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Sense and French Ability

Sense and French Ability
  • Author(s): Ros Rendle
  • Location(s): Northern France
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Fliss needed to change her life; so did Jean Christophe. Whilst doing that, they could not change the worst weather in living memory but would they each survive? After the death of her mother and full of grief, Fliss...

Fat Man Blues

Fat Man Blues
  • Author(s): Richard Wall
  • Location(s): Clarksdale
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Paranormal
  • Era(s): Present Day / 1930s

“Hobo John” is an English blues enthusiast on a pilgrimage to present-day Mississippi. One night in Clarksdale he meets the mysterious Fat Man, who offers him the chance to see the real blues of the 1930s. Unable to refuse...

The Brazilian Husband

The Brazilian Husband
  • Author(s): Rebecca Powell
  • Location(s): Brazil
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s-1990s

For fans of Jodi Picoult and Liane Moriarty: Determined to honor her late husband’s final request, Judith and her teenage step-daughter, Rosa, set out on a journey from London to Brazil to track down his family and take his...

The Wronged

The Wronged
  • Author(s): Owen Mullen
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): 2017

A complex case of missing persons draws Scottish PI Charlie Cameron into Glasgow’s deadly underworld. Private Investigator Charlie Cameron is searching for a man who disappeared after his son’s suicide. When an unidentified body turns up at the morgue,...

Whistleblower

Whistleblower
  • Author(s): Owen Mullen
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): 2017

When a medical whistleblower goes missing, private investigator Charlie Cameron agrees to take on the case. Gavin Law exposed a tragic case of medical malpractice but now he’s missing. It’s just another case for Glasgow PI, Charlie Cameron, until...

The Dragonfly

The Dragonfly
  • Author(s): Kate Dunn
  • Location(s): Paris, Burgundy
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The Dragonfly offers an enchanting account of the relationship between a middle-aged Englishman, Colin and his French granddaughter, Delphine, who are thrown together when her mother is killed. A complicated and unhappy family history haunts this unlikely couple on...

The Last Enchantments

The Last Enchantments
  • Author(s): Charles Finch
  • Location(s): Oxford
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

After graduating from Yale, William Baker, scion of an old line patrician family, goes to work in presidential politics. But when the campaign into which he’s poured his heart ends in disappointment, he decides to leave New York behind,...

Waiting For Aegina

Waiting For Aegina
  • Author(s): Effie Kammenou
  • Location(s): Greece, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 21st Century

Book Two in The Gift Saga: The continuation of Evanthia’s Gift… In 1961, five little girls moved into a suburban neighborhood and became inseparable, lifelong friends. They called themselves the ‘Honey Hill Girls,’ named after the street on which...

The Cutaway

The Cutaway
  • Author(s): Christina Kovac
  • Location(s): Washington DC
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It begins with someone else’s story. The story of a woman who leaves a busy restaurant and disappears completely into the chilly spring night. Evelyn Carney is missing – but where did she go? Who was she meeting? And...

Paris Tales

Paris Tales
  • Author(s): Helen Constantine
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Various

If you’ve never been to Paris, here is your chance to experience it; if you have been there, here is your chance to return. Paris Tales is a highly evocative collection of stories by French and Francophone writers who...

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