The Dead Yard: A Story of Modern Jamaica
- Location(s): Jamaica
- Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Jamaica used to be the source of much of Britain’s wealth, a tropical paradise for the planters, a Babylonian exile for the Africans shipped to the Caribbean. It became independent in 1962. Jamaica is now a country in despair....
- Location(s): Maine
- Genre(s): Horror, Fantasy
- Era(s): Modern
The two things that conjured up that horrible night, were his run of luck at the Wheel of Fortune, and the mask . . . Meet Johnny Smith. A young man whose streak of luck ends dramatically in a...
- Location(s): Kuala Lumpur
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
In the second book in this pulsating thriller series, Daniel Sawyer is once more thrust into danger. This time the people he loves are being held hostage and he must travel to Kuala Lumpur to save them. But not...
- Location(s): Northumberland
- Genre(s): Time Slip
- Era(s): 1940s
All Diana Penn wanted was a quiet retirement. What she got was a chance to rewrite history. When a demolition crew uncovers unexploded WWII bombs in a quiet Northumberland park, retired MI6 agent Diana Penn instantly senses danger. But...
- Location(s): Brighton, Plockton
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): 2020s
Deadly fires are lighting up Brighton, and the latest case is alarmingly close to home for DC Eve Starling. The blaze was deliberately set, and a mother and daughter didn’t make it out of the smoke. Eve’s investigation takes...
- Location(s): County Carlow
- Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
- Era(s): Contemporary
Frank Whelan is the seventh son of a seventh son, so by now should have inherited his father’s legendary healing power, but still hasn’t managed to graduate beyond small-time skin afflictions. He already feels adrift when his twin, Bernie,...
- Location(s): Tunisia, Sousse
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
The Deaf-Mute Boy—equal parts travel story, love story, and a resonant confrontation with the Muslim world—is the tale of a gay American professor immersed in a North African society. Maurice Burke, an archaeologist, is invited to speak at a...
- Location(s): New Hampshire
- Genre(s): Humour, Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
An unexpectedly joyful comedy of manners that encompasses amateur dramatics, drive-by shootings, political campaigns and golf. When Sunny Batten hears from a brusque, ill-mannered stranger that her beloved mother Margaret has just died in a freak household accident, understandably...
- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
(A Shell House Detectives Mystery Book 4) At Shoreline Vines, high on the Cornish cliffs, the Harper family are preparing to welcome glamorous investor Celine Chevalier to their vineyard. They desperately need Celine’s backing to keep their business afloat....
- Location(s): Alabama
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
A terrifying new serial-killer thriller featuring Carson Ryder, hero of the bestselling The Hundredth Man. Thirty years after his death, Marsden Hexcamp’s ‘Art of the Final Moment’ remains as sought after as ever. But this is no ordinary collection....
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