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The Burning Sands

The Burning Sands
  • Author(s): Carole Lehr Johnson
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 17th century Cornwall

Can an old tavern’s secrets free two women from their pasts? After a year, Olivia Griffin still drowns in grief from losing her beloved husband in a tragic accident. To cope with his death, she loses herself in her...

The Burnings

The Burnings
  • Author(s): Julian Lees
  • Location(s): Jakarta (Batavia)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): Present Day

With discovery comes certain death… When Australian Jillian Parker’s scorched remains are discovered in her burnt-out car Ruud Pujasumarta and his team are brought in to investigate what appears at first to be a routine homicide. But when Canadian...

The Burnings

The Burnings
  • Author(s): Naomi Kelsey
  • Location(s): North Berwick
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1580s

Nothing scares men like witchcraft . . . 1589. Scottish housemaid Geillis and Danish courtier Margareta lead opposite lives, but they both know one thing: when a man cries “witch”, no woman is safe. Yet when the marriage of...

The Bus Driver Who Wanted to be God & Other Stories

The Bus Driver Who Wanted to be God & Other Stories
  • Author(s): Etgar Keret
  • Location(s): Israel
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Brief, intense, painfully funny, and shockingly honest, Etgar Keret’s stories are snapshots that illuminate with intelligence and wit the hidden truths of life. As with the best writers of fiction, hilarity and anguish are the twin pillars of his...

The Butcher Boy

The Butcher Boy
  • Author(s): Patrick McCabe
  • Location(s): County Monaghan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

A modern classic of Irish fiction, shortlisted for the 1992 Booker prize. When I was a young lad twenty or thirty or forty years ago I lived in a small town where they were all after me on account...

The Butcher Game

The Butcher Game
  • Author(s): Alaina Urquhart
  • Location(s): Massachusetts
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

From the New York Times bestselling author and cohost of chart-topping true crime podcast Morbid comes the thrilling book two in her national bestselling series, told from the dueling perspectives of a notorious serial killer and a medical examiner...

The Butcher of Benares

The Butcher of Benares
  • Author(s): Jakhar Mahendra
  • Location(s): Varanasi
  • Era(s): early 2000s

The shocking and brutal murder of a young American woman rips apart the peace of the ancient city of Benares. She is found to be a research scientist working with the Vatican Observatory, one of the oldest astronomical research...

The Butcher of Casablanca

The Butcher of Casablanca
  • Author(s): Abdelilah Hamdouchi
  • Location(s): Casablanca
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A series of gruesome murders shakes the city of Casablanca. The killer knows exactly how the police will pursue him and how to obliterate evidence that could lead them to identify his victims. Fear spreads throughout the city as...

The Butcher’s Block: A Dan Foster Mystery

The Butcher’s Block: A Dan Foster Mystery
  • Author(s): Lucienne Boyce
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1797

During a routine patrol, police arrest two men in possession of human body parts which are intended for sale to the dissecting rooms of a London teaching hospital. Bow Street Runner and amateur pugilist Dan Foster makes the grisly...

The Butcher’s Wife

The Butcher’s Wife
  • Author(s): Li Ang
  • Location(s): Taiwan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): late 20th century

Chen Jiangshui is a pig-butcher in a small coastal Taiwanese town. Stocky, with a paunch and deep-set beady eyes, he resembles a pig himself. His brutality towards his new young wife, Lin Shi, knows no bounds. The more she...

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