- 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): Scottish Highlands
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): contemporary
Martha Strangeways has settled into a quiet life in Strathbran, after the horrific events that traumatised the village a year earlier. But all this is turned upside down when her friend at Glasgow CID, DI Derek Summers, calls on...
- 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...
- Location(s): China, San Francisco
- Era(s): Modern and pre-war
LuLing Young is in her eighties, and finally beginning to feel the effects of old age. Trying to hold on to the evaporating past, she begins to write down all that she can remember of her life as a...
- Location(s): Devon
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
When the partially clothed body of a woman is discovered on Dartmoor, all eyes are on one man. There wasn’t enough evidence to convict Kendwick of his suspected crimes in America, but DI Charlotte Savage is determined to bring...
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