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Birthright

Birthright
  • Author(s): Charles Lambert
  • 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)

Black Hearts (The Skelfs Book 4)
  • Author(s): Doug Johnstone
  • 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...

Black Storms

Black Storms
  • Author(s): Teresa Solana, Peter Bush (Translator)
  • 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...

Black Water

Black Water
  • Author(s): Louise Doughty
  • 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...

Black Water Lilies

Black Water Lilies
  • Author(s): Michel Bussi
  • 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...

Black’s Creek

Black’s Creek
  • Author(s): Sam Millar
  • 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...

Blizzard

Blizzard
  • Author(s): Marie Vingtras, Stephanie Smee (translator)
  • 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...

Blood Men

Blood Men
  • Author(s): Paul Cleave
  • 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...

Blood Red City

Blood Red City
  • Author(s): Rod Reynolds
  • 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...

Blood Red Square

Blood Red Square
  • Author(s): Pat Mullan
  • 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....

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