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The Girl from Nongrim Hills

The Girl from Nongrim Hills
  • Author(s): Ankush Saikia
  • Location(s): Shillong
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Bok, a guitar player with a Shillong band, has a lot on his mind. His elder brother Kitdor has lost 50 lakh rupees on a trip to Nagaland to purchase arms for a group of militants. Kitdor is given...

The Girl in the Eagle’s Talons

The Girl in the Eagle’s Talons
  • Author(s): Karin Smirnoff, Sarah Death (translator)
  • Location(s): Northern Sweden
  • Genre(s): Suspense, Fiction, In Translation, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Lisbeth Salander returns, in a trailblazing new installment to the bestselling Millennium series Change is coming to Sweden’s far north: its untapped natural resources are sparking a gold rush with the criminal underworld leading the charge. But it’s not...

The Girl on the 88 Bus

The Girl on the 88 Bus
  • Author(s): Freya Sampson
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Libby Nicholls arrives in London, broken-hearted and with her life in tatters, the first person she meets on the bus is elderly pensioner Frank. He tells her about the time in 1962 he met a girl on the...

The Girl Who Lived Twice

The Girl Who Lived Twice
  • Author(s): David Lagercrantz
  • Location(s): Stockholm, The Himalayas
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Present day

Lisbeth Salander’s mentor and protector Holger Palmgren is dead, and she has been gone from Stockholm since his funeral. All summer, Mikael Blomkvist has been plagued by the fear that Salander’s enemies will come after her. He should, perhaps,...

The Girl with No Shadow

The Girl with No Shadow
  • Author(s): Joanne Harris
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction

This is the same book as “The Lollipop Shoes”

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millenium Trilogy 1)

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millenium Trilogy 1)
  • Author(s): Stieg Larsson
  • Location(s): Stockholm
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Early 2000s

Setin Södermalm, a trendy, bohemian district in Stockholm, where charming galleries and cafes mingle with historic wooden cottages. Central to the plot are Kalle Blomquist, a journalist convicted of libel and Lisbeth Salander, an expert system hacker and investigator,...

The Girl with the Red Hair

The Girl with the Red Hair
  • Author(s): Buzzy Jackson
  • Location(s): Amsterdam, Haarlem
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940

1940, Amsterdam. You’re nineteen years old. The war has stolen your future and your country is under siege. The people you love are no longer safe. Will you stand aside as the menace of Nazi evil tightens its grip...

The Girl Without Skin

The Girl Without Skin
  • Author(s): Mads Peder Nordbo
  • Location(s): Greenland
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1970s and present

When a mummified Viking corpse is discovered in a crevasse out on the edge of an ice sheet, journalist Matthew Cave is sent to cover the story. The next day the mummy is gone, and the body of the...

The Girls Who Dared to Love

The Girls Who Dared to Love
  • Author(s): Diney Costeloe
  • Location(s): England, London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Lead up to WW1

Three girls seem to have the world at their feet in the summer of 1914. But World War 1 is coming and things will change forever – especially for women. Lucinda McFarlane is engaged to be married to dashing...

The Given Day

The Given Day
  • Author(s): Dennis Lehane
  • Location(s): Boston
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Post WW1 onwards

This book is set primarily in Boston, post WW1. It tells the epic story of two families, one white, one black, both trying to find their way through a new order, interweaving in real life people and events. A...

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