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The Other Typist

The Other Typist
  • Author(s): Suzanne Rindell
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1920s

New York City, 1924: the height of Prohibition and the whole city swims in bathtub gin. Rose Baker is an orphaned young woman working for her bread as a typist in a police precinct on the lower East Side....

The Other Woman

The Other Woman
  • Author(s): Hanki Phillippi Ryan
  • Location(s): Boston
  • Era(s): Modern

Jane Ryland is a Boston television journalist is a television journalist who has got into trouble for no naming sources and consequently gets fired. She picks up a job at a small newspaper where she gets caught up in...

The Out of Office Girl

The Out of Office Girl
  • Author(s): Nicola Doherty
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

When her boss Olivia is taken ill, Alice is sent on the work trip of a lifetime: to a villa in Sicily, to edit the autobiography of Hollywood bad boy Luther Carson. But it’s not all yachts, nightclubs and...

The Outback

The Outback
  • Author(s): David Clarkson
  • Location(s): The Outback
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Matt joins the outback harvest trail so that he can get another year added to his visa. When he arrives to find that drink, drugs and sex are just as easy to come by as they were on the...

The Outlander

The Outlander
  • Author(s): Gil Adamson
  • Location(s): Alberta
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 1900s

On a moonlit night in 1903, a mysterious young woman flees alone across the Canadian wilderness, one quick step ahead of her pursuers. Mary Boulton is nineteen years old, half mad, and widowed – by her own hand. Tearing...

The Outsiders

The Outsiders
  • Author(s): Gerald Seymour
  • Location(s): Málaga
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

The story is esssentiall set in Spain, Malaga on the Costa Del Sol, with roots in Budapest in earlier days – there a young member of a British covert team was brutally kicked to death. There are no witnesses...

The Painted Girls

The Painted Girls
  • Author(s): Cathy Marie Buchanan
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Turn of the 20th Century

Three sisters, Antoinette, Marie and Charlotte – the story is told from the viewpoint of Antoinette and Marie, the family is without a father, the mother is oftentimes drunk. It revolves around ballet and Marie catches the eye of...

The Painted Kiss

The Painted Kiss
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Hickey
  • Location(s): Vienna
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1880s

Late 19th century Vienna, café society, grand architecture and a lively artistic community, this is the imagining of the life between Gustav Klimt and Emilie Flöge, who was reputed to be his model for his painting “The Kiss”. The...

The Painter

The Painter
  • Author(s): Will Davenport
  • Location(s): Hull
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 1600s, Modern

Beautifully evocative and suspensful double time-scheme narrative about Rembrandt, love and art. In January, 1662, the artist Rembrandt, bankrupted in the great tulip crash, accidentally stows away on a boat for Hull. To pay for his passage, he must...

The Pale Blue Eye

The Pale Blue Eye
  • Author(s): Louis Bayard
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1831

West Point on the Hudson. A retired New York policeman is called to West Point Military Academy in 1831 to solve a gruesome murder and he seeks the help of cadet, Edgar Allan Poe, to help solve the case.

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