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Summer at Castle Stone

Summer at Castle Stone
  • Author(s): Lynn Marie Hulsman
  • Location(s): Ireland, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

This summer, lose your heart in Ireland… Shayla Sheridan’s a New York native born into big city luxury, but she’s never really fitted in with the “it” crowd. Desperate to make it as a writer and to finally step...

Sycamore Gap

Sycamore Gap
  • Author(s): LJ Ross
  • Location(s): Northumberland
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Detective Chief Inspector Ryan believes he has put his turbulent history behind him. Then, in the early hours of the summer solstice, the skeleton of a young woman is found inside the Roman Wall at Sycamore Gap. She has...

Terminal City

Terminal City
  • Author(s): Linda Fairstein
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

When the body of a young woman is found in a suite at one of the most prestigious hotels in Manhattan, Assistant DA Alex Cooper and Detectives Mike Chapman and Mercer Wallace find themselves hunting for an elusive killer...

The Atlas of Us

The Atlas of Us
  • Author(s): Tracey Buchanan
  • Location(s): Exmoor, Finland, Koh Phi Phi, Krabi, Serbia, The Outback
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Late 1900s through 2004 to 2014

How far would you go for the one you love the most? A stormy love affair. A secret. A discovery that changes everything … Louise Fenton flies to a devastated Thailand to search for her mother, missing following the...

The Black Notebook

The Black Notebook
  • Author(s): Patrick Modiano
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Novella
  • Era(s): Modern looking back to 1960s

Set in Montparnasse, Paris. A writer discovers a set of notes in his notebook and sets off on a journey through the Paris of his past, in search of the woman he loved forty years previously. Set in the...

The Blue

The Blue
  • Author(s): Lucy Clarke
  • Location(s): New Zealand (Aotearoa), Pacific Ocean
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Suspense
  • Era(s): Modern

They had found paradise. What would they do to keep it? With a quick spin of the globe, Kitty and Lana escape their grey reality and journey to the Philippines. There they discover The Blue – a beautiful yacht, with a...

The Boy at the Door

The Boy at the Door
  • Author(s): Alex Dahl
  • Location(s): Sandefjord
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Suspense
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘Unsettling, layered, bold, unpredictable, dark. EXCELLENT’ Will Dean, author of Dark Pines. What would you do for the perfect life? Would you lie? Would you cheat? Would you kill? Cecilia Wilborg has the perfect life. A handsome husband, two...

The Cat and The City

The Cat and The City
  • Author(s): Nick Bradley
  • Location(s): Tokyo
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

In Tokyo – one of the world’s largest megacities – a stray cat is wending her way through the back alleys. And, with each detour, she brushes up against the seemingly disparate lives of the city-dwellers, connecting them in...

The Chalet

The Chalet
  • Author(s): Catherine Cooper
  • Location(s): French Alps
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
  • Era(s): Present looking back to 1998

‘Pure adrenaline’ ERIN KELLY ‘I was gripped from start to finish’ CASS GREEN French Alps, 1998 Two young men ski into a blizzard… but only one returns. 20 years later Four people connected to the missing man find themselves...

The Cherry Blossom Murder

The Cherry Blossom Murder
  • Author(s): Fran Pickering
  • Location(s): Japan, Tokyo
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Behind the scenes a killer is lurking… When Tokyo-based Londoner Josie finds a body under the cherry blossom, she sets out to track down the killer. But she finds that everyone has a secret and no one can be...

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