- Location(s): Kent, London, Paris
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Later 19th Century
Barbara Copperthwaite writing as Barbara Havelocke You know Miss Havisham. The world’s most famous jilted bride. This is her daughter’s story. Raised in the darkness of Satis House where the clocks never tick, the beautiful Estella is bred to...
- Location(s): South Tyrol / Trentino Alto Adige
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
40-year-old Eva receives an unexpected message from Calabria, Italy. Vito is ill and would like to see her one more time. A retired police officer, he was stationed in South Tyrol during the 1960s, troubled years of tension and...
- 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...
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