- Location(s): Riga, Sweden
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Late 1990s
Sweden, winter, 1991. Inspector Kurt Wallander and his team receive an anonymous tip-off. A few days later a life raft is washed up on a beach. In it are two men, dressed in expensive suits, shot dead. The dead...
- Location(s): Rome
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
Rome. A city where rules are compromised. And compromise rules. It’s one of the hottest days of the year. Chief Inspector Blume is enjoying a rare solitary lunch in a tranquil corner of Trastevere when an unwelcome phone call...
- Location(s): Manchester
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Mid 1990s
Imoved to Manchester in 1998, two years after The Doll Princess is set. While I recognise the areas – and accents – in Tom Benn’s debut novel, the immediate aftermath of the 1996 IRA bomb is something I never...
- Location(s): Washington DC
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
The second novel featuring Spero Lucas, a young Iraq vet working as a PI in Washington DC but with a sideline in finding lost items – the kind of items the owners can’t go to the police about. This...
- Location(s): Baghdad
- Era(s): 1950s
When his Uncle Hizkel is arrested, Kabi and his family face an uncertain future as do all Jews living in Baghdad. It is 1950 and each member of Kabi’s circle has a different dream: his mother wants to return...
- Location(s): Israel
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 70AD
In 70 CE, nine hundred Jews held out for months against armies of Romans on a mountain in the Judean desert, Masada. According to the ancient historian Josephus, two women and five children survived. Based on this tragic historical...
- Location(s): Caribbean
- Genre(s): Fiction
Are you yearning for a tropical paradise, coconuts and sea turtles to accompany daily life? Then this is it, Utopia, look no further…. David Seth Michaels’s magical, utopian novel The Dream Antilles explores desde Desdemona, a secret Caribbean island...
- Location(s): Nottingham
- Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction, Mythology
- Era(s): Contemporary
Adam and Jess move into a new house with their three young children: a rambling Victorian villa in a nice neighbourhood right at the very top of their price range. Before long Adam discovers a door hidden behind a...
- Location(s): Provence
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Various
Set in Provence at three crucial moments of Western civilisation (the final collapse of the Roman Empire in the fifth century, the Black Death in the 14th century, and the Second World War in the 20th), Pears presents the...
- Location(s): Melbourne
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1871
Australia, 1871-Following her mother’s sudden death, Joanna Drury sets sail from India and arrives in Melbourne to claim the property left to her by her mother-and to trace the mysteries of her family’s past. From her first steps on...
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