- Location(s): Provence
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1920
PROVENCE, 1920 Ettie moves through the remote farmhouse, silently creating the conditions that make her uncle’s artistic genius possible. Joseph, an aspiring journalist, has been invited to the house. He believes he’ll make his name by interviewing the reclusive...
- Location(s): Carmel-by-the-Sea
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Mystery
- Era(s): 1920s
July 1924. Sarah Cunningham, a young Modernist painter, arrives in Carmel-by-the-Sea from Paris to bury her older sister, Ada Belle. En route, she is shocked to learn that Ada Belle’s suspicious death is a suicide. But why kill herself?...
- Location(s): Sydney
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary looking back to 20th Century
A story about art, murder, and making your place in history. Whatever it was that drew me to Muriel, it wasn’t her charm. In 1992, morning sickness drives Jane to pre-dawn walks of her neighbourhood where she meets an...
- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
- Era(s): contemporary
(A Shell House Detectives Mystery Book 5) A killer on the loose, and a village gripped by fear. Can the Shell House Detectives save Porthpella? Springtime on the Cornish coast and Porthpella’s artistic community are throwing open their doors,...
- Location(s): Nepal
- Genre(s): Suspense, Thriller
- Era(s): early 2000s
Having lost himself in extreme sports since the death of his wife, sculptor Tim Overleigh joins a team of men bent on climbing the Godesh Ridge in Nepal in order to stop his downward spiral, only to find what...
- Location(s): Varanasi
- Genre(s): Biography, Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 400 BCE–200 CE
The Kama Sutra is the most widely read treatise on sex ever written, though the man who chronicled all there was to experience between men and women remains, for the most part, a mystery. In The Ascetic of Desire,...
- Location(s): Hiroshima
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1945
WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF A HIROSHIMA SURVIVOR ENCOUNTERED ONE OF THE SCIENTISTS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ATOMIC BOMB? This is the way Emiko Amai recalls August 6th, 1945 – the day she survived the Hiroshima bomb. Emiko was six years...
- Location(s): England, India
- Genre(s): Young Adult, Historical
- Era(s): Second half 20th Century/21st Century
Through ten decades and across three continents, The Ash Museum is an intergenerational story of loss, migration and the search for somewhere to feel at home. 1944. The Battle of Kohima. James Ash dies leaving behind two families: his...
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Post WW2
1947 and Gregor Reinhardt has been hired back onto Berlin’s civilian police force. The city is divided among the victorious allied powers, tensions are growing, and the police are riven by internal rivalries as factions within it jockey for...
- Location(s): Turkmenistan
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): early 21st century
Suspense, intrigue and lots of action are packed together in a riveting tale of greed and revenge that’s set in the obscure but gas-rich Central Asian Republic of Turkmenistan – Population: 5.1 million, Capital: Ashgabat, and home to billionaire...
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