- Location(s): Colorado
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
SHORTLISTED FOR THE FOLIO PRIZE. One long last summer for Dad Lewis in his beloved town, Holt, Colorado. As old friends pass in and out to voice their farewells and good wishes, Dad’s wife and daughter work to make...
- Location(s): Cyprus
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th/21st Century
In a small village, set among the wild mountains of Cyprus, two families of different faiths share a seemingly unbreakable friendship based on mutual respect and deep affection. Mothers and daughters share their daily secrets, fathers and sons support...
- Location(s): Bergen
- Genre(s): Noir, Fiction, In Translation
- Era(s): Contemporary
Varg Veum #18 Varg Veum receives a surprise visit in his office. A woman introduces herself as his half-sister, and she has a job for him. Her god-daughter, a 19-year-old trainee nurse from Haugesund, moved from her bedsit in...
- Location(s): Rome
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery, Thriller
- Era(s): 1980s
A sublime psychological thriller from Polari Prize-shortlisted Charles Lambert. Sixteen-year-old Fiona inhabits a privileged world of English affluence, though her relationship with her widowed mother is strained. When she discovers an old newspaper clipping of a woman and her daughter...
Black Hearts (The Skelfs Book 4)
- Location(s): Edinburgh
- Genre(s): Fiction, LGBTQIA+, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Death is just the beginning… The Skelf women live in the shadow of death every day, running the family funeral directors and private investigator business in Edinburgh. But now their own grief interwines with that of their clients, as...
- 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...










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