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Smilla’s Sense of Snow

Smilla’s Sense of Snow
  • Author(s): Peter Høeg, Tiina Nunnally (translator)
  • Location(s): Copenhagen
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Crime
  • Era(s): 1990s

She thinks more highly of snow and ice than she does of love.  She lives in a world of numbers, science and memories–a dark, exotic stranger in a strange land.  And now Smilla Jaspersen is convinced she has uncovered a shattering...

SMOKE AND MIRRORS

SMOKE AND MIRRORS
  • Author(s): Denver Murphy
  • Location(s): Nottingham
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): present

Has ex-DSI Brandt become the perfect killer, or will he be a victim of his own success? Retired policeman turned killer Jeffrey Brandt has gone underground. He is even living something like a normal life in North Wales. He...

Smoke and Silk

Smoke and Silk
  • Author(s): Fiona Keating
  • Location(s): East London, Limehouse
  • Genre(s): Historical, Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Victorian era

Pearl Fitzgerald arrives in Limehouse – London’s very ­first Chinatown – to settle her late father’s affairs and claim her inheritance. But when she unwittingly ­finds herself at the scene of a murder, her plans are thrown off course....

Smoke in Berlin

Smoke in Berlin
  • Author(s): Oriana Ramunno
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): WW2

Book 2 Hugo Fischer A DETECTIVE WITH A SECRET Berlin, June 1944. Hugo Fischer is forced to work for the Nazi secret service, but he carries dangerous secrets he must conceal. Gioele is not his son, but a Jewish...

Smoke on the Water

Smoke on the Water
  • Author(s): Rae Stewart
  • Location(s): Loch Ness
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

MURDER, MAYHEM – AND MONSTERS Frank Fisher thinks he’s made it. The dodgy businessman is finally on the verge of finishing his controversial multi-million pound NessieWorld monster theme park on the banks of Loch Ness. It will bring him...

Smoke on the Wind

Smoke on the Wind
  • Author(s): Kelli Estes
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Dual timeline; present day and 1801

In the magnificent Scottish Highlands, two devoted mothers separated by centuries discover a haunting connection in a gripping novel by the USA Today bestselling author of The Girl Who Wrote in Silk. Struggling with the tragic end of her...

Smoke Screen

Smoke Screen
  • Author(s): Jørn Lier Horst, Thomas Enger
  • Location(s): Norway, Oslo
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When the mother of a missing two-year-old girl is seriously injured in a suspected terrorist attack in Oslo, crime-fighting duo Blix and Ramm join forces to investigate the case, and things aren’t adding up … The second instalment in...

Smokin’ Seventeen

Smokin’ Seventeen
  • Author(s): Janet Evanovich
  • Location(s): New Jersey
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Where there’s smoke there’s fire, and no one knows this better than New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum. Dead bodies are showing up in shallow graves on the empty construction lot of Vincent Plum Bail Bonds. No one is...

Smoking Kills

Smoking Kills
  • Author(s): Antoine Laurain
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): Contemporary

-How far would you go to enjoy a cigarette? In this witty black comedy, Laurain’s anti-hero can only make smoking pleasurable by committing the ultimate crime… When head-hunter Fabrice Valentine faces a smoking ban at work, he decides to...

Smoky: How a Tiny Yorkshire Terrier Became a World War II American Army Hero, Therapy Dog and Hollywood Star

Smoky: How a Tiny Yorkshire Terrier Became a World War II American Army Hero, Therapy Dog and Hollywood Star
  • Author(s): Jacky Donovan
  • Location(s): Papua New Guinea
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1940s, World War II

When Smoky, a tiny Yorkie Terrier, is miraculously found in a foxhole in the steaming jungles of Papua New Guinea, she has no way of knowing she will become a World War II hero and Hollywood star. Flying with...

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