Blood on the Sand (DI Andy Horton 5)
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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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