His name is Theo and he's arrived there by chance – or has he? He visits the local coffeehouse, where ninety-two pencil portraits hang on the walls, portraits by a local artist of the people of Golden. He begins purchasing them, one at a time, and putting them back in the hands of their 'rightful owners'. With each exchange, a story is told, a friendship born, and a life altered.
Published in 2016 by Fireplace Books, this historical fiction/mystery follows Fr Luke O'Gorman, a missionary priest fleeing his past in Nigeria. He returns to Ireland, specifically to the famous Joyce’s Tower in Sandycove, hoping to find peace, only to find himself entangled in a murder mystery.
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A three-man Palestinian hit squad is dispatched to London to assassinate David Sokarev, Israel's leading nuclear scientist. After the team is ambushed in France by Israeli intelligence, only one member, Abdel-El-Famy, survives and makes it to Britain.
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The story is set in the small coastal fishing community of Fjällbacka. A young boy playing near the King’s Ravine discovers the body of a young woman, but the police find more than they bargained for: underneath her are the skeletal remains of two other girls who disappeared twenty years earlier.Detective Patrik Hedström leads the investigation while navigating his personal life with his pregnant partner, Erica Falck. The search for the killer centers on the Hults, a local family of religious fanatics and criminals with many dark secrets.
The story begins with a fatal shooting in a London squat, where the victim is discovered to be a former police officer. DI Anna Travis investigates and soon finds the case linked to Alexander Fitzpatrick, a notorious and dangerous drug trafficker who has been missing for over a decade.
This debut novel is a heart-wrenching yet optimistic story set in the Black communities of southwestern Ontario. It follows the bond between 70-year-old Adelaide "Addy" Shadd and Sharla Cody, a five-year-old girl abandoned by her mother.
The story follows Richard Turnbull, an acclaimed composer dealing with his wife's schizophrenia. His life is further upended when he learns his daughter, Pia, has been murdered in East Africa. He travels to Kenya to investigate her death, leading him into a web of ancient secrets and a mysterious woman.
The story centers on Pepys Road, an ordinary street in South London where property prices have skyrocketed. The residents—ranging from a wealthy investment banker to a Zimbabwean traffic warden and a Senegalese football prodigy—all receive a mysterious postcard that says: "We Want What You Have." As they grapple with this unsettling message, their lives are further upended by the looming global financial crash
This is a genre-bending, haunting, and transformative ode to city life - a work of surpassing power and beauty by one of the most original and daring writers at work today.
Crows' Parliament is a 1987 debut thriller by British author Jack Curtis, who is a pseudonym for a London-based poet. The novel is notable for blending traditional espionage and kidnapping tropes with elements of parapsychology and the occult.
The story follows Commissario Michele Balistreri as he confronts a decades-old mystery. The narrative spans over forty years, revolving around a web of lies and betrayals stemming from a central tragedy.
Opening in the 1930s, this stunning novel tells the parallel stories of a father and son whose lives take the reader through critical moments of mid 20th-century European history, in miniature - from WWII and its aftermath to the Siberian Gulag. Alongside its Nabokovian precision and dark undercurrents, it has an unexpected black humour as well as a fantastic jazz sub-plot. A self-indulgent Dutch businessman finds himself caught up in the liberation of Auschwitz, imprisoned as a spy by the liberating Russian army, shipped off to Minsk and Moscow to play in a bizarre jazz band, and then, when jazz becomes 'decadent' once more, to the Gulag, where his estranged son, a long-distance runner, finally catches up with him.Meanwhile, the boy (called Dolboy, because he looks like a tiny blond doll) is brought up by his doting childless aunt in the flat farmlands of east Holland, post-war. Wherever he goes, he runs, past dark forests, foxgloves, fields and birch trees. One day his running takes him to an old moated castle, where the summer house is full of moths - and he meets the curious young girl who breeds and keeps the creatures. He becomes a world-class runner, she a photographer. Vivid, allusive, heartbreaking and with an astonishing range and layers of meaning, this is a startlingly original, important and gripping novel about people forced constantly to improvise their lives, about regeneration and the courage to embrace those single moments of opportunity.
