Wieringa
  • Location(s): Morocco
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Novella
  • Era(s): Modern

Two venturesome women on a journey through the land of their fathers and mothers. A wrong turn. A bad decision. They had no idea, when they arrived in Morocco, that their usual freedoms as young European women would not...

The Death of the Perfect Sentence

The Death of the Perfect Sentence
  • Author(s): Rein Raud
  • Location(s): Estonia
  • Genre(s): Thriller

A political thriller set mainly in Estonia during the dying days of the Soviet Union, but also in Russia, Finland and Sweden. This sometimes wistful examination of how the Estonian Republic was reborn after a long hiatus speaks also...

The Death of Vivek Oji

The Death of Vivek Oji
  • Author(s): Akwaeke Emezi
  • Location(s): Nigeria
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

They burned down the market on the day Vivek Oji died. One afternoon, in a town in southeastern Nigeria, a mother opens her front door to discover the lifeless body of her son wrapped in fabric on the welcome...

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