- Location(s): Bay of Skaill
- Genre(s): Police Procedural
- Era(s): Contemporary
An ancient grave. A modern evil. The Dead and the Dying is a pulse-pounding instalment in the Rhona MacLeod series, perfect for fans of Ian Rankin, Martina Cole and Silent Witness. In the dim morning light, Orkney’s Skaill Bay...
- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Horror
- Era(s): Various
The Dead Boxes Archive is a chilling collection of short horror stories and horror novellas. Together for the first time in one volume, seven tales from the critically acclaimed Dead Boxes series. Dead Boxes are scary things. Wonderful and...
- Location(s): Hull
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary looking back to lat 20thCentury
How far will Anna Stone, a disillusioned police officer on the brink of leaving her job, go to uncover the truth about her sister’s disappearance?Approached by Luke Carver, an ex-Army drifter she’s previously sent to prison, he claims to...
- Location(s): Maine
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
dead cat bounce n. Stock market jargon for a small, temporary rise in a stock’s trading price after a sharp drop. Since she bought her rambling old fixer-upper of a house, Jacobia Tiptree has gotten used to finding things...
- Location(s): New Orleans
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
French Quarter tour guides tell stories of the creatures of the night, but they’re just stories. That is until Sammy discovers a body with a vampire bite. When the killer won’t stop, Sammy has to find them before they...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): 2019
In Paris, a bunch of famous dead people from various eras come back to life to meddle with today’s Parisians. Victor Hugo has a heated argument about love, Jim Morrison mocks a tattooed vegan, Marquis de Sade seeks punishment...
- Location(s): Bangladesh
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
A Bangladeshi camp. A British ambassador. A Harley Street doctor. Investigative journalist Casey Benedict is used to working on stories that will take her from the bottom to the top of society – stories with a huge human cost....
- Location(s): Oxford
- Genre(s): Crime
- Location(s): Isle of Jura, Brandenburg, Dublin, Frankfurt an der Oder
- Genre(s): Mystery, Crime, Literary Travel
- Era(s): Modern
(Inspector Angus Blue Book 2) Jura: where the rich and the powerful come to play away from the prying eyes of the press. But when there is an assassination attempt on a Cabinet Minister whiles he’s on his island...
- Location(s): St Michael's Mount
- Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
- Era(s): 1938
Josephine Tey 9 December 1938, and storm clouds hover once again over Europe. Josephine Tey and Archie Penrose gather with friends for a Cornish Christmas, but two strange and brutal deaths on St Michael’s Mount – and the unexpected...
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