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Darkness for the Bastards of Pizzofalcone

Darkness for the Bastards of Pizzofalcone
  • Author(s): Maurizio de Giovanni
  • Location(s): Naples
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The second title in de Giovanni’s new series set in contemporary Naples. A child is kidnapped. A high-class apartment is burgled. The two crimes seem to have no connection at all until Inspector Lojacono, known as ‘the Chinaman’, starts...

Daughters

Daughters
  • Author(s): Lucy Fricke, Sinéad Crowe (translator)
  • Location(s): Amorgos, Germany, Switzerland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Lucy Fricke‘s Daughters tells the story of two women either side of forty on a road trip across Europe, each of them dealing with difficult fathers along the way. A bestseller and booksellers favourite in Germany, Daughters evokes laughter...

Daughters of Cornwall

Daughters of Cornwall
  • Author(s): Fern Britton
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1919 forward to 2020

Love can last a lifetime. But can it last three? 1918 World War One is over. But Clara’s fight for her family is only just beginning… 1947 Clara’s daughter, Hannah, is in love for the first time – but...

Day of the Dead

Day of the Dead
  • Author(s): Mark Roberts
  • Location(s): Liverpool
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A serial killer. A hero to some. A wanted criminal to others. The man who calls himself Vindici broke out of prison last year. Now he’s filmed himself torturing and killing paedophiles in Liverpool’s affluent suburbs. Half the city...

Death Among The Diamonds

Death Among The Diamonds
  • Author(s): Fliss Chester
  • Location(s): Newbury
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): 1925

Everyone in 1920s London knows the Honourable Cressida Fawcett: fiercely independent (though never apart from her little pug Ruby), lover of martinis and interior designer extraordinaire. She’s solved many crimes of fashion… so how about murder? Cressida Fawcett is...

Death at the Plague Museum

Death at the Plague Museum
  • Author(s): Lesley Kelly
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Three senior civil servants are dead or missing. As their brief is management of the deadly Virus, Bernard, Mona and the rest of the hard-pressed Health Enforcement Team are fighting not just a pandemic, but government secrets.

Death By Baguette

Death By Baguette
  • Author(s): Jennifer S Alderson
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery, Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Lana Hansen’s future is looking bright. She has money in her bank account, a babysitter for her cat, and even a boyfriend. Regrettably she won’t get to celebrate Valentine’s Day with her new beau, Chad. Instead, she will be...

Death by Windmill

Death by Windmill
  • Author(s): Jennifer S Alderson
  • Location(s): Netherlands
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Wanderlust Tours guide Lana Hansen and her mother, Gillian, haven’t seen eye to eye in over a decade, ever since Lana was wrongly fired from her job as an investigative reporter. So when Lana’s boss invites Gillian to join...

Death Down The Aisle

Death Down The Aisle
  • Author(s): Verity Bright
  • Location(s): Buckinghamshire
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): 1920s

The society wedding of the decade has everything: the blushing bride, beautiful flowers… and the groom arrested before he can walk down the aisle? Thank goodness Lady Swift is on the guest list! Lady Eleanor Swift isn’t normally one...

Death in Provence

Death in Provence
  • Author(s): Serena Kent
  • Location(s): The Luberon
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Penelope Kite swaps her humdrum life in Surrey for a picturesque farmhouse in the south of France, she imagines a simple life of long lunches and chilled rosé . . . What she doesn’t imagine is the dead...

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