- Location(s): Wales
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
‘My name is Laddy Merridew. I’m a cry-baby. I’m sorry.’ ‘And my name is Ianto Jenkins. I am a coward. And that’s worse.’ The boy Laddy Merridew, sent to live with his grandmother, stumbles off the bus into a...
- Location(s): Hull
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): 1980s
When Joe Geraghty’s brother finds himself in financial trouble, it’s only natural that he turns to the Private Investigator for help. But when it relates to a missing consignment of smuggled cigarettes, it’s not so easily sorted. Drawn into...
The Crow Trap (Vera Stanhope £1)
- Location(s): North Pennines
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Three very different women come together at isolated Baikie’s Cottage on the North Pennines, to complete an environmental survey. Three women who each know the meaning of betrayal . . . Rachael, the team leader, is still reeling after...
- 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...
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