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The Dark Side of Love

The Dark Side of Love
  • Author(s): Rafik Schami
  • Location(s): Damascus
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th century / early 2000s

A dead man hangs from the portal of St Pauls Chapel in Damascus. He was a Muslim officerand he was murdered. But when Detective Barudi sets out to interrogate the mans mysterious widow, the Secret Service takes the case...

The Dark Tide

The Dark Tide
  • Author(s): Simon McCleave
  • Location(s): Anglesey
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Will there be blood in the water? Three years ago, DCI Laura Hart was the top Hostage and Crisis Negotiator for the Greater Manchester Police. Then her husband was kidnapped. Despite her best efforts to reason with the criminals,...

The Dark Well of Glastonbury

The Dark Well of Glastonbury
  • Author(s): Phillipa Bowers
  • Location(s): Glastonbury
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): Early 1900s

In 1903, Louisa, an impoverished young widow, goes to Glastonbury to care for her ailing aunt. One day while sitting beside the ruined abbey church, she experiences a vision from the past of a woman who was guardian of...

The Dark Wild

The Dark Wild
  • Author(s): Piers Torday
  • Location(s): United Kingdom
  • Genre(s): Children, Mythology
  • Era(s): Modern

Book 2 in the Last Wild Trilogy A thrilling animal adventure for fans of Roald Dahl, David Walliams and Katherine Rundell Twelve-year-old Kester thought he had discovered the last wild animals in the land. He thought his adventure was...

The Dark Wives

The Dark Wives
  • Author(s): Ann Cleeves
  • Location(s): Northumberland
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery, Police Procedural
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Vera Stanhope 11 When a body is found on the common outside Rosebank, an isolated care home for troubled teens, DI Vera Stanhope is called out to investigate. The victim is Josh, a staff member, who never showed up...

The Darkest Night

The Darkest Night
  • Author(s): Barbara Nadel
  • Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Inspector Ikmen, Book 26 Dark magic is unleashed on the streets of Istanbul . . . When a newborn baby is found drowned in the shallow waters of the Golden Horn, all-out warfare threatens to erupt between rival criminal...

The Darkest Sin (Cesare Aldo series Book 2)

The Darkest Sin (Cesare Aldo series Book 2)
  • Author(s): D V Bishop
  • Location(s): Florence
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): 16th Century

Florence. Spring, 1537. When Cesare Aldo investigates a report of intruders at a convent in the Renaissance city’s northern quarter, he enters a community divided by bitter rivalries and harbouring dark secrets. His case becomes far more complicated when...

The Darkest Walk

The Darkest Walk
  • Author(s): Malcolm Archibald
  • Location(s): Manchester
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1848

Set in 1848, Darkest Walk of Crime sees recently promoted Detective Mendick sent on his first case. Disturbing new evidence suggests the working class Chartist movement is seeking violent action after years of oppression and the defeat in Parliament...

The Darkest Winter

The Darkest Winter
  • Author(s): Carlo Lucarelli, Joseph Farrell (Translator)
  • Location(s): Bologna
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1944

In November 1944, in the worst winter ever known in Bologna, in the depths of the war, the bomb-scarred streets are home to starving refugees who have fled the advancing Allies. The Fascist Black Brigades, the officers of the...

The Darkness

The Darkness
  • Author(s): Ragnar Jonasson
  • Location(s): Iceland
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

A body is found off the coast of Iceland. A cursory police investigation calls it suicide. She’s just another statistic, soon forgotten. But not by Reykjavik Detective Inspector Hulda Hermannsdóttir. Difficult and unconventional, Hulda is being forced into early...

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