- Location(s): Iceland
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Late 2000s
The discovery of a corpse washed up on a beach in an Icelandic backwater sparks a series of events that propels the village of Hvalvik’s police sergeant Gunnhildur into deep waters. Although under pressure to deal with the matter...
- Location(s): Glasgow
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Late 1800s
As she sits in her Bloomsbury home, with her two birds for company, elderly Harriet Baxter sets out to relate the story of her acquaintance, nearly four decades previously, with Ned Gillespie, a talented artist who never achieved the...
- Location(s): Italy
- Genre(s): Children
Dognapped! Grk is walking happily through the park, sniffing trees and chasing squirrels, when he’s suddenly snatched by two men in black suits. Where are they taking him? And how can Tim get him back? Tim and Grk’s eighth...
- Location(s): Athens, Crete
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Late 1960s, earlyu 1970s
It is the late 1960s and after her strict English boarding school, Angel is delighted to be back on Crete, the island she loves. She and her friend Chrissi are planning to spend the long summer days as they’ve...
- Location(s): Prague
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Nonfiction
- Era(s): WW2, present
The nameless narrator of “HHhH” has serious misgivings about the novel he is writing. Like Laurent Binet, the book’s French author, he has spent years examining the murder of the SS general Reinhard Heydrich in Prague in 1942 with...
- Location(s): Australia, Ireland
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Australia is the Lucky Country, and Joey Driscol knows it. It’s a far cry from his native Ireland, but he believes this is the place he and his wife can make a new life and forget the troubles of...
- Location(s): Trinidad, CO
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Early 1900s
A hooker. A mistress. A murder. This town was built on sin. The town of Trinidad, Colorado was a tough place to be a woman in 1913. But it was the best place in the West to find one,...
- Location(s): Glasgow
- Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
A young man discovers a family secret that turns his world upside down in this dark, emotive, shocking psychological thriller by number-one bestselling author Michael J. Malone John Docherty’s mother has just been taken into a nursing home following...
- Location(s): United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
- Era(s): Contemporary
Recruited to work on a documentary project, Julian goes to New York convinced he has hit big time at last. Finding the project cancelled, he wanders the city streets and, with nowhere else to go, decides to set out...
- Location(s): Tuscany, Denver
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): WW2 + Contemporary
It Happened in Tuscany is a captivating breath of the Italian countryside. This powerful novel portrays the epic struggle between duty and honor and redefines the meaning of “family.” The novel begins in 1945 in Italy’s Apennine Mountains with...
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