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The Devil’s Line

The Devil’s Line
  • Author(s): Marrisse Whittaker
  • Location(s): Northumberland
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Present day

DSI Billie Wilde is back at work after a shocking case that saw her life thrown into utter turmoil. But Billie isn’t only Wilde by name and refuses to let the past drag her down. When a teenage girl...

The Devil’s Point

The Devil’s Point
  • Author(s): Tom Becket
  • Location(s): South West France
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): contemporary and WW2

Jews in South West France are being hunted. As the Nazis close in, a desperate man leaves a coded message for his son Eighty years later, powerful men will do anything to prevent the deciphering of this message. Former...

The Devil’s Road to Kathmandu

The Devil’s Road to Kathmandu
  • Author(s): Tom Vater
  • Location(s): Nepal, India, Iran, Pakistan, Türkiye (Turkey)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s, 1990s

A TENSE, FAST PACED AND KALEIDOSCOPIC PULP THRILLER, FOLLOWING THE LIVES OF TWO GENERATIONS OF DRIFTERS EMBROILED IN A SAGA OF SEX, DRUGS AND MURDER ON THE ROAD BETWEEN LONDON AND THE ROOF OF THE WORLD. In 1976, four...

The Devils Playground

The Devils Playground
  • Author(s): Craig Russell
  • Location(s): Hollywood
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1920s

A dark, riveting thriller set in 1920s Hollywood about “the greatest horror movie ever made”, the curse said to surround it, and a deadly search, decades later, for the single copy rumoured still to exist. 1927: Hollywood studio fixer...

The Devils’ Dance

The Devils’ Dance
  • Author(s): Hamid Ismailov
  • Location(s): Uzbekistan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 19th/20th Century

On New Years’ Eve 1938, the writer Abdulla Qodiriy is taken from his home by the Soviet secret police and thrown into a Tashkent prison. There, to distract himself from the physical and psychological torment of beatings and mindless...

The Devil’s Banker

The Devil’s Banker
  • Author(s): Edward Subut
  • Location(s): Paris, Washington DC
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Current

Read the riveting story of the man who, almost single-handedly, crippled ISIS in 2019! Unbeknownst to all but a few, CIA analyst John Quirston, a Marine veteran maimed in an explosion at the Baghdad morgue, stubbornly aches towards his...

The Devil’s Code

The Devil’s Code
  • Author(s): Michael Wood
  • Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne, London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Dr Olivia Winter #2 A BRUTAL MURDER When Isaac McFadden is found with the dismembered body of a young man in the boot of his car, it’s an easy conviction for the jury. But, then a notebook is discovered...

The Dew Breaker

The Dew Breaker
  • Author(s): Edwidge Danticat
  • Location(s): Haiti, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1960s / contemporary

From the universally acclaimed author of Breath, Eyes, Memory and Krik? Krak!, a brilliant, deeply moving work of fiction that explores the world of a “dew breaker”—a torturer—a man whose brutal crimes in the country of his birth lie...

The Diamond Chariot: The Further Adventures of Erast Fandorin

The Diamond Chariot: The Further Adventures of Erast Fandorin
  • Author(s): Boris Akunin
  • Location(s): Japan, Russia
  • Genre(s): Crime, Historical
  • Era(s): 1905 onwards

The Diamond Eye

The Diamond Eye
  • Author(s): Kate Quinn
  • Location(s): Ukraine, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): WW2

In the snowbound city of Kiev, aspiring historian Mila Pavlichenko’s life revolves around her young son – until Hitler’s invasion of Russia changes everything. Suddenly, she and her friends must take up arms to save their country from the...

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