- Location(s): Oslo
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Contemporary
A TV talk-show star is found killed in her home, her tongue removed and left near to the body. When a second body, that of a prominent politician, is found crucified soon after, Superintendent Adam Stubo is called in...
- Location(s): Copenhagen, Helsingborg
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
He has extorted. He has abused. He has raped. He has sacrificed colleagues as a means to reach the top. His name is Kim Sleizner – and he works as a police chief in Copenhagen. Dunja Hougaard used to...
- Location(s): Sorrento
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
SIX FRIENDS. In a luxury villa set high in the hills above the glamorous town of Sorrento, southern Italy, three couples gather for the perfect 40th birthday celebration. ONE BODY. Before the week is out, one of them is...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): 1966
They think it’s all over… London, 1966 It’s the eve of the World Cup Final and everyone in England holds their breath – everyone except the Kray twins. The kings of London’s gangland have their minds elsewhere, on the...
- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
A brilliant reworking of the detective story by the much-acclaimed Michael Chabon, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY. In the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel ‘The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay’, Michael Chabon conjured...
- Location(s): Manhattan, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
In the beginning, there was art. It was Clare Bast’s love of art that saved her from a bleak, predictable life in upstate New York, and drew her to the cultured world of Manhattan’s Upper East Side where she...
- Location(s): Afghanistan, Kabul
- Genre(s): Nonfiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1980s onwards
Winner of the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction 2026 In 1969, the luxury Hotel Inter-Continental Kabul opened its doors: a glistening white box, high on a hill, that reflected Afghanistan’s hopes of becoming a modern country, connected to the world....
- Location(s): Salzburg
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
During an International Medical Congress in Salzburg, a well-known surgeon and scientist, Doctor Thomas Steinmetz, is mysteriously killed. When Inspector Quentin Neuner examines the corpse, he notices something he has never seen before. The victim’s right foot had been...
The Fire and the Light: A Novel of the Cathars
- Location(s): Cathar Country
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 13th century
As the 13th century dawns, an ancient scroll hidden in the French Pyrenees is rumored to hold shocking revelations about Jesus of Nazareth. To preserve this lost evidence of His teachings, a charismatic Cathar holy woman must defy Rome....
- Location(s): The Faroe Islands, Denmark
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Present looking back to 1970s
When long-buried skeletal remains are unearthed at an isolated farm on the island of Borðoy, Hjalti Hentze is charged with investigating the death. But as Hentze s investigation turns to the commune which occupied the farm in the 1970s,...
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