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Paradise Valley

Paradise Valley
  • Author(s): C J Box
  • Location(s): North Dakota, Montana
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

He’s the Lizard King – a serial killer who haunts North America’s highways and truck stops, preying on runaways and prostitutes. After years on the road, he’s tired. The net is closing around him. Its time to end it....

Paris Mon Amour

Paris Mon Amour
  • Author(s): Isabel Costello
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Alexandra discovers that her husband Philippe is having an affair, she can’t believe he’d risk losing the love that has transformed both their lives. Still in shock, Alexandra finds herself powerfully attracted to a much younger man. Jean-Luc...

Paris Spring

Paris Spring
  • Author(s): James Naughtie
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1968

Paris, April 1968. The cafes are alive with talk of revolution, but for Will Flemyng – secret servant at the British embassy – the crisis is personal. A few words from a stranger on the metro change his life....

Park Avenue Summer

Park Avenue Summer
  • Author(s): Renée Rosen
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

Renee Rosen draws readers into the glamorous New York City of 1965 and Cosmopolitan magazine, where a brazen new editor-in-chief Helen Gurley Brown – shocks America and saves a dying publication by daring to talk to women about all...

Passage from Nuala (The Inspector de Silva Mysteries #6)

Passage from Nuala (The Inspector de Silva Mysteries #6)
  • Author(s): Harriet Steel
  • Location(s): Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1930s

Inspector de Silva and Jane embark on a cruise to Egypt to visit the pyramids, excited at the prospect of two weeks of sun, sea and relaxation. With Nuala, and de Silva’s duties as a police officer, far behind...

People Like Us

People Like Us
  • Author(s): Louise Fein
  • Location(s): Leipzig
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s

Leipzig, 1930s Germany Hetty Heinrich is a perfect German child. Her father is an SS officer, her brother in the Luftwaffe, herself a member of the BDM. She believes resolutely in her country, and the man who runs it....

Persuasion

Persuasion
  • Author(s): Jane Austen
  • Location(s): Bath, Lyme Regis
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical

Anne Elliot, a warm hearted young woman of 19, accepted a marriage proposal from Frederick Wentworth. A clever and ambitious young man, he had no background and both Anne’s father and her sister did not approve of her choice....

Petra’s Ghost

Petra’s Ghost
  • Author(s): C.S. O'Cinneide
  • Location(s): Santiago de Compostela, Northern Spain
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): present

A woman has vanished on the Camino de Santiago, the ancient five-hundred-mile pilgrimage that crosses northern Spain. Daniel, an Irish expat, walks the lonely trail carrying his wife, Petra’s, ashes, along with the damning secret of how she really...

Pitch Black

Pitch Black
  • Author(s): Alex Gray
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

When Chief Inspector Lorimer returns from his holiday on the island of Mull, he feels a welcome sense of calm. But it doesn’t last long. Kelvin FC’s new star midfielder is found brutally stabbed to death in his own...

Plague

Plague
  • Author(s): Julie Anderson
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

There are many ways to die. Plague is just one of them. Work on a London tube line is halted by the discovery of an ancient plague pit and, within it, a very recent corpse. A day later another...

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