- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Cozy Mystery, Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1960s
Nightingale & Co is the first in a cosy historical crime series featuring the sisters of the Nightingale & Co detective agency in 1960s Berlin. Since the death of her beloved father, Carla has been running the Nightingale &...
- Location(s): Nice
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Theresa is desperate for a change. Forced into early retirement, fed up with babysitting her bossy daughter’s obnoxious children, she sells her Highgate house and moves to the picture-perfect town of Bellevue-sur-Mer, just outside Nice. Quite Nice With its...
- Location(s): Mataura
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Book 1 in the PC Sam Shephard series. Action-packed, tension-filled and atmospheric police procedural set in rural New Zealand. When the body of a young mother is found washed up on the banks of the Mataura River, a small...
- Location(s): Paris, The South of France (Le Midi)
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Mid 1700s
Survivor, genius, perfumer, killer: this is Jean-Baptiste Grenouille. He is abandoned on the filthy streets of Paris as a child, but grows up to discover he has an extraordinary gift: a sense of smell more powerful than any other...
Portrait of the Mother as a Young Woman
- Era(s): 1943
Rome, one January afternoon in 1943. A young German woman is on her way to listen to a Bach concert at the Lutheran church. Innocent and naive, the war is for her little more than a daydream, until she...
- Location(s): Thailand, The Philippines
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Various
Timothy Mo’s first novel in a decade is set within the battle for secession in the Muslim regions of southern Thailand.It’s narrated for the most part by Snooky, a Thai Ladyboy. Pure covers epic expanses of time and is...
- Location(s): Burma (Myanmar), Mandalay
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern looking back
Eva Gatsby has often wondered about her grandfather Lawrence’s past, and exactly what happened to him in Burma during the Second World War. But it is only when Eva’s job as an antiques dealer suddenly requires a trip to...
- Location(s): China, Qingdao, Shanghai
- Genre(s): Fiction, Coming of Age
- Era(s): 1985 / 2007
A darkly glittering debut that traces a mixed family’s troubled trajectory through developing China. Shanghai, 2007: feeling betrayed by her American mother’s engagement to their rich landlord Lu Fang, fourteen-year-old Alva begins plotting her escape. But the exclusive American...
- Location(s): Rome
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Modern and 1950s
When Amelia Tate is cast to play the Audrey Hepburn role in a remake of Roman Holiday, she feels as if all her dreams have come true. She has a handsome boyfriend, is portraying her idol in a major...
- Location(s): Cornwall, Southern Italy
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): 1950s
An idyllic Cornish holiday in the summer of 1958. A happy aristocratic family blessed with wealth and promise. But unbeknown to all of them, death stalks paradise. When catastrophe strikes in the most unexpected way, the tragedy first breaks...
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