- Location(s): Dublin
- Genre(s): Mystery, Fiction
No one even knew they were together. Now one of them is dead. 56 DAYS AGO Ciara and Oliver meet in a supermarket queue in Dublin and start dating the same week COVID-19 reaches Irish shores. 35 DAYS AGO...
- Location(s): South Dakota
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
South Dakota is shivering under an icy winter, and the roads are particularly treacherous. As a snow storm gathers force, the tyres of a bus skid and there is a crash, stranding the bus and its passengers. And if...
- Location(s): Buenos Aires
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): 2001
Set in a shanty-town on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, this fine first novel focuses on Gringo and Chueco, both 20, who live in an eternal present of hustling for food, sex, alcohol and drugs. Neither future nor past...
A Body in Barcelona (Max Cámara 5)
- Location(s): Barcelona, Valencia
- Genre(s): Crime, Suspense
- Era(s): Modern
Tensions in Spain are rising: political violence and social unrest have suddenly re-emerged. Madrid is trying to keep a tight leash on Catalonia, where the call for independence is getting louder by the day. The last time Barcelona moved...
- Location(s): Dundee/St Andrews
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Second half 19th Century
The second book in the Mendick Mystery Series. Following “The Darkest Walk”, when Sergeant Mendick is sent to Dundee to collect a prisoner, he expects a speedy return to London but instead an unfortunate turn of events see him...
- Location(s): Alaska
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Somewhere in the hinterlands of Alaska, among the millions of sprawling acres that comprise “The Park,” a young National Park Ranger has gone missing. When the detective sent after him also vanishes, the Anchorage DA’s department must turn to...
- Location(s): The Peak District, The Pennines
- Genre(s): Fiction, Horror
- Era(s): Modern
Cass is building a new life for herself and her young son Ben after the death of her soldier husband Pete, returning to the village where she lived as a child. But their idyllic new home is not what...
- Location(s): The Cotswolds
- Genre(s): RomCom
- Era(s): Contemporary
Unwrap a story of festive song, good cheer and – just maybe – a sprinkling of love … Schoolteacher Sophie Lawson has fled to the Cotswold countryside after a tragic break-up and is throwing herself into dating and organising...
A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): 2000s
A young Chinese woman comes to London to learn English, and learns about love, men, Europe and living amongst the British. She falls for a quasi hippie and the fact it is written in a stilted English adds to...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
The third novel in the London-based Corduroy Mansions series from Alexander McCall Smith, comparable in warmth and humour to 44 Scotland Street
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