- Location(s): Hannover (Hanover)
- Genre(s): Crime, Nonfiction
- Era(s): Post WW1
In the shadowed streets of Hanover, a man would become one of Germany’s most notorious killers — Fritz Haarmann, the “Werewolf of Hanover.” This gripping true-crime account uncovers how Haarmann preyed on vulnerable youths in the chaos following World...
- Location(s): Somerset
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 15th Century
**SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE 2019** 15th century Oakham, in Somerset; a tiny village cut off by a big river with no bridge. When a man is swept away by the river in the early hours of Shrove...
- Location(s): Wisconsin
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): 1970s
A bizarre chain of events begins when sixteen unlikely people gather for the reading of Samuel W. Westing’s will. And though no one knows why the eccentric, game-loving millionaire has chosen a virtual stranger—and a possible murderer—to inherit his...
- Location(s): Norfolk
- Genre(s): Coming of Age, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
When a giant sperm whale washes up on the local beach and tells Joe Gunner that death will follow him wherever he goes. Joe knows that the place he needs to go is back home. Having stormed out two...
- Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
A serial killer is stalking Tyneside. But there is a pattern to his killings, his choice of victims, his method of slaughter. David Carlisle, a criminal profiler, is brought in to assist DCI Jack Mason with his task of...
- Location(s): India
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): 1947
A beautiful new edition of the first volume in the Surya Trilogy by Whitbread award-winning author Jamila Gavin. India, August 1947: Fleeing from their burnt-out village as civil war rages in the Punjab, Marvinder and Jaspal are separated from...
- Location(s): Connemara
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Current
A body behind the bar. A family torn apart. A pub where the spirits are as dark as the family’s secrets. Everyone in Westport knows the Lynch family. They own its most successful pub, the shoe shop next door,...
- Location(s): Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early days of the USA
Ethan Saunders, once among General Washington’s most valued spies, now lives in disgrace, haunting the taverns of Philadelphia. An accusation of treason has long since cost him his reputation and his beloved fiancée, Cynthia Pearson, but at his most...
- Location(s): Georgia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1938
Young for his class and small for his age, Porter Osborne, Jr., leaves his rural Georgia home in 1938 to meet the world at Willingham University, armed with the knowledge that he has been “Raised Right” in the best...
- Location(s): Devon
- Genre(s): Fiction, Suspense
- Era(s): Contemporary
Freya Lyell is struggling to move on from her sister Stella’s suicide five years ago. Visiting the bewitching Byrne Hall, only a few miles from the scene of the tragedy, she discovers a portrait of Stella – a portrait...
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