- Location(s): Berlin, Halle-neustadt, Oberhof
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): 1970s
East Germany, 1975. Karin Müller, sidelined from the murder squad in Berlin, jumps at the chance to be sent south to Halle-Neustadt, where a pair of infant twins have gone missing. But Müller soon finds her problems have followed...
- Location(s): Singapore, Malaysia (Malaya)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1940s onwards
Siew Li leaves her husband and children in Tiong Bahru to fight for freedom in the jungles of Malaya. Decades later, a Malaysian journalist returns to her homeland to uncover the truth of a massacre committed during the Emergency....
- Location(s): United States (USA), World
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): the near future
STATE OF TERROR follows a novice Secretary of State who has joined the administration of her rival, a president inaugurated after four years of American leadership that shrank from the world stage. A series of terrorist attacks throws the...
- Location(s): Michigan, Ontario, The Great Lakes
- Genre(s): Fiction, Science Fiction/Future
- Era(s): Modern and future
From the Inside Flap DAY ONE The Georgia Flu explodes over the surface of the earth like a neutron bomb. News reports put the mortality rate at over 99%. WEEK TWO Civilization has crumbled. YEAR TWENTY A band of...
- Location(s): Toronto
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Now and the near future
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel is a bold vision of a dystopian future, frighteningly real, perfect for fans of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. What was lost in the collapse: almost everything, almost everyone, but there is...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): contemporary
Past bad choices come to trouble an undercover cop After a month of rest in a secure location in Scotland, undercover officer DS Sam Batford is given the assignment of infiltrating an organised crime syndicate. But if Batford returns...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
A murder she doesn’t remember committing. Or a killer she doesn’t remember meeting? Liv Reese wakes up in the back of a taxi with no idea where she is or how she got there. She is dropped off at...
- Location(s): Edinburgh
- Genre(s): Suspense
- Era(s): Contemporary
There’s a fine line between innocence and guilt. An even finer line between justice and revenge. Shy and sensible Laura prefers the company of her books to the real world – let alone that cesspit online. But when her...
- Location(s): Nigeria
- Genre(s): Fiction
Yejide is hoping for a miracle, for a child. It is all her husband wants, all her mother-in-law wants, and she has tried everything. But when her relatives insist upon a new wife, it is too much for Yejide...
- Location(s): India
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
Tusker and Lily Smalley stayed on in India. Given the chance to return ‘home’ when Tusker, once a Colonel in the British Army, retired, they chose instead to remain in the small hill town of Pangkot, with its eccentric...
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