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Death Of Dignity: Angola’s Civil War

Death Of Dignity: Angola’s Civil War
  • Author(s): Victoria Brittain
  • Location(s): Angola
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 1970s -

Angola has been embroiled in war almost continuously since its independence in 1975. Yet despite countless casualties, including some two million displaced people, Western media have paid scant attention to this devastataling conflict — one of apartheid South Africa’s...

Death On A Longship

Death On A Longship
  • Author(s): Marsali Taylor
  • Location(s): Shetland Islands
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Death on a Longship: When she wangles the job of skippering a Viking longship for a film, Cass Lynch thinks her big break has finally arrived – even though it means returning home to the Shetland Islands, which she...

Death on Clare Island

Death on Clare Island
  • Author(s): Martha Geaney
  • Location(s): County Mayo, Clare Island
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Star O’Brien is a haunting voice for the dead, the missing, and the lost. Star O’Brien is a successful American information broker who can’t solve the mysteries of her own life. She comes to County Mayo, Ireland to settle...

Death on Cromer Beach

Death on Cromer Beach
  • Author(s): Ross Greenwood
  • Location(s): Norfolk
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A brutal double murder on a Norfolk beach horrifies the town of Cromer. The way the victims died is chilling and so Norfolk’s Major Investigation Team task DS Ashley Knight to manage the case. It soon becomes clear that...

Death On Duty

Death On Duty
  • Author(s): Graham Brack
  • Location(s): Prague
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Nothing is ever straightforward when Lieutenant Slonský is on the case… The Bosnian government has sent an alert out to the criminal division in Prague that some of their ‘most wanted’ men may have escaped into the Czech Republic....

Death on Paradise Island (Fiji Islands Mysteries 1)

Death on Paradise Island (Fiji Islands Mysteries 1)
  • Author(s): B M Allsopp
  • Location(s): Fiji
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Fiji Islands Mysteries 1 An island paradise. A grisly murder. Can a detective put his rugby days behind him to tackle a killer case? Josefa “Joe” Horseman holds out hope for a comeback. But after riding high in top...

Death On The Algarve (Eyes Of The Water)

Death On The Algarve (Eyes Of The Water)
  • Author(s): K E Heaton
  • Location(s): The Algarve
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Current

Anthony Smith plans a holiday to Portugal with his pretty girlfriend Barbara. Regrettably, a young woman’s death casts a shadow over what should be an idyllic summer vacation. Barbosa’s investigation is compromised by misleading information but the Inspector remains...

Death on the Beach

Death on the Beach
  • Author(s): Steph Broadribb
  • Location(s): Florida
  • Genre(s): Cosy Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

(The Retired Detectives Club Book 3) Did she jump—or was she pushed? The Retired Detectives have a theory. Now they just need the evidence… The brand-new Shimmering Sands retirement community is a beachfront paradise—until realtor Jessie Beckton plunges to...

Death on the Lusitania

Death on the Lusitania
  • Author(s): R L Graham
  • Location(s): The Atlantic Ocean
  • Genre(s): Cosy Mystery
  • Era(s): 1915

Welcome on board the Lusitania’s final voyage . . . New York, 1915. RMS Lusitania, one of the world’s most luxurious ocean liners, departs for war-torn Europe. Among those on board is Patrick Gallagher, a civil servant in Her...

Death on the River

Death on the River
  • Author(s): Clare Chase
  • Location(s): Cambridge
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When a body is pulled from the deep and watery fens on the outskirts of town, everybody assumes it was a tragic accident. But Detective Tara Thorpe, newly joined and determined to prove herself, suspects there’s more to the...

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