The Emperor: Downfall of an Autocrat
- Location(s): Ethiopia
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1970s
After the deposition of Haile Selassie in 1974, which ended the ancient rule of the Abyssinian monarchy, Ryszard Kapuscinski travelled to Ethiopia and sought out surviving courtiers to tell their stories. Here, their eloquent and ironic voices depict the...
- Location(s): North Carolina
- Genre(s): Fiction, Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
The third of the bestselling Lincoln Rhyme series sends the detective deep into North Carolina on the trail of a desperate kidnapper… You’ve followed a killer into a swamp Hopefully you’ll find him before he gets to his next...
- Location(s): Saudi Arabia
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): early 2000s
Every member of the Special Ops US Air Force pararescue jumpers, the PJs, swears by the motto “That Others May Live.” A top-secret mission to save a kidnapped Saudi princess will put that oath to the ultimate test. With...
- Location(s): Wexford
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Current
The manager of a building society is found dead in her flat above the premises in the Irish county town of Wexford. DI Vikki Kirkby investigates. Not only has the woman been murdered, the safe has been opened and...
- Location(s): Poland
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 20th Century
Set in former Silesia. In September 1913, a young Pole suffering from tuberculosis arrives at Wilhelm Opitz’s Guesthouse for Gentlemen, a health resort in the Silesian mountains. Every evening the residents gather to imbibe the hallucinogenic local liqueur and...
- Location(s): Indonesia, World
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
A race-against-time thriller, as one man must find the origin and cure for a new killer virus that has brought the world to its knees. At an internment camp in Indonesia, forty-seven people are pronounced dead with a mysterious...
- Location(s): Austin
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Father and son detectives Bill and Tommy Ross work for the Travis County police cold case unit in Austin, Texas. In 2005 in the backyard of a vacant home in Austin, a woman was found lying on a recliner...
- Location(s): Cape Cod, Languedoc Roussillon, London, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Your mother is not who you think she is… When the phone rings in Judy McVee’s Languedoc farmhouse, she knows her past has finally caught up with her. It’s her daughter, frantically asking why there are journalists on her...
- Location(s): Denmark
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern day
They say life is a journey, but what happens when you get to the end of the road? Terminally ill eminent Oxford professor, Des Kelly, develops a new technology for sustainable energy that can address environmental pollution and global...
- Location(s): Algeria
- Genre(s): Mystery, Fiction, In Translation
- Era(s): 1980s
On an early autumn morning in 1988, on the outskirts of an Algerian city on the edge of the desert, a shepherd stumbles upon the lifeless body of Zakia Zaghouani, the stunning nightclub singer at the Sahara Hotel. Suspicion...
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