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The Bletchley Riddle

The Bletchley Riddle
  • Author(s): Ruth Sepetys, Steve Sheinkin
  • Location(s): Bletchley
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction

A thrilling middle grade historical adventure from bestselling authors Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin Remember, you are bound by the official secrets act…  It is the summer of 1940. The world is at war. These days, you don’t know...

The Blight Way

The Blight Way
  • Author(s): Patrick F McManus
  • Location(s): Idaho
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Crime, Humour
  • Era(s): early 2000s

Bo Tully, sheriff of Blight county, Idaho — and a fellow who dropped twenty pounds on Atkins — had been thinking about asking out Jan Whittle, his grade-school sweetheart. Problem is, he’s already promised to celebrate his dad’s seventy-fifth...

The Blind Assassin

The Blind Assassin
  • Author(s): Margaret Atwood
  • Location(s): Ontario
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s

Laura Chase’s older sister Iris, married at eighteen to a politically prominent industrialist but now poor and eighty-two, is living in Port Ticonderoga, a town dominated by their once-prosperous family before the First War. While coping with her unreliable...

The Blind Owl

The Blind Owl
  • Author(s): Sadegh Hedayat
  • Location(s): Iran
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Widely regarded as Sadegh Hedayat’s masterpiece, the Blind Owl is the most important work of literature to come out of Iran in the past century. On the surface this work seems to be a tale of doomed love, but...

The Blood Miracles

The Blood Miracles
  • Author(s): Lisa McInerney
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Like all twenty-year-olds, Ryan Cusack is trying to get his head around who he is. This is not a good time for his boss to exploit his dual heritage by opening a new black market route from Italy to...

The Blood Road

The Blood Road
  • Author(s): Stuart MacBride
  • Location(s): Aberdeen
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporay

Scottish crime fiction at its very best. Some things just won’t stay buried… When Detective Inspector Bell turns up dead in a crashed car, it’s a shock to everyone. Because Bell died two years ago. Or at least they...

The Blood Tide

The Blood Tide
  • Author(s): Neil Lancaster
  • Location(s): Glasgow, West of Scotland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

You get away with murder. In a remote sea loch on the west coast of Scotland, a fisherman vanishes without trace. His remains are never found. You make people disappear. A young man jumps from a bridge in Glasgow...

The Bloodletter’s Daughter

The Bloodletter’s Daughter
  • Author(s): Linda Lafferty
  • Location(s): Cesky Krumlov, Czech Republic
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1600s

Emperor Rudolf II’s son, Don Julius, is mentally ill and the emperor sends him to a small town in Bohemia where bloodletter treats him by purging the illness from his body. Pichler’s daughter, Marketa, becomes the object of Don...

The Bloody City

The Bloody City
  • Author(s): C B Hanley
  • Location(s): Lincoln
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 13th Century

1217: Lincoln is not a safe place to be. A French army has captured the city, and the terrified citizens huddle in the rubble of their homes as the castle, the last remaining loyal stronghold in the region, is...

The Blue Afternoon

The Blue Afternoon
  • Author(s): William Boyd
  • Location(s): Los Angeles, The Philippines
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 1900s looking back

A quest for secrets in the blue afternoon . . . Los Angeles, 1936. Kay Fischer, a young and ambitious architect, is being followed by an old man. When confronted, he explains that his name is Salvador Carriscant –...

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