- Location(s): Chicago
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Turn of the 20th Century
Upton Sinclair’s dramatic and deeply moving story exposed the brutal conditions in the Chicago stockyards at the turn of the twentieth century and brought into sharp moral focus the appalling odds against which immigrants and other working people struggled...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): 1990s
Regents Park forms the background to a series of murders of homeless people whom Mary Jago has befriended, and enmesh her in a an unexpected way. Another terrific murder mystery from Ruth Rendell
- Location(s): Phoenix
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
A hired killer on his final job, a burned out detective whose wife is dying slowly, a young boy abandoned by his parents and living alone by his wits. Three people, solitary and disconnected from society. The detective is...
- Location(s): Copenhagen
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Through the dark wood where the dead trees give no shelter Nanna Birk Larsen runs . . . There is a bright monocular eye that follows, like a hunter after a wounded deer. It moves in a slow approaching...
- Location(s): Toronto
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
A spine-chilling, mind-twisting new psychological thriller in which a writing circle is haunted by a serial killer, from the acclaimed author of Lost Girls Who is the Sandman: dream figure or killer? When Patrick Rush, journalist, single father and...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Fairstein’s heroine, Alex Cooper, is the prosecutor in charge of Manhattan’s Sex Crimes Uni. this is the sixth in the series.A rape attack on investment banker Paige Vallis is at the core, but things are not perhpas as they...
- Location(s): Boston, London
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
‘Hello there.’ I looked at the pale, freckled hand on the back of the empty bar seat next to me in the business class lounge of Heathrow airport, then up into the stranger’s face. ‘Do I know you?’ Delayed...
- Location(s): Macau (Macao), Hong Kong
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
JACK SHEPHERD IS THE kind of lawyer some people call a troubleshooter. At least that’s what they call him when they’re being polite. Shepherd is the guy people go to when they have a problem too ugly to tell...
- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 1500s and Modern
There is a secret from our history – 500 years old – startling in its revelations and devastating in its political impact. A secret that has, thankfully, stayed hidden. Until now. Former Justice Department agent Cotton Malone travels to...
- Location(s): Cambodia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 12th Century and Modern
A great king brings peace to a warring nation. Centuries later his writings will bring hope to those facing the tragic legacy of modern Cambodia’s bloody history. When archaeologists discover a book written on gold leaves at Angkor Wat,...










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