- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
In Death at La Fenice, Donna Leon’s first novel in the Commissario Brunetti series, readers were introduced to the glamorous and cut-throat world of opera and to one of Italy’s finest living sopranos, Flavia Petrelli. Now, many years later, Flavia...
- Location(s): Massachusetts, Cape Verde (Cabo Verde), Gambia / Senegal border
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Someone wants Jake Parker dead. He’ll find out why, or die trying… Ex-army, ex-police, widowed husband, estranged son. Jake Parker has no family, no one to care if one of the government-contract jobs he takes goes wrong. So he’s...
Fat Dogs and French Estates – Part 1
- Location(s): France, England
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern (post 2007)
Buying a country estate in France seemed such a simple thing to accomplish. When Beth, her irascible husband Jack, and their two fat dogs set off, little do they know that it will become such an extraordinary adventure. Surviving...
Fat Dogs and French Estates – Part II
- Location(s): France
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern (post 2007)
With six failures so far, and six more properties to see, Beth, her irascible husband, Jack, and their two fat dogs continue their hunt for a country domaine in France. As tensions rise, Beth’s anxieties switch from house-hunting failures...
- Location(s): Northern Thailand
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
A deep and rich novel set among the hill tribes of Northern Thailand. A suspense story blending anthropology and Christian missionaries, it almost feels autobiographical. The thread that keeps the book together is the main character’s, almost obsessive, attempt...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Children, Travelogue
- Era(s): Various
When a child steps outside their ordinary world and travels to a foreign city or country, an adventure awaits. In Find and Seek New York a small boy arrives in the city of New York with his family, willing...
- Location(s): York
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Now
Following a horrific murder in a sleepy suburb of York, a local journalist receives a cryptic clue from someone claiming to be the killer. The clue hints at where the next murder will take place. Teaming up with the...
- Location(s): Europe
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Early 1940s
Flight of the Shearwater: Book 2 in the Sturmtaucher Trilogy, a powerful and compelling story of two families torn apart by evil. With Poland divided between Hitler’s Germany and Stalin’s Union of Soviet Republics, the increasingly confident Third Reich...
- Location(s): Italian Alps
- Genre(s): Fiction, Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
In a quiet village surrounded by the imposing Italian Alps, a series of brutal assaults take place. Police inspector Teresa Battaglia is called in when the first body is found. Soon more victims are discovered – all horrifically mutilated...
- Location(s): Mexico
- Genre(s): Graphic Novel
- Era(s): Modern (early 2000s)
Recounting a life-changing trip to Mexico, Follow Me In is Kat Chapman’s memoir and coming-of-age story, interspersed with pages of her travel sketchbook and her explorations of the mosaic of cultural and bio-diversity that make Mexico such a special...










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