- Location(s): Isle of Wight
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Suzie Gray is only fifteen when she is stabbed to death within metres of her uncle’s yacht on the Isle of Wight. Her body is found in the blood-smeared arms of Olly Matken, a family friend who grew up...
- Location(s): Vermont
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
Hollywood Harper Stone arrives at Spruce Peak, Vermont to film a commercial. Stacey Curtis loves to ski and does a few last runs with her friend and ski patrol Chip Walsh. They find a body.
- Location(s): Orlando
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Detective Paul Friedman awakes to a disturbing phone call from his former partner. Officer Glenn Kelley has been abducted. Or, has he? Kelley’s mistake during an arrest may have guaranteed the release of child molester and murderer Jasper Davis....
- Location(s): Deptford
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1976 / Contemporary
Twins Aaron and Clive have been estranged for forty years. Aaron still lives in the empty, crumbling tower block on the riverside in Deptford where they grew up. Clive is a successful property developer, determined to turn the tower...
- Location(s): Edmonton
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Leo Desroches is a reporter for an Edmonton newspaper and attends a murder scene and comes from a native background. Much of this is his story as he rebuilds his life and investigates the murder.
- Location(s): Bletchley, Wilmslow
- Era(s): 1940/50s
June 8, 1954. Alan Turing, the visionary mathematician, is found dead at his home in sleepy Wilmslow, dispatched by a poisoned apple. Taking the case, Detective Constable Leonard Corell quickly learns Turing is a convicted homosexual. Confident it’s a...
- Location(s): Tilos
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Modern
I came here looking for some kind of happiness. I think it might be the cleverest thing I have ever done. One heartbroken winter, Jennifer decides to act on her dream of moving to a tiny Greek island –...
Falling off the Edge of the World
- Location(s): Saudi Arabia
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
What would tempt a young woman to run off to a country she knew almost nothing about? I was that young woman. Fleeing a bitter divorce and my safe, but mundane, life I accepted a job in Saudi Arabia,...
- Location(s): Patagonia
- Genre(s): Travelogue, Adventure
- Era(s): Contemporary
Part reportage, part personal essay, part travelogue, False Calm finds Argentinian author María Sonia Cristoff writing against romantic portrayals of Patagonia as she journeys from one small town to the next. Cristoff returns home to chronicle the ghost towns...
- Location(s): London, South America
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth… Private Investigator and former MI6 agent Joe Wilde is hired by Sally Devlin to investigate her son’s disappearance. Liam Devlin was a rising football star. His car was found...
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