- Location(s): Rio de Janeiro
- Genre(s): Fiction
Melchior Steenbergen is leading an idyllic life. An elite member of Holland’s diplomatic corps, he is the Consul General in Rio, with a sweeping view of the Ipanema bay from his official residence, and a beautiful wife 20 years...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 19th Century
July 1815, Daniel Connor arrives by mail coach in Paris and his affair with a beautiful coral thief. In his luggage are three rare fossils and the bones of a mammoth. Napoleon is already in exile…this is post revolutionary...
- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
When artist Maddie inherits a house in Cornwall shortly after the death of her husband, she hopes it will be the fresh start she and her step-daughter Hannah desperately need. Trevenen is beautiful but neglected, a rambling house steeped...
- Location(s): Laos
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): 1970s
The Dr Siri Paiboun series by Brit ex-pat Colin Cotterill has been joyously received, both for its humour, and its intriguing historical setting, in newly communist 1970s Laos. The books start when 72-year-old Siri is forced to become the...
- Location(s): Bangkok
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Set during the recent turbulent times in Thailand, the 11th novel in the Calvino series centers around the street demonstrations and occupation of Government House in Bangkok. Hired by an American businessman, Calvino finds himself caught in the middle...
- Location(s): Maine
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Nora, has come to Glass Beach to find out who she is and what she needs to do after being devastated by her husband’s infidelity. This is where Nora’s spent some of her childhood and as she and her...
- Location(s): Manchester
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Manchester: England’s Second City. A migrant worker who disappears without trace… A human trafficker who boils his victims alive… A century-old blood sport returns to the streets… Disillusioned police recruit Khorum Choudry is already thinking of quitting when he’s...
- Location(s): Melbourne
- Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future
- Era(s): Future
A beautifully written story of the near future and its murky underworld … Salisbury Forth is a courier of contraband in the alleyways of inner Melbourne, a city of fuel rationing, rolling power outages and curfews. It’s a stressful...
The Courtesan and the Samurai: The Shogun Quartet #3
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Second half 19th Century
1868. In Japan’s exotic pleasure quarters, sex is for sale and the only forbidden fruit is love … Hana is just seventeen when her husband goes to war, leaving her alone and vulnerable. When enemy soldiers attack her house...
- Location(s): Tennessee
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 1910s
In their little cabin set in the shadow of a deep cove, Laurel Shelton and her brother Hank have built a home. The locals whisper about the cove being cursed and perhaps it is: good fortune rarely seems to...
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