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The Missing

The Missing
  • Author(s): Chris Mooney
  • Location(s): United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The Missing and the Dead

The Missing and the Dead
  • Author(s): Stuart MacBride
  • Location(s): Aberdeenshire
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

One mistake can cost you everything… When you catch a twisted killer there should be a reward, right? What Acting Detective Inspector Logan McRae gets instead is a ‘development opportunity’ out in the depths of rural Aberdeenshire. Welcome to...

The Missing Italian Girl

The Missing Italian Girl
  • Author(s): Barbara Corrado Pope
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Era(s): Belle Epoque (turn of the 19th century)

In the third crime novel in the critically acclaimed Bernard Martin mystery series, young immigrant girls are disappearing into the depths of turn-of-the-century Paris. On a sultry night in June 1897, Pyotr Ivanovich Balenov, a young Russian, and two...

The Missing One

The Missing One
  • Author(s): Lucy Atkins
  • Location(s): British Columbia
  • Era(s): Modern

The loss of her mother has left Kali McKenzie with too many unanswered questions. But while clearing out Elena’s art studio, she finds a drawer packed with postcards, each bearing an identical one-line message a Canadian gallery owner called...

The Missing Pieces of Nancy Moon

The Missing Pieces of Nancy Moon
  • Author(s): Sarah Steele
  • Location(s): South London, France, Italy
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present looking back to 1960s

Florence Connelly is broken hearted. Her marriage has collapsed under the weight of the loss she shares with her husband, and her beloved grandmother has just died. Even the joy she found in dressmaking is gone. But things change...

The Mistress of Paris

The Mistress of Paris
  • Author(s): Catherine Hewitt
  • Location(s): France, Paris
  • Genre(s): Biography
  • Era(s): 19th Century

Valtesse de la Bigne was a celebrated nineteenth-century Parisian courtesan. She was painted by Manet and inspired Emile Zola, who immortalised her in his scandalous novel Nana. Her rumoured affairs with Napoleon III and the future Edward VII kept...

The Monte Carlo Connection

The Monte Carlo Connection
  • Author(s): Josie Goodbody
  • Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur), London
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 1950s / Contemporary

Diamond detective, Jemima Fox is tasked with hunting down the priceless Vogel Vanderpless diamonds that were stolen in The Diamond Connection by her nemesis Petrina Lindberg. She finds herself caught between searching for half-a-century-year-old stolen jewels and catching a...

The Moon in the Mango Tree

The Moon in the Mango Tree
  • Author(s): Pamela Binnings Ewen
  • Location(s): Thailand
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s

Based on the story of the author’s Grandmother, Barbara Perkins, a gifted singer, agrees to follow her husband, from Chicago over to “Siam” where he is to take up the position of a missionary doctor. Stationed in the middle...

The Moonlight Palace

The Moonlight Palace
  • Author(s): Liz Rosenberg
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s

Agnes Hussein, descendant of the last sultan of Singapore and the last surviving member of her immediate family, has grown up among her eccentric relatives in the crumbling Kampong Glam palace, a once-opulent relic given to her family in...

The Mosquito Coast

The Mosquito Coast
  • Author(s): Paul Theroux
  • Location(s): Honduras
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

This gripping novel tells of the adventures inflicted upon this family by the brilliant and yet dangerous Allie Fox, as he tries to settle everyone into the Honduran jungle. He has removed them from the evils of modern day...

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