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Midnight and Blue

Midnight and Blue
  • Author(s): Ian Rankin
  • 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...

Midnight in Havana

Midnight in Havana
  • Author(s): Peggy Blair
  • 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...

Midnight in Peking

Midnight in Peking
  • Author(s): Paul French
  • 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...

Midnight in Sicily

Midnight in Sicily
  • Author(s): Peter Robb
  • 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...

Midnight in St Petersburg

Midnight in St Petersburg
  • Author(s): Vanora Bennett
  • 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,...

Midnight’s Children

Midnight’s Children
  • Author(s): Salman Rushdie
  • 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.

Midwinter Sacrifice

Midwinter Sacrifice
  • Author(s): Mons Kellentoft
  • 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...

Mind of Winter

Mind of Winter
  • Author(s): Shira Nayman
  • 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...

Mind the Gap

Mind the Gap
  • Author(s): Tim Richards
  • 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...

Minor Wife

Minor Wife
  • Author(s): Christopher G Moore
  • 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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