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The Dark Wild

The Dark Wild
  • Author(s): Piers Torday
  • Location(s): United Kingdom
  • Genre(s): Children, Mythology
  • Era(s): Modern

Book 2 in the Last Wild Trilogy A thrilling animal adventure for fans of Roald Dahl, David Walliams and Katherine Rundell Twelve-year-old Kester thought he had discovered the last wild animals in the land. He thought his adventure was...

The Dark Wives

The Dark Wives
  • Author(s): Ann Cleeves
  • Location(s): Northumberland
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery, Police Procedural
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Vera Stanhope 11 When a body is found on the common outside Rosebank, an isolated care home for troubled teens, DI Vera Stanhope is called out to investigate. The victim is Josh, a staff member, who never showed up...

The Darkest Night

The Darkest Night
  • Author(s): Barbara Nadel
  • Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Inspector Ikmen, Book 26 Dark magic is unleashed on the streets of Istanbul . . . When a newborn baby is found drowned in the shallow waters of the Golden Horn, all-out warfare threatens to erupt between rival criminal...

The Darkest Sin (Cesare Aldo series Book 2)

The Darkest Sin (Cesare Aldo series Book 2)
  • Author(s): D V Bishop
  • Location(s): Florence
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): 16th Century

Florence. Spring, 1537. When Cesare Aldo investigates a report of intruders at a convent in the Renaissance city’s northern quarter, he enters a community divided by bitter rivalries and harbouring dark secrets. His case becomes far more complicated when...

The Darkest Walk

The Darkest Walk
  • Author(s): Malcolm Archibald
  • Location(s): Manchester
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1848

Set in 1848, Darkest Walk of Crime sees recently promoted Detective Mendick sent on his first case. Disturbing new evidence suggests the working class Chartist movement is seeking violent action after years of oppression and the defeat in Parliament...

The Darkest Winter

The Darkest Winter
  • Author(s): Carlo Lucarelli, Joseph Farrell (Translator)
  • Location(s): Bologna
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1944

In November 1944, in the worst winter ever known in Bologna, in the depths of the war, the bomb-scarred streets are home to starving refugees who have fled the advancing Allies. The Fascist Black Brigades, the officers of the...

The Darkness

The Darkness
  • Author(s): Ragnar Jonasson
  • Location(s): Iceland
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

A body is found off the coast of Iceland. A cursory police investigation calls it suicide. She’s just another statistic, soon forgotten. But not by Reykjavik Detective Inspector Hulda Hermannsdóttir. Difficult and unconventional, Hulda is being forced into early...

The Darkness

The Darkness
  • Author(s): Lars D H Hedbor
  • Location(s): Maine
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Revolutionary

These are the darkest days of the Revolution… The darkness descending over coastal Maine leaves George no choice but to leave childhood behind for good. Despite living in the shadow of America’s most crushing naval defeat in the ongoing...

The Darling

The Darling
  • Author(s): Russell Banks
  • Location(s): Liberia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1975 through 1991

Set in Liberia and the United States from 1975 through 1991, The Darling is the story of Hannah Musgrave, a political radical and member of the Weather Underground. Hannah flees America for West Africa, where she and her Liberian...

The Darling Dahlias and the Silver Dollar Bush

The Darling Dahlias and the Silver Dollar Bush
  • Author(s): Susan Wittig Albert
  • Location(s): Alabama
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s

The New York Times bestselling author of the China Bayles Mysteries takes readers back to Darling, Alabama, in the spring of 1933–where the women of the Darling Dahlias’ garden club are betting their bottom dollar there’s going to be...

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