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The House That Alice Built

The House That Alice Built
  • Author(s): Chris Penhall
  • Location(s): Portugal, Cascais
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Home is where the heart is … Alice Dorothy Matthews is sensible. Whilst her best friend Kathy is living it up in Portugal and her insufferable ex Adam is travelling the world, Alice is working hard to pay for...

The House That Florence Left

The House That Florence Left
  • Author(s): Chris Penhall
  • Location(s): Lagos (Portugal)
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): contemporary

Could an unlikely inheritance be the secret to Bella’s happiness? Bella Cresswell likes her life organized. But when she inherits her great-aunt Flo’s house in the Algarve, her life gets decidedly disorganized. She flies to Portugal hoping for a...

The House That Jack Built

The House That Jack Built
  • Author(s): Jakob Melander
  • Location(s): Copenhagen
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern Times

The first book in the crime series featuring Lars Winkler: loner, dad, former squatter, and drug addict — and the most dedicated detective in Copenhagen. A young prostitute is found murdered at the common in Copenhagen. The woman’s body...

The House With No Rooms

The House With No Rooms
  • Author(s): Lesley Thomson
  • Location(s): Kew, London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary and 1976

KEW: The summer of 1976 was the hottest in living memory. In the Botanical Gardens at Kew, a lost little girl, dizzied by the heat, thought she saw a woman lying dead on the ground. But when she opened...

The House with the Golden Door

The House with the Golden Door
  • Author(s): Elodie Harper
  • Location(s): Pompeii
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Pre 79AD

Wolf Den Trilogy, Book 2 Amara has escaped her life as a slave in the town’s most notorious brothel, but now her existence depends on the affections of her patron: a man she might not know as well as...

The House without a Key

The House without a Key
  • Author(s): Earl Derr Biggers
  • Location(s): Honolulu
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Early 20th century

When Bostonian John Quincy Winterslip is sent to Hawaii to retrieve his elderly Aunt Minerva, fully expects to return home quickly. Uncle Dan, however is murdered and Charlie Chan investigates.

The Housekeeper and the Professor

The Housekeeper and the Professor
  • Author(s): Yoko Ogawa
  • Location(s): Japan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

Yoko Ogawa’s The Housekeeper and the Professor is an enchanting story about what it means to live in the present, and about the curious equations that can create a family. He is a brilliant math Professor with a peculiar...

The Housekeeper’s Secret

The Housekeeper’s Secret
  • Author(s): Iona Grey
  • Location(s): Northern England, North East France
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 1911, WW1

Duty, desire, and deception reside under one roof. Standing in the remote windswept moors of Northern England, Coldwell Hall is the perfect place to hide. For the past five years, Kate Furniss has maintained her professional mask so carefully...

The Housemaid

The Housemaid
  • Author(s): Freida McFadden
  • Location(s): Long Island
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

“Welcome to the family,” Nina Winchester says as I shake her elegant, manicured hand. I smile politely, gazing around the marble hallway. Working here is my last chance to start fresh. I can pretend to be whoever I like....

The Human Flies

The Human Flies
  • Author(s): Hans Olav Lahlum
  • Location(s): Oslo
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1960s

Oslo, 1968. Ambitious young detective Inspector Kolbjørn Kristiansen is called to an apartment block, where a man has been found murdered. The victim, Harald Olesen, was a legendary hero of the Resistance during the Nazi occupation and at first...

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