- Location(s): Ohio, Lorain
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1941
The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison’s first novel, a book heralded for its richness of language and boldness of vision. Set in the author’s girlhood hometown of Lorain, Ohio, it tells the story of black, eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove. Pecola...
- Location(s): Norfolk Broads
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Max Hunter, my boyfriend, booked the beautiful boat house on the Norfolk Broads as a surprise autumn break A week away to heal after a fraught few months following my father’s death. A chance to put the lies and...
- Location(s): Balearic Islands (Illes Balears)
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
When Pete and his friends set sail on a private yacht in the Balearics to celebrate Fergus’ upcoming wedding, they’re all looking forward to sun, sea and copious quantities of alcohol. But there’s a reason they are still entwined...
- Location(s): The Atlantic Ocean
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Duchess is about to set sail from Scotland to St. Lucia. But before she even leaves port, a crew member storms off in anger. It’s only the first in a series of events that will beset Helen, the skipper,...
- Location(s): Wisconsin
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
When a night-time call to 911 from a secluded Wisconsin vacation house is cut short, offduty deputy Brynn McKenzie leaves her husband and son at the dinner table and drives up to Lake Mondac to investigate. Was it a...
- Location(s): Fleet, Aldershot, Basingstoke, Hampshire
- Genre(s): Historical, Cozy Mystery
- Era(s): 1920s
How deadly is the fight for equality? It’s 1922, and after spending a year travelling through Europe, Iris Woodmore returns home to find a changed Walden. Wealthy businesswoman Constance Timpson has introduced equal pay in her factories and allows...
- Location(s): North Carolina
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): early 2000s
The Body Farm – a research institute that tests the decomposition of corpses. Black Mountain, North Carolina: a sleepy little town where the local police deal with one homicide a year, if they’re unlucky, and where people are still...
- 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...
- 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,...
- 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...
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