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Run to the Blue

Run to the Blue
  • Author(s): P N Johnson
  • Location(s): London, Paxos
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Mystery, Romance
  • Era(s): Present

“Breaking News! Top TV reporter Tess Anderson is missing…she was last seen in the Greek Islands with a mysterious American yachtsman…more follows!” It was supposed to be the best day of her career, the day when she was the...

Still Life

Still Life
  • Author(s): Sarah Winman
  • Location(s): Tuscany, East London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

1944, in the ruined wine cellar of a Tuscan villa, as bombs fall around them, two strangers meet and share an extraordinary evening. Ulysses Temper is a young British soldier, Evelyn Skinner is a sexagenarian art historian and possible...

Takeout Sushi

Takeout Sushi
  • Author(s): Christopher Green
  • Location(s): Tokyo, London, South Africa
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Takeout Sushi is a collection of 17 illustrated short stories set mostly in contemporary Japan that explore feelings of belonging, displacement, and the strangeness of everyday human interaction. In an innovative, fast-paced company, a man’s job comes under threat...

That Girl

That Girl
  • Author(s): Kate Kerrigan
  • Location(s): Chelsea
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

You can escape a place. But you can’t escape yourself. Hanna flees the scene of a terrible crime in her native Sligo. If she can just vanish, re-invent herself under a new name, perhaps the police won’t catch up...

The Betrayal of Thomas True

The Betrayal of Thomas True
  • Author(s): A J West
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, LGBTQIA+
  • Era(s): Early 1700s

The only sin is betrayal… It is the year 1715, and Thomas True has arrived on old London Bridge with a dangerous secret. One night, lost amongst the squalor of London’s hidden back streets, he finds himself drawn into...

The Bleeding Heart (Bryant and May #11)

The Bleeding Heart (Bryant and May #11)
  • Author(s): Christopher Fowler
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

It’s a fresh start for the Met’s oddest investigation team, the Peculiar Crimes Unit. Their first case involves two teenagers who see a dead man rising from his grave in a London park. And if that’s not alarming enough,...

The Burning

The Burning
  • Author(s): Devin Asante
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 17th Century

London 1666. Young Agnes Wilmore arrives in the bustling city from the small of Castle Combe to pursue her dreams. Robert Hubert, a romantic sociopath, takes advantage of the girl on her first night in town, and from that...

The Chase

The Chase
  • Author(s): Ava Glass
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Espionage
  • Era(s): Current

These are the instructions sent to new operative Emma Makepeace. She’s been assigned to track down a man wanted by the Russians and bring him into MI5. It should be easy. But the Russians have eyes everywhere. Emma knows...

The City in Flames

The City in Flames
  • Author(s): Michael Russell
  • Location(s): Camden Town, Berlin, Ireland, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): WW2

1940. A woman lands on the Scottish coast from a German flying boat and goes to ground, hunted by British Intelligence. Suspended from the Irish police for reasons he won’t explain, Detective Inspector Stefan Gillespie is working on his...

The Distant Dead – (The Detective’s Daughter #8)

The Distant Dead – (The Detective’s Daughter #8)
  • Author(s): Lesley Thomson
  • Location(s): London, Tewkesbury
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1940s & Contemporary Dual timeline

Cleaner-turned-detective Stella Darnell connects a murder in Tewkesbury Abbey to a decades-old mystery in wartime London. London, 1940 A woman lies dead in a bombed-out house. It looks like she’s another tragic casualty of the Blitz, until police pathologist...

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