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Hunkeler’s Secret

Hunkeler’s Secret
  • Author(s): Hansjörg Schneider
  • Location(s): Basel, Alsace
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

#4 in The Inspector Hunkeler series Hunkeler, now a retired inspector of the Basel police force, is hospitalized and sharing a room with Stephan Fankhauser, an old acquaintance terminally ill with cancer. One night, a groggy Hunkeler wakes up...

Hunting and Gathering

Hunting and Gathering
  • Author(s): Anna Gavalda
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Camille is doing her best to disappear. She barely eats, works at night as a cleaner and lives in a tiny attic room. Philibert Marquet de La Durbellière is a stammering, erudite aristocrat who sells postcards outside a museum....

Hurry Up And Wait

Hurry Up And Wait
  • Author(s): Isabel Ashdown
  • Location(s): Sussex
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

In her eargerly anticipated second novel, Mail on Sunday Novel Competition winner Isabel Ashdown explored the treacherous territory of adolescent friendships and traces the repercussions of a dangerous relationship across the decades. It’s been more than 20 years since...

Hydra

Hydra
  • Author(s): Matt Wesolowski
  • Location(s): Cornwall, Lancashire
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 2014

In November 2014 Arla Macleod bludgeoned her mother, father and sister to death with a hammer. Now incarcerated at a medium-security mental-health institution, Arla will speak to no one but Scott King, an investigative journalist, whose ‘Six Stories’ podcasts...

Hysteria

Hysteria
  • Author(s): LJ Ross
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The Alexander Gregory Thrillers #2 In a beautiful world, murder is always ugly… Recently returned from his last case in Ireland, elite forensic psychologist and criminal profiler Dr Alexander Gregory receives a call from the French police that he...

I Am Dust

I Am Dust
  • Author(s): Louise Beech
  • Location(s): Hull
  • Genre(s): Horror, Fiction
  • Era(s): 2005/2019

The Dean Wilson Theatre is believed to be haunted by a long-dead actress, singing her last song, waiting for her final cue, looking for her killer… Now Dust, the iconic musical, is returning after twenty years. But who will...

I am the Central Park Jogger

I am the Central Park Jogger
  • Author(s): Trisha Meili
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Crime
  • Era(s): 1989

It was the end of a long day and Trisha Meili, a young New York stockbroker, was just out for a run. At 9.35 p.m. on April 19, 1989, as she jogs alone near 102nd Street in Central Park,...

I am Venus

I am Venus
  • Author(s): Bárbara Mujica
  • Location(s): Madrid, Spain
  • Era(s): 17th Century

Many of the rest of Europe’s painters were heavily into the nude as an art form. The Spanish Inquisition was very much against this art form. This is the story of who the model might have been and the...

I Did It For You

I Did It For You
  • Author(s): Amy Engel
  • Location(s): Kansas
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Set in fictional Ludlow, Kansas. A murdered girl. A convicted killer. Justice served… Or is it? It’s been fourteen years since Greer’s older sister Eliza was murdered. Her family has never been the same. Nor has the small town...

I Dreamed of Africa

I Dreamed of Africa
  • Author(s): Kuki Gallmann
  • Location(s): Kenya
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1970s

‘Often, at the hour of day when the savannah grass is streaked with silver, and pale gold rims the silhouettes of the hills, I drive with my dogs up to the Mukutan, to watch the sun setting behind the...

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