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Dar es Salaam: A Novel

Dar es Salaam: A Novel
  • Author(s): Tara Kai
  • Location(s): Dar es Salaam
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance

Tatum, an adolescent young woman, travels with her family on holiday to Dar es Salaam where she finds herself attracted to Mohammed (Mo), who is a 40-year-old Indian man and friend of her stepfather.

Dark Harbour

Dark Harbour
  • Author(s): David Hosp
  • Location(s): Boston
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Scott Finn worked his way out of Boston’s toughest neighbourhood to become a rising star in the city’s most elite law firm. When the body of Natalie Caldwell, one of his closest colleagues, and former lover, is found floating...

Dark Mind

Dark Mind
  • Author(s): Jennifer Chase
  • Location(s): California, Kauai
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

A Serial Killer Plagues an Island Paradise Vigilante detective Emily Stone continues her covert pursuits to find serial killers and child abductors, all under the radar while shadowing police investigations. Emily searches for an abducted nine-year-old girl taken by...

Daughters-in-law

Daughters-in-law
  • Author(s): Joanna Trollope
  • Location(s): Suffolk
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Rachel loves being at the centre of her large family. She has devoted herself fiercely to bringing up her three sons, but at their childhood home on the wide, bird-haunted coast of Suffolk, Rachel finds that her control begins...

Death at the Chateau Bremont

Death at the Chateau Bremont
  • Author(s): M L Longworth
  • Location(s): Aix-en-Provence, Provence
  • Genre(s): Mystery

Étienne de Bremont is found dead having fallen from an attic window at the family château. Suicide? Possibly murder. Then Magistrate Verlaque has to investigate another death – all set against the fabulous backdrop of Provence

Death by Marriage

Death by Marriage
  • Author(s): Jaden Skye
  • Location(s): St Thomas
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

A well-known criminal lawyer is found dead in a back alley in St. Thomas, and Cindy and Mattheus are called in to investigate by the grieving widow. The local police have pinned her for the murder, and Cindy and...

Death in the Air

Death in the Air
  • Author(s): Ram Murali
  • Location(s): Indian Himalayan Region
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Welcome to Samsara, a world-class spa nestled in the Indian Himalayas where all your wishes are just a gilded notecard away. Ro Krishna has just checked in. With his rakish charm, Oxford education, perfect hair, he has it all...

Death in Venice

Death in Venice
  • Author(s): Thomas Mann
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 20th century

This is the ultimate novella set in Venice, from the master of storytelling. In the decaying city, struggling with an unnamed epidemic, Gustav von Aschenbach becomes obsessed with an exquisite Polish boy, Tadzio. An ode to beauty, and the...

Death in Verona

Death in Verona
  • Author(s): Roy Harley Lewis
  • Location(s): Verona
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

In the fifth of his critically acclaimed crime novel series featuring Matthew CoIl, the bookseller detective, Roy Harley Lewis turns his attention to one of the truly great love stories, Romeo and Juliet. Although captivated by Shakespeare’s dialogue, Matt...

Death in Zanzibar

Death in Zanzibar
  • Author(s): M M Kaye
  • Location(s): Zanzibar
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Romance
  • Era(s): 1930s

Heroine Dany Ashton and Lash, a young man about town, explore together the mystery of why her hotel room was broken into and her passport stolen.

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