- Location(s): Ghent
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Various
The Ghent Altarpiece is the most violated work of art in the world. Thirteen times it has been vandalized, dismantled, or stolen. Why? What secrets does it hold? Enter UNESCO investigator, Nicholas Lee, who works for the United Nations’...
The One Day You Were My Husband
- Location(s): England, Stockholm, Thailand
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): early 2000s
FOUR HOURS AFTER SAYING ‘I DO,’ HE WAS GONE . . . Twelve years ago, Carrie married Johan on a beach in Thailand. But as the sun set on their perfect day, armed men swarmed the island and her...
- Location(s): Munich, Vienna
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Late 1940s,
- Location(s): Yorkshire
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): contemporary
When Harriet Westmoreland goes into labour with twins in Harvey Nichol’s men’s underwear department at exactly the moment she sets eyes on Alex Hamilton, it marks the start of a year of madness – for her, her family and,...
- Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
Two years together. Twenty years apart. One day to change their story. Benjamin’s world is turned upside down the day he meets Clara. Instinctively, he knows that she is his person and he is hers, but the events of...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
When Lucy Ashford lands a top job at a leading theatrical agency in London, work mixes with pleasure, as she literally falls into the arms of big screen heartthrob Daniel Miller. Handsome, charming and irresistible, Daniel is just what...
- Location(s): Lithuania
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Winner of the Nautilus Award and the New England Society Book Award, Monica Wood’s The One-in-a-Million Boy is the incandescent story of a 104-year-old woman and the sweet, strange young boy assigned to help her around the house–a friendship...
The Ones Who Don’t Say They Love You
- Location(s): New Orleans
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Contemporary
Maurice Carlos Ruffin has an uncanny ability to reveal the hidden corners of a place we thought we knew. These perspectival, character-driven stories center on the margins and are deeply rooted in New Orleanian culture. In “Beg Borrow Steal,”...
The Ones Who Don’t Say They Love You: Stories
- Location(s): New Orleans
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): N/A
A collection of raucous stories that offer a panoramic view of New Orleans from the author of the “stunning and audacious” (NPR) debut novel We Cast a Shadow Maurice Carlos Ruffin has an uncanny ability to reveal the hidden...
- Location(s): Lebanon, Toronto
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary and 1980s
Scotiabank Giller prize-winner Linden MacIntyre is back with a timely and gripping novel in which a son tries to solve the mystery of his father’s death–a man who tried but could not forget a troubled past in his native...
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