- Location(s): Edinburgh
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
JOHN REBUS SPENT HIS LIFE AS A DETECTIVE PUTTING EDINBURGH’S MOST DEADLY CRIMINALS BEHIND BARS. NOW, HE’S JOINED THEM. As new allies and old enemies circle, and the days and nights bleed into each other, even the legendary detective...
- Location(s): Cuba (Republic of), Havana
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
In beautiful, crumbling Old Havana, Canadian detective Mike Ellis hopes the sun and sand will help save his troubled marriage. He doesn’t yet know that it’s dead in the water – much like the little Cuban boy last seen...
- Location(s): Beijing (Peking)
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): Back to 1937
On a frozen night in January 1937, in the dying days of colonial Peking, a body was found under the haunted watchtower. It was Pamela Werner, the teenage daughter of the city’s former British consul Edward Werner. Her heart...
- Location(s): Sicily
- Genre(s): Historical, Travelogue
- Era(s): Various
A journey into the heart of Sicily, using art, food, history and literature to shed light on southern Italy’s legacy of political corruption and violent crime. The book takes as its starting point the ongoing trial of seven-times Prime...
- Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 20th century
St Petersburg,1911: Inna Feldman has fled the pogroms of the south to take refuge with distant relatives in Russia’s capital city. Welcomed into the flamboyant Leman family, she is apprenticed into their violin-making workshop. With her looks and talents,...
- Location(s): India
- Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction
- Era(s): 1940s
Saleem’s birth is normal in every way apart from the accident of timing which is the premise of the title. It is an allegory for the birth and development of a nation.
- Location(s): Sweden
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
‘An investigation consists of a mass of voices, the sort you can hear, and the sort you can’t. You have to listen to the soundless voices, Malin. That’s where the truth is hidden.’ Early one morning in the coldest...
- Location(s): London, Long Island, Shanghai
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): WW2 onwards
The narrative unfolds through three different points of view, Oscar, Christine and Marilyn, in locations on three continents: East Hampton, Shanghai and London. A Mind of Winter is a complex, page-turning, literary psychological thriller, which takes up a rich...
- Location(s): London, Melbourne, Prague, Rome
- Genre(s): Fantasy, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Darius Ibrahim is not having a good week. He’s been threatened by a knife-wielding maniac on a London train, interrogated by a mysterious warrior woman beneath the city’s streets, pursued by a military death squad in Melbourne, had his...
- Location(s): Bangkok
- Genre(s): Crime
A contemporary murder set in Bangkok-a neighbor and friend, a young ex-hooker turned artist, is found dead by an American millionaire’s minor wife. Her rich expat husband hires Calvino to investigate. While searching for the killer in exclusive clubs...










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