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The Girl by the Bridge

The Girl by the Bridge
  • Author(s): Arnaldur Indridason
  • Location(s): Reykjavik
  • Genre(s): Noir, Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

(Detective Konrad Book 2) When a young woman known for drug smuggling goes missing, her elderly grandparents have no choice but to call the retired Detective Konrád. Still looking for his own father’s murderer, Konrád agrees to investigate the...

The Girl from Ha Giang

The Girl from Ha Giang
  • Author(s): Martin Love
  • Location(s): Ha Giang
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Political
  • Era(s): Modenn

The Girl from Kilkenny

The Girl from Kilkenny
  • Author(s): Pete Brassett
  • Location(s): County Kilkenny
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Present day

Detectives in a sleepy Irish town are baffled by a string of murders and a missing girl Who was Nancy McBride and where did she disappear to? The cold-blooded murder of an American tourist in his hotel room has...

The Girl from Lace Island

The Girl from Lace Island
  • Author(s): Joanna Rees
  • Location(s): Kerala
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 1989 and 2016

Set on an island off Kerala… Some bonds will never break . . . 1989 When happy-go-lucky fifteen-year-old Leila is exiled from her exotic home on Lace Island to a cold English boarding school, it is just the beginning...

The Girl from Oto

The Girl from Oto
  • Author(s): Amy Maroney
  • Location(s): Europe
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Renaissance era and modern day

Historical fiction set in the Pyrenees, London, Oxford, St. Andrews, Amsterdam, Bruges. In The Girl from Oto, a young American scholar navigates a foreign world, experiencing friendship, betrayal and love as she chases the ghost of a Renaissance-era artist through...

The Girl from Portofino

The Girl from Portofino
  • Author(s): Siobhan Daiko
  • Location(s): Portofino
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970 / 1944

When Gina Bianchi returns to the beautiful Italian resort of Portofino to attend her father’s funeral, she is beset by vivid memories of World War 2, when she joined the Resistance, alongside her identical twin sister, Adele. In her...

The Girl from Summer Hill

The Girl from Summer Hill
  • Author(s): Jude Deveraux
  • Location(s): Virginia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): early 2000s

Sparks fly as fiery Casey Reddick and brooding Hollywood actor Tate Landers clash in the Virginia summer heat. A chef who puts her career first and her love life second, Casey doesn’t see what every girl in town is...

The Girl from the Coast

The Girl from the Coast
  • Author(s): Pramoedya Ananta Toer
  • Location(s): Indonesia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): early 20th century

Pramoedya’s The Girl from the Coast tells the story of a beautiful young woman from a fishing village who finds herself in an arranged marriage with a wealthy aristocrat. Forced to leave her parents and home behind, she moves...

The Girl from the Grand Hotel

The Girl from the Grand Hotel
  • Author(s): Camille Aubray
  • Location(s): Cannes
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1939

The #1 bestselling author of Cooking for Picasso and The Godmothers returns with The Girl from the Grand Hotel, a dazzling historical novel that brings readers into the glamorous world of the first (and doomed) Cannes Film Festival and...

The Girl from the Hermitage

The Girl from the Hermitage
  • Author(s): Molly Gartland
  • Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s/1980s

It is December 1941, and eight-year-old Galina and her friend Vera are caught in the siege of Leningrad, eating soup made of wallpaper, with the occasional luxury of a dead rat. Galina’s artist father Mikhail has been kept away...

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