- Location(s): West Ireland
- Genre(s): Fiction, Suspense
- Era(s): Contemporary
It’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in the village. They’re coming for gold. What they bring is trouble. Cal Hooper was a Chicago detective, till he moved to the West of Ireland looking for peace. He’s found...
- Location(s): Glasgow
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
‘The Hurting: The Glasgow Terror’ finds Gus Thoroughgood recovering from injuries received in his adventures in ‘Parallel Lines: The Glasgow Supremacy’ and wondering whether to continue his career in the Glasgow Police force. Having handed in his resignation, he...
- Location(s): Stockholm
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Read the number one Scandinavian crime bestseller taking the world by storm Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm. Detective Inspector Joona Linna is faced with a boy who witnessed the gruesome murder of his family. He’s suffered more than one hundred knife...
- Location(s): Sweden
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
If you liked Stieg Larsson’s Millenium Trilogy, Henning Mankell’s Wallander series or Jo Nesbø’s Harry Hole, you might also like Magnus Sandberg, a Londoner returning to Scandinavia to bury his estranged father, only to discover that he has been...
- Location(s): The Dolomites
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
A dazzling novel about an Italian ice-cream dynasty, tradition, ambition, and the sensation of lemon sorbet melting on your tongue. In the far north of Italy lies the valley of the ice-cream makers: about a dozen villages where, for...
- Location(s): New South Wales
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Set in Karakarook, (NSW, pop.1374) a fictional Australian country town with a population of 1,734, the book is about two Sydneysiders-Harley Savage and Douglas Cheeseman-finding themselves and each other. Savage is a tall, bulky and reserved middle-aged woman. Married...
The Illicit Happiness of Other People
- Location(s): Chennai (Madras)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
Seventeen-year-old Unni has done something terrible. The only clue to his actions lies in a comic strip he has drawn, which has fallen into the hands of his father Ousep – a nocturnal anarchist with a wife who is...
- Location(s): Kassel
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2012
A puzzling phone call shatters a writer’s routine. An enigmatic female voice extends an invitation to take part in Documenta, the legendary contemporary art exhibition held every five years in Kassel, Germany. The writer’s mission will be to transform...
- Location(s): Edinburgh
- Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
- Era(s): Modern
Despite inhabiting a great city renowned for its impeccable restraint, the extended family of 44 Scotland Street is trembling on the brink of reckless self-indulgence. Matthew and Elspeth receive startling – and expensive – news on a visit to...
- Location(s): Kirkcaldy
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern back to 1980s
In a conversation on Twitter Ian Rankin discloses why this book was set where it was: Impossible Dead was set in Kirkcaldy because owner of local restaurant paid charity to be mentioned in one of my books! Malcolm Fox...
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