- 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...
- Location(s): Central Spain
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
In a housing development in the middle of the nowhere, one of the many that were built in Spain, but never finished because of the crash, lives a small community of neighbours, trying to lead a normal life, despite...
Far Out: Sailing into a Disappearing World
- Location(s): Pacific Ocean, The South Seas
- Genre(s): Travelogue
Tired of their careers in the oil industry, Corinna Weyreter and Gjalt van der Zee sailed away from the rat race in search of freedom and adventure in the fabled South Pacific. Taking only what could justify its space...
- Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople), Geneva
- Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
- Era(s): Contemporary
Ziya Bey has six months left to live. From his mansion on Farewell Fountain Street, the Ottoman aristocrat plans to tie up some questionable business affairs and say goodbye to the people he cherishes. He hires Artvin, a disillusioned...
- Location(s): Antibes, French Riviera (Cote d'Azur)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): 1948
1948: an English housewife trapped in a dull marriage escapes to the South of France to claim a mystery inheritance. But rivals to her unexplained fortune begin to emerge, and now they want her out of the way …...
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