- Location(s): Hamburg
- Genre(s): Crime, In Translation, Mystery
- Era(s): contemporary
Hamburg State Prosecutor Chastity Riley and her colleagues investigate the murders of men with a history of abuse towards women … as a startling, horrifying series of revelations emerge. When neatly packed male body parts wash up by the...
- Location(s): Barcelona
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
The Labyrinth of the Spirits is the fourth book in Zafón’s wonderful The Cemetery of Forgotten Books series As a child, Daniel Sempere discovered among the passageways of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books an extraordinary novel that would change...
- Location(s): Managua, New Orleans, Nicaragua
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern looking back
When Maria returns to Nicaragua for her beloved grandfather’s funeral, she brings with her a mysterious package from her grandmother’s past. And she also carries the burden of her tense relationship with her mother inaction, once a storied revolutionary,...
- Location(s): Lagos
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
NOTE: This is the same as The Nigerwife Nicole Oruwari has the perfect life: a handsome husband, a palatial house in the heart of Lagos and a glamorous group of friends. She left London and a troubled family past...
- Location(s): Kolkata (Calcutta), Nimes, Paris, The Midlands
- Genre(s): Cozy Mystery, Historical
- Era(s): 1920s
‘Deftly interlacing present and past, King offers further fascinating insights into Holmes’s family while also delivering an intriguing mystery’- Washington Post September, 1925. After their recent adventures in Transylvania, Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes look forward to spending time...
- Location(s): Dunedin
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Late 19th Century
William Larnach, New Zealand politician, married his much younger third wife, Constance de Bathe Brandon, in 1891. With the backdrop of Larnach Castle, on Otago Peninsula, there is increasing attraction between Conny and Dougie, Larnach’s son from his first...
The Last Letters from Villa Clara
- Location(s): London, Tuscany
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1939 onwards
1939. Europe is on the brink of change and in the fear and chaos of pre-war Italy, a painting disappears and is never seen again. 1963. London is on the cusp of change in the swinging 60s. Nightclubs and...
- Location(s): Greece
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 5th Century BC
Alexias, a young Athenian of good family, grows up just as the Peloponnesian War is drawing to a close. The adult world he enters is one in which the power and influence of his class have been undermined by...
The Last Painting of Sara de Vos
- Location(s): Amsterdam, Brooklyn, Sydney
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1630s - 2000s
Amsterdam, 1631: Sara de Vos becomes the first woman to be admitted as a master painter to the city s Guild of St. Luke. Though women do not paint landscapes (they are generally restricted to indoor subjects), a wintry...
- Location(s): Jhansi
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Mid 19th Century
At nineteen years old, Sita is the shining star of Queen Lakshmi of India’s imperial guard, having pledged herself to a life of celibacy in the name of protecting the young ruler. When Sita agrees to train Lakshmi in...
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