- Location(s): Sydney, Australia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
It is 1997, and in a basement flat in Hackney Isla Green is awakened by a call in the middle of the night: her father, Joe, phoning from Sydney. 30 years ago, in the suffocating heat of summer 1967,...
- Location(s): Manhattan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): The near future
From one of America’s greatest writers, The Silence is a timely and compelling novel about what happens when an unpredictable crisis strikes. It is Super Bowl Sunday in the year 2022. Five people are due to have dinner in...
- Location(s): South Korea, North Korea
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): 1800
June Hur’s elegant and haunting debut The Silence of Bones is a bloody YA historical mystery tale perfect for fans of Kerri Maniscalco and Renée Ahdieh. I have a mouth, but I mustn’t speak; Ears, but I mustn’t hear;...
- Location(s): Greece
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Ancient Greece
Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Costa Novel Award and the International DUBLIN Literary Award There was a woman at the heart of the Trojan war whose voice has been silent – till now. Discover the greatest...
- Location(s): Baltimore
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Later 20th Century
FBI trainee Clarice Starling has an elusive serial killer to hunt. Only one man can help. Psychopathic cannibal Hannibal Lecter… The serial killer nicknamed ‘Buffalo Bill’ has been capturing and starving women, then murdering and skinning them. FBI rookie...
- Location(s): Bangladesh
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1971
Alex Salim McKensie, a war baby of the 1971 Bangladesh War of Independence, is adopted by the McKensies, an American family that has lost their only son in Vietnam. Years later, Alex falls in love with Sangeeta Rai, but...
- Location(s): Portobello
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Deceit runs in the family . . . Chris Morrison is facing his worst nightmare. His wife is in a coma. His daughter is missing. And the only thing more unsettling than these two events . . . is...
- Location(s): The Lake District, Cumbria
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
He’d found an angel for his collection. But one angel at a time was never enough…Detective Beth Young has just joined the Cumbrian major crimes team when a body is found posed in a ritualistic manner – arms spread...
- Location(s): Tuscany, Hollywood
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1970s and modern
Hollywood, 1975: Tragedy sends troubled film star Vivien Lockhart into the arms of Giovanni Moretti, and it seems her fortunes have finally changed. Until she meets his sister, and learns that dark shadows haunt her new husband’s past… Tuscany, Present...
- Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
The first in a Newcastle-set police procedural series with a twist. DCI Jack Parker has a secret. He has Early Onset Dementia and he will do anything and everything to hide it from his peers and the people he’s...
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