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Smash all the Windows

Smash all the Windows
  • Author(s): Jane Davis
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present Day

It has taken conviction to right the wrongs. It will take courage to learn how to live again. Winner of The Selfies (Best independent fiction author) 2018 A finalist in the 2018 IAN Book of the Year Awards ‘An...

Smile As They Bow

Smile As They Bow
  • Author(s): Nu Nu Yi
  • Location(s): Burma (Myanmar)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

Several of Nu Nu Yi’s characters attend the annual Taungbyon Festival in honour of the spirits known as nats, which are central to traditional Burmese religious practice. There is Daisy Bond, a gay, transvestite medium in his fifties, his...

Smile Of The Stowaway

Smile Of The Stowaway
  • Author(s): Tony Bassett
  • Location(s): Kent
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Current

Desperate to reach England, a bedraggled immigrant clings precariously beneath a couple’s motor home as they cross the Channel. Once holidaymakers Bob and Anne overcome their shock at his discovery and their initial reservations, they welcome the friendly stranger...

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...

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