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The Emperor’s Tomb

The Emperor’s Tomb
  • Author(s): Steve Berry
  • Location(s): China
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): Various

Hearing that his old friend Cassiopeia Vitt is in trouble, Malone follows the few clues he has and realises that they are in the middle of something huge, involving Russian and US oil interests and a centuries-old secret. After...

The Engagement

The Engagement
  • Author(s): Chloe Hooper
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Liese Campbell has an engagement for the weekend: Alexander Colquhoun, a handsome, well-mannered farmer, is paying for her to stay at his property in remote Australia. Liese, an English architect in flight from the financial crisis, has been working...

The Executioner’s Song

The Executioner’s Song
  • Author(s): Norman Mailer
  • Location(s): Utah
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s onwards

In the summer of 1976 Gary Gilmore robbed two men. Then he shot them in cold blood. For those murders Gilmore was sent to languish on Death Row – and could confidently expect his sentence to be commuted to...

The Exhibitionist

The Exhibitionist
  • Author(s): Charlotte Mendelson
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘It takes the most ferocious intelligence, skill, and a deep reservoir of sadness to write a novel as funny as this. I adored it’ – Meg Mason, author of Sorrow & Bliss ‘A devastating treat of a novel: funny,...

The Explosive Nature of Friendship #3

The Explosive Nature of Friendship #3
  • Author(s): Sara Alexi
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Mitsos has spent the last twenty years trying to comes to terms with the events of a single day and all that led up tp it. In his twilight years a suprising turn of events gives him a chance...

The Eyes of Greed

The Eyes of Greed
  • Author(s): Beverly Samuelson
  • Location(s): New Jersey, St Maarten
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

The story takes place in a small seaside town in New Jersey. It begins innocent enough with a town celebration. The story turns to murder among other sinister events over a period of time. The events tell of how...

The Fall of a Sparrow

The Fall of a Sparrow
  • Author(s): Robert Hellenga
  • Location(s): Bologna
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

The centre of the story and the events and emotions in the characters lives’ is the death of Cookie in the Bologna train bomb in 1980. It chronicles the family’s struggle to heal itself after the death.

The Family Retreat

The Family Retreat
  • Author(s): Bev Thomas
  • Location(s): Dorset
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Rob decides the family needs to get away for the summer Jess is not convinced—won’t all the things they’re escaping be waiting for them on their return? But the kids are thrilled, and before long their idyllic little...

The Far Side of the Night

The Far Side of the Night
  • Author(s): Jan-Philipp Sendker
  • Location(s): China
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

During a trip to China, Paul and Christine experience the nightmare of every parent: their four year old son is kidnapped. They are reunited after a few hours but the kidnappers, very powerful people in today’s China with close...

The Farm

The Farm
  • Author(s): Tom Rob Smith
  • Location(s): Sweden
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

The Farm is an addictive psychological thriller from the bestselling author of international publishing sensation Child 44. A suspenseful and pacey page-turner with two sides to the story, and plot twists where you’d least expect, The Farm is destined to be one of...

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