- Location(s): Alabama
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 19th / 20th centuries
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1965, The Keepers of the House is Shirley Ann Grau’s masterwork, a many-layered indictment of racism and rage that is as terrifying as it is wise. Entrenched on the same land since the...
- Location(s): Peru
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): early 21st century
Flick’s big brother, Jack, goes missing in Peru and she is desperate to find him. But can she solve the greatest mystery of all: who Jack really is? A heartwarming, third novel from Waterstones Prize shortlisted author, Ewa Jozefkowicz,...
- Location(s): New Orleans
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): 2019
Samantha thought following a mysterious diary around the French Quarter of New Orleans would be a harmless way to learn about her new hometown until it became about murder. Discover the places and people that make New Orleans unique...
- Location(s): Cairo
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1940s / Contemporary
As I turn the rusted key in the worn lock, I know the secrets beyond these faded walls might change my life forever… Can I breathe new life into the dusty corridors that my beloved aunt once walked? The...
- Location(s): China
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20t century
Francis Chisholm is a compassionate and humble priest whose individuality and directness make him unpopular with other clergy. Considered a failure by his superiors, he is sent to China to maintain a mission amid desperate poverty, civil war, plague,...
- Location(s): Bradford, London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Be twice as good as men and four times as good as white men. Jia Khan has always lived like this. A successful lawyer, her London life is a long way from the grubby Northern streets she knew as...
- Location(s): Pennsylvania
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): American Civil War
In the four most bloody and courageous days of our nation’s history, two armies fought for two dreams. One dreamed of freedom, the other of a way of life. Far more than rifles and bullets were carried into battle....
- Location(s): Dublin, Ireland
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Detective Chief Superintendent Frankie Sheehan does not wish to linger on the grisly scene before her eyes. Two mutilated corpses. In a church. In Clontarf. Her profiling background screams one fact: this is just the beginning of a sickening...
- Location(s): Basingstoke
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
This is Louisa Scarr writing as Sam Holland A terrible confession In an isolated room in Hollowpines, an infamous psychiatric hospital, Joe Sinclair is confessing to a violent murder. An impossible crime Locked away, Joe couldn’t possibly have killed...
- Location(s): Cumbria, Kendal, The Lake District
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
A year has passed since DI James Walker cracked his biggest case yet, and he’s hoping for peace and quiet this festive season. But across the fells, a local farmer returns home on Christmas Eve to find footsteps in...
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