- Location(s): Virginia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Humour, Young Adult
- Era(s): early 2000s
Can a normal, average kid become a superstar secret agent? Maybe not, but it’ll be fun to watch him try! Ben Ripley may only be in middle school, but he’s already pegged his dream job: C.I.A. or bust. Unfortunately...
- Location(s): Bloomsbury
- Genre(s): Biography
- Era(s): 1920s and 1930s
Mecklenburgh Square, on the radical fringes of interwar Bloomsbury, was home to activists, experimenters and revolutionaries; among them were the modernist poet H. D., detective novelist Dorothy L. Sayers, classicist Jane Harrison, economic historian Eileen Power, and writer and...
- Location(s): Glasgow
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
‘A manic tale of blood and suds told with laconic humour and warmly engaging characterisation. Callum McSorley is definitely a talent to watch’ Chris Brookmyre Half the Glasgow polis think DI Alison McCoist is bent. The other half just...
- Location(s): King's Lynn
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): contemporary
A young female detective must prove her mettle on a murder case On finding a local woman’s dead body, Norfolk police look closely at the man who’d made her life a misery: the bad-tempered ex-husband. The victim, Yvonne, had...
- Location(s): Florida
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
From the bestselling author of Bad Monkey and Razor Girl comes this hilarious new novel of social and political intrigue, set against the glittering backdrop of Florida’s gold coast. It’s the height of the Palm Beach charity ball season:...
St Petersburg: Three Centuries of Murderous Desire
- Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad)
- Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1700s onwards
St Petersburg has always felt like an impossible metropolis, risen from the freezing mists and flooded marshland of the River Neva on the western edge of Russia. It was a new capital in an old country. Established in 1703...
- Location(s): Central California
- Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Home bakery owner and Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) Kayla Jeffries has been hired for the Gourmet and Stay Valentine’s Weekend at the historic Countryside Inn in Los Robles, CA. When one of her fellow cooks is murdered during dinner...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2012
Life isn’t going too well for Phoebe Grey. Newly single and unemployed, she desperately fills her evenings with meals-for-one, the TV, Arnie, her cat – and rehearsals for an amateur dramatic play, a futuristic rewrite of Jane Austen’s ‘Pride...
- Location(s): Alaska
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): present time
For most people, seeing Alaska is a dream come true. For Miami Beach resident, Samantha Held, it is merely a job assignment. An advertisement for vacationing in Alaska is one step closer to achieving her career goal, partnership in...
- Location(s): Moscow
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Investigator Arkady Renko, the pariah of the Moscow prosecutor’s office, has been assigned the thankless job of investigating a new phenomenon: late-night subway riders report seeing the ghost of Joseph Stalin on the platform of the Chistye Prudy Metro...
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