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The Body under the Sands

The Body under the Sands
  • Author(s): James Andrew
  • Location(s): North Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1920s

A terrible crime that no one witnessed. Two suspects that everyone believes are guilty… Two soldiers recently returned from the Great War are spending their summer larking about, chasing girls, drinking, smoking, and forlornly trying to find gainful employment....

The Body: A Guide for Occupants

The Body: A Guide for Occupants
  • Author(s): Bill Bryson
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 2020

We spend our whole lives in one body and yet most of us have practically no idea how it works and what goes on inside it. The idea of the book is simply to try to understand the extraordinary...

The Bohemians

The Bohemians
  • Author(s): Jasmin Darznik
  • Location(s): San Francisco
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s

In 1918, a young and bright-eyed Dorothea Lange steps off the train in San Francisco, where a disaster kick-starts a new life. Her friendship with Caroline Lee, a vivacious, straight-talking Chinese American with a complicated past, gives Dorothea entrée...

The Bologna Vendetta

The Bologna Vendetta
  • Author(s): Tom Benjamin
  • Location(s): Bologna
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Daniel Leicester goes in search of his late wife’s missing bicycle in the oppressive heat of a Bologna summer, he is transported to her final days. But as unfinished business bleeds – quite literally – into the present,...

The Bombay Prince

The Bombay Prince
  • Author(s): Sujata Massey
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1920s

(A Perveen Mistry Novel Book 3) November 1921. Edward VIII, Prince of Wales and future ruler of India, is arriving in Bombay to begin a fourmonth tour. The Indian subcontinent is chafing under British rule, and Bombay solicitor Perveen Mistry isn’t surprised when local unrest...

The Bondmaid

The Bondmaid
  • Author(s): Catherine Lim
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 19th century

A little girl -Han is sold, aged four, as a boundmaid or slave into the House of Wu, where she grows up and falls in love with the young heir. But the idyll of childhood attachement turns into a...

The Bone Garden

The Bone Garden
  • Author(s): Tess Gerritsen
  • Location(s): Boston
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
  • Era(s): Present and early 19th Century

Present day: Julia Hamill has made a horrifying discovery on the grounds of her new home in rural Massachusetts: a skull buried in the rocky soil-human, female, and, according to the trained eye of Boston medical examiner Maura Isles,...

The Bone House

The Bone House
  • Author(s): Brian Freeman
  • Location(s): Lake Wisconsin
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Hilary and Mark Bradley are trapped in a web of suspicion. Last year, accusations of a torrid affair with a student cost Mark his teaching job and made the young couple into outcasts in their remote island town off...

The Bone Keeper

The Bone Keeper
  • Author(s): Luca Veste
  • Location(s): Liverpool
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

What if the figure that haunted your nightmares as child, the myth of the man in the woods, was real? He’ll slice your flesh.  Your bones he’ll keep. Twenty years ago, four teenagers went exploring in the local woods,...

The Bone Orchard

The Bone Orchard
  • Author(s): Paul Doiron
  • Location(s): Maine
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

In the aftermath of a family tragedy, Mike Bowditch has left the Maine Warden Service and is working as a fishing guide in the North Woods. But when his mentor Sgt. Kathy Frost is forced to kill a troubled...

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