- Location(s): Wroclaw (Breslau)
- Genre(s): Crime, Historical
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
Brreslau, 1930s, the Nazis are rising to power, Eberhard Mock is an ambitious senior policeman who likes brothels. Mock is prepared to let a young Jewish girl become a morphine addict and prostitute, allows and her father to be...
- Location(s): Suffolk
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
With Death in Holy Orders, P. D. James makes a triumphant return to the genre for which she is best known – the classic English detective story. The story is set in an Anglican theological college on a desolate...
- Location(s): Egypt
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Texas high school teacher Jocelyn Shore and her cousin Kyla are on a “dream” tour of Egypt when things take a nightmarish turn: One of their fellow travelers, Millie Owens, takes a fatal fall off one of the Pyramids....
- Location(s): Wales
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
Deep Country is Neil Ansell’s account of five years spent alone in a hillside cottage in Wales. ‘I lived alone in this cottage for five years, summer and winter, with no transport, no phone. This is the story of...
- Location(s): Azerbaijan, Kenya
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Two sets of fugitives Two sets of enemies One bizarre encounter When a chance collision with a beautiful woman in Central Park results in a head injury, international business consultant James McBride’s perfectly structured and rote life suddenly begins...
- Location(s): Boston
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Andy Barber is an assistant district attorney in suburban Boston. A 14-year-old boy, Ben Rifkin, has been stabbed to death in the woods near the local school, and it is Andy’s son, Jacob, who is the one who’s been...
- Location(s): Georgia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Second half of the 20th Century
A group of middle-aged friends in search of the wilderness experience that has been missing from their big-city lives go canoeing one weekend. They pack all the usual survival gear – plus a banjo and a bow and arrow...
Denial – The Varcolac Journals
- Location(s): Leeds, Whitby
- Genre(s): Fantasy
- Era(s): Modern
“I hate my life! After careful consideration and contemplation involving far too much alcohol I am resigned to the fact that I hate my life. I am a single thirty-one year old woman, living alone in my two bed...
Diamonds are a Girl’s Best Friend
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Modern
A student flat on the Old Kent Road (look it up on the Monopoly Board if you aren’t familiar with it!). Sophie Chesterton is a girl about town – she knows all the right people, goes to all the...
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
- Location(s): Maryland
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Late 20th Century
Through every family run memories which bind it together – despite everything. The Tulls of Baltimore are no exception. Abandoned by her salesman husband, Pearl is left to bring up her three children alone – Cody, a flawed devil,...
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