- Location(s): Cape Town
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Even after the release of Nelson Mandela and the promise of free elections, extremist groups terrorized South Africa, bombing churches, opening fire in bars and restaurants. Nearly twenty-five years ago, as a young Captain, Vaughn de Vries finds himself...
- Location(s): New Zealand (Aotearoa)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 19th Century
Marriage transplants Sarah thousands of miles from home; a failed love affair forces Phoebe to make drastic choices in a new environment; a sudden, shocking discovery brings Mrs Ellis to reconsider her life as an emigrant-The Settling Earth is...
The Seven Deaths of Eveleyn Hardcastle
- Location(s): England, Blackheath
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
WINNER OF THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2018 Gosford Park meets Groundhog Day by way of Agatha Christie and Black Mirror – the most inventive story you’ll read this year Tonight, Evelyn Hardcastle will be killed … Again It...
- Location(s): Buenos Aires
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1920s
Remo Erdosain’s Buenos Aires is a dim, seething, paranoid hive of hustlers and whores, scoundrels and madmen, and Erdosain feels his soul is as polluted as anything in this dingy city. Possessed by the directionlessness of the society around...
- Location(s): Westminster
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
At seven o’clock one Tuesday evening, in a perfectly ordinary tower block near Westminster, four strangers meet for the first time. They each have three things in common: all suffered a traumatic experience six months earlier; all exhibit a...
- Location(s): Brazil
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1920s and 2007
This is Maia’s story. When Pa Salt dies suddenly, the bereaved sisters gather together at their childhood home, a spectacular secluded castle on the shores of Lake Geneva. Each of them is handed a tantalising clue to their heritage...
The Seven Torments of Amy and Craig
- Location(s): Wisconsin, Janesville
- Genre(s): Young Adult, Humour, Romance
- Era(s): 1994
Janesville, Wisconsin (cold in the sense that there is no God) 1994 The worst thing that’s ever happened to Craig is also the best: Amy. Amy and Craig never should’ve gotten together. Craig is an awkward, Dungeons & Dragons-playing...
- Location(s): Cork City
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
After decades of dereliction and inner-city neglect, Barrack Street, Cork is finally being excavated. The work uncovers the skeletal remains of six men, scattered around the site, their hands and feet all bound, all clearly killed violently, but many...
- Location(s): China, London, The Atlantic Ocean
- Genre(s): Mystery, Crime
- Era(s): 1912
When the Titanic sinks it takes with it the crime scene, the witnesses and possibly the murderer. The Titanic’s last stop is at Queenstown, Ireland, where seven first-class passengers disembark. Soon after continuing its voyage, the body of a...
- Location(s): Rome
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): early 2000s
Murder and mystery set in Rome, The Seventh Sacrament is the fifth title in the Nic Costa series, David Hewson’s stunning Italian crime novels.
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