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The Midnight News

The Midnight News
  • Author(s): Jo Baker
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s

It is 1940 and twenty-year-old Charlotte Richmond watches from her attic window as enemy planes fly over London. Still grieving her beloved brother who never returned from France, she is working hard to keep her own little life ticking...

The Misper

The Misper
  • Author(s): Kate London
  • Location(s): England, London
  • Genre(s): Suspense, Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

There’s more than one way to go missing… When Ryan Kennedy is imprisoned after killing a police officer, he knows what he has to do. Keep his mouth shut about who he was working for, keep his head down,...

The Missing Activist

The Missing Activist
  • Author(s): Louise Burfitt-Dons
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 2016

Post-Referendum Britain and a country on high alert for terrorist attacks. When a young political activist goes missing in London, off-the-wall Private Investigator Karen Andersen is called in to find him. While searching London she uncovers secrets of a...

The Old Enemy

The Old Enemy
  • Author(s): Henry Porter
  • Location(s): London, Estonia, Washington DC
  • Genre(s): Spy, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Ex-MI6 officer Paul Samson has been tasked with secretly guarding a gifted young woman, Zoe Freemantle. He is just beginning to tire of the job when he is attacked in the street by a freakish looking knifeman. It’s clear...

The Secret War

The Secret War
  • Author(s): Louise Burfitt-Dons
  • Location(s): Beijing (Peking), Hamburg, Liverpool, London, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): contemporary

Karen Andersen, private investigator, stumbles across intelligence in a Liverpool University that an ultra-right faction of the CCP plan to release a new highly contagious virus on an unsuspecting New York City.

The Tiger Catcher

The Tiger Catcher
  • Author(s): Paullina Simons
  • Location(s): London, Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Romance

Can true love ever die? Julian lives a charmed life in Los Angeles. Surrounded by friends, he is young, handsome, and runs a successful business. Everything changes after he has a fateful encounter with a mysterious young woman named...

The Unspeakable Acts of Zina Pavlou

The Unspeakable Acts of Zina Pavlou
  • Author(s): Eleni Kyriacou
  • Location(s): London, North London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1954

THEY HAVE TOLD SO MANY LIES ABOUT ME. London, 1954. Zina Pavlou, a Cypriot grandmother, waits quietly in the custody of the Metropolitan police. She can’t speak their language, but she understands what their wary looks mean: she has...

The Woman Outside The Walls

The Woman Outside The Walls
  • Author(s): Suzanne Goldring
  • Location(s): Hamburg, London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1929 - 2017

I always knew it would come out one day. They are finding everyone who has stayed hidden. They would have come to me in the end. Hamburg, 1942. Seventeen-year-old Anna knows she can never tell her proud parents the...

Tiepolo Blue

Tiepolo Blue
  • Author(s): James Cahill
  • Location(s): Cambridge, Dulwich
  • Genre(s): Coming of Age, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

Cambridge, 1994. Professor Don Lamb is a revered art historian at the height of his powers, consumed by the book he is writing about the skies of the Venetian master Tiepolo. However, his academic brilliance belies a deep inexperience...

Titian’s Boatman

Titian’s Boatman
  • Author(s): Victoria Blake
  • Location(s): London, New York City (NYC), Venice
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 16th Century and 2011

It is 1576 and Venice is in chaos, ravaged by plague and overrun by crime. In the midst of the anarchy we find those brave souls who have chosen not to flee the city. Titian, most celebrated of Venetian...

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