- Location(s): Hollywood
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1930s/1940s
The Day of the Locust is a novel about Hollywood and its corrupting touch, about the American dream turned into a sun-drenched California nightmare. Nathanael West’s Hollywood is not the glamorous “home of the stars” but a seedy world...
- Location(s): Sicily
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Second half 20th Century
In the piazza, a man lies dead. No one will say if they witnessed his killing. This presents a challenge to the investigating officer, a man who earnestly believes in the values of a democratic and modern society. Indeed,...
- Location(s): Sheffield
- Genre(s): Police Procedural
- Era(s): Contemporary
Don’t miss this award winning debut crime thriller set in Sheffield introducing DI Diana Walker: A grizzly murder has Diana questioning everything she knows, and secrets come to light that threaten to to tear her world apart When the...
- Location(s): Moscow
- Genre(s): Fiction, Paranormal
- Era(s): Contemporary
Walking the streets of Moscow, indistinguishable from the rest of its population, are The Others. Possessors of supernatural powers and capable of entering the Twilight, a shadowy world that exists in parallel to our own, each owes allegiance either...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Mei Yamagawa is out of luck and out of money. After five years in Tokyo, she has little to show for it besides a laundry list of unrealized dreams. Left without a choice, she returns to her rural Japanese...
- Location(s): Turin (Torino)
- Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
- Era(s): Contemporary
Rarely have the foundations upon which our ideas of motherhood and womanhood rest been so candidly questioned. This compelling novel tells the story of one woman’s headlong descent into what she calls an “absence of sense” after being abandoned...
- Location(s): Singapore
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
They steer a tight ship in squeaky-clean Singapore. No dissent, no opposition, no criticism. It’s like an entire country run by Walt Disney. Disneyland with the death penalty, somebody once called it. A young American software engineer hangs himself...
- Location(s): Bay of Skaill
- Genre(s): Police Procedural
- Era(s): Contemporary
An ancient grave. A modern evil. The Dead and the Dying is a pulse-pounding instalment in the Rhona MacLeod series, perfect for fans of Ian Rankin, Martina Cole and Silent Witness. In the dim morning light, Orkney’s Skaill Bay...
- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Horror
- Era(s): Various
The Dead Boxes Archive is a chilling collection of short horror stories and horror novellas. Together for the first time in one volume, seven tales from the critically acclaimed Dead Boxes series. Dead Boxes are scary things. Wonderful and...
- Location(s): Hull
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary looking back to lat 20thCentury
How far will Anna Stone, a disillusioned police officer on the brink of leaving her job, go to uncover the truth about her sister’s disappearance?Approached by Luke Carver, an ex-Army drifter she’s previously sent to prison, he claims to...
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