- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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
- Location(s): Japan, Russia
- Genre(s): Crime, Historical
- Era(s): 1905 onwards
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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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