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The Deep End of the Ocean

The Deep End of the Ocean
  • Author(s): Jacquelyn Mitchard
  • Location(s): Wisconsin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

Few first novels receive the kind of attention and acclaim showered on this powerful story—a nationwide bestseller, a critical success, and the first title chosen for Oprah’s Book Club. Both highly suspenseful and deeply moving, The Deep End of...

The Deepest South of All

The Deepest South of All
  • Author(s): Richard Grant
  • Location(s): Natchez
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Various

Natchez, Mississippi, once had more millionaires per capita than anywhere else in America, and its wealth was built on slavery and cotton. Today it has the greatest concentration of antebellum mansions in the South, and a culture full of...

The Den

The Den
  • Author(s): Abi Maxwell
  • Location(s): New England
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 19th Century forward

For readers of THE VIRGIN SUICIDES or THE GIRLS, a story of two extraordinary, magnetic women and their disappearances – a hundred years apart – from the small New England town they call home. Henrietta and Jane are growing...

The Denbigh Asylum Killings

The Denbigh Asylum Killings
  • Author(s): Simon McCleave
  • Location(s): Denbigh, Snowdonia
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

DI Ruth Hunter Crime Thriller Book 15 When local teenagers discover a body at the disused Denbigh Asylum, it seems that his murder might be linked to a modern slavery ring trafficking young people from the Indian subcontinent. However,...

The Denniston Rose

The Denniston Rose
  • Author(s): Jenny Pattrick
  • Location(s): New Zealand (Aotearoa)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1880s

A number one bestseller, this favourite New Zealand novel captures a real 19th century community. The bleak coal – mining settlement of Denniston, isolated high on a plateau above New Zealand’s West Coast, is a place that makes or...

The Department of Sensitive Crimes

The Department of Sensitive Crimes
  • Author(s): Alexander McCall Smith
  • Location(s): Malmö, Sweden
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Ulf Varg works in Malmo’s Department of Sensitive Crimes. Like all Scandinavian detectives he has his issues. In his case these include his unresolved feelings for his colleague, Anna; his impatience over the seeming incompetence of his irritating colleague...

The Deserter Of Alamut

The Deserter Of Alamut
  • Author(s): Omid Banyasad
  • Location(s): Iran
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 11th century

Dara, a young shepherd from a remote village in the Seljuq Empire, is about to marry his love, Golnar, when the unthinkable happens: Golnar is kidnapped on their wedding day. With his sworn brother Borzoo at his side, Dara...

The Destroyers

The Destroyers
  • Author(s): Christopher Bollen
  • Location(s): Patmos
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Ian Bledsoe is on the run, broke and humiliated, fleeing the emotional and financial fallout of his father’s death. His childhood friend Charlie – rich, exuberant and basking in life on the Greek island of Patmos – is his last hope. At...

The Detective

The Detective
  • Author(s): Ajay Chowdhury
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Thriller

HAS SOMEONE GOT AWAY WITH MURDER? On the verge of a four-billion-dollar deal, a tech entrepreneur from Shoreditch is found dead in a construction site, which leads to the discovery of three skeletons over a hundred years old. But...

The Detective and the Pipe Girl

The Detective and the Pipe Girl
  • Author(s): Michael Craven
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Finalist for the 2015 Nero Wolfe Award Finalist for the 2015 Shamus Award With a style as distinct as crime masters such as Elmore Leonard, Carl Hiassen, and Harlan Coben, Michael Craven delivers a richly atmospheric, humorous, fast-paced mystery...

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