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The Safe Place

The Safe Place
  • Author(s): Anna Downes
  • Location(s): South West France
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

A BEAUTIFUL HOME MIGHT HIDE DANGEROUS SECRETS Emily Proudman has been offered the chance of a lifetime – leave her messy London life, move to a beautiful estate in France and help her boss’ wife take care of their...

The Safety Net

The Safety Net
  • Author(s): Andrea Camilleri
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

Vigàta is bustling as the new filming location for a Swedish television series set in 1950. In the production frenzy, the director asks the locals to track down movies and vintage photos to faithfully recreate the air of Vigàta...

The Saffron Conspiracy

The Saffron Conspiracy
  • Author(s): Marilyn Baron
  • Location(s): Austria, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Botanist Andreas Bauer, passionate about saffron, plans to reintroduce organic farming of the world’s most expensive spice to a region of Austria now known for its wine. Meeting resistance from vintners, he does research in a local abbey and...

The Saint of Wolves and Butchers

The Saint of Wolves and Butchers
  • Author(s): Alex Grecian
  • Location(s): Kansas
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Spy
  • Era(s): Later 20th Century

Travis Roan and his dog, Bear, are hunters: They travel the world pursuing evildoers in order to bring them to justice. They have now come to Kansas on the trail of Rudolph Bormann, a Nazi doctor and concentration camp...

The Salt Marsh

The Salt Marsh
  • Author(s): Clare Carson
  • Location(s): Kent, Norfolk
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary/Cold War

Sam Coyle’s father lived in the shadows – an undercover agent among the spies and radicals of Cold War London. That world claimed his life, and Sam is haunted by his absence. He left nothing behind but his enemies;...

The Samana Incident

The Samana Incident
  • Author(s): Keith Dahlberg
  • Location(s): Papua New Guinea
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): early 21st century

“THE SAMANA INCIDENT” is a microcosm of bigtime modern drug dealing, and a sequel to “FLAME TREE,” continuing the adventures of Dr. George and Vienna Daniels. Lieutenant Jason Kerro is an honest cop in a corrupt system, trying to...

The Same Embrace: A Novel

The Same Embrace: A Novel
  • Author(s): Michael Lowenthal
  • Location(s): Israel
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

The Same Embrace tells the powerful story of two young men struggling against a heritage of intolerance and silence. Twins Jacob and Jonathan were inseparable while growing up in their second-generation-American Jewish family. As adults, though, they are almost...

The Samurai’s Daughter

The Samurai’s Daughter
  • Author(s): Sujata Massey
  • Location(s): Washington DC
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

A new crime-thriller full of suspense from Sujata Massey, the acclaimed author of The Bride’s Kimono and The Floating Girl. Antiques dealer Rei Shimura is in San Francisco visiting her parents and researching a personal project tracing the story...

The Samurai’s Daughter: The Shogun Quartet #4

The Samurai’s Daughter: The Shogun Quartet #4
  • Author(s): Lesley Downer
  • Location(s): Japan
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1870s

In the brave new Japan of the 1870s, Taka and Nobu meet as children and fall in love; but their relationship will test the limits of society. Unified after a bitter civil war, Japan is rapidly turning into a...

The Samurai’s Garden

The Samurai’s Garden
  • Author(s): Gail Tsukiyama
  • Location(s): Japan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

A 20-year-old Chinese painter named Stephen is sent to his family’s summer home in a Japanese coastal village to recover from a bout with tuberculosis. Here he is cared for by Matsu, a reticent housekeeper and a master gardener....

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