- Location(s): Caribbean
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
A glamorous ship. A mysterious cast of passengers. And a New Year’s Eve party that goes horribly wrong… During a New Year’s Eve party on a large cruise ship in the Caribbean, the ship’s dancer, Lola, disappears. The ship...
- Location(s): Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s onwards
Elsie loves the farm that is her home: there is always tea in the silver teapot, the gin and tonics on the veranda. But growing up a white teenager in post-independence Zimbabwe poses some serious dilemmas. When Mugabe-sponsored war...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1920s, 1960s, modern
Carly, a ditsy life-coach with no clue of how to coach anyone, including herself, dashes to Paris to confront her ex-boyfriend who is honeymooning with a member of the Morningside cult and who has stolen Carly’s great-uncle’s diary.
- Location(s): Washington DC
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
It begins with someone else’s story. The story of a woman who leaves a busy restaurant and disappears completely into the chilly spring night. Evelyn Carney is missing – but where did she go? Who was she meeting? And...
- Location(s): Glasgow
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
THE DARK SIDE of Glasgow lies behind this black, erotic thriller. Homosexual antique dealer Rilke is commissioned to sell at auction the entire contents of a deceased old man’s estate. What seems a straightforward deal turns suspicious upon the...
The Damage Done: Twelve Years Of Hell In A Bangkok Prison
- Location(s): Bangkok
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1970s/1980s
In 1978, Warren Fellows was convicted in Thailand of heroin trafficking and was sentenced to life imprisonment. The Damage Done is his story of an unthinkable nightmare in a place where sewer rats and cockroaches are the only nutritious...
- Location(s): Reykjavik
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Tony is a young man who has always been on the losing side in life. He was brought up by his troubled, alcoholic mother who had a past of her own as a talented ballerina, until a life-changing accident...
- Location(s): Arkansas, Texas
- Genre(s): Thriller, Noir
- Era(s): 1946
1946, Texarkana: a town on the border of Texas and Arkansas. Disgraced New York reporter Charlie Yates has been sent to cover the story of a spate of brutal murders – young couples who’ve been slaughtered at a local...
- Location(s): Hull
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Hull, East Yorkshire. Two weeks before Christmas. Three bodies in the morgue. The victims – each a sole survivor of a past tragedy – killed in the manner they once cheated death. Somebody is playing God. And it falls...
- Location(s): Bournemouth
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
My goddaughter, Coco Jackson, disappeared from her family’s holiday home in Bournemouth on the night of Sunday/Monday August 29/30th, the bank holiday weekend just gone. Coco is three years old. When identical twin Coco goes missing during a family...
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