- Location(s): New Hampshire
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
Eleven-year-old Owen Meany, playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire, hits a foul ball and kills his best friend’s mother. Owen doesn’t believe in accidents: he believes he is God’s instrument. What happens to Owen...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Humour, Romance
She’s losing her job. She’s losing her boyfriend. She can only afford to eat spaghetti hoops on toast. She’s called Charlie… or Charlotte, or ginger, ginge, Duracell, carrot. Yet with all these odds against her, she pushes forward to...
- Location(s): Georgia
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): 1910s onwards
A terrific plot set in a small town in Georgia, where young girls start to disappear and then are found brutally raped and murdered. No one knows who the killer is and the authorities seem to have no suspects....
- Location(s): Cairo
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1099CE
Egypt 1099 CE, Qahira (Cairo) Samuel, a Jewish doctor versed in alchemy, and Gregory, his English apprentice, are investigating a terrifying plague. The Nile has turned red with blood and fish are dying. Near a small island, they wrangle...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Late 20th Century
The murder of two clam fishermen off the island of Pellestrina, south of the Lido on the Venetian lagoon, draws Commissario Brunetti into the island’s close-knit community, bound together by a code of loyalty and a suspicion of outsiders...
- Location(s): Rome
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): 2000s
A murder in a reading room at the Vatican, and two bodies in a nearby church. Nic Costa, a young policeman, art connoisseur and son of a communist is asked to investigate. As he delves deeper into the murders...
- Location(s): Ohio
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Late 1900s
Late afternoon, on December 31st, Hank, his brother, and a friend accidentally discover a wrecked plane. Inside they find the dead pilot, together with a sack containing four million dollars. The dilemma – they “should” notify the authorities…..but instead...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1930s
They’d give up everything to dance on stage, but could they lose each other? London’s East End, 1934. Eighteen-year-old twins Marie and Vesta Haskins work at the local shoe factory to bring in a few pennies for the family,...
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Noir, Fiction, Horror, Short Stories
- Era(s): Contemporary/near future
Join a group of survivors who wash up on a deserted island only to make a horrifying discovery. Meet a cold-hearted killer who befriends a strange young girl at a motorway service station. Travel along eerie country lanes in...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
‘What is wrong with you?’ Laura has spent most of her life being judged. She’s seen as hot-tempered, troubled, a loner. Some even call her dangerous. Miriam knows that just because Laura is witnessed leaving the scene of a...
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