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The Indelible Stain

The Indelible Stain
  • Author(s): Wendy Percival
  • Location(s): Hartland
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Crime
  • Era(s): Present day

This is the second book in the Esme Quentin genealogy mystery series Esme Quentin’s arrival in north Devon is marred by the gruesome discovery of a fatally injured woman at the foot of Warren Cliff. Troubled by the woman’s...

The Indian Bride

The Indian Bride
  • Author(s): Karin Fossum, Charlotte Barslund (translator)
  • Location(s): India, Norway
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Crime, In Translation
  • Era(s): early 2000s

When perpetual bachelor Gunder Jomann goes to India for two weeks and comes home married, the town of Elvestad is stunned. On the day the Indian bride is supposed to arrive, the battered body of a woman is found...

The Indigo Girl

The Indigo Girl
  • Author(s): Natasha Boyd
  • Location(s): Charleston
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1700s

A deeply-researched and powerfully-written work of historical fiction, based on the untold story of Eliza Lucas, an extraordinary sixteen-year-old girl in Colonial-era South Carolina, whose actions were before their time: the story of the indigo girl. In 1739, bright...

The Infamous Gilberts

The Infamous Gilberts
  • Author(s): Angela Tomaski
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The crumbling Gothic mansion of Thornwalk, long-term home of the Gilbert family, is being handed over to a chain of luxury ‘historic’ hotels. Millions will be spent in its restoration. But for every so-called improvement, what will be lost?...

The Infatuations

The Infatuations
  • Author(s): Javier Marías
  • Location(s): Madrid
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Every day, Maria Dolz stops for breakfast at the same café. And every day she enjoys watching a handsome couple who follow the same routine. Then one day they aren’t there, and she feels obscurely bereft. It is only...

The Infinite Plan

The Infinite Plan
  • Author(s): Isabel Allende
  • Location(s): Los Angeles, Berkeley, Vietnam
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th century

Isabel Allende’s powerful tale of one boy’s escape from the slums of Los Angeles. This magnificent novel tells the story of Gregory Reeves, the son of Charles, an itinerant preacher. As a boy, Gregory accepts the endless journeying and...

The Influencer

The Influencer
  • Author(s): Miranda Rijks
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Current Day

When social media megastar Skye partners with Nathan’s charity, the funds pour in. And Nathan’s daughters, massive fans of the star, are thrilled. But he worries about Skye’s influence on them. While his personal life disintegrates, Nathan begins to...

The Informationist

The Informationist
  • Author(s): Taylor Stevens
  • Location(s): Equatorial Guinea
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Vanessa Munroe deals in information – covert information. With an extraordinary intellect, a physique that allows her to pass as either male or female, and ruthless martial arts skills, she offers a unique service to anyone – government or...

The Informers

The Informers
  • Author(s): Juan Gabriel Vásquez
  • Location(s): Colombia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid and late 20th century

When Gabriel Santoro publishes his first book, a biography of a Jewish family friend who fled Germany for Colombia shortly before World War Two, it never occurs to him that his father will write a devastating review in a...

The Inheritance

The Inheritance
  • Author(s): Sheena Kalayil
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Ben Martin is charming and successful: an academic who has raised money for children’s charities and worked with women’s agencies in sub- Saharan Africa, a devoted husband. But when his brother Francois, an artist based in Lisbon, finds out...

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