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Literary journeys – Look here for books set in a whole range of locations and settings grouped together

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Literary Packages – what are the best books with a strong sense of setting or location for each month?

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Five books set in Norway – Nordic Noir

  • Submitted: 26th March 2019

Five great Nordic novels to take you to Norway Krimfestivalen in Oslo may be over for another year, but never fear, as it has left traces of so many good…

The Courier – a novel set in Oslo and Stockholm by Kjell Ola Dahl

  • Submitted: 25th March 2019

There's been a rather fantastic crime festival on in Oslo this weekend. If you're feeling a bit bereft, then why not read one of the books by the authors who…

Book set in Carverville, CA – The Gardener of Eden, David Downie

  • Submitted: 24th March 2019

California's heat in a small timber town Book set in Carverville, CA - The Gardener of Eden, David Downie. The coastal bluffs near the small town of Carverville prove to…

Inborn – a novel set in Norway by Thomas Enger

  • Submitted: 23rd March 2019

Now that the crime festival in Norway has just taken place, you might be feeling bereft at the thought. On The BookTrail today is a book set in Norway and…

Thriller set in Santiago, Chile – Dark Echoes of the Past by Ramón Díaz Eterovic

  • Submitted: 21st March 2019

Translation Thursday…Ramón Díaz Eterovic The first novel by multiple-award-winning Chilean author Ramón Díaz Eterovic to be translated into English—a landmark event for fans of crime fiction. The blurb got that…

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The Troubled Deep

2024: The Brindley family go missing. Years later their car is found submerged and the family are nowhere…

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