The Muse of Freedom: a Cevenoles Sagas novel
- Location(s): Cévennes (Cevennes)
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): late 17th century
IN THE MYSTERIOUS CÉVENNES MOUNTAINS OF LANGUEDOC, FRANCE, 1695, Jehan BonDurant, a young nobleman forcibly held in a Dominican prieuré as a child, comes of age only to inherit a near-derelict estate and his Huguenot family’s dangerous legacy of...
- Location(s): Paris, Prague
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1986/current day
Laure, a half English, half French woman, sets up a museum in Paris, the Museum of Broken Promises. People come with objects to donate, which represent promises broken by themselves or others. Every day she listens to people recount...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Mystery, Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
From the author of the Orange Prize long-listed, The Pink Hotel Cathy is a young woman who escapes her feral childhood in a rundown chalet on the East coast of England to become a curator of natural history in...
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
ONE WILD PARTY. FOUR COUNTS OF MURDER. A mansion in Beverly Hills is leased out to host an event wild enough to herald the end of days. The next day there isn’t a living soul to be seen. But...
The Music and Life of Beethoven
- Location(s): Vienna
- Genre(s): Biography
- Era(s): 19th Century
The life of Beethoven and the creation of his works, amidst his a turbulent personal situation and against a background of political and social upheaval. Highly accessible as a read and real insight into the life and times of...
- Location(s): Seattle
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2015
What does music mean? Can it be more than the sum of its notes and melodies? Can it truly change you? Rob, a musician turned reluctant music critic, poses these questions as everything important in his life appears to...
- Location(s): Algiers
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
The Mysterious Case of the Missing Crime Writer
- Location(s): Iceland
- Genre(s): Noir, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
One winter evening bestselling crime author, Elín S. Jónsdóttir goes missing. There are no clues to her disappearance and it is up to young detective, Helgi, to crack the case before it’s leaked to the press. As he interviews...
The Mysterious Disappearance of Marsha Boden
- Location(s): Shropshire
- Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
‘This cosy crime novel is set in a sleepy village in Shropshire where nothing much happens except the day when Marsha Boden disappears. When a GP commits suicide after he discovers his wife is having an affair with another...
- Location(s): Sydney
- Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
- Era(s): contemporary
A light-hearted cozy mystery full of colourful characters! Quentin Cadbury and Wanda Merrydrew have only been private detectives for a short time. Yet after locking horns with London’s criminal underworld, they now have a murderous villain on their tail....
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