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Where Ravens Roost

Where Ravens Roost
  • Author(s): Karin Nordin
  • Location(s): Sweden
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contmporary

The raven cawed at him, craning its neck unnaturally. As it dug its hooked beak into the mess of dried grass and twigs that made up its nest, a shiny glimmer reflected off a low-hanging bulb. Kjeld edged closer...

Why Did You Lie

Why Did You Lie
  • Author(s): Yrsa Sigurðardóttir
  • Location(s): Reykjavik
  • Genre(s): Crime, Suspense
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A journalist on the track of an old case attempts suicide. An ordinary couple return from a house swap in the states to find their home in disarray and their guests seemingly missing. Four strangers struggle to find shelter...

Wickerby: An Urban Pastoral

Wickerby: An Urban Pastoral
  • Author(s): Charles Siebert
  • Location(s): Brooklyn, Québec
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

“Outside my window, the city lights are taking hold now, the breeze-brushed, gently pulsating grid. Why is a cemented aggregate of homes arranged in a tall, tight cluster any further from nature than one wood home within the woods?...

Widow’s Island

Widow’s Island
  • Author(s): L A Larkin
  • Location(s): Seattle, Washington State
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery, Psychological Thriller, Suspense
  • Era(s): current

Her heart beats fast in her chest as she cautiously opens the front door and takes in the smashed plates on the kitchen floor and upended furniture. She follows the trail of red droplets on the floor, knowing what...

Wildflower Graves

Wildflower Graves
  • Author(s): Rita Herron
  • Location(s): Georgia, Appalachian Mountains
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Detective Ellie Reeves heads into the wilds of the Appalachian Mountains when she wants to get lost––to forget the whispers chasing her and the past that keeps her up at night. She’s sick of having to prove herself to...

Winterkill

Winterkill
  • Author(s): Ragnar Jonasson
  • Location(s): Siglufjörður, Iceland
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Noir
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When the body of a nineteen-year-old girl is found on the main street of Siglufjörður, Police Inspector Ari Thór battles a violent Icelandic storm in an increasingly dangerous hunt for her killer … The chilling, claustrophobic finale to the international bestselling...

Witness the Dead

Witness the Dead
  • Author(s): Craig Robertson
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern looking back to 1970s

Scotland 1972. Glasgow is haunted by a murderer nicknamed Red Silk – a feared serial killer who selects his victims in the city’s nightclubs. The case remains unsolved but Archibald Atto, later imprisoned for other murders, is thought to...

Woman of a Certain Rage

Woman of a Certain Rage
  • Author(s): Georgie Hall
  • Location(s): Stratford-upon-Avon
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A smart and funny novel about love, life and a second shot at freedom for rebellious women of a certain age. Eliza is angry. Very angry, and very, very hot. Late for work and dodging traffic, she’s still reeling...

Yule Island

Yule Island
  • Author(s): Johana Gustawsson
  • Location(s): Storholmen, Sweden
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

An art expert joins a detective to investigate a horrific murder on a Swedish island, leading them to a mystery rooted in Viking rites and Scandinavia’s deepest, darkest winter. The Queen of French Noir returns with a chilling, utterly...

Zorba the Greek

Zorba the Greek
  • Author(s): Nikos Kazantzakis
  • Location(s): Crete
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century

Set before the start of the First World War, this moving fable sees a young English writer set out to Crete to claim a small inheritance. But when he arrives, he meets Alexis Zorba, a middle-aged Greek man with...

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