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Still Life

Still Life
  • Author(s): A S Byatt
  • Location(s): Cambridge, Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

Frederica Potter arrives at Cambridge University greedy for knowledge, sex and love. It isn’t long before she becomes infatuated with a mysterious and controlling poet. Back in Yorkshire, her sister Stephanie abandons academia and is confronted with the boredom...

Still Life With Murder

Still Life With Murder
  • Author(s): P B Ryan
  • Location(s): Boston
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 19th century

Boston, 1868: The dawn of the Gilded Age, an era of burgeoning commerce and invention, of unimaginable new fortunes and lavish excess—for some. Born into poverty, young Nell Sweeney scratches by on her wits and little else until fortune...

Still Lives

Still Lives
  • Author(s): Maria Hummel
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Kim Lord is an avant-garde figure, feminist icon, and agent provocateur in the L.A. art scene. Her groundbreaking new exhibition Still Lives is comprised of self-portraits depicting herself as famous, murdered women–the Black Dahlia, Chandra Levy, Nicole Brown Simpson,...

Still See You Everywhere

Still See You Everywhere
  • Author(s): Lisa Gardner
  • Location(s): Hawai'i
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Missing persons specialist Frankie Elkin is on an isolated island off the coast of Hawaii. Her mission: to find Lani, the missing sister of a Death Row serial killer known as the Beautiful Butcher who is awaiting execution in...

Still Thinking of You

Still Thinking of You
  • Author(s): Adele Parks
  • Location(s): Avoriaz
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Tash and Rich are wild about each other; their relationship is honest, fresh and magical, so they dash towards a romantic elopement in the French Alps. However, five of Rich’s old university friends crash the wedding holiday and they...

Still Waters in Niger

Still Waters in Niger
  • Author(s): Kathleen Hill
  • Location(s): Niger
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

The narrator of this novel is an Irish-American woman who returns to the West African country of Niger where she had lived 17 years earlier as the wife of an academic and the mother of three young daughters. Now...

Still Waters Run

Still Waters Run
  • Author(s): Mark West
  • Location(s): Norfolk
  • Genre(s): Suspense, Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

End of season, end of innocence… In late summer, sixteen-year-old Dan and his recently divorced mother head to a Norfolk seaside town’s holiday park for a vacation. Shy Dan soon strikes up a friendship with a girl of his...

Stillhouse Lake

Stillhouse Lake
  • Author(s): Rachel Caine
  • Location(s): Tennessee
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller, Mystery, Suspense
  • Era(s): current

Gina Royal is the definition of average – a shy Midwestern housewife with a happy marriage and two adorable children. But when a car accident reveals her husband’s secret life as a serial killer, she must remake herself as...

Stillwater

Stillwater
  • Author(s): Nicole L Helget
  • Location(s): Stillwater, Minnesota
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 19th century

Clement and Angel are fraternal twins separated at birth; they grow up in the same small, frontier logging town of Stillwater, Minnesota. Clement was left at the orphanage. Angel was adopted by the town’s richest couple, but is marked and...

Stitched Up

Stitched Up
  • Author(s): Shahed Yousaf
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

Why would anyone want to work with thieves, murderers and rapists? Told from the inside out, this is a harrowing, humorous and hard-hitting tale of life behind bars by a prison doctor who has seen it all. Literally. Dr...

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