This summer New Westminsterites are reading around the world with the adult summer reading club at the New Westminster Public Library.
Mysteries are hugely popular and an exotic location adds to the appeal.
Here are a few to entice and intrigue.
Canada: Still Life by Louise Penny introduces Inspector Armand Gamache in a delightful series that's set in Quebec's Eastern townships and blends the English and French cultures.
Asia: Red Mandarin Dress by Xiaolong Qiu. In the third mystery featuring Chen Cao of the Shanghai police, Chen tracks the city's first serial killer.
South America: A Window in Copacabana by Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza. While Inspector Espinosa is hunting a cop killer in Rio, the death of a dead cop's mistress poses another puzzle.
Europe: The Boy in the Suitcase by Lene Kaaberbol. Hardworking Copenhagen nurse, Nina, does a favour for a friend and finds a drugged, live boy in a suitcase and a murderer on her trail.
Africa: Finding Nouf by Zoe Ferraris. In Saudi Arabia, when desert guide Nayir al-Sharqi wants to know what really happened to a lost girl, he must bend social mores and join forces with Katiya Hijazi, a female lab worker.
Polar regions: White Heat by M J McGraff. HalfInuit teacher and guide Edie Kiglatuk, based on Ellesmere Island, teams up with police sergeant Derek Palliser when she suspects the death of a white hunter she was guiding wasn't an accident.
North America: The Rope by Nevada Barr. This prequel to her popular Anna Pigeon series takes fans to the early days before Anna became a tough-as-nails park ranger.
Australia: Kittyhawk Down by Garry Disher. The once-peaceful beach resort of Bushrangers Bay near Melbourne is the site of multiple crimes including murder. Homicide Squad Inspector Hal Challis of the Mornington Peninsula Police Force and his staff investigate and piece together the connections.
Or tell us your own favourite place in the world and we'll help you find a mystery set there.
