Max Havelaar, or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company
- Location(s): Java
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): mid 19th century
Max Havelaar – a Dutch civil servant in Java – burns with an insatiable desire to end the ill treatment and oppression inflicted on the native peoples by the colonial administration. Max is an inspirational figure, but he is...
Max the Detective Cat: The Catnap Caper
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
With a beautifully fluffy tail and a keen nose for adventure, Max the Detective Cat is ready for any mystery… The pampered cats of Paris are being kidnapped! Could it have something to do with a singing competition that...
Max the Detective Cat: The Disappearing Diva
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
With a beautifully fluffy tail and a keen nose for adventure, Max the Detective Cat is ready for any mystery… Max, chief mouse hunter at the Theatre Royal, is up to his whiskers in his first mystery! Max notices...
- Location(s): Russia, Afghanistan, Africa
- Genre(s): LGBTQIA+, Adventure
- Era(s): 21st century
He looks like an angel but kills like a devil. In war-ravaged Chechnya in 2000, six-year-old Maxym’s life is shattered when his parents are brutally murdered by Islamic militants and his sister is subjected to a horrific assault. Orphaned,...
- Location(s): Minnesota
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): early 2000s
Minneapolitan Mira James has been taking it easy since college graduation–too easy. Due to a dead-end job and a cheating boyfriend, the Twin Cities have lost their charm, and Mira decides to begin a new life in rural Battle...
- Location(s): Whitstable
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
It’s springtime and Whitstable is emerging from hibernation. While neither the restaurant nor detective agency is too busy, Pearl resolves to spend some time at the family allotment. But her best friend, Nathan, has persuaded one of his favourite...
- Location(s): Glasgow
- Genre(s): Fiction, Crime, Noir
- Era(s): Contemporary
Glasgow is a city in mourning. An arson attack on a hairdresser’s has left five dead. Tempers are frayed and sentiments running high. When three youths are charged the city goes wild. A crowd gathers outside the courthouse but...
- Location(s): Naples
- Genre(s): Mystery, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
or readers of Jane Harper, a gripping mystery set in Italy, following a female detective haunted by her family’s past and tasked with untangling the city’s organized crime and the modern U.S. military presence there. Nikki Serafino is...
- Location(s): Westchester
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Harry is a Richard Nixon scholar who leads a quiet, regular life; his brother George is a high-flying TV producer, with a murderous temper.They have been uneasy rivals since childhood.Then one day George loses control so extravagantly that he...
- Location(s): Saitama
- Genre(s): In Translation, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
The power dynamics of the office are never more obvious than when it comes to food: mandatory lunches with the boss, the colleague who tries to curry favour with home-baked goods, discovering the discarded remnants of someone else’s late-night...
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