- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Post WW2
The story of Don Vito Corleone, the head of a New York Mafia family, inspired some of the most successful movies ever. It is in Mario Puzo’s The Godfather that Corleone first appears. As Corleone’s desperate struggle to control...
- Location(s): Bangkok
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Number 4 in the Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep novels by John Burdett.He is summoned to investigate the most shocking murder of his career. Solving it could mean a promotion but, still reeling from a personal tragedy, Sonchai is more interested...
- Location(s): Argentina
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1913
Arriving in Buenos Aires in 1913, with only a suitcase and her father’s cherished violin to her name, seventeen-year-old Leda is shocked to find that the husband she has travelled across an ocean to reach is dead. Unable to...
- Location(s): Sydney
- Genre(s): Thriller, Young Adult
- Era(s): 1960s
The Vietnam War rages overseas, but back at home, in a year that begins with the hanging of one man and ends with the drowning of another, eleven schoolgirls embrace their own chilling history when their teacher abruptly goes...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Twenty-one years ago, when a conductor was poisoned and the Questura sent a man to investigate, readers first met Commissario Guido Brunetti. Since 1992’s Death at La Fenice, Donna Leon and her shrewd, sophisticated, and compassionate investigator have been...
- Location(s): San Francisco
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
The Golden Gate is a brilliantly achieved novel written in verse. Set in the 1980s in the affluence and sunshine of California’s Silicon Valley, it is an exuberant and witty story of twenty-somethings looking for love, pleasure and the...
- Location(s): Lewes
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
She loves him. She’s happy. But could she be happier? Maggie and Andrew are lovers who live apart – Maggie in the country, Andrew in town. When Andrew is offered a job close to Maggie, moving in with her...
- Location(s): Cairo
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 2000s
Parker Bilal is the pseudonym of the Sudanese novelist Jamal Mahjoub, who, like many “literary” writers, is venturing into the detective genre. The setting is present-day Cairo, where in a broken-down houseboat on the Nile, former police inspector Makana...
- Location(s): Noto, Ortigia (Isola)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Food and Drink, Thriller
Green activist Simone struggles with her beliefs when she meets journalist Michiel, who shows her how an oil spill threatening Sicily is a bonanza for many locals. Compensation and clean-up money floods into the community, creating conflicts between politicians,...
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Late 19th Century
Chava is a golem, a creature made of clay, brought to life by a disgraced rabbi who dabbles in dark Kabbalistic magic. When her master, the husband who commissioned her, dies at sea on the voyage from Poland, she...
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