- Location(s): Manaus
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
There were people on the banks of the river. Among the tangled waterways and giant anacondas of the Brazilian Rio Negro, an enigmatic scientist is developing a drug that could alter the lives of women for ever. Dr Annick...
- Location(s): Athens, London
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 5th Century BC, Mid 17th Century
A novel of two smart women with the sculptures of the Parthenon as the central theme. Mary Elgin, who is the wife of Lord Elgin who brought the marbles (which now reside in the British Museum): Aspasia,who was the...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 1940s
November 1941. John Russell is living in Berlin, tied to the increasingly alien city by his love for two Berliners: his thirteen-year-old son, Paul, and his actress girlfriend, Effi. One of a dwindling handful of much-censored journalists, Russell finds...
- Location(s): Osen, Oslo
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
(Blix & Ramm Book 4) Incarcerated in a Norwegian high-security prison, a broken Alexander Blix joins forces with Emma Ramm to find a ruthless killer who has escaped from a German jail. Pulse-pounding Nordic Noir. Alexander Blix is a...
- Location(s): Québec
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Jane Neal, 76 year old former school teacher, is found dead on Thanksgiving Sunday in the woods. The police quickly suspect she was killed by an arrow. it is the hunting season, so could it have been an accident?...
- Location(s): Sandhamn
- Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
On a hot July morning on Sweden’s idyllic vacation island of Sandhamn, a man takes his dog for a walk and makes a gruesome discovery: a body, tangled in fishing net, has washed ashore. Police detective Thomas Andreasson is...
- 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...
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