- Location(s): Nepal
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
Overworked computer programmer Zelda Richardson is teetering on the edge of burnout. Inspired by a girlfriend’s trip around the world, she leaves her life in Seattle, Washington, buys a backpack and flies to Kathmandu as a volunteer English teacher...
- Location(s): Greece, Long Island
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950's to 1990's
In the year 1956, Anastacia Fotopoulos finds herself pregnant and betrayed, fleeing from a bad marriage. With the love and support of her dear friends Stavros and Soula Papadakis, Ana is able to face the challenges of single motherhood....
- Location(s): Naples
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
A modern masterpiece from one of Italy’s most acclaimed authors, My Brilliant Friend is a rich, intense and generous hearted story about two friends, Elena and Lila. Ferrante’s inimitable style lends itself perfectly to a meticulous portrait of these...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
My name is Peter Grant and until January I was just probationary constable in that mighty army for justice known to all right-thinking people as the Metropolitan Police Service (and as the Filth to everybody else). My only concerns...
- Location(s): Moscow, Russia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Late 1990s -2000s
That’s what the Russians call them – the bodies that float up into the light in the thaw. Drunks, most of them, and homeless people who just give up and lie down into the whiteness, and murder victims hidden...
- Location(s): Bangkok, Koh Chang, Koh Samet
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
When travellers Ben and Emma come to blows on the idyllic Thai island of Koh Samet, it s not long before Ben falls for Fon, a flirtatious but enigmatic beach masseuse, and is forced to come to terms with...
- Location(s): Eritrea
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
An atmospheric historical thriller of subterfuge and illicit love with a menacing plot set in Mussolini’s Asmara, Italian Eritrea.
- Location(s): Alaska
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1920s
A bewitching tale of heartbreak and hope set in 1920s Alaska and inspiration from a Russian fairytale Jack and Mabel have staked everything on making a fresh start for themselves in a homestead ‘at the world’s edge’ in the...
- Location(s): Italy
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 20th Century
Escaping an unhappy marriage and an unsatisfactory job, Cassie Holloway moves to the little Australian coastal town of Whitby Point. There she meets the Aquino family, whose fishing business was founded by their ancestor, Giuseppe, an Italian immigrant, some...
Wed, Then Dead on The Ghan (Celebrant Sleuth series)
- Location(s): The Outback, Australia
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Current day
Sleuth Quinn is on ‘The Ghan’ booked to celebrate a ‘real”wedding at the sunrise breakfast stop out in the Australian desert at Marla. But things go wrong. The train manager has devised an Agatha Christie role-playing mystery to attract...
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