- Location(s): Beijing (Peking), China
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Late 20th Century/Modern
A lone man, Peanut, escapes a labour camp in the dead of night, fleeing across the winter desert of north-west China. Two decades earlier, he was a spy for the British; now Peanut must disappear on Beijing’s surveillance-blanketed streets....
- Location(s): Shanghai
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1930s
In 1936, classical pianist Thomas Greene is recruited to Shanghai to lead a jazz orchestra of fellow African-American expats. From being flat broke in segregated Baltimore to living in a mansion with servants of his own, he becomes the...
Night Shadows (Forbidden Iceland Book 3)
- Location(s): Iceland
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
The small community of Akranes is devastated when a young man dies in a mysterious house fire, and when Detective Elma and her colleagues from West Iceland CID discover the fire was arson, they become embroiled in an increasingly...
- Location(s): The Hebrides
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Dr Anna Bennett, together with her husband Giles and two young sons, Raphael and Moth, have come to fictional Colsay in the Western Isles, so he can monitor the puffin population and she can finish her book on 18th-century...
Night Watcher (Dundee Crime Series)
- Location(s): Dundee/St Andrews
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Two stalkers -One target A mysterious stranger arrives in Dundee, with a mission to find a new Chosen One to punish. He selects Nicole, a woman with a weakness for men. One of Nicole’s paramours is found hanged and...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1945
Late April, 1945. The war is over, yet Dr Doll, a loner and ‘moderate pessimist’, lives in constant fear. By night, he is haunted by nightmarish images of the bombsite in which he is trapped ― he, and the...
- Location(s): India
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1857
New Year’s Eve, 1856. As Captain Rodney Savage of the 13th Rifles, Bengal Native Infantry, celebrates the start of 1857 with his wife and friends in the isolated cantonment of Bhowani, news comes of a crisis that will have...
- Location(s): North Carolina
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
Set in the 1950s, this is the story of Luce, a young woman, whohas chosen to live as a caretaker in a remote cabin in North Carolina. Happy to be in nature, away from civilisation. But a man from...
- Location(s): Western Australia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Seeking asylum from the wreckage of her life, Yvette Grimm arrives in Australia on a holiday visa. She applies for permanent residency with no hope of success. Resisting advice that she marry to stay in the country, Yvette invests...
- Location(s): Australia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Nine perfect strangers, each hiding an imperfect life. A luxury retreat cut off from the outside world. Ten days that promise to change your life. But some promises – like some lives – are perfect lies . . .
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