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Last Seen in Havana (A Havana Mystery Book 5)

Last Seen in Havana (A Havana Mystery Book 5)
  • Author(s): Teresa Dovalpage
  • Location(s): Havana
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Current. 1980 and 2020

Newly widowed baker Mercedes Spivey flies from Miami to her native Cuba in 2019 to care for her ailing paternal grandmother. Mercedes’s life has been shaped by loss, beginning with the mysterious unsolved disappearance of her mother when Mercedes...

Last Stop On The 6

Last Stop On The 6
  • Author(s): Patricia Dunn
  • Location(s): The Bronx
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 1990s

Angela Campanosi fled her home in the Italian-American enclave of Pelham Bay, the Bronx, after an accident left her brother, Jimmy, an up-and-coming actor, paralyzed. Now, ten years later, on the eve of Jimmy’s wedding, anti-war activist Angela returns...

Last Stop Tokyo

Last Stop Tokyo
  • Author(s): James Buckler
  • Location(s): Tokyo
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Alex thought running away would make everything better. Six thousand miles from the mistakes he’s made and the people he’s hurt, Tokyo seems like the perfect escape. A new life, a new Alex. The bright lights and dark corners...

Last Testament in Bologna

Last Testament in Bologna
  • Author(s): Tom Benjamin
  • Location(s): Bologna
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Daniel Leicester #5 When an old man makes a bequest to investigate the mysterious death of his son, English detective Daniel Leicester follows a trail leading to one of Bologna’s wealthiest families – makers of some of the world’s...

Lead Me Into Danger

Lead Me Into Danger
  • Author(s): Daniella Bernett
  • Location(s): Venice, London
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A Journalist…A Jewel Thief…And A Russian Spy… When Their Paths Cross, It’s Murder. Journalist Emmeline Kirby hasn’t laid eyes on her former lover Gregory Longdon, a jewel thief, in two years. But she literally tumbles into his arms, after...

Learning German (badly)

Learning German (badly)
  • Author(s): Tim Luscombe
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Current

“Not many know and love Europe, and our complex relationship with it, like Luscombe. And no one can communicate that with such fantastically self-deprecating wit.” Federay Holmes, Associate Artist at the Globe Theatre London. With the possiblity looming that...

Lemon

Lemon
  • Author(s): Kwon Yeo-sun, Janet Hong (Translator)
  • Location(s): Seoul
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In the summer of 2002, nineteen-year-old Kim Hae-on was murdered in what became known as the High School Beauty Murder. There were two suspects: Shin Jeongjun, who had a rock-solid alibi, and Han Manu, to whom no evidence could...

Letters From Burma

Letters From Burma
  • Author(s): Aung San Suu Kyi
  • Location(s): Burma (Myanmar)
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Modern

In these astonishing letters, Aung San Suu Kyi reaches out beyond Burma’s borders to paint for her readers a vivid and poignant picture of her native land. Here she celebrates the courageous army officers, academics, actors and everyday people...

Letters to a Beekeeper

Letters to a Beekeeper
  • Author(s): Steve Benbow, Alys Fowler
  • Location(s): London, Birmingham
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs

This the story of how, over the course of a year, Alys, the Guardian gardening writer, learns how to keep bees; and Steve, the urban beekeeper, learns how to plant a pollinator-friendly garden. Part beautifully designed coffee-table book, part...

Life’s a Beach and Then…

Life’s a Beach and Then…
  • Author(s): Julia Roberts
  • Location(s): England, Mauritius
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Holly Wilson has landed a dream job which involves her staying at five-star resorts around the world. There is however a proviso. She must travel incognito and that means telling lies. Holly hates lies. Her cover story, designed to...

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