- Location(s): Salzburg
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
During an International Medical Congress in Salzburg, a well-known surgeon and scientist, Doctor Thomas Steinmetz, is mysteriously killed. When Inspector Quentin Neuner examines the corpse, he notices something he has never seen before. The victim’s right foot had been...
The Fire and the Light: A Novel of the Cathars
- Location(s): Cathar Country
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 13th century
As the 13th century dawns, an ancient scroll hidden in the French Pyrenees is rumored to hold shocking revelations about Jesus of Nazareth. To preserve this lost evidence of His teachings, a charismatic Cathar holy woman must defy Rome....
- Location(s): The Faroe Islands, Denmark
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Present looking back to 1970s
When long-buried skeletal remains are unearthed at an isolated farm on the island of Borðoy, Hjalti Hentze is charged with investigating the death. But as Hentze s investigation turns to the commune which occupied the farm in the 1970s,...
The Fireflies Of Autumn And Other Tales Of San Ginese
- Location(s): Tuscany
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century, including World War II
San Ginese is a village where God lingers in people’s minds and many dream of California, Argentina or Australia. Some leave only to return feeling disheartened, wishing they had never come back, some never leave and forever wish they...
- Location(s): Uzbekistan, New England
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
Finely-honed portraits of hope and change, these two novellas are linked so skillfully that they achieve the intensity of a single novel in which some characters succeed and others fail on separate but equally compelling quests. In “The Fires,” Gina Morgan makes a pilgrimage to Uzbekistan...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
A COP NEEDS TO CRACK A DEADLY CASE He’s a detective hunting cold-blooded killers, but does he know more than he admits? A MOTHER HAS TO SAVE HER DAUGHTER She’s a lawyer who must defend a murderer – but...
- Location(s): Mudeford Spit
- Genre(s): Historical, Coming of Age, Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s to 2022
As children, Hester and Elias were inseparable. Every year, their families would spend the summer together at their beach huts on a wild and windswept sandbank, where the two of them never left each other’s side. But childhood friendships...
- Location(s): Hawai'i
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): 2013
“A dizzying array of events, mysteries, supernatural intrigue, and action.” Diane Donovan, Midwest BookReview Selkie Moon is a woman on the run. In a mad dash for freedom she’s escaped her abusive husband to start over in Hawaii. But...
The First Man in Rome (Masters of Rome – 1)
- Location(s): Rome
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): BC
The First Prehistoric Serial Killer and other stories
- Location(s): Barcelona
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Short Stories
- Era(s): Modern
A dark, humorous collection of stories by one of Spain’s best-known crime writers. The oddest things happen. Statues decompose and stink out galleries, two old grandmothers are vengeful killers and a prehistoric detective trails a triple murder that is...
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