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The Detective and the Pipe Girl

The Detective and the Pipe Girl
  • Author(s): Michael Craven
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Finalist for the 2015 Nero Wolfe Award Finalist for the 2015 Shamus Award With a style as distinct as crime masters such as Elmore Leonard, Carl Hiassen, and Harlan Coben, Michael Craven delivers a richly atmospheric, humorous, fast-paced mystery...

The Devil All the Time

The Devil All the Time
  • Author(s): Donald Ray Pollock
  • Location(s): Ohio
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): late 20th century

In Knockemstiff, Ohio, war veteran Willard can’t save his beautiful wife, Charlotte, from a slow death by cancer no matter how much sacrificial blood he pours on his ‘prayer log’. Carl and Sandy Henderson, a husband-and-wife team of serial...

The Devil and the Dark Water

The Devil and the Dark Water
  • Author(s): Stuart Turton
  • Location(s): The Indian Ocean, The Atlantic Ocean
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1630s

An impossible murder A remarkable detective duo A demon who may or may not exist It’s 1634 and Samuel Pipps, the world’s greatest detective, is being transported from the Dutch East Indies to Amsterdam, where he is facing trial...

The Devil and the Disappearing Sea

The Devil and the Disappearing Sea
  • Author(s): Robert Ferguson
  • Location(s): Uzbekistan
  • Genre(s): Comedy, Thriller
  • Era(s): 2000

Set among the ruins of the Soviet empire, this darkly comic true-crime thriller involves environmental disaster, international intrigue, and an unsolved murder. In January 2000, Rob Ferguson went to Uzbekistan to work on a project designed to save the...

The Devil Came on Horseback: Bearing Witness to the Genocide in Darfur

The Devil Came on Horseback: Bearing Witness to the Genocide in Darfur
  • Author(s): Brian Steidle
  • Location(s): The Sudan, Darfur
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Former United States Marine Brian Steidle served for six months in Darfur as an unarmed military observer for the African Union. There he witnessed first-hand the ongoing genocide, and documented every day of his experience using email, audio journals,...

The Devil in Montmartre

The Devil in Montmartre
  • Author(s): Gary Inbinder
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Late 19th Century

When the mutilated corpse of a beautiful dancer is found in a Montmartre sewer, a nervous public fears that Jack the Ripper has crossed the Channel—but Inspector Achille Lefebvre has his own theories. Amid the hustle and bustle of...

The Devil in Music

The Devil in Music
  • Author(s): Kate Ross
  • Location(s): Italian Lakes
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 1820s

The Devil That Danced on the Water

The Devil That Danced on the Water
  • Author(s): Aminatta Forna
  • Location(s): Sierra Leone
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1970s

An intimate and moving portrait of a family combined with an account of the events which swept through Africa in the post-independence period. Aminatta Forna’s intensely personal history is a passionate and vivid account of an African childhood –...

The Devil Upstairs

The Devil Upstairs
  • Author(s): Anthony O'Neill
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Current times

In a quiet corner of Edinburgh, Cat Thomas is going through hell. She’s tried everything. He respects nothing. If your neighbour was making your life hell… Would you call upon the devil? Cat Thomas, a brilliant fraud investigator, has...

The Devil’s Breath

The Devil’s Breath
  • Author(s): David Gilman
  • Location(s): Namibia
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): early 21st century

WHEN AN ASSASSIN bursts from the shadows to try to kill him on the dark, windswept grounds of his boarding school in England, Max Gordon realizes his life is about to change forever. After learning that his explorer father...

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