- Location(s): Barcelona
- Genre(s): Mystery, Fiction, In Translation
- Era(s): Contemporary looking back
A country that doesn’t acknowledge its past is destined to repeat its mistakes. Why murder a sick old man nearing retirement? An investigation into the death of a professor at the University of Barcelona seems particularly baffling for Deputy...
- Location(s): California, Indonesia, Netherlands
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Present looking back
John Harper lies awake at night in an isolated hut on an Indonesian island, listening to the rain on the roof and believing his life may be in danger. But he is less afraid of what is going to...
- Location(s): Giverny
- Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern Times
Giverny. During the day, the home of the famous artist Claude Monet and the gardens where he painted his waterlilies. But once the tourists have gone, there is a darker side to the peaceful French village. This is the...
- Location(s): New York State
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
A young boy drowns in a tragic accident in a lake in upstate New York. Fourteen-year-old year old Tommy and his two friends are sure they know who drove him to take his own life: the boy’s father is...
- Location(s): Alaska
- Genre(s): Novella, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
A blizzard rages in an isolated corner of Alaska. Few inhabitants live in this desolate place. Scattered across the vast, white expanse, they shelter in solitude from the tempest and the extreme cold. But amid this storm and far...
- Location(s): Christchurch
- Era(s): Modern
Edward Hunter has it all-a beautiful wife and daughter, a great job, a bright future…and a very dark past. Twenty years ago, a serial killer was caught, convicted, and locked away in New Zealand’s most hellish of penitentiaries. That...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
When crusading journalist Lydia Wright is sent a video of an apparent murder on a London train, she thinks she’s found the story to revive her career. But she can’t find a victim, much less the killers, and the...
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 1961 and 1997
Set in New York, Washington, Lake Como, Ireland, Argentina, Moscow, St. Petersburg, The Congo, Libya. Starting out from the real life event, that of the ‘accidental’ death of Dag Hammarskjold, the secretary general of the United Nations in 1961....
Blood River: A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart
- Location(s): Congo (Democratic Republic of)
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): 2000s
This is the account of the author’s decision to travel, against all advice, through the Democratic Republic of Congo, whilst it is in an on/off state of civil war: he goes back to past adventurers and explorers and the...
- Location(s): Nuoro
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): First half 20th Century
When Giuseppe Mundula first sees Michele Angelo Chironi across the corridor of a Sardinian orphanage, the reserved blacksmith realises he has found the son and heir he never knew he needed. And when, a few years later, Michele himself...










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