- Location(s): Maine
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
dead cat bounce n. Stock market jargon for a small, temporary rise in a stock’s trading price after a sharp drop. Since she bought her rambling old fixer-upper of a house, Jacobia Tiptree has gotten used to finding things...
- Location(s): New Orleans
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
French Quarter tour guides tell stories of the creatures of the night, but they’re just stories. That is until Sammy discovers a body with a vampire bite. When the killer won’t stop, Sammy has to find them before they...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): 2019
In Paris, a bunch of famous dead people from various eras come back to life to meddle with today’s Parisians. Victor Hugo has a heated argument about love, Jim Morrison mocks a tattooed vegan, Marquis de Sade seeks punishment...
- Location(s): Bangladesh
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
A Bangladeshi camp. A British ambassador. A Harley Street doctor. Investigative journalist Casey Benedict is used to working on stories that will take her from the bottom to the top of society – stories with a huge human cost....
- Location(s): Oxford
- Genre(s): Crime
- Location(s): Isle of Jura, Brandenburg, Dublin, Frankfurt an der Oder
- Genre(s): Mystery, Crime, Literary Travel
- Era(s): Modern
(Inspector Angus Blue Book 2) Jura: where the rich and the powerful come to play away from the prying eyes of the press. But when there is an assassination attempt on a Cabinet Minister whiles he’s on his island...
- Location(s): St Michael's Mount
- Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
- Era(s): 1938
Josephine Tey 9 December 1938, and storm clouds hover once again over Europe. Josephine Tey and Archie Penrose gather with friends for a Cornish Christmas, but two strange and brutal deaths on St Michael’s Mount – and the unexpected...
- Location(s): Aberdeen, Cairngorms
- Genre(s): Crime, Noir, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
It was supposed to be an easy job. All Detective Constable Edward Reekie had to do was pick up a dying prisoner from HMP Grampian and deliver him somewhere to live out his last few months in peace. From...
- Location(s): Indiana
- Genre(s): Fiction, Young Adult
- Era(s): Modern
Mean Girls meets The Tudors in Hannah Capin’s The Dead Queens Club, a clever contemporary YA retelling of Henry VIII and his wives (or, in this case, his high school girlfriends). Told from the perspective of Annie Marck (“Cleves”),...
- Location(s): Ohio
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
Everyone in Painters Mill knows the abandoned Hochstetler farm is haunted. But only a handful of the residents remember the terrible secrets lost in the muted/hushed whispers of time—and now death is stalking them, seemingly from the grave. On...
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