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The Devil’s Line

The Devil’s Line
  • Author(s): Marrisse Whittaker
  • Location(s): Northumberland
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Present day

DSI Billie Wilde is back at work after a shocking case that saw her life thrown into utter turmoil. But Billie isn’t only Wilde by name and refuses to let the past drag her down. When a teenage girl...

The Devil’s Road to Kathmandu

The Devil’s Road to Kathmandu
  • Author(s): Tom Vater
  • Location(s): Nepal, India, Iran, Pakistan, Türkiye (Turkey)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s, 1990s

A TENSE, FAST PACED AND KALEIDOSCOPIC PULP THRILLER, FOLLOWING THE LIVES OF TWO GENERATIONS OF DRIFTERS EMBROILED IN A SAGA OF SEX, DRUGS AND MURDER ON THE ROAD BETWEEN LONDON AND THE ROOF OF THE WORLD. In 1976, four...

The Devils Playground

The Devils Playground
  • Author(s): Craig Russell
  • Location(s): Hollywood
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1920s

A dark, riveting thriller set in 1920s Hollywood about “the greatest horror movie ever made”, the curse said to surround it, and a deadly search, decades later, for the single copy rumoured still to exist. 1927: Hollywood studio fixer...

The Devils’ Dance

The Devils’ Dance
  • Author(s): Hamid Ismailov
  • Location(s): Uzbekistan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 19th/20th Century

On New Years’ Eve 1938, the writer Abdulla Qodiriy is taken from his home by the Soviet secret police and thrown into a Tashkent prison. There, to distract himself from the physical and psychological torment of beatings and mindless...

The Devil’s Code

The Devil’s Code
  • Author(s): Michael Wood
  • Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne, London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Dr Olivia Winter #2 A BRUTAL MURDER When Isaac McFadden is found with the dismembered body of a young man in the boot of his car, it’s an easy conviction for the jury. But, then a notebook is discovered...

The Diamond Chariot: The Further Adventures of Erast Fandorin

The Diamond Chariot: The Further Adventures of Erast Fandorin
  • Author(s): Boris Akunin
  • Location(s): Japan, Russia
  • Genre(s): Crime, Historical
  • Era(s): 1905 onwards

The Diamond Eye

The Diamond Eye
  • Author(s): Kate Quinn
  • Location(s): Ukraine, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): WW2

In the snowbound city of Kiev, aspiring historian Mila Pavlichenko’s life revolves around her young son – until Hitler’s invasion of Russia changes everything. Suddenly, she and her friends must take up arms to save their country from the...

The Diamond of Drury Lane

The Diamond of Drury Lane
  • Author(s): Julia Golding
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 1790s

‘I am Cat Royal – Orphan, Adventurer, Actress . . . ‘Reader, you are set to embark on an adventure about one hidden treasure, two bare-knuckle boxers, three enemies and four hundred and thirty-eight rioters. I was brought up...

The Diamond Secret

The Diamond Secret
  • Author(s): Suzanne Weyn
  • Location(s): Russia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): post Russian Revolution

After the Russian Revolution, Empress Marie, the czar’s mother, who escaped to Paris, offers a reward for the return of her missing granddaughter, the princess Anastasia. Eager to collect the large sum, two friends hatch a plan to fool...

The Diary of Helena Morley

The Diary of Helena Morley
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Bishop
  • Location(s): Brazil
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1890s

‘When I first came to Brazil, in 1952, I asked my Brazilian friends which Brazilian books I should begin reading … They frequently recommended this little book, “Minha Vida de Menina” … In English the title means “My Life...

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