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Deadly Harvest (#4 Detective Kubu)

Deadly Harvest (#4 Detective Kubu)
  • Author(s): Michael Stanley
  • Location(s): Gaborone, Mochudi
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

The fourth mystery in the beloved and critically acclaimed Detective Kubu series tracks a series of murders and the mysterious witch doctor whose nefarious potions might hold the key to a web of missing persons. A young girl goes...

Death and the Conjuror

Death and the Conjuror
  • Author(s): Tom Mead
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1936

1936, London. A celebrity psychiatrist is discovered dead in his locked study. There seems to be no way a killer could have escaped unseen. There are no clues, no witnesses, and no evidence of the murder weapon. Stumped by...

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,...

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