- Location(s): Singapore
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 19th century
A little girl -Han is sold, aged four, as a boundmaid or slave into the House of Wu, where she grows up and falls in love with the young heir. But the idyll of childhood attachement turns into a...
- Location(s): Boston
- Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
- Era(s): Present and early 19th Century
Present day: Julia Hamill has made a horrifying discovery on the grounds of her new home in rural Massachusetts: a skull buried in the rocky soil-human, female, and, according to the trained eye of Boston medical examiner Maura Isles,...
- Location(s): Lake Wisconsin
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
Hilary and Mark Bradley are trapped in a web of suspicion. Last year, accusations of a torrid affair with a student cost Mark his teaching job and made the young couple into outcasts in their remote island town off...
- Location(s): Liverpool
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
What if the figure that haunted your nightmares as child, the myth of the man in the woods, was real? He’ll slice your flesh. Your bones he’ll keep. Twenty years ago, four teenagers went exploring in the local woods,...
- Location(s): Maine
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
In the aftermath of a family tragedy, Mike Bowditch has left the Maine Warden Service and is working as a fishing guide in the North Woods. But when his mentor Sgt. Kathy Frost is forced to kill a troubled...
- Location(s): Caribbean
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
Secrets can be buried, but bones can speak . . . After standing witness to a murder on the streets of the Caribbean island of Camaho, young Michael ‘Digger’ Digson is recruited into a unique plain clothes homicide squad,...
- Location(s): Jakarta (Batavia)
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery, Thriller
- Era(s): Present Day
Taut and suspenseful, The Bone Ritual is the first in a crime series set in contemporary Jakarta Ruud Pujasumarta has seen some gang-perpetrated horror crimes in his time, but the slum murder of a middle-aged woman he is called...
- Location(s): Arctic
- Era(s): Contemporary
A missing girl. A dark betrayal. Summer in the High Arctic. When young Inuit Martha Salliaq goes missing from her settlement, her teacher, ex Polar Bear Hunter Edie Kiglatuk enlists her police friend Derek Palliser to help search for...
- Location(s): Australia
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): Contemporary
Winner of the CILIP Amnesty Honour 2017. Shortlisted for the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize and the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2017. Perfect for fans of THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMAS. This is a beautiful, vivid and deeply moving story...
- Location(s): Bangladesh
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Zubaida is on a journey to unearth the past. It will lead her from the corridors of Harvard to the scorching deserts of Pakistan, and the bones of an ancient whale. It will carry her back to Bangladesh, and...
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