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Rancour

Rancour
  • Author(s): Pete Brassett
  • Location(s): Isle of Arran
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A gripping murder mystery set on the west coast of Scotland (Detective Inspector Munro murder mysteries Book 8) Arran islanders respond angrily when a girl dies in the fells. A subsequent death on the mainland is further cause for...

Random Passage

Random Passage
  • Author(s): Bernice Morgan
  • Location(s): Newfoundland & Labrador, England
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 19th century

Forced to flee England, the Andrews family books passage from Weymouth, England to unknown prospects, only to discover a barren, inhospitable land at the end of their crossing: a fresh start in a distant country, New Found Land. There,...

Rangatira

Rangatira
  • Author(s): Paula Morris
  • Location(s): Auckland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1880s

Auckland, June 1886. Ngati Wai chief Paratene Te Manu spends long sessions, over three long days, having his portrait painted by the Bohemian painter Gottfried Lindauer. Hearing of Lindauer’s planned trip to England reminds him of his own journey...

Rani & Sukh

Rani & Sukh
  • Author(s): Bali Rai
  • Location(s): Punjab, Leicester
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s/2004

A powerful and gripping novel that sweeps the reader from modern-day Britain to the Punjab in the 1960s and back again in a ceaseless cycle of tragedy and conflict. 1950s Punjab – a secret affair goes terribly wrong and...

Ransomed

Ransomed
  • Author(s): M A Hunter
  • Location(s): Weymouth
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Some secrets are too big to bury… Investigative journalist Emma Hunter never thought she’d be a bestselling author. Especially not for a blistering exposé of the brutal horrors committed at an orphanage. Some secrets breed in the dark… All...

Rapids

Rapids
  • Author(s): Tim Parks
  • Location(s): Italian Alps
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

In the dramatic landscape of the Italian Alps a group of English canoeists arrive for an ‘introduction to white water.’ Camping, eating and paddling together, six adults and nine adolescents seem set to enjoy what their leader insists on...

Rapture

Rapture
  • Author(s): Emily Maguire
  • Location(s): Mainz
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 9th Century

Ninth-century Mainz, in the heart of the Holy Roman Empire. Agnes is the motherless child of an English priest – a wild and brilliant girl with a deep, visceral love of God. But when tragedy strikes, she is suddenly...

Rascal

Rascal
  • Author(s): Sterling North, John Schoenherr (illustrator)
  • Location(s): Wisconsin
  • Genre(s): Children, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

Nothing’s surprising in the North household, not even Sterling’s new pet raccoon. Rascal is only a baby when Sterling brings him home, but soon the two are best friends, doing everything together–until the spring day when everything suddenly changes....

Rasputin’s Daughter

Rasputin’s Daughter
  • Author(s): Robert Alexander
  • Location(s): Russia
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Post Russian Revolution

Called “brilliant” by USA Today, Robert Alexander’s historical novel The Kitchen Boy swept readers back to the doomed world of the Romanovs. His latest masterpiece once again conjures those turbulent days in a fictional drama of extraordinary depth and...

Rather Be the Devil

Rather Be the Devil
  • Author(s): Ian Rankin
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): modern

John Rebus can’t close the door on the death of glamorous socialite Maria Turquand. Brutally murdered in her hotel room forty years ago, her killer has never been found. Meanwhile, Edinburgh’s dark heart is up for grabs. Young pretender...

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