- 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...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): 2000s
Inspired by the still unsolved murder of a Japanese family in 2000, Blue Light Yokohama is 2017’s most original and gripping crime debut . . . Setagaya ward, Tokyo Inspector Kosuke Iwata, newly transferred to Tokyo’s homicide department, is...
- Location(s): Hamburg
- Genre(s): Crime, In Translation, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
After convicting a superior for corruption and shooting off a gangster’s crown jewels, the career of Hamburg’s most hard-bitten state prosecutor, Chastity Riley, has taken a nose dive: she has been transferred to the tedium of witness protection to...
- Location(s): Tamil Nadu
- Genre(s): Coming of Age, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
In Tamil Nadu, India, a boy named Kalki is born with blue skin. He believes that he is the Hindu god Vishnu and that he can perform miracles. The truth, however, is much darker… As Kalki struggles to extract...










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