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House of Beauty

House of Beauty
  • Author(s): Melba Escobar
  • Location(s): Bogota
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

House of Beauty is a high-end salon in Bogotá’s exclusive Zona Rosa area, and Karen is one of its best beauticians. But there is more to her role than the best way to apply wax, or how to give...

House of Belonging

House of Belonging
  • Author(s): Andrea Thome
  • Location(s): Aspen
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Hesse Creek 3 Who can we count on? The family we’re born into, or the one we create for ourselves? Renowned chef Laina Ming walked away from the culinary spotlight and an unhealthy relationship—one that still haunts her a...

House of Bone and Rain

House of Bone and Rain
  • Author(s): Gabino Iglesias
  • Location(s): Puerto Rico
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Horror
  • Era(s): Contemporary

For childhood friends Gabe, Xavier, Tavo, Paul, and Bimbo, death has always been close. Hurricanes. Car accidents. Gang violence. Suicide. Estamos rodeados de fantasmas was Gabe’s grandmother’s refrain. We are surrounded by ghosts. But this time is different. Bimbo’s...

House of Cards

House of Cards
  • Author(s): Michael Dobbs
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Political
  • Era(s): 1980s

The bestselling political thriller that introduced the scheming Francis Urguhart – the most memorable politician of the last decade. Francis Urquhart is Chief Whip. He has his hands on every secret in politics – and is willing to betray...

House Of Cards: Dead Men Tell No Tales (Homicide Detective Louis Martelli, NYPD) (Detective Louis Martelli, NYPD, Mystery/Thriller Series)

House Of Cards: Dead Men Tell No Tales (Homicide Detective Louis Martelli, NYPD) (Detective Louis Martelli, NYPD, Mystery/Thriller Series)
  • Author(s): Theodore Jerome Cohen
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Brooklyn
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): 2009

“Cohen’s style is not unlike that found in novels by authors such as Dan Brown, or Tom Clancy, or even the late Michael Crichton.” Gary Sorkin for Pacific Book Review. The head of one of the largest investment banking...

House of Dreams

House of Dreams
  • Author(s): Fanny Blake
  • Location(s): Costa del Sol
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

House of Glass

House of Glass
  • Author(s): Hadley Freeman
  • Location(s): Auschwitz/Birkenau, France, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 20th century

After her grandmother died, Hadley Freeman travelled to her apartment to try and make sense of a woman she’d never really known. Sala Glass was a European expat in America – defiantly clinging to her French influences, famously reserved,...

House Of Glass

House Of Glass
  • Author(s): Sarah Pekkanen
  • Location(s): Maryland
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

8-year-old Rose Barclay refuses to talk after the shocking death of her nanny in the midst of her parents’ acrimonious divorce. Attorney Stella Hudson is determined to help Rose speak, and discover what really happened. As Stella unravels the...

House of Gold

House of Gold
  • Author(s): Natasha Solomons
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1910s

A sweeping novel that follows various members of a wealthy Jewish family (loosely based on the Rothschilds) before and during the First World War.

House of Monstrous Women

House of Monstrous Women
  • Author(s): Daphne Fama
  • Location(s): The Philippines
  • Genre(s): Gothic, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

A young woman is drawn into a dangerous game after being invited to the mazelike home of her childhood friend, a rumoured witch, in this gothic horror set in 1986 Philippines. Carigara, 1986. Josephine del Rosario is the town...

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