- Location(s): Buenos Aires
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1920s
Remo Erdosain’s Buenos Aires is a dim, seething, paranoid hive of hustlers and whores, scoundrels and madmen, and Erdosain feels his soul is as polluted as anything in this dingy city. Possessed by the directionlessness of the society around...
The Seven Torments of Amy and Craig
- Location(s): Wisconsin, Janesville
- Genre(s): Young Adult, Humour, Romance
- Era(s): 1994
Janesville, Wisconsin (cold in the sense that there is no God) 1994 The worst thing that’s ever happened to Craig is also the best: Amy. Amy and Craig never should’ve gotten together. Craig is an awkward, Dungeons & Dragons-playing...
- Location(s): China, London, The Atlantic Ocean
- Genre(s): Mystery, Crime
- Era(s): 1912
When the Titanic sinks it takes with it the crime scene, the witnesses and possibly the murderer. The Titanic’s last stop is at Queenstown, Ireland, where seven first-class passengers disembark. Soon after continuing its voyage, the body of a...
- Location(s): Rome
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): early 2000s
Murder and mystery set in Rome, The Seventh Sacrament is the fifth title in the Nic Costa series, David Hewson’s stunning Italian crime novels.
- Location(s): Rome
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Late 20th Century
- Location(s): London, New York City (NYC), Scottish Highlands
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
A CHILD WILL BE BORN WHO WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING When a young American academic Talissa Adam offers to carry another woman’s child, she has no idea of the life-changing consequences. Behind the doors of the Parn Institute, a billionaire...
- Location(s): Hollywood
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century (Golden Age)
Golden Age Hollywood – a city overflowing with gossip, scandal, and intrigue. Every actress wants to play Salome, the star-making role in a big-budget movie about the legendary temptress. So when the film’s mercurial director casts Vera Larios, an...
- Location(s): Seville
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Murderous goings-on in a tiny church draw the Vatican into the dark heart of Seville. A hacker gets into the Pope’s personal computer to leave a warning about mysterious deaths in a small church in Seville that is threatened...
The Sexual Life of an Islamist in Paris
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
The protagonist is a handsome, wealthy Parisian bank manager. Born in the Maghreb, his life was once devoted to Sundays with his mother, family reunions, pious sobriety and fervant Islamism. But he’s through with all that. The time has...
- Location(s): China
- Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
- Era(s): Contemporary
From one of China’s most celebrated authors comes a masterful novel about modernity and tradition, love and obsession, and economic change and quixotic dreams—all set against the backdrop of a rapidly urbanizing China. In post–Cultural Revolution China, in the...
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