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The Museum of Desire

The Museum of Desire
  • Author(s): Jonathan Kellerman
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

ONE WILD PARTY. FOUR COUNTS OF MURDER. A mansion in Beverly Hills is leased out to host an event wild enough to herald the end of days. The next day there isn’t a living soul to be seen. But...

The Music and Life of Beethoven

The Music and Life of Beethoven
  • Author(s): Lewis Lockwood
  • Location(s): Vienna
  • Genre(s): Biography
  • Era(s): 19th Century

The life of Beethoven and the creation of his works, amidst his a turbulent personal situation and against a background of political and social upheaval. Highly accessible as a read and real insight into the life and times of...

The Music Book

The Music Book
  • Author(s): Dave O'Leary
  • Location(s): Seattle
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2015

What does music mean? Can it be more than the sum of its notes and melodies? Can it truly change you? Rob, a musician turned reluctant music critic, poses these questions as everything important in his life appears to...

The Mysteries of Algiers

The Mysteries of Algiers
  • Author(s): Robert Irwin
  • Location(s): Algiers
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

The Mysterious Case of the Missing Crime Writer

The Mysterious Case of the Missing Crime Writer
  • Author(s): Ragnar Jonasson
  • Location(s): Iceland
  • Genre(s): Noir, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

One winter evening bestselling crime author, Elín S. Jónsdóttir goes missing. There are no clues to her disappearance and it is up to young detective, Helgi, to crack the case before it’s leaked to the press. As he interviews...

The Mysterious Disappearance of Marsha Boden

The Mysterious Disappearance of Marsha Boden
  • Author(s): Rosy Gee
  • Location(s): Shropshire
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

‘This cosy crime novel is set in a sleepy village in Shropshire where nothing much happens except the day when Marsha Boden disappears. When a GP commits suicide after he discovers his wife is having an affair with another...

The Mystery Down Under

The Mystery Down Under
  • Author(s): Christine McHaines
  • Location(s): Sydney
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): contemporary

A light-hearted cozy mystery full of colourful characters! Quentin Cadbury and Wanda Merrydrew have only been private detectives for a short time. Yet after locking horns with London’s criminal underworld, they now have a murderous villain on their tail....

The Mystery of Loco Lane

The Mystery of Loco Lane
  • Author(s): Kathy Harter
  • Location(s): California, Santa Barbara
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Henry Travis inherits his uncle’s dilapidated houseboat, and a dog named Captain, after he drowned in a drunken spill. Nestled at the cheap end of Locando Lane near a cove once pillaged by pirates and known locally as Loco...

The Mystery of Mrs Christie

The Mystery of Mrs Christie
  • Author(s): Marie Benedict
  • Location(s): United Kingdom
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s

The New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Only Woman in the Room returns with a thrilling reconstruction of one of the most notorious events in literary history: Agatha Christie’s mysterious 11-day disappearance in 1926. In...

The Mystery of Sundays Well

The Mystery of Sundays Well
  • Author(s): Anne Crosse
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Present day

Following a double murder, the residents of a small Irish town refuse to give up their secrets. “This book brims with subtle Irish humour.” DI Robert Carroll hates rural Magnerstown with a passion. So he’s none too pleased when...

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