- Location(s): Krakow
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Even the Crows Say Kraków Alina sits in a cafe, in a large, old-fashioned chair, and wishes she could be somewhere – anywhere – else. Apple Vapours A young man who can’t stay out of trouble inherits a small...
- Location(s): Mexico, United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
University student Matt Pine has just received devastating news. Nearly his entire family have been found dead while holidaying in Mexico. The local police claim it was an accident, but the FBI aren’t convinced – and they won’t tell...
- Location(s): London, Malta
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): WW2
Winner of the 2017 Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award In a powerful combination of both humour and heartbreak, this dazzling novel weaves little-known history, and a perfect love story, through the vast sweep of the Second World War –...
- Location(s): Pripyat/Chernobyl
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 1986 / present day
On 26th April 1986, reactor four exploded at the factory in Pripyat, Chernobyl. At the same time teenager Afia Bello vanished from her home without a trace. The damage from the nuclear fallout is examined over the following weeks,...
- Location(s): Rostov on Don, Russia
- Genre(s): Thriller, Coming of Age
- Era(s): 1996
Travelling through Central Asia in 1996, Frederick Lyre learns of his best friend’s disappearance and changes plans to go and find him. Picking up the trail in Moscow, he ventures south to the post Soviet depths of Rostov-on-Don and...
- Location(s): Dunedin
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): contemporary
A killer targeting pregnant women. A detective expecting her first baby… The shocking murder of a heavily pregnant woman throws the New Zealand city of Dunedin into a tailspin, and the devastating crime feels uncomfortably close to home for...
- Location(s): Auckland, New Zealand (Aotearoa)
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Worn down by a job he hates, and a stressful family life, middle-aged, middle-class Bradley picks up a teenage escort and commits an unspeakable crime. Now she’s tied up in his warehouse, and he doesn’t know what to do....
- Location(s): York
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
A wheelchair-using woman is strangled and her son, Eddy, is arrested. When his alibi falls apart, the police are satisfied that he is guilty. Only Geraldine doubts whether Eddy is cunning enough to kill his mother and cover his...
- Location(s): Bergen
- Genre(s): Crime, In Translation, Thriller
- Era(s): 1980s
Exploring his own dark memories may be the only way to find a killer When Bergen PI Varg Veum finds himself at the funeral of a former classmate on a sleet-grey December afternoon, he’s unexpectedly reunited with his old...
- Location(s): The Midwest
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Post 9/11
Poplar Farm has been in Louise’s family for generations, inherited by her sharecropping forebears from a white landowner after a lynching. Now, the farm has been carved up, the trees torn down: a mini-massacre replicating the destruction of lives...
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