- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1300s
A heretical text, a vengeful husband, a forbidden love… It’s 1310 and Paris is alive with talk of the trial of the Templars. Religious repression is on the rise, and the smoke of execution pyres blackens the sky above...
The Misadventures of Margaret Finch
- Location(s): Blackpool
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Later 1930s
Blackpool, 1938. Miss Margaret Finch – a rather demure young woman – has just begun work in a position that relies on her discretion and powers of observation. Then, her path is crossed by the disgraced Rector of Stiffkey...
- Location(s): Rochester, Watertown
- Genre(s): Crime, Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1970s, 1980s
The shattering life of a charming, ruthless, and twice-convicted serial killer. The author delves into the psychology of Arthur Shawcross, who had characteristics of a pedophile, paraphile, misogynist, necrophile, and philanderer, yet still managed to charm a release out...
The Miseducation of Evie Epworth
- Location(s): Yorkshire
- Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
- Era(s): 1960s
July, 1962 Sixteen year-old Evie Epworth stands on the cusp of womanhood. But what kind of a woman will she become? The fastest milk bottle-delivery girl in East Yorkshire, Evie is tall as a tree and hot as the...
- Location(s): Bristol
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
‘The Missing has a delicious sense of foreboding from the first page, luring us into the heart of a family with terrible secrets and making us wait, with pounding hearts for the final, agonizing twist. Loved it’ Fiona Barton,...
- Location(s): Louisiana
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 20th Centry
Louisiana is the setting for this riveting tale of a kidnapped child and the man on her trail – Sam Simoneaux, who feels honour-bound to help find her. Leaving his stalwart wife behind, he works his passage on a...
- Location(s): Ghana
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Contemporary
Gordon Tilson is a lonely widower who befriends a young woman online. When her sister is injured in a car accident, he sends her thousands of dollars to cover the hospital bill and runs off to Ghana to surprise...
- Location(s): Austrian Alps
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): Contemporary
Barbegazi are fabled creatures who live in the alps, rather like gnomes. Tessa knows that they exist because her beloved grandfather told her about them. So she sets out to prove to her family and friends that her grandfather...
- Location(s): Dartmoor, London
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
One family… On a beautiful summer’s day, at a remote lake in the middle of Dartmoor, three members of the Fowler family take a dinghy out onto the water, leaving mother Sarah at the shore. Less than sixty seconds...
- Location(s): Indiana
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary looking back
Nicole Monroe is in a rut. At twenty-four, she lives alone in a tiny apartment in her hometown in Indiana, she’s just gotten a DWI, and she works the same dead-end job she’s been working since high school. Everyone...
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