- Location(s): Málaga, Gibraltar
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): 21st century
On Midsummer’s Eve the bodies of two young gypsies are found in a solitary spot near a beach in Málaga. It looks like the couple committed suicide—a lovers’ pact to end it all—and the police are quick to close...
- Location(s): Portland (Oregon)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Twenty-four-year-old artist Andrea Morales escaped her Midwestern Catholic childhood–and the closet–to create a home and life for herself within the thriving but insular lesbian underground of Portland, Oregon. But one drunken night, reeling from a bad breakup and a...
- Location(s): Naples
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 1940s
- Location(s): Bangkok
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Eight years ago, Poke Rafferty, an American travel writer, and his Thai wife, Rose, adopted a Bangkok street child named Miaow, forming an unconventional intercultural family. That family has weathered extreme challenges—each of its three members carried the scars...
- Location(s): Bradford
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
The sky over Bradford is heavy with foreboding. It always is. But this morning it has reason to be – this morning a body has been found. And it’s not just any body. Detective Harry Virdee should be at...
- Location(s): Texas
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1890s
The final novel in Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove quartet, Streets of Laredo is an exhilarating and achingly poignant tale of heroism and friendship. Captain Woodrow Call, Gus McCrae’s old partner, once a youthful Texas Ranger, is now a bounty...
- Location(s): Burundi, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Strength in What Remains recounts the remarkable experiences of Deo, a medical student from Burundi who narrowly survived two genocides, first in his own country, then Rwanda. Through sheer fortitude, and the astonishing kindness of strangers, Deo fled to...
- Location(s): Edinburgh
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Gregor Jack, MP, well-liked, young, married to the fiery Elizabeth – to the outside world a very public success story. But Jack’s carefully nurtured career plans take a tumble after a ‘mistake’ during a police raid on a notorious...
- Location(s): Cannes
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s
Celita is a stripper at the Monico, a nightclub in Cannes. She is also the long-standing mistress of Monsieur Leon, the owner of the Monico. She has enjoyed her struggle to win him away from his wife, Madame Florence,...
Strong as Fire, Fierce as Flame
- Location(s): India
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): 19th century
In 1857 India, 12-year-old Meera escapes a life she has no say in–and certain death on her husband’s funeral pyre–only to end up a servant to a British general in the East India Company. When a rebellion against British...
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