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Shosha

Shosha
  • Author(s): Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Location(s): Warsaw
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

It is Warsaw in the 1930s. Aaron Greidinger is an aspiring young writer and the son of a rabbi, who struggles to be true to his art when he is faced with the chance of riches and a passport...

Shot in the Dark

Shot  in the Dark
  • Author(s): Cleo Coyle
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A smartphone dating game turns the Village Blend into a hookup hotspot–until a gunshot turns the landmark coffeehouse into a crime scene. As Village Blend manager Clare Cosi fixes a date for her wedding, her ex-husband is making dates...

Shot with Crimson

Shot with Crimson
  • Author(s): Nicola Upson
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1939

I will never understand why murder is considered such a lowbrow speciality in Hollywood. September, 1939, and the worries of war follow Josephine Tey to Hollywood, where a different sort of battle is raging on the set of Hitchcock’s...

Shots Fired

Shots Fired
  • Author(s): Ian Robinson
  • Location(s): London, Northern Ireland, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 2021

Suspenseful and exciting! A specialist murder team track a deadly weapon. When a ballistics report shows that a gun used in a Glasgow shooting is the same as the one used in a London murder three years previously, DI...

Show Me The Magic: Travels Round Benin By Taxi

Show Me The Magic: Travels Round Benin By Taxi
  • Author(s): Annie Caulfield
  • Location(s): Benin (Danhomè)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A hilarious account of an unlikely taxi-ride through one of Africa’s most varied and fascinating countries.Annie Caulfield has written a wonderful eccentric travel book about Dahomey, now known as Benin, a country where corruption is rife and where Catholicism...

Show No Mercy

Show No Mercy
  • Author(s): Cindy Gerard
  • Location(s): Buenos Aires
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Leaving the CIA to take a job with Black Ops, Inc., a private security and intelligence firm specializing in jobs the military and CIA will not touch, Gabriel Jones becomes involved with American journalist Jenna McMillan when she accidentally...

Shrines of Gaiety

Shrines of Gaiety
  • Author(s): Kate Atkinson
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1926

1926, and in a country still recovering from the Great War, London has become the focus for a delirious new nightlife. In the clubs of Soho, peers of the realm rub shoulders with starlets, foreign dignitaries with gangsters, and...

Shrink Solves Murder

Shrink Solves Murder
  • Author(s): Philippa Perry
  • Location(s): Beachy Head, East Sussex
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Her 3 o’clock just became a murder case… When a body is found near Beachy Head, the police chalk it up to suicide ― a tragic but not uncommon end in these parts. But local psychotherapist Patricia Phillips isn’t...

Shroud

Shroud
  • Author(s): John Banville
  • Location(s): Turin (Torino)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Dark secrets and reality unravel in Shroud, the second of John Banville’s three novels to feature Cass Cleave, alongside Eclipse and Ancient Light. Axel Vander, distinguished intellectual and elderly academic, is not the man he seems. When a letter...

Shroud of Evil, A DI Andy Horton Mystery (11)

Shroud of Evil, A DI Andy Horton Mystery (11)
  • Author(s): Pauline Rowson
  • Location(s): Isle of Wight, Portsmouth
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

DI Andy Horton is assigned the case of a missing person: Jasper Kenton, a private investigator. Irritated at being assigned such a low-ranking investigation, Horton suspects the disappearance has a mundane explanation but when Kenton’s car turns up, and...

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