- Location(s): Périgord
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Springtime in St Denis. It’s two weeks before Easter, and Satanism has reared its ugly head. A female body has been found on a boat, bearing the ghastly signs of a black magic ritual. The victim is unknown and...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
- Era(s): 1722
The year is 1722. Ruffian for hire and master of disguise Benjamin Weaver finds himself pitted against a mysterious mastermind who holds the lives of Weaver’s friends in the balance. To protect the people he loves, Weaver must stage...
- Location(s): The Peak District
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
A SHOCKING DEATH – A lawyer is found dead in a Peak District cave, his face ribboned with scratches. A SINISTER MESSAGE – Amidst rumours of a local curse, DI Meg Dalton is convinced this is cold-blooded murder. There’s...
- Location(s): Arizona, Mexico
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): Various
Describes the attempt of twenty-six men to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona, a region known as the Devil’s Highway, detailing their harrowing ordeal and battle for survival against impossible odds.
- Location(s): Bristol
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Turn of the 18th Century
The Georgian terraces are rising. In the aftermath of the abolition of the slave trade, the port of Bristol is awash with the commercial gains of the Empire. But in the midst of all the grand building projects something...
The Devil’s Star (Harry Hole 5)
- Location(s): Oslo
- Genre(s): Crime
This is in fact No. 5 in the series, as Batman and Cockroaches (1 and 2)are not available in English. Redbreast is the first for English readers and Nemesis the second, and it is helpful to read them in...
- Location(s): Eastern Europe
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Later 20th Century
WOMAN I learned early in life how to survive. A skill that became vital in my position. WIFE I was given no power, yet I was expected to hold my own with the most powerful man in the country....
- Location(s): Suffolk
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Late 1930s
In the long hot summer of 1939 Britain is preparing for war. But on a riverside farm in Suffolk there is excitement of another kind: Mrs Petty, the widowed farmer, has had her hunch proved correct that the strange...
- Location(s): Australia
- Genre(s): Suspense, Thriller
- Era(s): 1979
FOUR COUPLES. Summer 1979. In the idyllic suburban neighbourhood of Ridgefield, Australia, during a scorching heat wave, four couples gather for their weekly dinner party. AN ORDINARY EVENING. When Frank Callaghan checks on the sleeping children, he finds an...
The Disappearance of Emily Marr
- Location(s): Île de Ré (Île de Re)
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
Arriving on the windswept Ile de Ré off the coast of France, Tabby Dewhurst is heartbroken and penniless, unable even to afford a room for the night. Then she overhears a villager repeating aloud the access code to her...










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