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Blood on the Sand (DI Andy Horton 5)

Blood on the Sand (DI Andy Horton 5)
  • Author(s): Pauline Rowson
  • Location(s): Isle of Wight
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Inspector Andy Horton’s holiday peace is shattered when stepping out across an abandoned golf course on the Isle of Wight on a cold, grey January, he finds himself facing a distraught young woman with a gun in her hand...

Blood Orange

Blood Orange
  • Author(s): Troy Blacklaws
  • Location(s): Cape Town, KwaZulu-Natal (Natal)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s/1980s

Gecko’s childhood is one of sheltered, almost magical innocence on a farm in Natal. He spends his days taking barefoot expeditions with his dogs and his nights listening to Springbok Radio, unaware of the cruel force in his life...

Blood Orange

Blood Orange
  • Author(s): Harriet Tyce
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Domestic Noir
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Alison has it all. A doting husband, adorable daughter, and a career on the rise – she’s just been given her first murder case to defend. But all is never as it seems… Just one more night. Then I’ll...

Blood Orchids

Blood Orchids
  • Author(s): Toby Neal
  • Location(s): Hawai'i
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Hawaii is palm trees, black sand and blue water-but for policewoman Lei Texeira, there’s a dark side to paradise. Lei has overcome a scarred past to make a life for herself as a cop in the sleepy Big Island...

Blood Rose

Blood Rose
  • Author(s): Margie Orford
  • Location(s): Cape Town, Namibia, South Africa
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

The gruesome murder of a homeless teenage boy suggests a methodical serial killer is at work in Walvis Bay, a depressed port, isolated in the vast sweep of the Namib Desert. It is a corrupt, claustrophobic place with a...

Blood Safari

Blood Safari
  • Author(s): Deon Meyer
  • Location(s): South Africa
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Emma le Roux, a wealthy young woman sees a news story on TV, which leads her to believe that her brother, Jacobus le Roux, thought to be dead for twenty years, is, in fact alive: and a suspect, under...

Blood Song

Blood Song
  • Author(s): Johana Gustawsson
  • Location(s): Valencia, Falkenberg
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1938 and modern

Spain, 1938: The country is wracked by civil war, and as Valencia falls to Franco’s brutal dictatorship, Republican Therese witnesses the murders of her family. Captured and sent to the notorious Las Ventas women’s prison, Therese gives birth to...

Blood Sympathy

Blood Sympathy
  • Author(s): Reginald Hill
  • Location(s): Luton
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

PI can mean many things, but can it really mean a balding, middle-agd redundant lathe operator from a high rise in Luton, Beds? Joe Sixsmith thinks it can. His Aunt Mirabelle thinks you’d have to be crazy to hire...

Blood Wedding

Blood Wedding
  • Author(s): P J Brooke
  • Location(s): Granada
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 2000s

A death of a Muslim student, Leila, turns into a terrorist attack in Grenada. Max Romero takes on the investigation, and finds that she was researching the impact of the Spanish Civil War on his own home village in...

Bloodstream

Bloodstream
  • Author(s): Tess Gerritsen
  • Location(s): Maine
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

In April came the rains. In August came the heat. In November came the horror. It’s paying a return visit. The small resort of Tranquillity, Maine, seems like the perfect spot for Dr Claire Elliot to shelter her adolescent...

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