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  • Location: Denmark

The Murder of Halland

21C: A classic short novel from Peirene Press. Set in Denmark and in the deepest recesses of one woman’s troubled mind.

  • Location: Manchester

Letters To My Daughter’s Killer

2000s: Grandmother Ruth Sutton writes to the man she hates more than anyone else on the planet: the man who she believes killed her daughter Lizzie

  • Location: Plymouth

Treachery

1580s: Based on a real person – An Italian monk who questioned the scientific teachings of the church and ended up having to flee for…

  • Location: Johannesburg

Random Violence

2000s: The author, raised in South Africa, shares his experiences and fears of the crimes and underbelly of this too often gritty way of life…

  • Location: Aswan

The Twelve Rooms of the Nile

1849: Gustave Flaubert and Florence Nightingale each toured Egypt at exactly the same time back in 1849 and followed a nearly identical itinerary. They never…

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The Convenience Store by the Sea

2000s: Welcome to Tenderness, Japan!

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