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The Return Of The Dancing Master

The Return Of The Dancing Master
  • Author(s): Henning Mankell, Laurie Thompson (translator)
  • Location(s): Sweden
  • Genre(s): Thriller, In Translation, Mystery
  • Era(s): early 2000s

Herbert Molin, a retired police officer, is living alone in a remote cottage in the vast forests of northern Sweden. He has two obsessions: one is the tango and the other is a conviction that he is being hunted,...

The Return of the Native

The Return of the Native
  • Author(s): Thomas Hardy
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 19th century

The Return of the Native is widely recognised as the most representative of Hardy’s Wessex novels. He evokes the dismal presence and menacing beauty of Egdon Heath – reaching out to touch the lives and fate of all who...

The Returning Tide

The Returning Tide
  • Author(s): Liz Fenwick
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

In wartime Cornwall, 1943, a story between two sisters begins – the story of Adele and Amelia, and the heart-breaking betrayal that will divide them forever. Decades later, the efforts of one reckless act still echo – but how...

The Reunion

The Reunion
  • Author(s): Guillaume Russo
  • Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1992 & 2017

Welcome to a school reunion you won’t forget FRENCH RIVIERA, WINTER 1992 On a freezing night, as her high school campus is engulfed by a snowstorm, 19-year-old Vinca Rockwell runs away with Alexis, her philosophy teacher. No one will...

The Revenge Killer

The Revenge Killer
  • Author(s): B L Pearce
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

A brutal stabbing puts DCI Rob Miller on the trail of a serial revenge killer in this gritty, suspenseful thriller from Amazon bestselling author B.L. Pearce. The body of a man is found in a residential home in west...

The Rewilders

The Rewilders
  • Author(s): Lindsay Littleson
  • Location(s): Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Esme is annoyed and braced for boredom when she’s sent to stay with her gran for the weekend, until she discovers a terrible mistake. Cora, the abandoned kitten Gran found on the Rothiecraig Estate, is in fact a wild...

The RHAPTA KEY – An Alex Hunt Adventure Thriller

The RHAPTA KEY – An Alex Hunt Adventure Thriller
  • Author(s): Urcelia Teixeira
  • Location(s): Tanzania
  • Genre(s): Adventure, Thriller
  • Era(s): Current

Riddle solving artifact hunting, courage and danger are at the core of this page-turner that will have you experience Africa from your favorite armchair like never before! When Alex Hunt’s mother tragically dies during her lifelong quest to find...

The Rhino Conspiracy

The Rhino Conspiracy
  • Author(s): Peter Hain
  • Location(s): South Africa
  • Genre(s): Political, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In the last decade over 6,000 rhinos have been killed in South Africa. Relentless poaching for their horns has led to a catastrophic fall in black rhino numbers. Meanwhile a corrupt South African government turns a blind eye to...

The Rice Mother

The Rice Mother
  • Author(s): Rani Manicka
  • Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): around WW2

A compelling glimpse into a captivatingly exotic world of myth and magic. Beguiled by promises of wealth, fourteen-year-old Lakshmi leaves her native Ceylon for Malaya and marriage to a man many years her senior. But Ayah has lied to...

The Rich

The Rich
  • Author(s): Rachel Lynch
  • Location(s): Cambridge
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Dr Alex is psychologist to the Cambridge elite, keeper of their dirtiest little secrets. Carrie lives in a pristine mansion and tells no one what she had to do to get there. Henry has a dangerous predilection for the...

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