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Sacred Skin – Thailand’s Spirit Tattoos

Sacred Skin – Thailand’s Spirit Tattoos
  • Author(s): Tom Vater, Aroon Thaewchatturat
  • Location(s): Thailand
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Sacred tattoos, called ‘sak yant’ in Thailand, have been around Southeast Asia for centuries and afford protection from accident, misfortune, and crime. Young women get tattooed with love charms in order to attract partners, while adolescent men use the...

Safari

Safari
  • Author(s): Jaclyn Goldis
  • Location(s): South Africa
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Odelia Babel, CEO of a sustainable fashion empire, is about to marry for the second time—to a man twenty-five years her junior. Asher Bach is the thirty-something designer of Odelia’s luxury clothing line, the darling of every high-fashion journalist,...

Safe

Safe
  • Author(s): Ryan Gattis
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 2008

Set in LA against the backdrop of the 2008 financial crash, this is the story of Rudy Reyes (a.k.a. Glasses), a gangster-turned-double-agent who wants out of the high-stakes high-risk criminal life, and Ricky Mendoza, Junior (a.k.a. Ghost), a DEA...

Safe and Sound

Safe and Sound
  • Author(s): Philippa East
  • Location(s): Brixton
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Home can be the most dangerous place… In a small London bedsit, a radio is playing. A small dining table is set for three, and curled up on the sofa is a body… Jenn is the one who discovers...

Safe House

Safe House
  • Author(s): Jo Jakeman
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Fiction, Indigenous
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The morning after a terrible storm, a woman turns up in a remote Cornish village. She calls herself Charlie, but it’s a name she’s only had for a few days. She keeps herself to herself, reluctant to integrate with...

Safe Houses

Safe Houses
  • Author(s): Dan Fesperman
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1970s and present

In this gripping new work of suspense from the author of The Double Game, a young woman discovers a nefarious truth at the heart of the CIA’s operations in postwar Berlin and goes on the run for her life;...

Safeguard

Safeguard
  • Author(s): John A Daly
  • Location(s): Colorado
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 2000s

Months after a life-altering revelation drove Sean Coleman from his mountain hometown of Winston, Colorado, the longtime security guard has found stable work as the sole caretaker of a retired nuclear missile site along the Eastern Plains. The desolate...

Sahara

Sahara
  • Author(s): Clive Cussler
  • Location(s): Mali
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery, Adventure
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Deep in the African desert, Dirk Pitt discovers that a top secret scientific installation is leaking a lethal chemical into the rivers, threatening to kill thousands of people – and to destroy all life in the world’s seas. To...

Saigon Dark

Saigon Dark
  • Author(s): Elka Ray
  • Location(s): Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon)
  • Genre(s): Noir, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Good and bad. Life and death. Some choices aren’t black and white A grief-stricken young mother switches her dead child for a Vietnamese street kid, then spends the next decade living a lie. She remarries and starts to feel...

Sail Away

Sail Away
  • Author(s): Celia Imrie
  • Location(s): The Atlantic Ocean
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The deliciously witty, irresistibly indulgent new novel from the top ten Sunday Times bestselling author of Not Quite Nice follows the exploits of two women on an Atlantic cruise ship The phone hasn’t rung for months. Suzy Marshall is...

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