- Location(s): Maryland, London, Maine
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
What happens when your mother’s dying wish becomes your worst nightmare? What happens when the world’s greatest literary icon dies before she finishes the final book in her best-selling series? And what happens when she leaves that book in...
- Location(s): Auschwitz/Birkenau, Krakow
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): WW2 and 1990s
In the winter of 1991, at a concert in Krakow, an older woman with a marvelously pitched violin meets a fellow musician who is instantly captivated by her instrument. When he asks her how she obtained it, she reveals...
- Location(s): Australia, India, South East Asia
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
Leaving the blinding sand for the cool shade of the trees, I walked carefully through the undergrowth to where Dave, using two twigs as chopsticks, was picking up a freshly severed human finger… John’s trip to India starts badly...
- Location(s): El Paso, Germany
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1940s onwards
In 1945, Elsie Schmidt is a naive teenager, as eager for her first sip of champagne as she is for her first kiss. She and her family have been protected from the worst of the terror and desperation overtaking...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
A man of devilish charm and enterprising spirit, Dougal Douglas is employed to revitalize the ailing firm of Meadows, Meade & Grindley. He succeeds, but not quite in the way his employer intended. Strange things begin to happen as...
- Location(s): Naples
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
First in a new noir series set in Naples They’ve made a fresh start at the Pizzofalcone precinct of Naples. In the wake of a corruption scandal every single member of the investigative force has been fired and replaced...
- Location(s): Australia, Sydney
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Late 20th Century
Harry Hole is in Sydney to investigate the murder of Inger Holter, a Norwegian woman who happens to be working in Australia. Inger was young, blonde and her body was found dumped in Gap Park. She was raped and...
- Location(s): Beijing (Peking)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
Longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize and a modern Chinese classic with over one million copies sold. Sisters Tiao and Fan grew up in the shadow of the Cultural Revolution where they witnessed ritual humiliation and suffering. They...
- Location(s): New South Wales
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
There’s a darkness inside all of us and The Bay has a way of bringing it out. Everyone here has their secrets but we don’t go looking for them. Because sometimes it’s better not to know. The waves are...
- Location(s): Oregon, Pacific Northwest
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Contemporary
The perfect place to hide. Or so she thought . . . When Grace Jensen returns to her home in the ocean-front town of Lookout Beach one day, she finds a body in a pool of blood and a...










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