The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fantasy, Mystery
- Era(s): Later 19th Century
In September of 1884, Robert Louis Stevenson, then in his mid-thirties, moved with his family to Bournemouth, a resort on the southern coast of England, where in the brief span of 23 months he revised A Child’s Garden of...
- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
‘Immersive, gripping, will pull at your heartstrings’ Gilly Macmillan, international bestselling author We all have our secrets. Eleanor Rathmell has kept one her whole life. But when her husband dies and a stranger arrives at her door, her safe...
- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
- Era(s): 1940s
Cornwall, 1940. In the hushed hours of deepest night a young woman is found washed up on the rocks. Was it a tragic accident? Or should the residents of Penhallow have been more careful about whom they invited in?...
- Location(s): Algeria
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): 1940s
Through the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach, Camus explored what he termed “the nakedness of man faced with the absurd.” First published in English in 1946; now in a...
The Stranger from the Mountains
- Location(s): Iceland
- Genre(s): Police Procedural, In Translation
- Era(s): Contemporary
THE BRILLIANT FIFTH BOOK IN THE BESTSELLING HILDUR SERIES, SOON TO BE A TV SHOW! Every autumn, farmers in rural Iceland head to the icy heights of the mountains to gather sheep. In a remote valley, a different discovery...
The Stranger From The Sea (Poldark Book 8)
- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 18th Century
Cornwall 1810. The Poldark family awaits the return of Ross from his mission to Wellington’s army in Portugal. But their ordered existence ends with Jeremy Poldark’s dramatic rescue of the stranger from the sea. Stephen Carrington’s arrival in the...
- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary looking back
You may not know the stranger in room six. But they know everything about you. It’s been fifteen years since Belinda was convicted of her husband’s murder. Now, she’s ready for her life to begin again, and she’s set...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Police Procedural
- Era(s): Contemporary
PARIS, a misty night a few days before Christmas: a young woman is saved from the waters of the Seine. Unable to remember her name or how she ended up in the river, she is taken to the hospital...
- Location(s): The Maine Woods
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1963-1990
Many people dream of escaping modern life, but most will never act on it. This is the remarkable true story of a man who lived alone in the woods of Maine for 27 years, making this dream a reality–not...
- Location(s): Manchester
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
There are dark forces at work in our world (and in Manchester in particular), so thank God The Stranger Times is on hand to report them . . . A weekly newspaper dedicated to the weird and the wonderful...
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