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The Girl I Used to Know

The Girl I Used to Know
  • Author(s): Faith Hogan
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A beautiful, emotive and spell-binding story of two women who find friendship and second chances when they least expect it. Perfect for the fans of Patricia Scanlan. Amanda King and Tess Cuffe are strangers who share the same Georgian...

The Girl in Cabin 13

The Girl in Cabin 13
  • Author(s): A J Rivers
  • Location(s): United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

FBI agent Emma Griffin is sent undercover to the small sleepy town of Feathered Nest to uncover the truth behind the strings of disappearances that has left the town terrified. To Emma there is nothing that can lay buried...

The Girl in the Blue Beret

The Girl in the Blue Beret
  • Author(s): Bobbie Ann Mason
  • Location(s): Belgium, France
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): World War II and later

Inspired by the wartime experiences of her father-in-law, Bobbie Ann Mason has crafted the haunting and profoundly moving story of an American World War II pilot shot down in Occupied Europe, and his wrenching odyssey of discovery, decades later,...

The Girl in the Gallery

The Girl in the Gallery
  • Author(s): Alice Castle
  • Location(s): Dulwich
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Just when you thought it was safe to go back to Dulwich… It’s a perfect summer’s morning in the plush south London suburb, and thirty-something Beth Haldane sneaks off to visit one of her favourite places – the world-famous...

The Girl in the Ice

The Girl in the Ice
  • Author(s): Robert Bryndza
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When a young boy discovers the body of a woman beneath a thick sheet of ice in a South London park, Detective Erika Foster is called in to lead the murder investigation. The victim, a beautiful young socialite, appeared to have...

THE GIRL IN THE MEADOW

THE GIRL IN THE MEADOW
  • Author(s): John Dean
  • Location(s): North Pennines
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): contemporary

An absolutely gripping murder mystery by the expert storyteller In its isolated spot on the slopes of a windswept hill, Meadowview House has been vacant for decades. Yet now that it has been earmarked for redevelopment by a wildlife...

The Girl in the Picture: The Remarkable Story of Vietnam’s Most Famous Casualty

The Girl in the Picture: The Remarkable Story of Vietnam’s Most Famous Casualty
  • Author(s): Denise Chong
  • Location(s): Vietnam
  • Genre(s): Biography
  • Era(s): 1970s

Kim Phuc was nine years old in 1972. Hers is the photo that shot around the world when she ran towards the photographer, severely burned by napalm. Denise Chong describes Kim’s experience and recovery in this astonishing biography and...

The Girl in the Spider’s Web

The Girl in the Spider’s Web
  • Author(s): David Lagercrantz
  • Location(s): Sweden
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Current

Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist have not been in touch for some time. Then Blomkvist is contacted by renowned Swedish scientist Professor Balder. Warned that his life is in danger, but more concerned for his son’s well-being, Balder wants...

The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf

The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf
  • Author(s): Mojha Kahf
  • Location(s): Syria, Indiana
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

Syrian immigrant Khadra Shamy is growing up in a devout, tightly knit Muslim family in 1970s Indiana, at the crossroads of bad polyester and Islamic dress codes. Along with her brother Eyad and her African-American friends, Hakim and Hanifa,...

The Girl in the Window

The Girl in the Window
  • Author(s): Jake Needham
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Singapore is a good house in a bad neighborhood. Three hundred million Muslims live in Indonesia and Malaysia completely surrounding the barely five million people living in the secular city-state. Islamic terrorism in Asia may not get much attention...

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