- Location(s): Cape Town
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
The former freedom fighter known as ‘Tiny’ has finally achieved his dream of a peaceful life. But then his beloved son is taken away from him. In that moment, he unleashes himself upon a corrupt South Africa. His victims...
- Location(s): Dartmoor, The West Country
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): 2018
Private Detective Kate Marshall 4 THE TRUTH HIDES IN THE DARK Kate Marshall’s investigation into a young boy’s disappearance sends her down an unexpectedly twisted path in a riveting thriller by multi-million bestselling author, Robert Bryndza. When Private Investigator...
- Location(s): Northern Territory
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
This terrific debut by Adrian Hyland features Emily Tempest, a half-Aborigine woman who returns to the outback village she grew up in to find an old friend murdered. Hyland promises more books, with Tempest becoming a bona fide police...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
- Era(s): Various
Second book in a trilogy featuring London streets. Intimately connected to the area both personally (her family run a jewellery business there) and professionally (as an artist archivist of London’s streets), Rachel Lichtenstein is uniquely placed to explore the...
- Location(s): Egypt
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, In Translation
- Era(s): 1920s
Who shot Kamar al-Dawla Alwan? Was it a crime of passion? What was the role of the beautiful peasant girl called Rim? Is the mysterious Sheikh Asfur as crazy as he seems? First published in 1937, Tawfik al-Hakim’s partly...
- Location(s): New Zealand (Aotearoa)
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): 1800s/Early 1900s
The social history of New Zealand’s gold rushes, as used by Eleanor Catton in her research for The Luminaries.A thorough and carefully researched history of the gold rushes in New Zealand. Based on sound scholarship and aimed at the...
Digging at the Crossroads of Time
- Location(s): Crete
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern looking back to 1600s BC
While exhuming human remains within a collapsed Minoan temple, a respected archaeologist senses a need to look beyond the bones and shards of his discovery. When he digs deeper into the mysteries of the mountain, there are unexpected consequences...
- Location(s): Northern Israel
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): 1996
This is no utopia… 1996. Northern Israel. Lola leaves an unhappy home life in England for the fabled utopian life of a kibbutz, but this heavily guarded farming community on the Arab-Israeli border isn’t the idyll it seems, and...
Dirty White Boy: Tales of Soho
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 2000s
This started as a blog – set in Old Compton Street it chronicles the people, the setting and the feel of Soho. A wonderful journey through the streets and backwaters of this part of London, poignant and funny.
- Location(s): Whitstable
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
The Whitstable Pearl restaurant has been busy all summer while Pearl’s detective agency has brought few interesting cases – until a prospective client calls… Christina Scott confides that seven years ago she had the perfect life with a seaside...
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