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The Death of Mr Love

The Death of Mr Love
  • Author(s): Indra Sinha
  • Location(s): India, Lewes, Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1950s and 1990s

The central tenet is based on a murder case in 1950s Bombay, with tremendous descriptions of the Bombay underworld, its backstreets and community politics, together with scenes of rural India. The story of Bhalu as he remembers his idyllic...

The Death of Vishnu

The Death of Vishnu
  • Author(s): Manil Suri
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Vishnu, the odd-job man in a Bombay apartment block, lies dying on the staircase landing. Around him the lives of the apartment dwellers unfold – the warring housewives on the first floor, the lovesick teenagers on the second, and...

The Defenceless (Anna Fekete #2)

The Defenceless (Anna Fekete #2)
  • Author(s): Kati Hiekkapelto
  • Location(s): Finland
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

When an old man is found dead on the road – seemingly run over by a Hungarian au pair – police investigator Anna Fekete is certain that there is more to the incident than meets the eye. As she...

The Delicate Storm

The Delicate Storm
  • Author(s): Giles Blunt
  • Location(s): Algonquin Bay
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

gruesome discovery in the wilderness above Algonquin Bay leads detectives John Cardinal and Lisa Delorme to a remote cabin that has served as an abattoir for a cold-blooded killer… But the woods hide other horrors and soon a second...

The Deliverance of Evil

The Deliverance of Evil
  • Author(s): Roberto Costantini
  • Location(s): Italy
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Late 1990s to 2000s

On 11 July 1982, Elisa Sordi was beautiful. Commissario Michele Balistreri was fearless. Italy was victorious. A killer was waiting… On 9 July 2006, with Sordi’s case twenty-four years cold, and Balistreri haunted by guilt and regret, Italian victory...

The Delivery Man

The Delivery Man
  • Author(s): Joe McGinniss Jr
  • Location(s): Las Vegas
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Young, good-looking, newly graduated from art college: Chase has everything going for him. Okay, so he’s back in Vegas. But he plans to leave it behind, hook up with his girlfriend in California, and become an artist. Or at...

The Dervish

The Dervish
  • Author(s): Frances Kazan
  • Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople), Türkiye (Turkey)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s

The story of one woman’s experience between WW1 and Turkish Independence, beautifully told again a stunning backdrop.

The Descent

The Descent
  • Author(s): Paul E Hardisty
  • Location(s): Africa, Australia, Bora Bora, Madagascar, Panama Canal
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Future
  • Era(s): Late 21st century

Kweku Ashworth is a child of the cataclysm, born on a sailboat to parents fleeing the devastation in search for a refuge in the Southern Ocean. Growing up in a world forever changed, his only connection to the events...

The Devil in the White City

The Devil in the White City
  • Author(s): Erik Larson
  • Location(s): Chicago
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): Late 1800s

The story is of Chicago World’s Fair in 1893 and it is fascinating because the fair ties together the past and the future when it comes to business, politics, architecture, science and culture.

The Devil of Nanking

The Devil of Nanking
  • Author(s): Mo Hayder
  • Location(s): Nanjing (Nanking), Tokyo
  • Genre(s): Crime, Suspense
  • Era(s): 1937 and 1990

Grey Hutchins is in pursuit of an obsession. She is searching for a piece of film taken during the infamous Nanking massacre of 1937. Some say it never existed. Grey is certain that it does, and that it lies...

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