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The Body in the Bath

The Body in the Bath
  • Author(s): Marissa de Luna
  • Location(s): Goa
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Present day

As the International Film Festival of India draws to a close, the actress Subrina Basi is found dead in the bath of her hotel room. Subrina appears to have committed suicide, but closer inspection suggests foul play, and Detective...

The Body in the Bracken

The Body in the Bracken
  • Author(s): Marsali Taylor
  • Location(s): Shetland Islands
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Cass Lynch has been persuaded to spend Christmas in the Highlands with her friend DI Gavin Macrae, but their romantic walk by the loch is cut short when they find a skeleton among the bracken. Back home in Shetland,...

The Body in the Snow

The Body in the Snow
  • Author(s): Christoph Fischer
  • Location(s): Wales
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Moden

Fading celebrity Bebe Bollinger is on the wrong side of fifty and dreaming of a return to the limelight. When a TV show offers the chance of a comeback, Bebe grabs it with both hands – not even a...

The Body on Scafell Pike

The Body on Scafell Pike
  • Author(s): S J Brooke
  • Location(s): The Lake District
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Lake District Murder Mysteries #1 The riveting, darkly atmospheric new crime series based in the iconic Cumbrian Lake District. A renowned mountaineer and self-described ‘fell runner’ is found dead in a deep gully on one side of Scafell Pike...

The Body On The Beach

The Body On The Beach
  • Author(s): Simon Brett
  • Location(s): South Coast Britain
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction

Meet your favourite new sleuthing duo: chalk-and-cheese neighbours, Carole and Jude! Carole If British restraint could take human form, it would look suspiciously like Carole Seddon. A retired civil servant with a penchant for order, she keeps her seaside...

The Body under the Sands

The Body under the Sands
  • Author(s): James Andrew
  • Location(s): North Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1920s

A terrible crime that no one witnessed. Two suspects that everyone believes are guilty… Two soldiers recently returned from the Great War are spending their summer larking about, chasing girls, drinking, smoking, and forlornly trying to find gainful employment....

The Body: A Guide for Occupants

The Body: A Guide for Occupants
  • Author(s): Bill Bryson
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 2020

We spend our whole lives in one body and yet most of us have practically no idea how it works and what goes on inside it. The idea of the book is simply to try to understand the extraordinary...

The Bohemians

The Bohemians
  • Author(s): Jasmin Darznik
  • Location(s): San Francisco
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s

In 1918, a young and bright-eyed Dorothea Lange steps off the train in San Francisco, where a disaster kick-starts a new life. Her friendship with Caroline Lee, a vivacious, straight-talking Chinese American with a complicated past, gives Dorothea entrée...

The Bologna Vendetta

The Bologna Vendetta
  • Author(s): Tom Benjamin
  • Location(s): Bologna
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Daniel Leicester goes in search of his late wife’s missing bicycle in the oppressive heat of a Bologna summer, he is transported to her final days. But as unfinished business bleeds – quite literally – into the present,...

The Bombay Prince

The Bombay Prince
  • Author(s): Sujata Massey
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1920s

(A Perveen Mistry Novel Book 3) November 1921. Edward VIII, Prince of Wales and future ruler of India, is arriving in Bombay to begin a fourmonth tour. The Indian subcontinent is chafing under British rule, and Bombay solicitor Perveen Mistry isn’t surprised when local unrest...

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