- Location(s): Caribbean, United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern looking back to 1960s
We can’t go to the island, Bryon. We don’t really know what we’re getting into . . .’ Eleanor Bennett won’t let her own death get in the way of the truth. So when her estranged children – Byron...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC), Oxford
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
A compulsively readable psychological thriller set in New York and at Oxford University, in which a group of six students play an elaborate game of dares and consequences, with tragic results One game. Six students. Five survivors. It was...
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia
- Location(s): Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Various
First published in 1942, Rebecca West’s epic masterpiece is widely regarded as the most illuminating book to have been written on the former state of Yugoslavia. It is a work of enduring value that remains essential for anyone attempting...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Years after the personal tragedy that scarred his life, Private Investigator John March lives a twilight existence in Manhattan. He is tough and ruthlessly efficient in his professional life, yet introspective and vulnerable when it comes to his relationships...
- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary, back to 1960s
The four Alton children spend the hot Cornish summer playing on sun-baked lawns or building dens in the dark woods. Endless days of laughter and fun. But no one foresees the storm that brings it all to a tragic...
- Location(s): Trinidad and Tobago
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
Celia’s mother died bringing her into the world – when one soul flies in, another flies out, her aunt Tassi says. So she lives in Black Rock, Tobago, with her cousins and Tassi’s second husband Roman, a man so...
- Location(s): Iceland, Reykjavik
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): 2000s
A man is making a crude leather mask with an iron spike fixed in the middle of the forehead. It is a ‘death mask’, once used by Icelandic farmers to slaughter calves, and he has revenge in mind. Meanwhile,...
- Location(s): Nairobi
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
When a bomb explodes in a downtown Nairobi hotel, private detectives Ishmael and Odhiambo quickly make the connection to a murder case they’re investigating. It’s the first big break for their new detective agency, Black Star, formed after they...
- Location(s): Java
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
An ambitious, unconventional, compelling saga of men at war, captivity, forced prostitution, murder, political dirty tricks and mob terror in Japanese-occupied and revolutionary Indonesia. Rory Marron’s Black Sun, Red Moon gives us an almost tangible glimpse of the chaos...
- Location(s): England, France
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Jay Mackintosh has the privilege of spending time with Jackapple Joe who introduces him to the simple wisdom and magic of life in the country, in Kirby Monckton. Joe disappears one Autumn without trace and Jay makes an impulse...










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