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Death and the Dolce Vita

Death and the Dolce Vita
  • Author(s): Stephen Gundle
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Crime, Historical
  • Era(s): 1950s

On 9 April 1953 an attractive twenty-one-year-old woman went missing from her family home in Rome. Thirty-six hours later her body was found washed up on a neglected beach at Torvaianica, forty kilometres from the Italian capital. Some said...

Death At Eden’s End

Death At Eden’s End
  • Author(s): Jo Allen
  • Location(s): The Lake District, Eden Valley
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 2019

When one-hundred-year-old Violet Ross is found dead at Eden’s End, a luxury care home hidden in a secluded nook of the Lake District’s Eden Valley it’s tragic, of course, but not unexpected. Except for the instantly recognisable look in...

Death Deserved

Death Deserved
  • Author(s): Thomas Enger, Jørn Lier Horst
  • Location(s): Oslo
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Police officer Alexander Blix and celebrity blogger Emma Ramm join forces to track down a serial killer with a thirst for attention and high-profile murders, in the first episode of a gripping new Nordic Noir series… Oslo, 2018. Former...

Death in Bordeaux

Death in Bordeaux
  • Author(s): Allan Massie
  • Location(s): Bordeaux
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): WW2

In the spring of 1940, the mutilated body of a homosexual is discovered in a street near the Bordeaux railway station. It looks like a straight-forward sex crime, but when Superintendent Lannes is warned off the investigation, his suspicion...

Death in Deià

Death in Deià
  • Author(s): David Coubrough
  • Location(s): Deya (Deià)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): Recent

Deia is a small and idyllic village on the north-west coast of Mallorca, made famous by being the home of Robert Graves for much of his life, but subsequently becoming a magnet for artists, authors and film stars (and...

Death in Pont-Aven

Death in Pont-Aven
  • Author(s): Jean-Luc Bannalec
  • Location(s): Pont-Aven
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

A strange murder in an idyllic French seaside village, a major family tragedy, and a puzzling secret await Commissioner Dupin in this captivating whodunit thriller. At the Central Hotel in Pont Aven, Brittany, 91-year-old manager Pierre-Louis Pennec is found...

Death In Shanghai

Death In Shanghai
  • Author(s): M J Lee
  • Location(s): Shanghai
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1920s

Shanghai, 1928. The body of a blonde is washed up on the Beach of Dead Babies, in the heart of the smog-filled city. Seemingly a suicide, a closer inspection reveals a darker motive: the corpse has been weighed down, it’s...

Death of an Avid Reader

Death of an Avid Reader
  • Author(s): Frances Brody
  • Location(s): Leeds
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Historical
  • Era(s): Post WW1

A lady with a secre Kate Shackleton’s sterling reputation for courageous sleuthing attracts the attention of the venerable Lady Coulton. Hidden in her past is a daughter, born out of wedlock and given up to a different family. Now,...

Death of an Englishman

Death of an Englishman
  • Author(s): Magdalen Nabb
  • Location(s): Florence
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 2000s

Introducing Marshal Salvatore Guarnaccia of the Florentine carabinieri, a Sicilian stationed far from home. He wants to go south for Christmas to spend the holiday with his family, but he is laid up with the ‘flu. At this awkward...

Death of an Officer

Death of an Officer
  • Author(s): Mark Ellis
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1943

No. 6 in the DCI Frank Merlin series. London. Spring 1943. While Europe continues to suffer under the iron fist of Nazi occupation, Britain remains battered but unbowed. DCI Frank Merlin, already contending with a booming wartime crime wave...

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