- Location(s): Heidelberg
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Alexander Gerlach assumes that his promotion to Police Chief of Heidelberg will bring with it a quieter life. A widower and a single parent raising twin teenage daughters, Gerlach is slowly beginning to rediscover not only himself, but also...
- Location(s): Switzerland
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): 1880s
Little orphan Heidi goes to live high in the Alps with her gruff grandfather and brings happiness to all who know her on the mountain. When Heidi goes to Frankfurt to work in a wealthy household, she dreams of...
- Location(s): Warwickshire
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Current
When a neighbour from hell comes to a sticky end, a plucky cop refuses to accept the obvious. Miles Kenworth loves to play his rock music at a deafening volume. The other residents of his apartment block are not...
- Genre(s): Historical, Romance
- Era(s): Napoleonic Wars
This is the second book in what is called the Wentworth Family saga. The author’s facebook page says there will be a fourth. In order, the novels are The Baron Returns, this book Heir to the Manor, and the...
- Location(s): England, Yorkshire
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 20th Century
1917. On a battlefield near the River Escaut, John lies in the aftermath of a blast, unable to move or feel his legs. Struggling to focus his thoughts, he is lost to memory – a chance encounter in a...
Held at a Distance: A Rediscovery of Ethiopia
- Location(s): Ethiopia
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1960s, 2001
Haile was born in Ethiopia in 1965 and lived there until she was eleven years old. When the Emperor was deposed by a military coup, Haile’s father was shot while ‘resisting arrest’. Barely surviving, he escaped with his family...
- Location(s): United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
In the middle of the countryside, a realtor is showing a disgraced professor around an idyllic house. She speaks not only about the home’s many wonderful qualities but about its previous owner, the mystifying Helen, whose presence still seems...
- Location(s): Bryher, Isles of Scilly
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Contemporary
DI Ben Kitto needs a second chance. After ten years working for the murder squad in London, a traumatic event has left him grief-stricken. He’s tried to resign from his job, but his boss has persuaded him to take...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction, Crime
- Era(s): Present Time
As I poured myself what was to be the last drop of Scotch in the bottle, I sat back in my chair, watching the pictures the neon lights up on the wall of the office. I reached for my...
- Location(s): United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Meet . . . wait, we don’t actually know his name. What we do know about him is he’s an author. He moves from airport to bookshop to chain hotel, on tour for his new bestseller HELL OF A...
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