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Alpine for You

Alpine for You
  • Author(s): Maddy Hunter
  • Location(s): Switzerland
  • Genre(s): Mystery

Emily Andrew, a young and pretty, but unemployed actress, travels with her spry grandmother to Switzerland, together with a group of senior citizens from Iowa. Unfortunate incidents happen to the group members and Emily has to investigate and teams...

Already Dead

Already Dead
  • Author(s): Stephen Booth
  • Location(s): The Peak District
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

A summer of endless rain in the Peak District leaves the officers of Derbyshire’s CID with a problem. They have discovered a man’s body lying in shallow water, but torrential rain has swollen the rivers and flooded the roads,...

Alys, Always

Alys, Always
  • Author(s): Harriet Lane
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Frances Thorpe, a sub-editor on the books pages of the Questioner, is one of those quiet women it’s advisable to watch. A thirty-something living alone in a shabby north London flat, she’s stuck in a job that she thinks...

Amandine

Amandine
  • Author(s): Marlena de Blasi
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1931, WW2

The story opens in Krakow in 1931, as a baby girl is conceived out of wedlock, the byproduct of a foolish heart and a tragic inheritance. The child’s grandmother, a countess, believes that she is protecting her daughter when...

Amazing Disgrace

Amazing Disgrace
  • Author(s): James Hamilton-Paterson
  • Location(s): London, Tuscany
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Set both in Tuscany and in the trendy haunts of London, this is the hilarious sequel to Cooking with Fernet Branca. The inimitable Gerald Samper is back, with his musings on the absurdities of modern life and his entertaining...

Amazir

Amazir
  • Author(s): Tom Gamble
  • Location(s): Morocco
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

An idealistic young Englishman, Harry Summerfield, befriends an American oil explorer in Gibraltar in the 1930s. Their meeting sparks a journey for both men that will take them across Morocco and northern Africa, to encounter the harsh realities of...

America Unchained

America Unchained
  • Author(s): Dave Gorman
  • Location(s): United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

This is the story of an unchained, coast to coast road trip in a classic 1970’s Ford

American Assassin

American Assassin
  • Author(s): Vince Flynn
  • Location(s): Germany, Istanbul (Constantinople), Switzerland
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1980s

What type of man is willing to kill for his country without putting on a uniform? Six months ago, Mitch Rapp was just an ordinary college student. Then the Pan Am Lockerbie terrorist attack stole the lives of two...

American Chica

American Chica
  • Author(s): Marie Arana
  • Location(s): Peru, Wyoming
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs

In her father’s Peruvian family, Marie Arana was taught to be a proper lady, yet in her mother’s American family she learned to shoot a gun, break a horse, and snap a chicken’s neck for dinner. Arana shuttled easily...

American Chick in Saudi Arabia

American Chick in Saudi Arabia
  • Author(s): Jean Sasson
  • Location(s): Saudi Arabia
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

It all begins with an ad in the newspaper. When Jean Sasson, a young Southern woman living in Jacksonville Beach, Florida, answers a call to work in the royal hospital in Saudi Arabia, what should have been a two-year...

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