- Location(s): Greece
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
- Era(s): 100s BCE
Perfect for fans of Jennifer Saint, Elodie Harper and Natalie Haynes, author of Daughters of Sparta Claire Heywood returns with an imaginative reinterpretation of the myth of the great hero Perseus, bringing to life the voices of three women...
The Shadow of the Crescent Moon
- Location(s): Pakistan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1999
Long-listed for the Baileys Women s Prize for Fiction, a lyrical novel set over the course of one morning in a small town in Pakistan Fatima Bhutto s stunning debut novel chronicles the lives of five young people trying...
The Shadow of the Northern Lights
- Location(s): Ísafjörður (Isafjordur)
- Genre(s): Police Procedural
- Era(s): Contemporary
THE THRILLING THIRD BOOK IN THE HILDUR SERIES As Christmas comes to the west cost of Iceland, a corpse is found in a fish farming pond. Detective Hildur Rúnarsdóttir and trainee Jakob Johanson barely have time to start their...
- Location(s): London, Mexico
- Genre(s): Suspense, Magical Realism
- Era(s): Contemporary
A magnificent work of shadow-play and a meditation on desire, metamorphosis and mortality. Flora is visiting home in Mexico when the family dog leaps up and bites her hand. She winds up in hospital where she undergoes several surgeries...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction, Crime, Historical
- Era(s): 1670s
London 1671 The damage caused by the Great Fire still overshadows the capital. The disfigured body of a man is unearthed in the ruins of the old almshouse, forcing architect Cat Hakesby to stop restoration work. It is clear...
- Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay), Kolkata (Calcutta)
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): 1920s
Wyndham and Banerjee Book 5 Calcutta, 1923. When a Hindu theologian is found murdered in his home, the city is on the brink of all-out religious war. Can officers of the Imperial Police Force, Captain Sam Wyndham and...
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
A modern serial killer – hunting an ancient secret. A woman is left to die as the rebuilt Globe theatre burns. Another woman is drowned like Ophelia, skirts swirling in the water. A professor has his throat slashed open...
- Location(s): Stratford-upon-Avon
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Around WW2
Four motherless sisters, raised by a distant father in a crumbling, ivy-choked country estate. A terrible war on the horizon that will tear an ancient family apart. Stratford-upon-Avon, 1940. Rosalind Arden, born into one of the oldest families in...
- Location(s): Queensland
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Her best friend is dead. Emma and Ariella, neighbours in one of Sydney’s most exclusive suburbs, appear to have it all—perfect homes, perfect husbands, perfect lives. But they both know dark secrets lurk beneath the surface and shallow waters...
- Location(s): Virginia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
The author of the award-winning What the Zhang Boys Know ( …utterly beautiful and unforgettable Kevin Wilson, author of The Family Fang) now gives us a heart-rending first novel about love, displacement, and the powerful ghosts that haunt so...
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