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Sam Wiebe - Invisible Dead (a Wakeland novel - set in Vanvouver) / Last of the Independents (Michael Drayton, P. Allen Eskens - The Guise of Another / The Heavens May Fall / The Deep Dark Descending * NYP Oct 2017 (Bks 1-3 Det. Agatha Christie - A Caribbean Mystery (Miss Marple series Bk 09 - set on the fictional island of St. Wayne Arthurson - Leo Desroches Mysteries / The Traitors of Camp 133 (A Sergeant Neumann Mystery - WWII POW Mystery set in S. There are probably already other titles lurking within the list that I will pull out as I work my way through.

Enes Smith - Cold River series (set on Cold River Indian reservation (based on the Warm Springs Res? but I wouldn't let that put anyone off reading Hyland (or other authors) it's fiction after all and fiction is often what engages our interest in finding out more about history, cultures, geography etc. Hi Wendy, just saw your later additions to this post which I'm off to check out now, sorry for the late response. I never thought I'd see the words 'Cozy' and Science Fiction' used in the same sentence, but there you have it, a genre bending mash-up of unholy conception - presumably for the kind of person who likes their Mars Bar deep-fried. I haven't read the book you mention, I'm just going by the description so please corrrect me if I 'm wrong?

The Last Brother by Nathacha Appanah, Geoffrey Strachan (Translator) I do not know if it is considered suspense or just adventure. Henning Mankell - Chronicler of the Winds (unnamed east coast African location probably based on Mozammbique? Hyland's book shine a light on what to me is a foreign culture (and is probably almost as foriegn to people born and raised in Sydney or Melbourne) it makes me want to know about the peoples and places where the book is set without making me think any less of the community it is based on. I have lots to check and retrieve my end also and I can assure you there is absolutely NO way I have read everything I have listed above so that is by no means a prerequisite for suggestion/inclusion.

Daniele Mansuino - Tuvalu (The stay in Tuvalu of a scholar of esotericism; His encounter with sorcery and mystery?

I got the impression that Delaware might be more of a homegenised urban sprawl but that may have just been down to the couple of books I have read which were set there (and the impression I took that they could have been taking place in almost any urban environment in the Continental US). After the establishment of the Cambridge UCCE, the annual three-day first-class University Match against Oxford University Cricket Club was replaced by a one-day match against Oxford at Lord's and a four-day first-class match against Oxford, alternating between Fenner's and The University Parks. Connie Shelton - Legends Can Be Murder (Bk 15 Charlie Parker Mysteries, female sleuth not to be confused with John Connolly's male P. Of course, he conveniently ignores the fact that even the poorest people in the US today live infinitely better than they did 50 or 100 years ago. I spotted one little relocation that you need to make: you have Harlan Coben's Myron Bolitar series listed under New York.That is atleast two crime mysteries set at least partially in space so far (non SF titles that is) anyone know of any more? I chose to do this on the basis that most tourists (literary or otherwise) are not necessarily concerned with the administrative status of any given place and that people may be applying a lesser or greater degree of definition in their hunt for foreign locations as a backdrop (or central feature) of their reading list. North Dakota is one of the most under represented states with not much set there at all that I could find.

While William Kent Kreuger's series about Cork O'Connor does, indeed, have Minnesota as home base, the one I'm reading now, Copper River is (unlike the others) mainly set on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. If you want to know, and are really interested in how we've all been lied to, and how the gov, all over the world are controlled and are controlling "US", then this a must! Chris Ould - Blood Strand / The Killing Bay / The Fire Pit *NYP 2018 (Bk 1-3 Faroe Islands series: Det. I find it very odd that I can't find any contemporary press items at all that refer to his death (suicide? The first half of "The Groote Park Murder" by Freeman Wills Crofts is set in South Africa (the other half is in Scotland).

If possible, I'd like to get some clues about what may have lead to his suicide and also where his final resting place might be. and I notice there is free preview kindle book that has a short story prequel to this plus the first chapter from the full novel.