- Location(s): Afghanistan, Peshawar
- Era(s): Later 20th Century
An espionage thriller set in pre-Taliban Afghanistan. When a shipment of Stinger missiles disappears, a CIA officer becomes entangled in an unusual triangle with a journalist and her former lover, now an elusive mujahideen chief. These characters lead us...
- Location(s): Florida, South London
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
You thought she was safe. You were wrong… Alex knows her daughter would never wander off in a strange place. So when her three-year-old vanishes from an idyllic beach wedding, Alex immediately believes the worst. The hunt for Lottie...
- Location(s): Cumbria
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1939-1989
All she has left is her sanity. Will the asylum take that from her too? In 1939, Matilda is admitted to Ghyllside hospital, cut off from family and friends. Not quite twenty, and forced to give up her baby...
- Location(s): West London
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Set in the heart of West London’s Asian community, this is the latest instalment in the unmissable ZAQ & JAGS series . . . Trying – and failing – to keep his head down and to stay out of...
- Location(s): London, Paris, Venice
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Mid 19th Century to Early 20th Century
Why did John Stone die,having fallen from a window at his London home? This is a complex mystery, which starts in London in 1909 and gradually the search for the truth lies in going to Paris in 1890, and...
- Location(s): Scotland
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
The northern Scottish estuary burg of Stonemouth is run, gangster-style, by two families, one of which would rather Stewart Gilmour was not back on their patch. Just what the twenty-something lighting architect has done to earn the ire of...
- Location(s): Missouri
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
William Stoner enters the University of Missouri at nineteen to study agriculture. A seminar on English literature changes his life, and he never returns to work on his father’s farm. Stoner becomes a teacher. He marries the wrong woman....
- Location(s): Amalfi Coast
- Era(s): 1939
It’s 1939 and Lily and her American doctor husband James have come to the Amalfi coast in southern Italy in search of a new start. And how could they not be happy in a place where the scenery is...
- Location(s): Strandja Mountains
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
In his mesmerising first novel, the internationally celebrated short-story writer Miroslav Penkov spins the intriguing tale of an American student who returns to Bulgaria, the country he left as a child. His mission is to track down his grandfather...
- Location(s): Perhentian Islands
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Bruised from the breakdown of her marriage, Esther Lomax needs to get away, and Malaysia’s unspoilt shores seem the perfect place. But a day’s boat trip takes a desperate turn when Esther and six other holidaymakers are taken to...
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