The Devil and the Disappearing Sea
- Location(s): Uzbekistan
- Genre(s): Comedy, Thriller
- Era(s): 2000
Set among the ruins of the Soviet empire, this darkly comic true-crime thriller involves environmental disaster, international intrigue, and an unsolved murder. In January 2000, Rob Ferguson went to Uzbekistan to work on a project designed to save the...
The Devil Came on Horseback: Bearing Witness to the Genocide in Darfur
- Location(s): The Sudan, Darfur
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Contemporary
Former United States Marine Brian Steidle served for six months in Darfur as an unarmed military observer for the African Union. There he witnessed first-hand the ongoing genocide, and documented every day of his experience using email, audio journals,...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Late 19th Century
When the mutilated corpse of a beautiful dancer is found in a Montmartre sewer, a nervous public fears that Jack the Ripper has crossed the Channel—but Inspector Achille Lefebvre has his own theories. Amid the hustle and bustle of...
- Location(s): Italian Lakes
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): 1820s
- Location(s): The American South
- Genre(s): Noir, Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Sometimes God is your copilot, but it’s the Devil who takes you home.’ It was never just a job. Becoming a hitman was the only way Mario could cover his young daughter’s medical expenses. But before long his family...
The Devil That Danced on the Water
- Location(s): Sierra Leone
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1970s
An intimate and moving portrait of a family combined with an account of the events which swept through Africa in the post-independence period. Aminatta Forna’s intensely personal history is a passionate and vivid account of an African childhood –...
- Location(s): Edinburgh
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Current times
In a quiet corner of Edinburgh, Cat Thomas is going through hell. She’s tried everything. He respects nothing. If your neighbour was making your life hell… Would you call upon the devil? Cat Thomas, a brilliant fraud investigator, has...
- Location(s): Glasgow, Scotland
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
DS Max Craigie Scottish Crime Thrillers, Book 5 A CASE GONE COLD Six years ago, Beata Dabrowski arranged to meet her lover in Glasgow and was never seen again. There were no leads… until now. AN UNRELIABLE WITNESS Imprisoned...
- Location(s): Seattle
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): contemporary
FBI agents race to find a graffiti artist whose work appears to foretell calamity A truck veers off an overpass and falls onto the interstate below, right into the middle of the morning commute. Many people lose their lives,...
- Location(s): Namibia
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): early 21st century
WHEN AN ASSASSIN bursts from the shadows to try to kill him on the dark, windswept grounds of his boarding school in England, Max Gordon realizes his life is about to change forever. After learning that his explorer father...
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