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The Book of Safety

The Book of Safety
  • Author(s): Yasser Abdel Hafez
  • Location(s): Cairo
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

At one interrogation, he encounters Mustafa Ismail: a university professor turned master thief, who breaks into the homes of the great and the good and then blackmails them into silence.Mustafa has dedicated his existence to the perfection of his...

No Road to Paradise

No Road to Paradise
  • Author(s): Hassan Daoud
  • Location(s): Lebanon
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When the imam of a small town in Southern Lebanon is diagnosed with cancer, the illness he fears and has expected for years, he takes the radical decision to abandon the life he inherited from his father. He was...

The Galway Homicides

The Galway Homicides
  • Author(s): David Pearson
  • Location(s): Connemara
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Current

MURDER AT THE HOLIDAY HOME A local businessman is questioned when a young woman is found dead in his property. His caginess makes him a prime suspect in what turns into a murder inquiry. But with no clear motive...

Turn To Dust (Detective Kay Hunter Book #9)

Turn To Dust (Detective Kay Hunter Book  #9)
  • Author(s): Rachel Amphlett
  • Location(s): Kent, Maidstone
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Present Day

When the body of a naked man is found in the middle of a barren field, Detective Kay Hunter realises the investigation will test her skills to the limit. With only one clue to the victim’s identity, her inquiries...

The Meal of Fortune

The Meal of Fortune
  • Author(s): Philip Brady
  • Location(s): West London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present day

A delightfully comic crime thriller bringing together Russian hit-men, M15 spies, the Eurovision song contest and a TV chef. A celebrity agent is hired by a shady Russian billionaire (who is under surveillance by the British Security service) to...

Cobra Clutch

Cobra Clutch
  • Author(s): A J Devlin
  • Location(s): Vancouver
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

“Hammerhead” Jed Ounstead thought he’d traded the pro-wrestling world for the slightly less dangerous one of a bar bouncer and errand boy for his father’s detective agency, but the squared circle wasn’t quite done with him yet. When his...

Every Boy’s Got One

Every Boy’s Got One
  • Author(s): Meg Cabot
  • Location(s): Le Marche
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Modern

Cartoonist Jane Harris is delighted by the prospect of her first-ever trip to Europe. But it’s hate at first sight for Jane and Cal Langdon, and neither is too happy at the prospect of sharing a villa with one...

The Falconer’s Knot

The Falconer’s Knot
  • Author(s): Mary Hoffman
  • Location(s): Umbria
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 14th Century

Silvano and Chiara are two teenagers with a difference. Silvano has been accused of a murder he did not commit. Chiara has been ousted from her family as a young woman with no marriage prospects. For these two very...

Lanzarote

Lanzarote
  • Author(s): Michel Houellebecq
  • Location(s): Lanzarote
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 21st Century

Realising that his New Year is probably going to be a disaster, as usual, our narrator, on impulse, walks into a travel agency to book a week in the sun. Sensitive to his limited means and dislike of Muslim...

The Hermit

The Hermit
  • Author(s): Thomas Rydahl
  • Location(s): Fuerteventura
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A car is found on a deserted beach on the Spanish island of Fuerteventura. On the back seat lies a cardboard box containing the body of a small boy buried in newspaper cuttings. No one knows his name, and...

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