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The Man Who Spoke Snakish

The Man Who Spoke Snakish
  • Author(s): Andrus Kivirähk
  • Location(s): Estonia
  • Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future, Suspense
  • Era(s): Medieval

Unfortunately people and tribes degenerate. They lose their teeth, forget their language, until finally they’re bending meekly on the fields and cutting straw with a scythe. Leemut, a young boy growing up in the forest, is content living with...

The Man Who Wanted To Know

The Man Who Wanted To Know
  • Author(s): D A Mishani
  • Location(s): Tel Aviv
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Mazal Bengtson doesn’t know what her husband was doing on the night of the storm. His search for a job is still hopeless – his moods even more unpredictable. But she had believed he would never leave her to...

The Man Who Watched Trains Go By

The Man Who Watched Trains Go By
  • Author(s): Georges Simenon
  • Location(s): Netherlands, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 20th century

The Man Who Watched Women

The Man Who Watched Women
  • Author(s): Michael Hjorth
  • Location(s): Stockholm
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

As a heatwave blazes in Stockholm, a series of women are found brutally murdered and the Criminal Investigation Department is getting nowhere. The murders bear all the hallmarks of Edward Hinde, the serial killer jailed by psychological profiler Sebastian...

The Man Who Wore His Wife’s Sarong

The Man Who Wore His Wife’s Sarong
  • Author(s): Suchen Christine Lim
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Modern

A toilet cleaner is forced to borrow from a loan shark to save her HIV infected son; a private-eye who channels Monkey God discovers the dark secret between her adoptive father and sister; a mother finds out her son...

The Man With No Face

The Man With No Face
  • Author(s): Peter May
  • Location(s): Brussels
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1970s

Beware: this is a revised edition of an earlier work by the author. Can evil be unmasked before it’s too late . . . ? A REPORTER WITH NO FEAR 1979. Jaded Edinburgh journalist Neil Bannerman is sent to...

The Man With the Golden Mind

The Man With the Golden Mind
  • Author(s): Tom Vater
  • Location(s): Vientiane
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1976

Julia Rendel asks Maier to investigate the twenty-five year old murder of her father, an East German cultural attaché who was killed near a fabled CIA airbase in central Laos in 1976. But before the detective can set off,...

The Man With the Golden Mind

The Man With the Golden Mind
  • Author(s): Tom Vater
  • Location(s): Laos
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s/2000s

Julia Rendel asks Detective Maier to investigate the twenty-five year old murder of her father, an East German cultural attaché who was killed near a fabled CIA airbase in central Laos in 1976. But before the detective can set...

The Manchurian Candidate

The Manchurian Candidate
  • Author(s): Richard Condon
  • Location(s): United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Political
  • Era(s): 1950s and 1960s

As compelling and disturbing as when it was first published in the midst of the Cold War, “The Manchurian Candidate” continues to enthrall readers with its electrifying action and shocking climax…. Sgt. Raymond Shaw is a hero of the...

The Manhattan Project

The Manhattan Project
  • Author(s): Paul McNeive
  • Location(s): Manhattan, Afghanistan, Japan
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Real. Invisible. Devastating. And it’s taking New York by storm. With its insatiable hunger for fast food, easy fixes and life lived at breakneck speed, the city that never sleeps is hurtling towards disaster. Now John Wyse, an ordinary New...

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