- Location(s): Whitstable
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
Pearl Nolan always wanted to be a detective but life, and a teenage pregnancy, got in the way of a police career and instead she built up a successful seafood restaurant in her coastal home town of Whitstable –...
- Location(s): Prague
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): End of WW2
The Widow Killer features a Czech detective who must team up with a Gestapo agent in occupied Prague to catch a serial killer., who is stalking and murdering women.
- Location(s): New York City (NYC), Manhattan, The Hamptons
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
The stunning new domestic thriller from the New York Times-bestselling, Edgar-nominated author of The Ex When Angela met Jason Powell, while catering a function in the Hamptons, she assumed their romance would be a fling. But, Jason, a brilliant...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
When you read this book, you will make many assumptions. It’s about a jealous wife, obsessed with her replacement. It’s about a younger woman set to marry the man she loves. The first wife seems like a disaster; her...
- Location(s): Wales
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Turn of 12th Century
In the wild, windswept Welsh marches a noble young lord rides homewards, embittered, angry and in danger. He is Guyon, lord of Ledworth, heir to threatened lands, husband-to-be of Judith of Ravenstow. Their union will save his lands –...
- Location(s): United Kingdom
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern looking back
“The Wild Places” is both an intellectual and a physical journey, and Macfarlane travels in time as well as space. Guided by monks, questers, scientists, philosophers, poets and artists, both living and dead, he explores our changing ideas of...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Later 20th Century
Henry Farr is forty years old. He is suburban, average, conventional – and desperate to be rid of his wife, Elinor. Inspired by a grisly episode in Wimbledon’s local history, Farr begins to concoct a recipe for the perfect...
- Location(s): Delhi
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Anil Kumar Jha has worked hard and is ready to live well. After thirty years in a modest flat, he and his family are moving to Gurgaon, one of Delhi’s richest areas. But his wife, Bindu, is heartbroken about...
- Location(s): Helsinki
- Genre(s): Fiction, Humour, Suspense
- Era(s): 1980s
A darkly humorous and warmly touching suspense novel about friendship, love and death, The Winter Job flies a hundred and twenty kilometres an hour straight into the darkest heart of a Finnish winter night. Helsinki, 1982. Recently divorced postal...
- Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 18th Century
When Vavara, a young Polish orphan, arrives at the glittering, dangerous court of the Empress Elizabeth in St Petersburg, she is schooled in skills ranging from lock-picking to love-making, learning above all else to stay silent – and listen....
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