- Location(s): East London
- Genre(s): Thriller, Disability, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
You can choose your house. Not your neighbours. WELCOME TO YOUR DREAM HOME… Salma Khatun is extremely hopeful about Blenheim, the safe suburban development to which she, her husband and their son have just moved. Their family is in...
- Location(s): The Pyrenees
- Genre(s): Mystery, Young Adult
- Era(s): 20th Century
Jenny Silver’s trip to the Pyrenees is intended to be more than a welcome holiday in a beautiful part of France. Perturbed by a letter from her cousin Gillian who has been like a sister to her, Jenny has...
- Location(s): Portsmouth
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
It is DI Andy Horton’s second day back in Portsmouth CID after being suspended for eight months. Whilst out running in the early morning he trips over the battered, naked body of a man. PC Evans has been stabbed...
- Location(s): Brisbane, Sydney
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
Life has become a series of escapes for Nora Porteous – from small-town family life: the hypocrisy of a mean-hearted husband and in-laws: and the suffocation of Suburbia. Nora endures with courage, intelligence and humour as, in this book,...
Tokyo Year Zero (Tokyo Trilogy 1)
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Crime, Historical, Thriller
Post war Japan…The police force barely functions, and a variety of unpleasant individuals struggle for supremacy in Tokyo’s thriving black market. Peace’s protagonist, Detective Minami, is assigned a difficult case: the bodies of two women are found in Sheba...
- Location(s): Idaho
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 20th century
Robert Grainier is a day labourer in the American West at the start of the twentieth century – an ordinary man in extraordinary times. Buffeted by the loss of his family, Grainier struggles to make sense of this strange...
- Location(s): London, Marbella
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Modern
Twenty-something, Lizzie Saunders, has found herself newly single, newly fired and living as a Room Mate. Not quite the life plan she’d had in mind for herself. Only after securing a job at an independent travel company, does she...
- Location(s): Tenerife
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): 2000s
DJ Smith, Undercover investigator for HM Revenue & Customs, is sent to Tenerife to infiltrate a money-laundering organisation run by Ambrose Vanheusen, a ruthless criminal with an obsession for his Persian cat, Samarkand Black Prince. DJ’s passport into Vanheusen’s...
- Location(s): Hungary
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
In sixty-eight years, Valeria has never minced her words. Harrumphing through her isolated little village deep in the Hungarian steppes, she clutches her shopping basket like a battering ram and leaves nothing uncriticised – flaccid vegetables at the market:...
- Location(s): Afghanistan
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Modern
This is the story of three people whose paths cross. Amy is an aid worker,who arrives in Afghanistan. She has few illusions about the difficulties she might have to face on a personal level, and struggles to implement the...
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