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The Killer’s Girl (Detective Morgan Brookes #2)

The Killer’s Girl (Detective Morgan Brookes #2)
  • Author(s): Helen Phifer
  • Location(s): The Lake District
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘Mama, wake up.’ The little girl reached for her mother’s face with one pudgy hand. But the eyes stayed closed, and the blood continued to trickle across the floor. When the body of a young woman is found, tied...

The Killing of Bobbi Lomax

The Killing of Bobbi Lomax
  • Author(s): Cal Moriarty
  • Location(s): United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Late 20th Century

CANYON COUNTY, HALLOWEEN 1983 Bobbi Lomax was the first to die, the bomb killed the prom queen on her own front lawn. Just moments later one of the nails from the city’s second bomb forced its way into the brain...

The Lady and the Monk

The Lady and the Monk
  • Author(s): Pico Iyer
  • Location(s): Kyoto
  • Era(s): Late 20th Century

The author spent a year in Japan in search of contemplation. Instead he found a land of contradictions, where the monks spent their evenings watching game shows. It was through his relationship with Sachiko, a Japanese lady who combined...

The Lamplighters

The Lamplighters
  • Author(s): Emma Stonex
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1972 and 1990s

Cornwall, 1972. Three keepers vanish from a remote lighthouse, miles from the shore. The entrance door is locked from the inside. The clocks have stopped. The Principal Keeper’s weather log describes a mighty storm, but the skies have been...

The Language of Food

The Language of Food
  • Author(s): Annabel Abbs
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Food and Drink, Historical
  • Era(s): Victorian era (1800s)

‘A sensual feast of a novel, written with elegance, beauty, charm and skill in a voice that is both lyrical and unique. The Language of Food is an intriguing story with characters that leap off the page and live,...

The Last Concerto

The Last Concerto
  • Author(s): Sara Alexander
  • Location(s): Rome, Ozieri, Sardinia (Sardegna), Sicily
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1968

Famed for its natural beauty and rich history, Sardinia in 1968 is notorious, too, for the bandits who kidnap wealthy landowners for ransom. Eleven-year-old Alba Fresu’s brother, and her father, Bruno, are abducted by criminals who mistake Bruno for...

The Last Days of El Comandante

The Last Days of El Comandante
  • Author(s): Alberto Barrera Tyszka
  • Location(s): Caracas
  • Genre(s): Fiction

Venezuela 2012: The President’s illness casts a shadow over the lives of his citizens – he divides opinion, but life without him is almost unimaginable. Miguel Sanabria is a retired oncologist, ambivalent towards the President but caught between a...

The Last Girl to Die

The Last Girl to Die
  • Author(s): Helen Fields
  • Location(s): Isle of Mull
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘Fantastic. Excellent. Incredible. I could not put this one down for the life of me.’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader Review ‘A stunner! I guarantee you’ll put everything on hold until you arrive at the shocking final scenes. Without a doubt, one...

The Last Restaurant in Paris

The Last Restaurant in Paris
  • Author(s): Lily Graham
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

Paris 1944. To save her people, she served the enemy. In enemy-occupied Paris, as the locals go to bed starving and defeated by the war, music and laughter spills through the door of a little restaurant, crowded with German...

The Leavers

The Leavers
  • Author(s): Lisa Ko
  • Location(s): The Bronx, China, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

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