- Location(s): Sicily
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Late 20th Century
Zen finally receives the order he has been dreading all his professional life: his next posting to Sicily. The gruesome discovery of an unidentified, decomposed corpse sealed in a railway wagon marks the beginning of Zen’s most difficult and...
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): The Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution. Fairy tale, spy thriller, love story. One man’s life during the last days of the Romanovs, beautifully imagined by award-winning author Marcus Sedgwick. Shortlisted for the Costa Children’s Book Award. Set in the rich and atmospheric...
- Location(s): South Africa
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): N/A
Seventeen-year-old Savannah is cursed. It’s a sinister family heirloom; passed down through the bloodline for hundreds of years, with one woman in every generation destined to die young. The family call them Hella’s girls, named for their ancestor Hella;...
- Location(s): Colorado
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 2000s
Six months after the murder of his uncle, Sean is trying to get his life together. He’s stopped drinking, he’s taking better care of himself, and he’s working hard to keep a fledgling security business afloat. At a blood...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1670
AFTER THE TUDORS CAME THE STUARTS . . . London, Winter 1670. Holcroft Blood has entered the employ of the Duke of Buckingham, one of the most powerful men in the kingdom after the king. It is here that...
- Location(s): Prague, London
- Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Love, deception and murder dominate as thriller writer James Silvester delivers the first in the Lucie Musilova series. Britain is a hotbed of racial tension and economic uncertainty. Only Sir Geoffrey Hartnell, an ageing but hugely respected MP, can...
- Location(s): Shropshire
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Present day
Esme Quentin is devastated when her sister Elizabeth is beaten unconscious, miles from her home. Two days later Esme discovers that Elizabeth has a secret past. Desperate for answers which the comatose Elizabeth cannot give, Esme begins a search...
Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures
- Location(s): Toronto
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
In this beautifully written collection, Vincent Lam weaves together black humour, investigations of both common and extraordinary moral dilemmas, and a sometimes shockingly realistic portrait of today’s medical profession. Twelve interlinked stories introduce us to a group of medical...
- Location(s): Scottish Highlands
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern era (alternate history)
It is the third book in the ‘Black Tower’ trilogy. It is an alternate history where Bonnie Prince Charlie won the Battle of Culloden and after this death a Gaelic Republic was established for the Highland and Islands of...
Bloodline (Natasha Blake Ancestor Detective Mysteries)
- Location(s): The Cotswolds
- Genre(s): Mystery, Crime
- Era(s): Contemporary
An anonymous note, the shooting death of one of her clients, an elderly man investigating his granddaughter’s boyfriend and send ancester detective Natasha Blake on a perilous quest in search of a the truth about a cold-blooded crime that...
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