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The Day Watch

The Day Watch
  • Author(s): Sergei Lukyanenko
  • Location(s): Moscow
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Paranormal
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Walking the streets of Moscow, indistinguishable from the rest of its population, are The Others. Possessors of supernatural powers and capable of entering the Twilight, a shadowy world that exists in parallel to our own, each owes allegiance either...

The Daydreamer Detective

The Daydreamer Detective
  • Author(s): S J Petronas
  • Location(s): Japan
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Mei Yamagawa is out of luck and out of money. After five years in Tokyo, she has little to show for it besides a laundry list of unrealized dreams. Left without a choice, she returns to her rural Japanese...

The Days of Abandonment

The Days of Abandonment
  • Author(s): Elena Ferrante, Ann Goldstein (translator)
  • Location(s): Turin (Torino)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Rarely have the foundations upon which our ideas of motherhood and womanhood rest been so candidly questioned. This compelling novel tells the story of one woman’s headlong descent into what she calls an “absence of sense” after being abandoned...

The Dead American

The Dead American
  • Author(s): Jake Needham
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

They steer a tight ship in squeaky-clean Singapore. No dissent, no opposition, no criticism. It’s like an entire country run by Walt Disney. Disneyland with the death penalty, somebody once called it. A young American software engineer hangs himself...

The Dead and the Dying

The Dead and the Dying
  • Author(s): Lin Anderson
  • 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...

The Dead Boxes Archive

The Dead Boxes Archive
  • Author(s): John F Leonard
  • 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...

The Dead Can’t Talk

The Dead Can’t Talk
  • Author(s): Nick Quantrill
  • 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...

The Dead Cat Bounce

The Dead Cat Bounce
  • Author(s): Sarah Graves
  • 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...

The Dead End Tour

The Dead End Tour
  • Author(s): Jen Pitts
  • 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...

The Dead Have Lots To Say

The Dead Have Lots To Say
  • Author(s): Anna Redkina
  • 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...

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