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The Island

The Island
  • Author(s): Adrian McKinty
  • Location(s): Australia, The Outback
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

After moving from a small country town to Seattle, Heather Baxter marries Tom, a widowed doctor with a young son and teenage daughter. A working vacation overseas seems like the perfect way to bring the new family together, but...

The Island

The Island
  • Author(s): Ragnar Jonasson
  • Location(s): Elliðaey
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Detective Inspector Hulda Hermannsdóttir is sent to the isolated island of Elliðaey to investigate a disappearance. But she finds haunting similarities to an old case – the murder of a young woman ten years ago. Has a patient killer...

The Island

The Island
  • Author(s): Sarah Goodwin
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Jody, Ari and Carla have won golden tickets to the summer’s hottest music festival, which promises to be full of glamour, mystique and lots of freebies. But, arriving on the sun-drenched shores of a private Greek island among influencers...

The Island

The Island
  • Author(s): Mary Grand
  • Location(s): Isle of Wight
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The Island – where everyone knows everyone, and secrets are impossible to keep… ‘Be careful, you don’t know them as well as you think. Remember – anyone can kill.’ Juliet has returned to the Isle of Wight from years...

The Island

The Island
  • Author(s): Katrine Engberg
  • Location(s): Bornholm, Copenhagen
  • Genre(s): Police Procedural
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The Island at the Center of the World

The Island at the Center of the World
  • Author(s): Russell Shorto
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): pre 1664

When the British wrested New Amsterdam from the Dutch in 1664, the truth about its thriving, polyglot society began to disappear into myths about an island purchased for 24 dollars and a cartoonish peg-legged governor. But the story of...

The Island at the End of Everything

The Island at the End of Everything
  • Author(s): Kiran Millwood Hargrave
  • Location(s): The Philippines
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): timeless

Amihan lives on Culion Island, where some of the inhabitants – including her mother – have leprosy. Ami loves her home – with its blue seas and lush forests, Culion is all she has ever known. But the arrival...

The Island Between Us

The Island Between Us
  • Author(s): Dougie McHale
  • Location(s): Skiathos
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Two lives. One island. A past that won’t stay buried. After a shattering breakup in Edinburgh, Carissa escapes to the sun drenched Greek island of Skiathos, hoping to heal in the quiet rhythms of nature and solitude. There, she...

The Island Between Us

The Island Between Us
  • Author(s): Dougie McHale
  • Location(s): Skiathos
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Contemporary, back to WW2

The Hellenic Collection Two lives bound by love and sacrifice, across decades, across an island, across time itself. Carissa thought she had escaped her past when she fled Edinburgh for the sunlit island of Skiathos. But her peace is...

The Island Brief

The Island Brief
  • Author(s): Pippa McCathie
  • Location(s): London, Mauritius
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Adventure, Romance
  • Era(s): Present day

Abigail Kendall’s busy London life is turned upside down by the unexpected news of an inheritance brought to her from Mauritius by Raj, the attorney of her deceased uncle. Adding to the confusion is Raj’s charm, which Abi finds...

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