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The Empty Safe Mystery

The Empty Safe Mystery
  • Author(s): David Pearson
  • Location(s): Wexford
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Current

The manager of a building society is found dead in her flat above the premises in the Irish county town of Wexford. DI Vikki Kirkby investigates. Not only has the woman been murdered, the safe has been opened and...

The Empusium

The Empusium
  • Author(s): Olga Tokarczuk, Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Translator)
  • Location(s): Poland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century

Set in former Silesia. In September 1913, a young Pole suffering from tuberculosis arrives at Wilhelm Opitz’s Guesthouse for Gentlemen, a health resort in the Silesian mountains. Every evening the residents gather to imbibe the hallucinogenic local liqueur and...

The End of Everything

The End of Everything
  • Author(s): M John Harrison
  • Location(s): England, Kent
  • Genre(s): Dystopian, Fiction
  • Era(s): Future

Phillip Tennent makes his living at the tideline, collecting artefacts that wash up from the Channel. It’s been years since the crisis changed everything, but its exact nature remains obscure. Government barely functions, the seas are full of new...

The End of October

The End of October
  • Author(s): Lawrence Wright
  • Location(s): Indonesia, World
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A race-against-time thriller, as one man must find the origin and cure for a new killer virus that has brought the world to its knees. At an internment camp in Indonesia, forty-seven people are pronounced dead with a mysterious...

The End of Summer

The End of Summer
  • Author(s): Irving Munro
  • Location(s): Austin
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Father and son detectives Bill and Tommy Ross work for the Travis County police cold case unit in Austin, Texas. In 2005 in the backyard of a vacant home in Austin, a woman was found lying on a recliner...

The End Of Summer

The End Of Summer
  • Author(s): Charlotte Philby
  • Location(s): Cape Cod, Languedoc Roussillon, London, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Your mother is not who you think she is… When the phone rings in Judy McVee’s Languedoc farmhouse, she knows her past has finally caught up with her. It’s her daughter, frantically asking why there are journalists on her...

The End of the Road

The End of the Road
  • Author(s): Martin Henning
  • Location(s): Denmark
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern day

They say life is a journey, but what happens when you get to the end of the road? Terminally ill eminent Oxford professor, Des Kelly, develops a new technology for sustainable energy that can address environmental pollution and global...

The End of the Valley: Part 1 of The Valley Trilogy

The End of the Valley: Part 1 of The Valley Trilogy
  • Author(s): J D Ferguson
  • Location(s): Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bernese Oberland, Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 1980’s / present day

1984: Kate is the golden girl of British ski racing and a leading gold medal hope for the Sarajevo Winter Olympics until a serious knee injury shatters the dream. 2012: Kate is now one of the country’s leading chefs...

The End of the Vodka

The End of the Vodka
  • Author(s): Oscar de Muriel
  • Location(s): Europe, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s

A Frida Kahlo painting, a scandal, and secrets that threaten to change the course of history In 1938, showgirl-turned-socialite Dorothy Hale falls from a Manhattan skyscraper. Her friend Clare Boothe Luce – writer, diplomat and rising political figure –...

The End of Us

The End of Us
  • Author(s): Olivia Kiernan
  • Location(s): Wimbledon
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It all started to go wrong the day the Wrights moved in next door Myles and Lana Butler live on a gorgeous new development in Wimbledon, leaning on a mortgage that is just within reach. When one of Myles’...

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