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Death of a Bookseller

Death of a Bookseller
  • Author(s): Alice Slater
  • Location(s): Walthamstow
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 2019

Roach – bookseller, loner and true crime obsessive – is not interested in making friends. She has all the company she needs in her serial killer books, murder podcasts and her pet snail, Bleep. That is, until Laura joins...

Death on the Lusitania

Death on the Lusitania
  • Author(s): R L Graham
  • Location(s): The Atlantic Ocean
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): 1915

Welcome on board the Lusitania’s final voyage . . . New York, 1915. RMS Lusitania, one of the world’s most luxurious ocean liners, departs for war-torn Europe. Among those on board is Patrick Gallagher, a civil servant in Her...

Deceit

Deceit
  • Author(s): Jónína Leósdóttir
  • Location(s): Reykjavik
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Reykjavík detective Soffía finds herself struggling to cope with a single-handed investigation into a spate of malicious acts taking place across the city, and enlists help from an unexpected direction. Her psychologist ex-husband Adam has advised the police before,...

Deja Dead

Deja Dead
  • Author(s): Kathy Reichs
  • Location(s): Québec
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Gory detail, and compelling forensic expertise are a marker of this book. In Quebec a serial killer targets women, and severed remains are left in bags close to their bodies. Dr Temperance Brennan assists the police can tell from...

Derailed in Uncle Ho’s Victory Garden: Travels in Cambodia and Vietnam

Derailed in Uncle Ho’s Victory Garden: Travels in Cambodia and Vietnam
  • Author(s): Tim Page
  • Location(s): Cambodia, Vietnam
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): 1960s/70s

A colourful time of Page’s time in Vietnam and Cambodia, peppered with the parlance of the day, and insightfully written.

Deus ex Machina

Deus ex Machina
  • Author(s): Sparkle Hayter
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Modern

Two stories come together to make a rollercoaster ride through Paris. A starving writer splurges on a cab ride in Paris, she ends up on an unexpected journey…

Dial Tone

Dial Tone
  • Author(s): Bill Cronin
  • Location(s): Kentucky
  • Genre(s): Fiction

Sam Thompson accepts an assignment in Glasgow, Kentucky managing a small rural telephone company. He soon discovers that the comptroller, John Stanko, embezzled nearly a million dollars, and launched a hostile takeover bid to conceal his theft. In Stanko’s...

Digging to America

Digging to America
  • Author(s): Anne Tyler
  • Location(s): Baltimore
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Two families, who would otherwise never have come together, meet by chance at the Baltimore airport – the Donaldsons, a very American couple, and the Yazdans, Maryam’s fully assimilated son and his attractive Iranian wife. Each couple is awaiting...

Digital Fortress

Digital Fortress
  • Author(s): Dan Brown
  • Location(s): Seville, Washington DC
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 2000s

Part set in Sevilla, this is the novel about the NSA’s invincible code-breaking machine encountering a mysterious code it cannot break. Call in Susan Fletcher, a brilliant, beautiful mathematician and cryptogrpher. Her discovery sends shock waves through the corridors...

Dirty Little Secrets

Dirty Little Secrets
  • Author(s): Jo Spain
  • Location(s): County Wicklow
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In the exclusive gated community of Withered Vale, people’s lives appear as perfect as their beautifully manicured lawns. Money, success, privilege – the residents have it all. Life is good. There’s just one problem. Olive Collins’ dead body has...

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