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The Malibu House

The Malibu House
  • Author(s): Tasmina Perry
  • Location(s): Malibu
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Escape to Malibu this summer with the Queen of the Beach Reads Investigative reporter Lara Stone is on holiday. Her LA-based boyfriend Alex has use of a postcard-perfect beach retreat in Malibu and has promised her two weeks of...

The Malice of Angels

The Malice of Angels
  • Author(s): Wendy Percival
  • Location(s): Hartland
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Crime
  • Era(s): Present day

This is the third book in the Esme Quentin genealogy mystery series. Esme Quentin is reminded of a painful past when a journalist colleague of her late husband Tim, turns up unannounced asking about a story Tim reported on...

The Mall

The Mall
  • Author(s): Megan Mccafferty
  • Location(s): New Jersey
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Young Adult
  • Era(s): 1991

New York Times bestselling author Megan McCafferty returns to her roots with this YA coming of age story set in a New Jersey mall. The year is 1991. Scrunchies, mixtapes and 90210 are, like, totally fresh. Cassie Worthy is...

The Mallorca Cat Café

The Mallorca Cat Café
  • Author(s): Jan Edwards
  • Location(s): Mallorca
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): 21st century

Life seems idyllic for Laura Lundon. The presenter of a successful morning show on an English radio station shares an apartment in Mallorca’s capital, Palma, with her photographer boyfriend Carlos McCloud, and their rescue cat, Harry. Laura is also...

The Mallorcan Bookseller

The Mallorcan Bookseller
  • Author(s): Pete Davies
  • Location(s): Mallorca, Armenia, India, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Present day

“Is Anna in?” It took just three words to change his life. Sam Martínez, a London detective, is put on sick leave suffering from PTSD resulting from a firearms incident that went wrong and his best friend was shot....

The Malta Exchange

The Malta Exchange
  • Location(s): Malta
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

The pope is dead. A conclave to select his replacement is about to begin. Cardinals are beginning to arrive at the Vatican, but one has fled Rome for Malta in search of a document that dates back to the...

The Maltese Falcon

The Maltese Falcon
  • Author(s): Dashiell Hammett
  • Location(s): San Francisco
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Earlier 20th Century

‘His name remains one of the most important and recognisable in the crime fiction genre. Hammett set the standard for much of the work that would follow’ Independent Sam Spade is hired by the fragrant Miss Wonderley to track...

The Man From Beijing

The Man From Beijing
  • Author(s): Henning Mankell
  • Location(s): Sweden
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern looking back a century

REVENGE CAN TAKE MORE THAN A LIFETIME In a sleepy hamlet in north Sweden, the local police make a chilling discovery; nineteen people have been brutally slaughtered. It is a crime unprecedented in Sweden’s history and the police are...

The Man From Berlin

The Man From Berlin
  • Author(s): Luke McCallin
  • Location(s): Sarajevo
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): WW2

A Gregor Reinhardt Novel Book 1 Sarajevo, 1943: Marija Vukic, a beautiful young filmmaker and socialite, and a German officer are brutally murdered. Assigned to the case is military intelligence officer Captain Gregor Reinhardt. Already haunted by his wartime...

The Man from London

The Man from London
  • Author(s): Georges Simenon
  • Location(s): Dieppe
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Crime, Historical
  • Era(s): Earlier 20th Century

On a foggy winter’s evening in Dieppe, after the arrival of the daily ferry from England, a railway signalman habitually scrutinizes the port from his tiny, isolated cabin. When a scuffle on the quayside catches his eye, he is...

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