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Murder in Dublin

Murder in Dublin
  • Author(s): Christina Koning
  • Location(s): Dublin
  • Genre(s): Crime, Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1939

(Blind Detective, 7) ‘With vivid characterisation and a keen ear for dialogue, Christina Koning has all the qualities of a first-class mystery writer’ – DAILY MAIL Dublin, 1939. As the Second World War looms ever closer, blind war veteran...

Murder in Cambridge

Murder in Cambridge
  • Author(s): Christina Koning
  • Location(s): Cambridge
  • Genre(s): Historical, Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1935

(Blind Detective, 5) First published as End of Term under A. C. Koning. Cambridge, 1935. Frederick Rowlands, blind war veteran, is attending an event at St Gertrude’s College. However, the festivities are harshly interrupted when when a research student...

Murder in Berlin

Murder in Berlin
  • Author(s): Christina Koning
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1933

(Blind Detective 4) First published as Out of Shot under A. C. Koning. Berlin, 1933. The Nazi regime is gaining devastating power as Hitler is appointed Chancellor and stark oppression begins to unfold in Germany, blind war veteran Frederick...

Murder in Barcelona

Murder in Barcelona
  • Author(s): Christina Koning
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Crime, Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1937

#6 Blind Detective series Summer, 1937. Frederick Rowlands’ peaceful holiday in Cornwall is derailed when a film star is found dead in his hotel. The suspicious nature of Dolores La Mar’s death points to murder and Rowlands soon finds...

Murder at Hendon Aerodrome

Murder at Hendon Aerodrome
  • Author(s): Christina Koning
  • Location(s): Hendon
  • Genre(s): Crime, Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1931

#3 Blind Detective First published as Time of Flight under A. C. Koning May 1931. For blind First World War veteran Frederick Rowlands, the craze for flying holds little interest – after all, he is unlikely ever to set...

Murder at Bletchley Park

Murder at Bletchley Park
  • Author(s): Christina Koning
  • Location(s): Bletchley
  • Genre(s): Crime, Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1941

(Blind Detective 8) Spring, 1941. The Second World War has entered a dangerous phase, with British ships being torpedoed in the Atlantic and nightly bombing raids on major ports. At Bletchley Park, top secret home of the nation’s code-breakers,...

Slanting Towards the Sea

Slanting Towards the Sea
  • Author(s): Lidija Hilje
  • Location(s): Zadar
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

An evocative meditation on longing and buried resentment, set in the beautiful Croatian city of Zadar. Ivona has returned to her childhood home to care for her father. While there, she reconnects with the man she divorced over ten...

Under a Riviera Moon

Under a Riviera Moon
  • Author(s): Helen McGinn
  • Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur), New York City (NYC), Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemorary

When a heartsick Maggie is sent on an errand by her mother to Cannes, she is keen to get it over with as quickly as possible. She has been tasked with collecting a treasured box of photos from her...

When The Cranes Fly South

When The Cranes Fly South
  • Author(s): Lisa Ridzén
  • Location(s): Northern Sweden
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Bo lives a quiet existence in his small rural village in the north of Sweden. He is elderly and his days are punctuated by visits from his care team and his son. Fortunately, he still has his rich memories,...

The Barracks

The Barracks
  • Author(s): John McGahern
  • Location(s): County Cavan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

The iconic debut novel by ‘one of the greatest writers of our era’ (Hilary Mantel) and ‘the Irish novelist everyone should read’ (Colm Tóibín). Elizabeth Reegan, after years of freedom – and loneliness – marries into the enclosed Irish...

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