- Location(s): Iceland, Reykjavik
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
(Stella Blómkvist Book 4) Sometimes murder runs in the family. Or does it? When a well-known artist is found in Snorri’s Pool with an axe buried deep in his chest, Stella Blómkvist is immediately thrown in at the deep...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Historical, Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): 1938
Illusionist turned sleuth Joseph Spector investigates a sinister conundrum at a 1930s theatre in this thrilling new mystery novel from Tom Mead, author of Death and the Conjuror, one of Publishers Weekly‘s Mysteries of the Year 2022. 1938, London....
- Location(s): Cambodia
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Second half of the 20th Century
This is a first-hand account of life under the brutality and terror of Khmer Rouge rule in Cambodia, as told and also sketched by a survivor of those years, a student of fine art.
- Location(s): Norfolk
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
The sudden death of a pupil in Fleat House at St Stephen’s – a small private boarding school in deepest Norfolk – is a shocking event that the headmaster is very keen to call a tragic accident. But the...
- Location(s): Mexico
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 20th Century
From the day that old Nana Reja found a baby abandoned under a bridge, the life of a small Mexican town forever changed. Disfigured and covered in a blanket of bees, little Simonopio is for some locals the stuff...
- Location(s): Andalusia (Andalucía), London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s/1930s
On a hot July day in 1967, Odelle Bastien climbs the stone steps of the Skelton gallery in London, knowing that her life is about to change forever. Having struggled to find her place in the city since she...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1808-1809
Based on real events, The Muse Of Fire takes readers behind the scenes of London’s massive Covent Garden Theater at the dawn of the 19th Century. The intrigue, romance and betrayal swirling around the actors offstage rivals anything they...
The Muse of Freedom: a Cevenoles Sagas novel
- Location(s): Cévennes (Cevennes)
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): late 17th century
IN THE MYSTERIOUS CÉVENNES MOUNTAINS OF LANGUEDOC, FRANCE, 1695, Jehan BonDurant, a young nobleman forcibly held in a Dominican prieuré as a child, comes of age only to inherit a near-derelict estate and his Huguenot family’s dangerous legacy of...
- Location(s): Paris, Prague
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1986/current day
Laure, a half English, half French woman, sets up a museum in Paris, the Museum of Broken Promises. People come with objects to donate, which represent promises broken by themselves or others. Every day she listens to people recount...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Mystery, Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
From the author of the Orange Prize long-listed, The Pink Hotel Cathy is a young woman who escapes her feral childhood in a rundown chalet on the East coast of England to become a curator of natural history in...
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