- Location(s): Eastern Europe, Europe, Russia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Disability, Historical
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century - WW2
Europe, 1938. Even as the daughter of the extraordinary headlining illusionist, Lena Papadopoulos has never quite found her place within the World of Wonders – a travelling circus that traverses the continent in a luxury steam engine. Brilliant and...
- Location(s): Southern France
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller, Destination Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
STRAY TOO CLOSE TO THE EDGE . . . New York-based writers Felix and Emma have it all. As the husband and wife team behind the bestselling Morgan Savage thrillers, their meteoric rise to global literary fame seemed unstoppable....
- Location(s): Isle of Man, World
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
What if life as you know it was turned upside down? Would you still be the same person? When Chloe is forced to leave behind her cosmopolitan life in London to move to a small island in the Irish...
- Location(s): Mallorca, The Canary Islands (Las Islas Canarias)
- Genre(s): Crime, Humour
- Era(s): Modern
In this, the third in the series of humour-spiked ‘Bob Burns Investigates’ mysteries, the droll Scottish Detective Inspector is once again aided by foxy forensic scientist, Julie Bryson, and abetted by keener-than-smart rookie detective, Andy Green. A finger is...
- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1920s
1922. Ruby Vaughn has made a life for herself running a bookshop alongside octogenarian Mr Owen. When she finds herself at Penryth Hall, deep in the Cornish countryside, painful memories emerge of her lost friendship with Tamsyn, now married...
The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze
- Location(s): Northern California, San Francisco
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): 1920s
- Location(s): London, Portland (Isle of), Vukovar
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 1990s onwards
SOMETIMES, surviving a war can almost seem worse than dying in it. In a Croatian village near Vukovar, no one who survived will ever forget the night they waited for the weapons they needed to make a last-ditch fight...
- Location(s): Padstow, Epphaven Cove
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Early 2000s and present
A woman’s body is discovered on a Cornish farm, battered and left for dead in a maize field. Airlifted to hospital, her life hanging in the balance, no one’s sure who she is. Three days later she comes round,...
- Location(s): Manchester
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
For struggling author Billy Dye, ghost writing the memoirs of Manchester gangster Malcolm Priest seems like a great way to make a quick buck, but when Priest tires of the wry writer he hires a vicious hitman to take...
- Location(s): Buckinghamshire
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 2000s
Four families live in a beautiful stretch of English countryside in magnificent listed houses, built for the old aristocracy. They are the new aristocracy and the elite of their village: financiers, business tycoons, lawyers, doctors, magistrates. They leave their...
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