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Snapshot

Snapshot
  • Author(s): Craig Robertson
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A series of shootings by a lone sniper leaves Glasgow terrorised and the media in a frenzy. Who is behind the executions of some of the most notorious criminals in the city? As more deaths occur – including those...

Snare

Snare
  • Author(s): Lilja Sigurdardottir
  • Location(s): Reykjavik
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

After a messy divorce, attractive young mother Sonia is struggling to provide for herself and keep custody of her son. With her back to the wall, she resorts to smuggling cocaine into Iceland, and finds herself caught up in...

Snow

Snow
  • Author(s): Orhan Pamuk
  • Location(s): Kars
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

As the snow begins to fall, a journalist arrives in the remote city of Kars on the Turkish border. Kars is a troubled place – there’s a suicide epidemic among its young women, Islamists are poised to win the...

Snow Angels

Snow Angels
  • Author(s): James Thompson
  • Location(s): Lapland
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

The first thriller in a new series featuring Inspector Kari Vaara: the haunted, hardened detective who must delve into Finland’s dark and violent underbelly. Kaamos: Just before Christmas, the bleakest time of the year in Lapland. The unrelenting darkness...

Snow Country

Snow Country
  • Author(s): Sebastian Faulks
  • Location(s): Austria
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1914 - 1933

1914: Aspiring journalist Anton arrives in Vienna where he meets Delphine, a woman of experience and deep secrets. Entranced by the light of first love, Anton comes to life. Until his country declares war on hers. 1927: For Lena,...

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
  • Author(s): Lisa See
  • Location(s): China
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 19th Century

Lily is the daughter of a humble farmer, and to her family she is just another expensive mouth to feed. Then the local matchmaker delivers startling news: if Lily’s feet are bound properly, they will be flawless. In nineteenth-century...

Snow Waste

Snow Waste
  • Author(s): Michael E Bemis
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Paralleling the modern day struggle between corporate America and the environmental movement, which is increasingly becoming violent, Snow Waste demystifies a ski resort’s future success and a paper mill’s resolve to survive by exacerbating perennial land and water use...

Snowblind

Snowblind
  • Author(s): Christopher Golden
  • Location(s): New England
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

The small New England town of Coventry had weathered a thousand blizzards . . . but never one like this. Icy figures danced in the wind and gazed through children’s windows with soul-chilling eyes. People wandered into the whiteout...

Snowblind

Snowblind
  • Author(s): Ragnar Jonasson
  • Location(s): Siglufjörður
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Siglufjorour: an idyllically quiet fishing village in Northern Iceland, where no one locks their doors – accessible only via a small mountain tunnel. Ari Thor Arason: a rookie policeman on his first posting, far from his girlfriend in Reykjavik...

Snowleg

Snowleg
  • Author(s): Nicholas Shakespeare
  • Location(s): Germany, Hamburg, Leipzig
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s and various

A young Englishman visits Cold War Leipzig with a group of students and, during his brief excursion behind the Iron Curtain, falls for an East German girl who is only just beginning to wake up to the way her...

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