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The City in Darkness

The City in Darkness
  • Author(s): Michael Russell
  • Location(s): Spain, Ireland
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): WW2

Christmas 1939. In Europe the Phoney War hides carnage to come. In Ireland Detective Inspector Stefan Gillespie keeps tabs on Irishmen joining the British Forces. It’s unpleasant work, but when an IRA raid on a military arsenal sends Garda...

The City of Mist

The City of Mist
  • Author(s): Carlos Ruiz Zafón (Carlos Ruiz Zafon), Lucia Graves (translator)
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Historical, In Translation, Short Stories
  • Era(s): Various

A boy decides to become a writer when he discovers that his creative gifts capture the attentions of an aloof young beauty who has stolen his heart. A labyrinth maker flees Constantinople to a plague ridden Barcelona, with plans...

The Club Dumas

The Club Dumas
  • Author(s): Arturo Pérez-Reverte
  • Location(s): Paris, Madrid, Toledo
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

Lucas Corso is a book detective, a middle-aged mercenary hired to hunt down rare editions for wealthy and unscrupulous clients. When a well-known bibliophile is found dead, leaving behind part of the original manuscript of Alexandre Dumas’s The Three...

The Coach Trip

The Coach Trip
  • Author(s): Jo Lyons
  • Location(s): L'Albir, Costa Blanca
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

After suddenly losing her job, dedicated workaholic and chronic people-pleaser, Nell, is on the trip of a lifetime in search of something to spark joy – green tea, kale smoothies and wall pilates aren’t quite doing it. During a...

The Cook of Castamar

The Cook of Castamar
  • Author(s): Fernando J Muñez, Rahul Bery (translator), Tim Gutteridge (Translator)
  • Location(s): Madrid
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 18th Century

NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES SHE IS the daughter of a disgraced physician, forced to work in the kitchen of a great eighteenth-century Spanish house, hiding her intense agoraphobia from everyone. HE IS the Duke of Castamar, one of...

The Devil’s Horn

The Devil’s Horn
  • Author(s): Anna Nicholas
  • Location(s): Mallorca
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Eccentric, headstrong and engaging, Isabel Flores Montserrat is a cross between a highly charged Precious Ramotswe (No.1 Ladies Detective Agency) & Phyrne Fisher (Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries). When 33-year-old Isabel Flores Montserrat quits a promising career with the Spanish...

The Dinner Guest

The Dinner Guest
  • Author(s): Gabriela Ybarra
  • Location(s): Bilbao
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE The story goes that in my family there’s an extra dinner guest at every meal. He’s invisible, but always there. He has a plate, glass, knife and fork. Every so often...

The Diver and The Lover

The Diver and The Lover
  • Author(s): Jeremy Vine
  • Location(s): Catalonia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

Soaked in sunlight, love and the mysteries surrounding a famous artist The Diver and the Lover is a novel inspired by true events. It is 1951 and sisters Ginny and Meredith have travelled from England to Spain in search...

The Enigma Challenge

The Enigma Challenge
  • Author(s): S C Godfrey
  • Location(s): Paris, Scotland, Spain
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Zoe Wilder has the unflashy, solitary life of an academic, studying ciphers in literature at a California university. When her research takes her to a cryptology conference in Madrid, she’s not expecting to kick off the Enigma Challenge, a...

The Eye of the Falcon

The Eye of the Falcon
  • Author(s): Joan Fallon
  • Location(s): Córdoba
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 10th century

A story of intrigue, betrayal and murder set in the royal court of 10th century Andalusia.When the caliph of al-Andalus, al-Hakim II, dies leaving an eleven-year-old boy as his heir, Queen Subh knows that her son is in danger—other...

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