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A Brighter Fear

A Brighter Fear
  • Author(s): Kerry Drewery
  • Location(s): Baghdad
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Early 2000s

A beautiful love story and contemporary fairytale set against the backdrop of the Iraq war, this stunning and moving novel will break your heart, only to put it back together again… This is the story of Lina, a teenage...

A Carrion Death (#1 Detective Kubu)

A Carrion Death (#1 Detective Kubu)
  • Author(s): Michael Stanley
  • Location(s): Botswana
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

A stunning debut crime novel set against a backdrop of poachers, witch doctors, diamond smugglers and corruption… They find the first body near a waterhole considered magical by the local bush people. A string of clues suggests that the...

A Crime Through Time (Miss Darcy investigates)

A Crime Through Time (Miss Darcy investigates)
  • Author(s): Amelia Blackwell
  • Location(s): Derbyshire, Plymouth
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery

The gripping debut from Amelia Blackwell, A Crime Through Time is the start of a quirky series where Jane Austen, time travel and crime collide. Pemberley, 1799. When Miss Georgiana Darcy attempts to escape an unwanted marriage proposal, she...

A Deadly Trade (#2 Detective Kubu)

A Deadly Trade (#2 Detective Kubu)
  • Author(s): Michael Stanley
  • Location(s): Botswana
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Set amid the beauty and darkness of modern Botswana, the second in the fantastic crime series featuring the opera-loving wine connoisseur Assistant Superintendant David ‘Kubu’ Bengu of the Botswana Police Force When a mutilated body is found at a...

A Death At The Party

A Death At The Party
  • Author(s): Amy Stuart
  • Location(s): United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Dual Timeline - Contemporary/Thirty Years Previous

Nadine Walsh’s party started with excitement. But it ended in murder . . . In the day, she frets over the final details. She’s determined to make this the event of the year. A chance for everyone to forget...

A Fatal Crossing

A Fatal Crossing
  • Author(s): Tom Hindle
  • Location(s): The Atlantic Ocean
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1924

November 1924. The Endeavour sets sail from Southampton carrying 2,000 passengers and crew on a week-long voyage to New York. When an elderly gentleman is found dead at the foot of a staircase, ship’s officer Timothy Birch is ready...

A Good Enough Mother

A Good Enough Mother
  • Author(s): Bev Thomas
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Dr Ruth Hartland is the director of a highly respected trauma therapy unit. She is confident, capable and excellent at her job. But she is finding it hard to maintain. Increasingly preoccupied by her son Tom’s disappearance, Ruth is...

A House in Corfu

A House in Corfu
  • Author(s): Emma Tennant
  • Location(s): Corfu
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 20th Century

House in Corfu is the story of one of the most beautiful places on earth, still astonishingly unspoilt, on the west coast of Corfu. In the early 1960s, Emma Tennant’s parents, on a cruise, spotted a magical bay and...

A Lethal Legacy

A Lethal Legacy
  • Author(s): Guðrún Guðlaugsdóttir
  • Location(s): Selfoss
  • Genre(s): Crime, Noir
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Nothing has changed at Bjargarlækur for as long as anyone can remember – so are moves to bring change to this remote farm in the Icelandic countryside a motive for murder? Three elderly siblings have lived more or less...

A Most Peculiar Malaysian Murder

A Most Peculiar Malaysian Murder
  • Author(s): Shamini Flint
  • Location(s): Kuala Lumpur
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

First in the series – Detective Singh is sent to Kuala Lumpur to ensure that a Singaporean citizen accused of murdering her very wealthy Malaysian Chinese husband, gets fairly retreated by the Malaysian justice system.

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