- Location(s): Anglesey
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): 1994 and contemporary
Twenty-five years ago, a local girl went missing. Now, another girl comes back… When five-year-old Elsie Button was snatched from a garden in a sleepy town on the Welsh island of Anglesey, and a local man later confessed, it...
The Girl Who Was Saturday Night
- Location(s): Montreal
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
At birth, Nouschka forms a bond with her twin that can never be broken. At six, she’s the child star daughter of Quebec’s most famous musician. At sixteen, she’s a high-school dropout kicking up with her beloved brother. At...
- Location(s): Amsterdam
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Winner of the Patricia Highsmith Award for Most Exotic Location 2015. HE’S WATCHING HER. SHE DOESN’T KNOW IT…YET When a bomb explodes at the University of Amsterdam, aspiring criminologist Georgina McKenzie is asked by the police to help flush...
- Location(s): Pisa
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Late 20th and Late 12th Century
Two women, centuries apart, bound together by the secrets of one of the most iconic buildings ever created. Pisa, 1999 Sam Campbell sits by her husband’s hospital bed. Far from home and her children, she must care for Michael...
The Girl with the Painted Face
- Location(s): Modena
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1580s
Modena, Italy, 1582. Seventeen-year-old seamstress Sofia Genotti is on the run, falsely accused of theft. Penniless and desperate to avoid the perils of whoredom, she is introduced to a troupe of travelling actors, who ask her to join them as costume...
- Location(s): Alexandria, England
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s onwards
Memories are fragile when you are seventy years old. I can’t afford to lose any more of them, not when remembering the past might help with the here and now. Nadia needs help. Help getting out of her hospital...
- Location(s): Queensland
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1958
1958. When It-girl Vivienne George flees on the eve of her wedding she seeks refuge in a scheduled lodge surrounded by the lush rainforest of tropical North Queensland. There, she is relieved to find that the small farming town...
- Location(s): Wiltshire
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): 1980, 1998 and 2018
Three missing girls. A twenty-year mystery. A woman who may be able to crack this cold case. In a rural Wiltshire town lies The Devil’s Corridor. A road which has witnessed eerie happenings from unexplained deaths to the sounds of...
- Location(s): Florida Panhandle
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
When Adela Woods tells her parents she’s pregnant, they immediately send her a thousand miles away to stay with her grandmother in Padua Beach. The intention is that she will leave her baby in ‘the forgotten Panhandle of Florida’....
- Location(s): Cairo
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): Modern
Fifteen-year-old Aaron lives amongst the rubbish piles in the slums of Cairo. His job? To collect broken glass.His life? Wasted. His hope? To find a future he can believe in . . .
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