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The Other End of the Line

The Other End of the Line
  • Author(s): Andrea Camilleri
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

The Other End of the Line is the twenty-fourth darkly humorous Inspector Montalbano mystery from the international bestselling author Andrea Camilleri. In Inspector Montalbano’s coastal town of Vigàta, a surge of migrants have been coming in by boat, and...

The Other Guest

The Other Guest
  • Author(s): Helen Cooper
  • Location(s): Derby, Lake Garda
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Present looking back

One year ago, Leah’s twenty-one-year-old niece, Amy, mysteriously drowned near her family-owned luxury resort on the shores of Lake Garda. Now, returning to Italy for the first time since Amy’s death, Leah is shocked to find her family seem...

The Other Guest

The Other Guest
  • Author(s): Heidi Perks
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Laila and her husband arrive for a week’s holiday in Greece in desperate need of a reset. As Laila sits by the pool she finds herself inexplicably drawn to the other family staying in their resort. Em has no...

The Other Half of Augusta Hope

The Other Half of Augusta Hope
  • Author(s): Joanna Glen
  • Location(s): Burundi, England
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

At six, she’s memorising the dictionary. At seven, she’s correcting her teachers. At eight, she spins the globe and picks her favourite country on the sound of its name: Burundi. And now that she’s an adult, Augusta has no...

The Other Half of My Soul

The Other Half of My Soul
  • Author(s): Bahia Abrams
  • Location(s): Aleppo, Brooklyn
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Consistently receiving 5-star ratings, The Other Half of My Soul; is a gripping story about an American-born Syrian Jew from Brooklyn and a Syrian-born Shi-ite Muslim from Aleppo. The book raises profound questions about personal choices, commitments, responsibility, and...

The Other Mother

The Other Mother
  • Author(s): Miranda Rijks
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Jane is asked to pick up her friend’s daughter, but someone pretending to be Jane has already collected Florrie. Now the little girl is missing… When Jane finds evidence in her own home clearly linked to Florrie, she starts...

The Other Mothers

The Other Mothers
  • Author(s): Katherine Faulkner
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

You want to be one of them. Until you know them. Ex-journalist Tash has been searching for a story to launch her freelance career. But she has also been searching for something else: new friends to help her navigate...

The Other Name

The Other Name
  • Author(s): Jon Fosse
  • Location(s): Norway
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

What makes us who we are? And why do we lead one life and not another? The year is coming to a close and Asle, an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway,...

The Other People

The Other People
  • Author(s): C J Tudor
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Driving home one night, stuck behind a rusty old car, Gabe sees a little girl’s face appear in the rear window. She mouths one word: ‘Daddy.’ It’s his five-year-old daughter, Izzy. He never sees her again. Three years later,...

The Other Side of Freedom

The Other Side of Freedom
  • Author(s): Cynthia T Toney
  • Location(s): Louisiana
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s

When the reward is the most costly sacrifice of all In a southern farming community in 1925, thirteen-year-old Salvatore and his Italian immigrant father become involved against their will in a crime that results in the murder of an...

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