- Location(s): Dorset
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Nine years ago her daughter was taken. And now she’s back. Two-and-a-half-year-old Holly is playing happily in a pink plastic playhouse, while her mother Rachel sips coffee and chats with a friend nearby. It should be an ordinary day...
- Location(s): London, Lausanne, Montreux
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1976 - 2016
You only get one life – but what if it isn’t the one you were meant to live? When Jessica discovers a shocking secret about her birth, she leaves her London home and travels to Switzerland in search of...
- Location(s): Gdansk
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1939 and 1961
A detective risks everything in a city on the brink… Days before the outbreak of World War II, chief investigator of the Danzig Police Force, Johan Tal, gets called out to investigate a brutal murder. The crime scene is...
- Location(s): Switzerland, Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Serbia
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Late 1800s and Early 1900s
Historical fiction that presents a “what if” theory about the amount of involvement that Albert Einstein’s first wife (also a physicist) had in some of his most significant scientific contributions.
- Location(s): Sicily
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): contemporary
The Other End of the Line is the twenty-fourth darkly humorous Inspector Montalbano mystery from the international bestselling author Andrea Camilleri. In Inspector Montalbano’s coastal town of Vigàta, a surge of migrants have been coming in by boat, and...
- Location(s): Derby, Lake Garda
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Present looking back
One year ago, Leah’s twenty-one-year-old niece, Amy, mysteriously drowned near her family-owned luxury resort on the shores of Lake Garda. Now, returning to Italy for the first time since Amy’s death, Leah is shocked to find her family seem...
- Location(s): Greece
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Laila and her husband arrive for a week’s holiday in Greece in desperate need of a reset. As Laila sits by the pool she finds herself inexplicably drawn to the other family staying in their resort. Em has no...
The Other Half of Augusta Hope
- Location(s): Burundi, England
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
At six, she’s memorising the dictionary. At seven, she’s correcting her teachers. At eight, she spins the globe and picks her favourite country on the sound of its name: Burundi. And now that she’s an adult, Augusta has no...
- Location(s): Aleppo, Brooklyn
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
Consistently receiving 5-star ratings, The Other Half of My Soul; is a gripping story about an American-born Syrian Jew from Brooklyn and a Syrian-born Shi-ite Muslim from Aleppo. The book raises profound questions about personal choices, commitments, responsibility, and...
- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Jane is asked to pick up her friend’s daughter, but someone pretending to be Jane has already collected Florrie. Now the little girl is missing… When Jane finds evidence in her own home clearly linked to Florrie, she starts...
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