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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...

Blue

Blue
  • Author(s): Lisa Glass
  • Location(s): Newquay
  • Genre(s): Romance, Young Adult
  • Era(s): Modern

Surfing is sixteen-year-old Iris’s world, and when the ultra-talented Zeke walks into her life, it soon becomes her passion. Over one amazing summer, as she is drawn into his sphere, she experiences love, new friendships, but also loss, with...

Blue and Green Should Never Be Seen! (Or so Mother Says)

Blue and Green Should Never Be Seen! (Or so Mother Says)
  • Author(s): Colette Kebell
  • Location(s): Berkshire, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

GiGi (well, Griselda Griswald actually, but everybody calls her GiGi) is a woman with a mission: to help people improve the way they look, increase their self-esteem, and eventually, make them happier people. Being a personal shopper is a...

Blue Blood

Blue Blood
  • Author(s): Sara Blaedel
  • Location(s): Copenhagen
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

In an idyllic neighbourhood of Copenhagen, a young woman, Susanne Hansson, is discovered in her apartment bound and gagged, the victim of an extraordinarily brutal rape attack. Detective Inspector Louise Rick soon learns that Susanne met the rapist on...

Blue Dahlia, Black Gold

Blue Dahlia, Black Gold
  • Author(s): Daniel Metcalfe
  • Location(s): Angola
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Since the end of its crippling 27-year civil war over a decade ago, Angola has changed almost beyond recognition. An oil-fuelled bonanza has brought about massive foreign investment and a fabulously wealthy new elite, making its capital, Luanda, the...

Blue Lightening (Shetland #4)

Blue Lightening (Shetland #4)
  • Author(s): Ann Cleeves
  • Location(s): Fair Isle
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

With the autumn storms raging, Fair Isle feels cut off from the rest of the world. Trapped, tension is high and tempers become frayed. Enough to drive someone to murder . . . A woman’s body is discovered at...

Blue Shoes and Happiness

Blue Shoes and Happiness
  • Author(s): Alexander McCall Smith
  • Location(s): Botswana
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Another novel in the series of the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, novels set in Botswana. Now that she is finally and happily married to her long-term suitor Mr J.L.B. Matekoni, Mma Ramotswe of the No. 1 Ladies Detective...

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