- Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1910s
A city in flames. A revolution raging. A woman on the run. Nadezhda has never wanted to be a witch. But the occult is in her blood. Her mother, Militza, conjured Rasputin and introduced him into the Romanov court,...
- Location(s): East Anglia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1640s
East Anglia, 1645. Martha Hallybread, a midwife, healer and servant, has lived peacefully for more than four decades in her beloved Cleftwater. Everyone in the village knows Martha, but no one has ever heard her speak. One bright morning,...
- Location(s): Valencia
- Era(s): Contemporary and 2025
While on vacation with her family in Valencia, Claire Halde witnesses a shocking event that becomes the catalyst for a protracted downward spiral and a profound personal unravelling as she struggles to come to grips with her role in...
- Location(s): Dubrovnik, Haiti, Istanbul (Constantinople)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s looking back
When humanitarian lawyer Tom Harrington travels to Haiti to investigate the murder of a beautiful and seductive photojournalist, he is confronted with a dangerous landscape riddled with poverty, corruption, and voodoo. It’s the late 1990s, a time of brutal...
- Location(s): Laos
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s
Until the French government declassified documents concerning their ignominious defeat at Dien Bien Phu, Madam Daeng’s past had been a well-kept secret. Now Dr Siri’s wife is vulnerable and being stalked by a killer. But when Dr Siri whisks...
- Location(s): Australia, New South Wales
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1940s
Australia 1945. Until now Kate Dowd has led a sheltered life on her family’s sprawling sheep station but, with her father’s health in decline, the management of the farm is increasingly falling to her. Kate is rising to the...
The World According to Bertie (#4 44 Scotland Street)
- Location(s): Edinburgh
- Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
- Era(s): Modern
Poor put-upon Bertie is still struggling to escape his overbearing mother’s influence, his yoga lessons and his pink bedroom while wondering why new baby brother Ulysses looks uncomfortably like his psychotherapist. The insufferably handsome Bruce has returned from London...
- Location(s): Vienna
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Historical
- Era(s): Early 20th century
Austrian writer Stefan Zweig’s final work, posted to his publisher the day before his tragic death, brings the destruction of a war-torn Europe vividly to life. Written as both a recollection of the past, and as a warning for...
- Location(s): Martha's Vineyard
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
London lawyer Kyra Gibson returns to Martha’s Vineyard for a summer holiday, hoping for peace after her father’s murder. However, the discovery of a pirate shipwreck and its rumored treasure disrupts her plans. When two salvagers are killed and...
- Location(s): Dublin
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): 1950s
Noir, many threads and a gripping read. Ed Loy, Private Investigator returns to Dublin to bury his Mother. He begins to wonder what happened to his Father, a missing husband and a fired gun. Secrets from the past begin...
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