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The Secret Messenger

The Secret Messenger
  • Author(s): Mandy Robotham
  • Location(s): Venice, London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1943 /2017

Venice, 1943 The world is at war, and Stella Jilani is leading a double life. By day she works in the lion’s den as a typist for the Reich; by night, she risks her life as a messenger for...

The Secret of Secrets

The Secret of Secrets
  • Author(s): Dan Brown
  • Location(s): Prague, London, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Robert Langdon, esteemed professor of symbology, travels to Prague to attend a groundbreaking lecture by Katherine Solomon–a prominent noetic scientist with whom he has recently begun a relationship. Katherine is on the verge of publishing an explosive book that...

The Secret Society of Salzburg

The Secret Society of Salzburg
  • Author(s): Renee Ryan
  • Location(s): Salzburg, Germany, London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

At first glance, Austrian opera singer Elsa Mayer-Braun has little in common with the young English typist she encounters on tour. Yet she and Hattie Featherstone forge an instant connection–and strike a dangerous alliance. Using their friendship as a...

The Secrets of Strangers

The Secrets of Strangers
  • Author(s): Charity Norman
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A regular weekday morning veers drastically off-course for a group of strangers whose paths cross in a London café – their lives never to be the same again when an apparently crazed gunman holds them hostage. But there is...

The Seeker of Lost Paintings

The Seeker of Lost Paintings
  • Author(s): Sarah Freethy
  • Location(s): London, Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1939 / 1997

Rome 1939 Arriving in Rome to work for the wealthy Montefalco family, Maddalena is homesick and alone. She finds solace – and love – in the beauty of the city, but as the war in Nazi-occupied Italy rages, she...

The Seven Deaths of Eveleyn Hardcastle

The Seven Deaths of Eveleyn Hardcastle
  • Author(s): Stuart Turton
  • Location(s): England, Blackheath
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

WINNER OF THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2018 Gosford Park meets Groundhog Day by way of Agatha Christie and Black Mirror – the most inventive story you’ll read this year Tonight, Evelyn Hardcastle will be killed … Again It...

The Seven O’Clock Club

The Seven O’Clock Club
  • Author(s): Amelia Ireland
  • Location(s): Westminster
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

At seven o’clock one Tuesday evening, in a perfectly ordinary tower block near Westminster, four strangers meet for the first time. They each have three things in common: all suffered a traumatic experience six months earlier; all exhibit a...

The Seventh Passenger

The Seventh Passenger
  • Author(s): Angie Rowe
  • Location(s): China, London, The Atlantic Ocean
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Crime
  • Era(s): 1912

When the Titanic sinks it takes with it the crime scene, the witnesses and possibly the murderer. The Titanic’s last stop is at Queenstown, Ireland, where seven first-class passengers disembark. Soon after continuing its voyage, the body of a...

The Seventh Son

The Seventh Son
  • Author(s): Sebastian Faulks
  • Location(s): London, New York City (NYC), Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A CHILD WILL BE BORN WHO WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING When a young American academic Talissa Adam offers to carry another woman’s child, she has no idea of the life-changing consequences. Behind the doors of the Parn Institute, a billionaire...

The Shadows of London

The Shadows of London
  • Author(s): Andrew Taylor
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Crime, Historical
  • Era(s): 1670s

London 1671 The damage caused by the Great Fire still overshadows the capital. The disfigured body of a man is unearthed in the ruins of the old almshouse, forcing architect Cat Hakesby to stop restoration work. It is clear...

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