- Location(s): County Waterford
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
In the resort town of Tramore, County Waterford, visitors arrive in waves with the tourist season, reliving the best days of their childhoods at the seaside amusements. Local teenager Helen Grant is indifferent to the charm of her surroundings;...
- Location(s): India
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1765 onwards
In August 1765 the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and forced him to establish in his richest provinces a new administration run by English merchants who collected taxes through means of a ruthless private army –...
- Location(s): Netherlands
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1630s
Commissioned by a prominent Amsterdam medical guild, The Anatomical Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp was one of Rembrandt’s first paintings to gain public notice. The novel opens on the morning of the medical dissection, and, as they prepare for...
The Ancient Evil Versus the Good Boy
- Location(s): Nepal
- Genre(s): Horror
- Era(s): Modern
When Jon Riley begins volunteering at the Richter Street Animal Shelter, he hopes it will help bring some purpose to his life. After all, who doesn’t like hanging out with a few dogs after a tough day at work?...
- Location(s): South Korea
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 2000s
Oh Hyun Woo, a political activist, has served nearly twenty years of a life sentence, but when the Korean government relaxes its stance on such dissidents, he finds himself up for release. While he was growing old on the...
- Location(s): Sweden
- Genre(s): Noir, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
When Sophie Brinkmann meets Hector Guzman, she knows everything that she needs to: he’s handsome, he’s charming and he makes her happy. But what she doesn’t know is that Hector has some nasty friends, some even nastier enemies, and...
- Location(s): Arizona
- Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future
- Era(s): 1960s
Five prominent biophysicists give the United States government an urgent warning: sterilisation procedures for returning space probes may be inadequate to guarantee uncontaminated re-entry to the atmosphere. Two years later, Project Scoop sends seventeen satellites into the fringes of...
- Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyneside
- Genre(s): Police Procedural
- Era(s): Contemporary
Six weeks. Just forty-two short days. That’s all it takes to rip the heart out of a city and change the lives of those who live there. Forever. One such life belongs to Ryan Jarrod. In the early hours...
- Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
No 3. DCI Jack Parker series DCI Jack Parker is BACK… Death is stalking the streets of Newcastle. An anonymous killer is offering the terminally ill a dignified escape. Mercy to some. Murder to others. KILLER DCI Jack Parker...
- Location(s): Italy, United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Various
In this dazzling collection of stories, a son must repeatedly come out to his senile father while looking for a place that will care for the old man. An elderly couple confronts the note-taking fiction writer eavesdropping on their...
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