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The Denbigh Asylum Killings

The Denbigh Asylum Killings
  • Author(s): Simon McCleave
  • Location(s): Denbigh, Snowdonia
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

DI Ruth Hunter Crime Thriller Book 15 When local teenagers discover a body at the disused Denbigh Asylum, it seems that his murder might be linked to a modern slavery ring trafficking young people from the Indian subcontinent. However,...

The Denbigh Asylum Killings

The Denbigh Asylum Killings
  • Author(s): Simon McCleave
  • Location(s): Denbigh
  • Genre(s): Crime, Police Procedural, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When local teenagers discover a body at the disused Denbigh Asylum, it seems that his murder might be linked to a modern slavery ring trafficking young people from the Indian subcontinent. However, social media then reveals that the victim...

The Denniston Rose

The Denniston Rose
  • Author(s): Jenny Pattrick
  • Location(s): New Zealand (Aotearoa)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1880s

A number one bestseller, this favourite New Zealand novel captures a real 19th century community. The bleak coal – mining settlement of Denniston, isolated high on a plateau above New Zealand’s West Coast, is a place that makes or...

The Department of Sensitive Crimes

The Department of Sensitive Crimes
  • Author(s): Alexander McCall Smith
  • Location(s): Malmö, Sweden
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Ulf Varg works in Malmo’s Department of Sensitive Crimes. Like all Scandinavian detectives he has his issues. In his case these include his unresolved feelings for his colleague, Anna; his impatience over the seeming incompetence of his irritating colleague...

The Deserter Of Alamut

The Deserter Of Alamut
  • Author(s): Omid Banyasad
  • Location(s): Iran
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 11th century

Dara, a young shepherd from a remote village in the Seljuq Empire, is about to marry his love, Golnar, when the unthinkable happens: Golnar is kidnapped on their wedding day. With his sworn brother Borzoo at his side, Dara...

The Destroyers

The Destroyers
  • Author(s): Christopher Bollen
  • Location(s): Patmos
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Ian Bledsoe is on the run, broke and humiliated, fleeing the emotional and financial fallout of his father’s death. His childhood friend Charlie – rich, exuberant and basking in life on the Greek island of Patmos – is his last hope. At...

The Detective

The Detective
  • Author(s): Ajay Chowdhury
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Thriller

HAS SOMEONE GOT AWAY WITH MURDER? On the verge of a four-billion-dollar deal, a tech entrepreneur from Shoreditch is found dead in a construction site, which leads to the discovery of three skeletons over a hundred years old. But...

The Detective and the Pipe Girl

The Detective and the Pipe Girl
  • Author(s): Michael Craven
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Finalist for the 2015 Nero Wolfe Award Finalist for the 2015 Shamus Award With a style as distinct as crime masters such as Elmore Leonard, Carl Hiassen, and Harlan Coben, Michael Craven delivers a richly atmospheric, humorous, fast-paced mystery...

The Devil All the Time

The Devil All the Time
  • Author(s): Donald Ray Pollock
  • Location(s): Ohio
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): late 20th century

In Knockemstiff, Ohio, war veteran Willard can’t save his beautiful wife, Charlotte, from a slow death by cancer no matter how much sacrificial blood he pours on his ‘prayer log’. Carl and Sandy Henderson, a husband-and-wife team of serial...

The Devil and the Dark Water

The Devil and the Dark Water
  • Author(s): Stuart Turton
  • Location(s): The Indian Ocean, The Atlantic Ocean
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1630s

An impossible murder A remarkable detective duo A demon who may or may not exist It’s 1634 and Samuel Pipps, the world’s greatest detective, is being transported from the Dutch East Indies to Amsterdam, where he is facing trial...

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