- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern looking back
WEST LONDON Kate Rokesmith’s decision to go to the river changed the lives of many. Her murder shocked the nation. Her husband, never charged, moved abroad under a cloud of suspicion. Her son, just four years old, grew up...
- Location(s): Snowdonia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
The newcomer introduces herself as “Emilie” – not her real name. That we don’t learn until the closing pages of this novel: indeed, there’s much about her we don’t know. We know only that she is newly arrived from...
- Location(s): Hitchin
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Present
‘I know all your secrets, Lauren.’ Lauren has spent years running away from her home town, her childhood and the memories of her best friend, Hannah. Until the tenth anniversary of Hannah’s death forces her to return home and...
- Location(s): Brisbane
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Second half of the 20th Century
Rock and jazz drummer max is dead. Now, in his coffin as his friends prepare to bury him, Max is surrounded by the ghosts of his life and the dreams that never faded. All the old music is back...
- Location(s): Casablanca
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
“In Vendela Vida’s taut and mesmerizing novel of ideas, a woman travels to Casablanca, Morocco, on mysterious business. While checking into her hotel, the woman is robbed of her wallet and passport-all of her money and identification. Though the...
The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years
- Location(s): Durban
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern / 20th Century
Sana and Meena will never meet. They share little beyond Akbar Manzil, the sprawling mansion high on a clifftop above Durban that they both call home. When Meena fell in love with the owner of the house it was...
- Location(s): Brooklyn, Lancashire, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
On the windswept front of Morecambe Bay, Cy Parks spends his childhood years first in a guest house for consumptives run by his mother and then as apprentice to alcoholic tattoo-artist Eliot Riley. Thirsty for new experiences, he departs...
- Location(s): France
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller, Destination Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
From bestselling author Ruth Kelly, The Escape is an electrifying thriller of influencers, secrets and lies set in a grand mansion in rural France for fans of Lisa Jewell and Sarah Pearse. THE PERFECT OFFER When struggling influencer couple...
- Location(s): Eastern Europe, Europe
- Genre(s): Historical, Political, Thriller
- Era(s): 1950s
It’s 1951 and the servants of Stalin are closing in on the occupied nations of eastern Europe. As the Red Army tightens the net, Greta – best and bravest of freedom fighters – is told to escape to the...
- Location(s): Beijing (Peking)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2013
In Chan Koonchung’s dystopian novel “The Fat Years,” which takes place in 2013, a month of history has been wiped out from China’s memory. During that month in 2011, the world went through a tremendous economic, political and social...
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