- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): contemporary
The Lizard’s Bite is the fourth in the Nic Costa series, David Hewson’s detective novels of love and death in Italy. Life was never black and white in Italy. Something about the place both disturbed and interested him. Venice...
- Location(s): The Maine Highlands
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Nothing much really happens in the north woods, that is, until you mix seaplanes, poachers, game wardens, and strangers in a mystery at the lake. Three generations of the Parker family had grown up in the woods near Maine’s...
- Location(s): Massachusetts
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2000s
A rural working-class New England town elects as its mayor a New York hedge fund millionaire in this inspired novel for our times—fiction in the tradition of Jonathan Franzen and Jennifer Egan. Mark Firth is a contractor and home...
- Location(s): Inverness-shire
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
A marine biologist returns to his home town on the Loch Ness to deal with his estranged father whose been arrested for murder. But really killed the victim? The Loch Ness Monster may be to blame but not everyone...
- Location(s): Dublin
- Genre(s): Police Procedural, Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
1950s Dublin. in a lock-up garage in the city, the body of a young woman is discovered – an apparent suicide. But pathologist Dr Quirke and Detective Inspector Strafford soon suspect foul play. The victim’s sister, a newspaper reporter...
The Locust and the Bird: My Mother’s Story
- Location(s): Lebanon
- Genre(s): Biography
- Era(s): 1930s to 2001
In a masterly act of literary transformation, Hanan al-Shaykh re-creates the dramatic life of her mother, Kamila, in Kamilas own voice. And so we see 1930s Beirut through the eyes of the unschooled but irrepressibly spirited ten-year-old child who...
- Location(s): South Africa
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
She expected the holiday of a lifetime. She got a trip to hell. Anna has rebuilt her life after a toxic relationship with her obsessive, controlling ex, Clayton. She’s finally found happiness with her fiancé, Joel, a veterinarian in...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Children, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern Day
A story about family, self-belief and bravery, The London Eye Mystery is a brilliantly inventive crime-caper perfect for fans of Enola Holmes, High-Rise Mystery and A Kind of Spark. 11.32 a.m. Ted and his sister Kat watch their cousin...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Historical, Crime, LGBTQIA+, Mystery
- Era(s): 1873
May mercy be upon the man who finds himself the enemy of a vengeful medium… 1873. At an abandoned château on the outskirts of Paris, a dark séance is about to take place, led by acclaimed spiritualist Vaudeline D’Allaire....
The Loneliest Boy in the World
- Location(s): Great Blasket Island
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
‘The Loneliest Boy in the World he has only seagulls as playmates.’ 1949 newspaper article. Gearóid Cheaist Ó Catháin had a unique childhood he was the last child brought up on the Blasket Islands off Ireland’s southwest coast. The...
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