The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa
- Location(s): Nigeria
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Fifteen-year-old Andrew Aziza lives in Kontagora, Nigeria, where his days are spent about town with his droogs, Slim and Morocca, grappling with his fantasies about white girls – especially blondes – and wondering who his father is. When he’s...
- Location(s): New Mexico
- Era(s): Contemporary
It’s Holy Week in the town of Las Penas, New Mexico, and thirty-three-year-old unemployed Amadeo Padilla is to play Jesus in the Good Friday procession. He is preparing feverishly for this role when his fifteen-year-old daughter Angel shows up...
- Location(s): Nantucket
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Hollis Shaw, creator of the popular food blog Hungry with Hollis, finds her life turned upside down when her heart-surgeon husband is killed in a car accident on a snowy February morning. As Hollis searches for comfort, she discovers...
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
- Location(s): Ashford, London
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): 1880s
Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met. They came from Fleet Street, Knightsbridge, Wolverhampton, Sweden and Wales. They wrote ballads, ran coffee houses, lived on country estates, they breathed ink-dust...
- Location(s): Georgia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
A sassy, sexy, sometimes poignant look at small town Southern life, as only New York Times bestseller Mary Kay Andrews can tell it, The Fixer Upper is a must-read for fans of Fannie Flagg, Sophie Kinsella, the Ya-Yas, and...
- Location(s): Vienna
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1900s
Every painting tells a story, but what if the women on the canvas could speak? This is the story of the charismatic – and controversial – artist, Egon Schiele, and his four muses, set against the vibrant backdrop of...
- Location(s): Madrid
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): 1980s
The clue to a murder in the art world of contemporary Madrid lies hidden in a medieval painting of a game of chess. In a 15th-century Flemish painting two noblemen are pictured playing chess. Yet two years before he...
- Location(s): United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
THIS IS THE SAME AS “THE LAST FLIGHT” Claire and Eva lead very different lives, but they have one thing in common – they are both in huge danger and need to disappear. A chance encounter at the airport...
- Location(s): Barbados, The Atlantic Ocean
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
A young mother is trapped with a killer thirty thousand feet up, in this gripping midair murder mystery by the author of Open Your Eyes. On a plane to Barbados, nurse Melissa sits with her young son, Theo. On...
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1940s
Following a young American woman aviatrix and her peers throughout World War Two, from Pearl Harbor throughout her service with the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs), to post-VE Day France and back home again. A powerful saga about a...
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