- Location(s): Mississippi
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Later 20th Century
Never make an enemy of a murderer. In 1970, the Ford County Times went bankrupt – and to the surprise and dismay of many, was bought by 23-year-old college dropout Willie Traynor. The paper’s future was grim, until a...
- Location(s): Lisbon
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Early 1500s
The year is 1506, and the streets of Lisbon are seething with fear and suspicion when Abraham Zarco is found dead, a naked girl at his side. Abraham was a renowned kabbalist, a practitioner of the arcane mysteries of...
- Location(s): Sark
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Jude is twenty-one when she flies in a private plane to Sark, a tiny carless Channel Island, the last place in Europe to abolish feudalism. She has been hired for the summer to give tuition to a rich local...
- Location(s): North Carolina
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
Dr. Charlotte “Charlie” Stone has dedicated her career as a psychiatrist to exploring the darkest territory of all: the hearts and minds of serial killers. It’s a job she’s uniquely suited for, thanks to the secret talent that gives...
- Location(s): Brittany
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1189
Spirited Attica d’Alerion will do anything to protect her beloved brother from danger. To warn him of a political betrayal that could lead to war, Attica disguises herself as a young courtier and bravely rides into the arms of...
- Location(s): Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)
- Genre(s): Fantasy, Children, Fiction
- Era(s): timeless
Martine is looking forward to the holidays and riding Jemmy, her white giraffe, until an accident sends her and Ben on a journey to the Matobo Hills wilderness in Zimbabwe. It is a lawless land, where nothing is as...
The Last Lesson of Mrs de Souza
- Location(s): Singapore
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
The stunning first novel from award-winning poet Cyril Wong, The Last Lesson of Mrs de Souza is an exceptional examination of the power of choice and the unreliability of memory. One last time and on her birthday, Rose de...
- Location(s): Sicily, United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): WW2
Sicily, 1939. Seventeen-year-old Concetta has just received life-changing news: her family is leaving their sun-drenched Sicilian village and moving to America. Desperate to stay with her secret love Gaetano—a fisherman’s son her father would never accept—Concetta spends one last...
- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
You can tell a lot about a person from the library books they borrow Library assistant June knows a lot about the regulars at Chalcot Library, yet they know very little about her. When her mum – the beloved...
- Location(s): England, The Atlantic Ocean
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): WW2
September 1940. In the immediate aftermath of a U-boat attack on an evacuee ship, one lifeboat of terrified survivors endures a fierce storm in the North Atlantic. June 1940. Three months earlier, two very different women – Alice King,...
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