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The Perfume Killer

The Perfume Killer
  • Author(s): Linda Hagan
  • Location(s): Belfast
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

A gripping murder mystery set in Belfast. A murder in a public place, a victim who hides his killer’s intent… A German citizen is murdered in Belfast Botanic Gardens. Investigating, DCI Gawn Girvin concludes it is a revenge killing....

The Perfume Thief

The Perfume Thief
  • Author(s): Timothy Schaffert
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, LGBTQIA+
  • Era(s): 1930s/40s

Clementine is a seventy-two year-old reformed con artist with a penchant for impeccably tailored suits. Her life of crime has led her from the uber-wealthy perfume junkies of belle epoque Manhattan, to the scented butterflies of Costa Rica, to...

The Perfumist of Paris

The Perfumist of Paris
  • Author(s): Alka Joshi
  • Location(s): Agra, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

(The Jaipur Trilogy Book 3) From the author of Reese’s Book Club Pick The Henna Artist, the final chapter in Alka Joshi’s New York Times bestselling Jaipur trilogy takes readers to 1970s Paris, where Radha’s budding career as a...

The Periodic Table

The Periodic Table
  • Author(s): Primo Levi
  • Location(s): Italy, Auschwitz/Birkenau
  • Genre(s): Historical, Short Stories
  • Era(s): WW2

Primo Levi’s The Periodic Table is a collection of short stories that elegantly interlace the author’s experiences in Fascist Italy, and later in Auschwitz, with his passion for scientific knowledge and discovery. This Penguin Modern Classics edition of is...

The Peron Novel

The Peron Novel
  • Author(s): Tómas Eloy Martinez
  • Location(s): Argentina
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

On June 20, 1973, General Juan Peron, the most revered–as well as the most hated–dictator in the history of Argentina, returned to his homeland after eighteen years of exile. His arrival was the occasion for a fratricidal massacre. Less...

The Perplexing Theft of the Jewel in the Crown

The Perplexing Theft of the Jewel in the Crown
  • Author(s): Vaseem Khan
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

For centuries the Koh-i-Noor diamond has set man against man and king against king. Now part of the British Crown Jewels, the priceless gem is a prize that many have killed to possess. So when the Crown Jewels go...

The Persian

The Persian
  • Author(s): David McCloskey
  • Location(s): Iran, Israel
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

What happens when a spy is forced to reckon with the consequences of his deception? Kamran Esfahani, a Persian Jewish dentist from Stockholm, dreams of starting afresh in California. To finance his new life, he agrees to spy for...

The Persian Bride

The Persian Bride
  • Author(s): James Buchan
  • Location(s): Isfahan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1974

At once a great love story, a riveting political thriller, and a profound analysis of modern Iran, THE PERSIAN BRIDE is unflinching in its vision of twentieth-century chaos. In 1974, the young Englishman John Pitt follows the hippie trail...

The Persian Pickle Club

The Persian Pickle Club
  • Author(s): Sandra Dallas
  • Location(s): Kansas, Harveyville
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s

It is the 1930s, and hard times have hit Harveyville, Kansas, where the crops are burning up, and there’s not a job to be found. For Queenie Bean, a young farm wife, a highlight of each week is the...

The Persians

The Persians
  • Author(s): Sanam Mahloudji
  • Location(s): Iran, Tehran, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1940s /2000s

Meet the women of the Valiat family. In Iran, they were somebodies. In America, they’re nobodies. First there is Elizabeth, the regal matriarch with the famously large nose, who remained in Tehran despite the revolution. She lives alone in...

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