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Rich Little Liars

Rich Little Liars
  • Author(s): A J Carter
  • Location(s): East Hampton, The Hamptons
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

After surviving a house fire that killed her husband, Kelly Reynolds vanishes into the East Hamptons, a world of gated estates, pristine lawns and neighbours who smile like they have nothing to fear. Here, money buys discretion, and the...

Rickshaw Boy

Rickshaw Boy
  • Author(s): Lao She
  • Location(s): Beijing (Peking)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 20th century

First published in China in 1937, Rickshaw Boy is the story of Xiangzi, an honest and serious country boy who works as a rickshaw puller in Beijing. A man of simple needs whose greatest ambition is to one day...

Rickshaw Girl

Rickshaw Girl
  • Author(s): Mitali Perkins
  • Location(s): Bangladesh
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Naima is a talented painter of traditional alpana patterns, which Bangladeshi women and girls paint on their houses for special celebrations. But Naima is not satisfied just painting alpana. She wants to help earn money for her family, like...

Ricochet

Ricochet
  • Author(s): Sandra Brown
  • Location(s): Savannah
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Seeing Red presents a spine-tingling story of murder and betrayal in high society Savannah, where a homicide detective finds his career—and life—on the line. When Savannah detective Duncan Hatcher is summoned...

Riddle of the Runes

Riddle of the Runes
  • Author(s): Janina Ramirez
  • Location(s): Scandinavia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Viking era

Alva rushes through the trees in the dead of night with her sniffer wolf, Fen. Being out alone when there’s a kidnapper on the loose is reckless, but if she ever wants to be an investigator like her Uncle...

Ride The Wave

Ride The Wave
  • Author(s): Katherine Reilly
  • Location(s): Portugal, The Gold Coast
  • Genre(s): Erotica, Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In surfing, everyone’s chasing the perfect ride… Twelve years ago, Leo Silva was a world champion surfer-until reckless partying and tabloid scandals ended his career. After a mysteriously sudden and early retirement, Leo retreated to a sleepy seaside village...

Ride With Me

Ride With Me
  • Author(s): Simone Soltani
  • Location(s): Las Vegas, World
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction, RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Stella Baldwin thought her life couldn’t get worse. Being left at the altar was bad enough, and the drunken rant she posted to her half a million social media followers in the aftermath was the cherry on top. But...

Riding A Strong Wind

Riding A Strong Wind
  • Author(s): Robertson Tait
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Modern

Short stories set Rome, Florence, Amalfi Coast, Tivoli’s Villa D’este, Amsterdam, Montmartre Paris, Tobago, Santa Barbara and Barra in the Scottish Outer Hebrides A collection of romantic short stories set in glamorous locations, from Italy to the Caribbean, passing...

Riding Out

Riding Out
  • Author(s): Simon Parker
  • Location(s): United Kingdom
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): 2020

In March 2020, as Britain entered its first lockdown, Simon Parker’s life fell apart; his travel journalism career vanished overnight and shortly afterwards he received the tragic news that a close friend had died. With a long-suppressed anxiety disorder...

Riding the Demon

Riding the Demon
  • Author(s): Peter Chilson
  • Location(s): Niger
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): 1990s

In Niger, where access to rail and air travel requires overcoming many obstacles, roads are the nation’s lifeline. For a year in the early 1990s, Peter Chilson traveled this desert country by automobile to experience West African road culture....

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