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The Dirty South

The Dirty South
  • Author(s): John Connolly
  • Location(s): Arkansas
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1997

It is 1997, and someone is slaughtering young black women in Burdon County, Arkansas. But no one wants to admit it, not in the Dirty South. In an Arkansas jail cell sits a former NYPD detective, stricken by grief....

The Disappearance

The Disappearance
  • Author(s): Annabel Kantaria
  • Location(s): Cornwall, Greece, Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Dual timeline 1970s / 2017

In a family built on lies, who can you trust? Audrey Bailey will never forget the moment she met Ralph Templeton in the sweltering heat of a Bombay café. Her lonely life over, she was soon married with two...

The Disappearance of Adèle Bedeau

The Disappearance of Adèle Bedeau
  • Author(s): Graeme Macrae Burnet
  • Location(s): North East France
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

From the author of the Man Booker shortlisted His Bloody Project. Manfred Baumann is a loner. Socially awkward and perpetually ill at ease, he spends his evenings quietly drinking and surreptitiously observing Adèle Bedeau, the sullen but alluring waitress...

The Disappeared

The Disappeared
  • Author(s): Gloria Whelan
  • Location(s): Argentina
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

Silvia’s brother, Eduardo, has Disappeared, and she won’t stop fighting until she finds him. Norberto, the general’s son, is just foolish enough to help. He’ll fall in love with her, and then he’ll ask his father to set Eduardo...

The Disappearers

The Disappearers
  • Author(s): Marlon James
  • Location(s): Jamaica, Kingston
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, LGBTQIA+
  • Era(s): 1980s

So when eight gay men meet for the first time, in Kingston in 1988, answering the casting call for an openly queer play, they are already taking a big risk. But that is nothing compared to what rains down...

The Disappearing Act

The Disappearing Act
  • Author(s): Catherine Steadman
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

A woman has gone missing But did she ever really exist? Mia Eliot has travelled from London to LA for pilot season. This is her big chance to make it as an actor in Hollywood, and she is ready...

The Disaster Tourist

The Disaster Tourist
  • Author(s): Yun Ko-Eun
  • Location(s): Vietnam, Mui
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Yona has been stuck behind a desk for years working as a programming coordinator for Jungle, a travel company specialising in package holidays to destinations ravaged by disaster. When a senior colleague touches her inappropriately she tries to complain,...

The Displaced

The Displaced
  • Author(s): Frieda Watt
  • Location(s): Louisbourg
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 18th Century

Torn between clashing empires and contentious families, Marie Levesque fights to find a place in the unforgiving frontier of Canada. As a young woman, her life is just beginning. Her friendship with Pierre promises of something more. But the...

The Displacements

The Displacements
  • Author(s): Bruce Holsinger
  • Location(s): Miami, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

An adrenaline-fuelled story of lives upended and privilege lost in a swiftly changing world. Daphne Larsen-Hall has every reason to believe that her life as an artist in a luxury Miami house with her surgeon husband, Brantley, and their...

The Displacements

The Displacements
  • Author(s): Bruce Holsinger
  • Location(s): Miami
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

An adrenaline-fuelled story of lives upended and privilege lost in a swiftly changing world. Daphne Larsen-Hall has every reason to believe that her life as an artist in a luxury Miami house with her surgeon husband, Brantley, and their...

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