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Uncoupling

Uncoupling
  • Author(s): Lorraine Brown
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Hannah and Si are in love and on the same track – that is, until their train divides on the way to a wedding. The next morning, Hannah wakes up in Paris and realises that her boyfriend (and her...

Under a Cornish Sky

Under a Cornish Sky
  • Author(s): Liz Fenwick
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Demi desperately needs her luck to change. On the sleeper train down to Cornwall, she can’t help wondering why everything always goes wrong for her. Having missed out on her dream job, and left with nowhere to stay following...

Underground Time

Underground Time
  • Author(s): Delphine de Vigan
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Novella
  • Era(s): Modern

Each morning Mathilde takes the Metro to her job in the marketing department of a large French corporation. Ever since a disagreement with her narcissistic boss, life in the office has taken a turn for the worse. On the...

Undertow (Inspector Celcius Daly)

Undertow (Inspector Celcius Daly)
  • Author(s): Anthony Quinn
  • Location(s): Ireland, Northern Ireland
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A policeman’s suicide leads Inspector Celcius Daly across the Irish border and into a labyrinth of lies and corruption. Daly is in Dreesh, a desolate village where law and order have ground to a halt, and whose residents, ruined...

Unnatural Ends

Unnatural Ends
  • Author(s): Christoper Huang
  • Location(s): Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): 1921

Sir Lawrence Linwood is dead. More accurately, he was murdered―savagely beaten to death in his own study with a mediaeval mace. The murder calls home his three adopted children: Alan, an archeologist; Roger, an engineer; and Caroline, a journalist....

Up Country

Up Country
  • Location(s): Vietnam
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Having taken to the lifestyle of a middle-aged civilian, the last thing Paul Brenner wanted to do was return to work for the Army’s Criminal Investigation Division, the agency that thanked him for years of life-risking service by forcing...

Up in the Old Hotel

Up in the Old Hotel
  • Author(s): Joseph Mitchell
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Various

Saloon-keepers and street preachers, gypsies and steel-walking Mohawks, a bearded lady and a 93-year-old “seafoodetarian” who believes his specialized diet will keep him alive for another two decades. These are among the people that Joseph Mitchell immortalized in his...

Us

Us
  • Author(s): David Nicholls
  • Location(s): Europe
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Douglas Petersen understands his wife’s need to ‘rediscover herself’ now that their son is leaving home. He just thought they’d be doing their rediscovering together. So when Connie announces that she will be leaving, too, he resolves to make...

Vaporetto 13

Vaporetto 13
  • Author(s): Robert Girardi
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Late 20th Century

Jack Squire is a successful currency trader on business in Venice. Haunted by recent events in his life, he takes to walking the streets at midnight. He meets the ethereal Caterina, a woman who seems to bear the sadness...

Venetian Blood: Murder in a Sensuous City

Venetian Blood: Murder in a Sensuous City
  • Author(s): Christine Evelyn Volker
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 1992

Struggling to forget a crumbling marriage, Anna Lucia Lottol comes to Venice to visit an old friend, but instead of finding solace, she is dragged into a police station and accused of murdering a money-laundering count with whom she...

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