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Off the Menu

Off the Menu
  • Author(s): Stacey Ballis
  • Location(s): Chicago
  • Genre(s): Food and Drink, Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

As the executive culinary assistant to celebrity Chicago chef Patrick Conlon, Alana Ostermann works behind the scenes–and that’s just the way she likes it. But with developing recipes for Patrick’s cookbooks, training his sous chefs, picking out the perfect...

Off-Island

Off-Island
  • Author(s): Marlene Hauser
  • Location(s): Martha's Vineyard, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Krista Bourne has always been surrounded by the strength, love and wealth of her family and their homes in New York City and Martha’s Vineyard. She has never had to think for herself. Living with boyfriend Michael and her...

Offering to the Storm (The Baztan Trilogy, Book 3)

Offering to the Storm (The Baztan Trilogy, Book 3)
  • Author(s): Dolores Redondo
  • Location(s): The Basque Country, Baztán valley
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The final book in Dolores Redondo’s atmospheric Baztan trilogy, featuring Inspector Amaia Salazar. With masterful storytelling and a detective to rival Sarah Lund, this Spanish bestselling series has taken Europe by storm. It begins with a murdered child. It...

Officer Shimada and the Disappearing Girl

Officer Shimada and the Disappearing Girl
  • Author(s): Will Ferguson
  • Location(s): Southern Japan, Nagasaki, Okinawa
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

An empty elevator. A missing girl. A brother’s obsessive search for the truth. In southern Japan, a young woman enters an elevator in a bar building late at night. But when the doors open, she has vanished. Fifteen years...

Offside

Offside
  • Author(s): Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘The centre forward will be killed at dusk…’ To revive its sagging fortunes, Barcelona FC has bought the services of Jack Mortimer, European Footballer of the Year. No sooner has Mortimer taken possession of his company Porsche than death...

Offstage in Nuala

Offstage in Nuala
  • Author(s): Harriet Steel
  • Location(s): Nuwara Eliya
  • Genre(s): Crime, Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1930s

In this third instalment of The Inspector de Silva Mysteries, there’s great excitement when a professional theatre company comes to Nuala. However matters take a dark turn when the company’s actor manager is brutally murdered. Inspector de Silva has...

Oh My God, What a Complete Aisling

Oh My God, What a Complete Aisling
  • Author(s): Emer McLysaght
  • Location(s): Dublin, Leinster
  • Genre(s): RomCom, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Meet Aisling. She’s a small-town girl who dreams of the big city. She has a heart of gold and an iron belief in the power of control tights. She has a steady job and a loyal boyfriend (though he...

Oh! What a Pavlova

Oh! What a Pavlova
  • Author(s): Isabella May
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Fiction, RomCom
  • Era(s): The naughties

Kate Clothier is leading a double life; a successful jet-setting businesswoman to the outside world, but behind closed doors life with Daniel and his volcanic temper is anything but rosy. Some days – heck, make that EVERY day –...

Ohio

Ohio
  • Author(s): Stephen Markley
  • Location(s): Ohio
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2013

The debut of a major talent; a lyrical and emotional novel set in an archetypal small town in northeastern Ohio – a region ravaged by the Great Recession, an opioid crisis, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan –...

Oil on Water

Oil on Water
  • Author(s): Helon Habila
  • Location(s): Nigeria
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): early 21st century

In the oil-rich and environmentally devastated Nigerian Delta, the wife of a British oil executive has been kidnapped. Two journalists-a young upstart, Rufus, and a once-great, now disillusioned veteran, Zaq-are sent to find her. In a story rich with...

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