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The Sasquatch Murder

The Sasquatch Murder
  • Author(s): Jeffery Viles
  • Location(s): Pacific Northwest
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

They’re out there, you know–those bipedal hominids commonly called Sasquatch. This imaginative, tightly woven tale explains just how those creatures came to be traipsing around in the big trees surrounding Mount St. Helens. While local oddballs and elbow-benders talk...

The Sat Nav Diaries

The Sat Nav Diaries
  • Author(s): Adrian Sturrock
  • Location(s): Europe
  • Genre(s): Humour, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Current

“I had an idea for a road trip; a sports car I shouldn’t have bought; and a wife to point out that what looks entirely feasible on a scaled map can actually be quite a long way away.” This...

The Satanic Mechanic

The Satanic Mechanic
  • Author(s): Sally Andrew
  • Location(s): Karoo
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery, Food and Drink
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Tannie Maria Mystery 2 Meet Tannie Maria – recipe writer turned crime fighter – and before she has time to take her Venus Chocolate Cake out of the oven, our glorious heroine finds herself embroiled in another mystery. In...

The Satapur Moonstone

The Satapur Moonstone
  • Author(s): Sujata Massey
  • Location(s): Western Ghats
  • Genre(s): Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1920s

India, 1922: It is rainy season in the lush, remote Sahyadri mountains, where the princely state of Satapur is tucked away. A curse seems to have fallen upon Satapur’s royal family, whose maharaja died of a sudden illness shortly...

The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party

The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party
  • Author(s): Alexander McCall Smith
  • Location(s): Botswana
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

As the countdown to Mma Makutsi’s wedding begins, all is not as it should be at the No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency. While investigating unpleasant occurrences on a southern cattle-post, Mma Ramotswe, always on the side of the weak against...

The Saturday Evening Girls Club

The Saturday Evening Girls Club
  • Author(s): Jane Healey
  • Location(s): Boston
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1908

In Boston’s North End, four immigrant women leave childhood behind—but never one another. For four young immigrant women living in Boston’s North End in the early 1900s, escaping tradition doesn’t come easy. But at least they have one another...

The Sauceror’s Apprentice

The Sauceror’s Apprentice
  • Author(s): Paul Clarke
  • Location(s): Sri Lanka
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Present Day

Randul, a young Veddah tribesman and expert in the flora and fauna of the forests of Sri Lanka, unexpectedly discovers four enormous Padparadscha sapphires. His simple life suddenly becomes more complicated. From the Sinharaja Forest of Sri Lanka to...

The Saved

The Saved
  • Author(s): Liz Webb
  • Location(s): West of Scotland
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Nancy and Calder are moving from London to an isolated slate island, off the west coast of Scotland. But, for Nancy, the fresh start is undermined by the stark surroundings, mysterious locals and the discovery of Calder’s dark past....

The Scandalous Life of Ruby Devereaux

The Scandalous Life of Ruby Devereaux
  • Author(s): M J Robotham
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Second half 20th Century

Everyone knows Ruby Devereaux’s books. But no one knows her story… until now. From a teenager in wartime England to a veteran of modern-day London – via 1950’s New York, the Swinging Sixties, Cold War Berlin, Venice and Vietnam...

The Scarlet Forest

The Scarlet Forest
  • Author(s): A E Chandler
  • Location(s): Nottinghamshire
  • Era(s): Medieval

You are invited underneath the great greenwood tree to hear how a young man became a hero, and a hero became a legend. When Robin takes a shortcut through Sherwood Forest, the path he chooses leads not to Nottingham’s...

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