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The Dead Line

The Dead Line
  • Author(s): Holly Watt
  • 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....

The Dead of Jericho

The Dead of Jericho
  • Author(s): Colin Dexter
  • Location(s): Oxford
  • Genre(s): Crime

The Dead of Jura

The Dead of Jura
  • Author(s): Allan Martin
  • 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...

The Dead of Winter

The Dead of Winter
  • Author(s): Nicola Upson
  • 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...

The Dead of Winter

The Dead of Winter
  • Author(s): Stuart MacBride
  • Location(s): Aberdeen, Cairngorms
  • Genre(s): Crime, Noir, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It was supposed to be an easy job. All Detective Constable Edward Reekie had to do was pick up a dying prisoner from HMP Grampian and deliver him somewhere to live out his last few months in peace. From...

The Dead Queens Club

The Dead Queens Club
  • Author(s): Hannah Capin
  • Location(s): Indiana
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Young Adult
  • Era(s): Modern

Mean Girls meets The Tudors in Hannah Capin’s The Dead Queens Club, a clever contemporary YA retelling of Henry VIII and his wives (or, in this case, his high school girlfriends). Told from the perspective of Annie Marck (“Cleves”),...

The Dead Will Tell

The Dead Will Tell
  • Author(s): Linda Castillo
  • Location(s): Ohio
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Everyone in Painters Mill knows the abandoned Hochstetler farm is haunted. But only a handful of the residents remember the terrible secrets lost in the muted/hushed whispers of time—and now death is stalking them, seemingly from the grave. On...

The Dead Yard: A Story of Modern Jamaica

The Dead Yard: A Story of Modern Jamaica
  • Author(s): Ian Thomson
  • Location(s): Jamaica
  • Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Jamaica used to be the source of much of Britain’s wealth, a tropical paradise for the planters, a Babylonian exile for the Africans shipped to the Caribbean. It became independent in 1962. Jamaica is now a country in despair....

The Dead Zone

The Dead Zone
  • Author(s): Stephen King
  • Location(s): Maine
  • Genre(s): Horror, Fantasy
  • Era(s): Modern

The two things that conjured up that horrible night, were his run of luck at the Wheel of Fortune, and the mask . . . Meet Johnny Smith. A young man whose streak of luck ends dramatically in a...

The Deadly Embrace

The Deadly Embrace
  • Author(s): Simon Eyre
  • Location(s): Kuala Lumpur
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

In the second book in this pulsating thriller series, Daniel Sawyer is once more thrust into danger. This time the people he loves are being held hostage and he must travel to Kuala Lumpur to save them. But not...

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