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The Last Will and Testament of Senor Da Silva

The Last Will and Testament of Senor Da Silva
  • Author(s): Germano Almeida
  • Location(s): Cape Verde (Cabo Verde)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Everyone in Cape Verde knows Senor da Silva. Successful entrepreneur, owner of the island’s first automobile, a most serious, upright, and self-made businessman, Senor da Silva is the local success story. Born an orphan, he never married, he never...

The Last Word

The Last Word
  • Author(s): Elly Griffiths
  • Location(s): Shoreham
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Natalka and Edwin, whom we met in The Postscript Murders, are running a detective agency in Shoreham, Sussex. Despite a steady stream of minor cases, Natalka is frustrated, longing for a big juicy case such as murder to come...

The Late Americans

The Late Americans
  • Author(s): Brandon Taylor
  • Location(s): The Midwest
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In a university town in the American Midwest a circle of lovers and friends navigate tangled webs of connection as they try to work out what they want, and who they are As they test their own desires in...

The Late Train to Gipsy Hill

The Late Train to Gipsy Hill
  • Author(s): Alan Johnson
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Espionage, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

If you know London well, the setting will feel particularly familiar to you..(Emma Hardy) Gary Nelson has a routine for the commute to his rather dull job in the city. Each day, he watches as a woman on the...

The Lathe of Heaven

The Lathe of Heaven
  • Author(s): Ursula K Le Guin
  • Location(s): Portland (Oregon)
  • Genre(s): Fantasy
  • Era(s): 1970s

George Orr is a man who discovers he has the peculiar ability to dream things into being—for better or for worse. In desperation, he consults a psychotherapist who promises to help him—but who, it soon becomes clear, has his...

The Laughing Cavalier

The Laughing Cavalier
  • Author(s): Emmuska Orczy
  • Location(s): Haarlem
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 17th Century

The Laughing Monsters

The Laughing Monsters
  • Author(s): Denis Johnson
  • Location(s): Sierra Leone
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Denis Johnson’s The Laughing Monsters is a high-suspense tale of kaleidoscoping loyalties in the post-9/11 world that shows one of our great novelists at the top of his game. Roland Nair calls himself Scandinavian but travels on a U.S....

The Launch Party

The Launch Party
  • Author(s): Lauren Forry
  • Location(s): The Moon
  • Genre(s): Future, Thriller
  • Era(s): Future

THE TRIP OF A LIFETIME. YOU’D DIE TO BE THERE. Ten lucky people have won a place at the most exclusive launch event of the century: the grand opening of the Hotel Artemis, the first hotel on the moon....

The Lavender Garden

The Lavender Garden
  • Author(s): Lucinda Riley
  • Location(s): Paris, The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s, WW2

This is the same book as The Light Behind the Windows, Please see details under that listing.

The Law of Innocence

The Law of Innocence
  • Author(s): Michael Connelly
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

THE MOST IMPORTANT CASE OF HIS LIFE. ONLY THIS TIME THE DEFENDANT IS HIMSELF “The law of innocence is unwritten. It will not be found in a leather-bound code book. It will never be argued in a courtroom. In...

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