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In the long hot summer of 1976, a group of young people are camping in Wyvis Hall. Adam, Rufus, Shiva, Vivien and Zosie hardly ask why they are there or how they are to live; they scavenge, steal and sell the family heirlooms. In short, they exist. Ten years later, the bodies of a woman and...Read more
A remote island. A brutal murder. A secret hidden in the past . . .
In the middle of the North Sea, between the UK and Denmark, lies the beautiful and rugged island nation of Doggerland.
Detective Inspector Karen Eiken Hornby has returned to the main island, Heimö...Read more
There are rules to first dates: don't talk about your ex, do ask lots of questions, always meet in a public place.
Digby Coombe-Watson didn't think they applied to him. He had other worries: how to get rid of his great-grandfather's crumbling property, and whether his family...Read more
The lives of two strangers, Greg Jenkins and Megan Brighton, become inextricably entangled when they each sign up for a dinner dating agency. Greg's reason for joining has nothing to do with looking for love. His recently divorced sister Sam has disappeared and Greg is convinced that Dinner...Read more
Detective Lexie Rogers is tough, smart and at the top of her game. She's seen it all, from bikies, blood and betrayal to drugs, deviants and deception ... and the violent knife attack that almost killed her as a young cop on the beat.
Lexie's sent on the job of a lifetime -- to...Read more
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A twin girl learns a terrible family secret that will cause the demons lurking within her young mind to rise up and threaten her close-knit family. As a toxic element seeps into their lives they all, in their own way, struggle with feelings of distrust and helplessness.
The...Read more
A sudden act of vandalism had just been committed in the chill Venetian dawn. But Commissario Guido Brunetti soon finds out that the perpetrator is no petty criminal. For the culprit waiting to be apprehended at the scene of the crime is none other than Paola Brunetti, his wife.
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After a tumultuous investigation that ended with a surprising and welcome new relationship, Detective Inspector Carol Ashton seems settled. Though she is in the closet to protect her career, life with Sybil is good—until the call that pulls Carol back to the woman who left her three years...Read more
In the rural peace of the Scottish Highlands, Miss Sophia McLinn, daughter of an Edinburgh surgeon, stretches her slender means by running a summer guest-house. But the night she took in Aline Hillis and her baby in the depths of winter, she took in trouble. The trouble was represented by...Read more
When Giulietta Battin, ballerina at the conservative Berlin opera, falls in love with the dashing Argentinean tango champion, Damian Alsina, she unwittingly embarks on an intoxicating but dangerous journey. Having fled his country's political horrors, Damian has found sanctuary in northern...Read more
Chief Inspector Douglas Quantrill, investigates the disappearance of Sandra Websdell, whose mother assumes that she has jilted her fiance and run off--but who, in fact, has been kidnappedRead more
Fatima Downunder is Book Three of the journeys of Dennis Bogdanovich, sanitary engineer and keen fisherman, last seen in Book Two, Swimming with Crocodiles. The final book in the trilogy is affecting, engaging and immensely satisfying.Read more
In a reimagined contemporary Edinburgh, in which a tectonic fault has opened up to produce a new volcano in the Firth of Forth, and where tremors are an everyday occurrence, volcanologist Surtsey makes a shocking discovery. On a clandestine trip to The Inch - the new volcanic island - to...Read more
It was quite silent in the scrub. No breeze stirred the leaves and no bird moved, except for the kite hawks wheeling silently, eternally, high in the hot air.
She smelt her attacker before she saw him.
A heavy stench hit her with such force that she started with...Read more
A drug addict dead in a basement, a young asylum seeker floating in the harbour, a high profile female bishop stabbed to death in the street. What is the connection? During a snowy Christmas season in Norway, criminal psychologist and profiler Inger Johanne Vik finds not only her husband...Read more
Suppose you come to pick up your daughter from her job - and find that no one has heard of her and she's never worked there. If she hasn't been working all day, what has she been doing?
Tim Blake's teenage daughter Sydney is staying with him while she works a summer job at a...Read more
The triumphant, controversial life of the Aztec woman Malinali is one of the great and enduring legends of Mexico. A high-born Mexican heiress, she was sold into slavery as a child, and it was as a slave of the Maya that she met the Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes. To her, and many of...Read more
In the nineteenth century Charles Dickens wrote his novels as serials; in the late twentieth century Merilee Moss conjures up a new kind of serial fiction: of ghosts, of crime, of satire and of lesbian desire. When the ghostly Fedora interrupts Julie Barnard’s morning coffee in Brunswick...Read more
Anna McColl has been telling lies…
She told her patient, Luke Jesty, that his violent fantasies were nothing to worry about.
She told her boss that Luke was stable.
And when the police called her, telling her that one of Luke’s friends had been killed, Anna...Read more
In an unspecified time and location, an unnamed boy is living what seems like an idyllic life. He idolises his father who is a lifeguard at the local faded and peeling Lido, never more so than when he saves the life of a suicidal man. The boy comes to believe that heroism is all....Read more
A friendship renewed; a marriage going sour; Harry Bentick heads for the Lake District not knowing if he's going in search of something or running away. Then two girls are found murdered in the high fells, and suddenly there's no doubt about it. He's running. Set in his native Cumberland,...Read more
When 25-year-old Emelie is found murdered in her Stockholm apartment the same week her ex-partner is released from prison, it feels like an open and shut case for Detective Vanessa Frank. Who else would launch such a frenzied attack on the young woman?
But Frank...Read more
Amateur detective and Oxford don, Gervase Fen, with the assistance of Inspector Humbleby solves a series of baffling mysteriesRead more
In Madrid in 1868, fencing master and man of honor Don Jaime is approached by a mysterious woman who seeks to learn the unstoppable thrust, an arcane technique known only to him. All too soon he finds himself in the vortex of a plot that includes seduction, secret political documents, and...Read more
"Mr. Wong is a feng shui consultant, but his cases tend to involve a lot more than just interior decoration. You see, Wong specializes in a certain type of problem premises: crime scenes."
Wong and his brash teenaged Aussie-American intern make a strange pair indeed as they...Read more
Forestry is dangerous work. Accidents happen. But how many accidents are too many? The teachers at Fern Valley Area School are hiding something. The school Principal has disappeared, apparently taking a rest cure in a Meditation Centre. The management of the Meditation Centre has no...Read more
The Department of Old Age Pensions is not noted for drama. Nor for scandal, corruption or even the odd leak to the tabloids. Not until Algernon Endlesham, its high-flying Minister, is brutally bludgeoned to death.
Willow King, Assistant Secretary (Finance), is noted for her...Read more
