- Location(s): New Zealand (Aotearoa)
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Two murders. Two decades apart. One chance to get justice. Hana Westerman has left Auckland and her career as a detective behind her. Settled in a quiet coastal town, all she wants is a fresh start. The discovery of...
- Location(s): West of Scotland
- Genre(s): Romance, Suspense
- Era(s): Contemporary
The legacy of her beloved grandmother’s cottage in the Scottish village of Kilcraig seems like the ideal solution after Christy Morrison’s recent trauma. Until the threats begin. Can she trust her heart and allow herself to fall in love...
- Location(s): Latvia
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
- Era(s): Contemporary looking back
Building upon her celebrated autobiography Distant Fathers, Italian author Marina Jarre returns to her native Latvia for the first time since she left as a ten-year-old girl in 1935. In Return to Latvia—a masterful collage-like work that is part travelogue, part...
- Location(s): Botswana
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1989
The story of two women-one a hunter-gatherer in Botswana, the other an ailing American anthropologist-this powerful book returns the reader to territory that Marjorie Shostak wrote of so poignantly in the now classic Nisa: The Life and Words of...
- Location(s): Pattaya, Thailand
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Early 21st Century
Return to the Go-Go is the second volume of insights by Pattaya veteran Khun Pobaan into everyday life in Thailand’s extreme city. The first collection, If You Can’t Stand the Fun, Stay Out Of The Go-Go, gathered together essays...
- Location(s): Umbria
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern looking back
On a hilltop in Umbria sits Valetto. Once a thriving village—and a hub of resistance and refuge during World War II—centuries of earthquakes, landslides, and the lure of a better life have left it neglected. Only ten residents remain,...
- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Mid 16th Century
(The Shardlake Series Book 4) The fourth novel in the Shardlake series. Spring, 1543. King Henry VIII is wooing Lady Catherine Parr, whom he wants for his sixth wife. Archbishop Cranmer and the embattled Protestant faction at court are...
Revenge of the Wrought-Iron Flamingos
- Location(s): Virginia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): early 2000s
Every year, Yorktown, Virginia, relives its role in the Revolutionary War by celebrating the anniversary of the British surrender in 1781. This year, plans include a re-enactment of the original battle and a colonial craft fair. Meg Langslow has...