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The Seasons of Beento Blackbird

The Seasons of Beento Blackbird
  • Author(s): Akosua Busia
  • Location(s): Ghana
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The Seasons of Beento Blackbird marks the debut of Akosua Busia, an exciting and passionate new novelist. It is the story of Solomon Wilberforce, a magnetic and brilliant man who writes bestselling children’s books under the name Beento Blackbird...

The Second Chance Hotel

The Second Chance Hotel
  • Author(s): Sierra Godfrey
  • Location(s): The Cyclades
  • Genre(s): Humour, Fiction, RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It’s all fun and games until you accidentally marry a stranger in Greece and inherit a hotel. Amelia Lang’s life is kind of a mess. She’s stuck living at home with her narcissistic mother. Her tech bro ex-boyfriend deliberately sabotages...

The Second Chance Tea Shop

The Second Chance Tea Shop
  • Author(s): Fay Keenan
  • Location(s): Somerset
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Following the tragic death of her beloved husband, Anna Hemingway decides it’s time for a fresh start. So Anna and her three-year-old daughter Ellie move to a picture-perfect cottage in the beautiful village of Little Somerby in Somerset, and...

The Second Cup

The Second Cup
  • Author(s): Sarah Marie Graye
  • Location(s): London, Berkhamsted, Blackpool, Manchester
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Would your life unravel if someone you knew committed suicide? Theirs did. Faye’s heart still belongs to her first love, Jack. She knows he might have moved on, but when she decides to track him down, nothing prepares her...

The Second Cut

The Second Cut
  • Author(s): Louise Welsh
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Auctioneer Rilke has been trying to stay out of trouble, keeping his life more or less respectable. Business has been slow at Bowery Auctions, so when an old friend, Jojo, gives Rilke a tip-off for a house clearance, life...

The Second Death of Goodluck Tinubu

The Second Death of Goodluck Tinubu
  • Author(s): Michael Stanley
  • Location(s): Botswana
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The second book in the Inspector Kubu series–penned by a pair of Crime Writers’ Association Award-winning South African authors writing under the name Michael Stanley–The Second Death of Goodluck Tinubu treats readers to a gripping and atmospheric story of...

The Second Honeymoon

The Second Honeymoon
  • Author(s): McGarvey Black
  • Location(s): The Atlantic Ocean
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It’s our tenth wedding anniversary . . . and my husband is planning to kill me. He’s organized the perfect cruise — and the perfect murder. His new girlfriend (my replacement) is waiting in the wings. Our luxury cruise...

The Second Life of Inspector Canessa

The Second Life of Inspector Canessa
  • Author(s): Roberto Perrone
  • Location(s): Milan
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

The second book in the Walter Presents library: a ferociously paced noir thriller of family secrets and terrorist plots from one of Italy’s top crime writers Annibale Canessa was a legend: the most notorious cop during Italy’s brutal Years...

The Second Mrs. Astor

The Second Mrs. Astor
  • Author(s): Shana Abe
  • Location(s): The Atlantic Ocean, Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century

Madeleine Talmage Force is just seventeen when she attracts the attention of John Jacob “Jack” Astor. Madeleine is beautiful, intelligent, and solidly upper-class, but the Astors are in a league apart. Jack’s mother was the Mrs. Astor, American royalty...

The Second Murderer

The Second Murderer
  • Author(s): Denise Mina
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1940s

It’s mid-September, a heatwave has descended on the parched hills of LA and Private Detective Philip Marlowe is called to the Montgomery estate, an almost mythic place sitting high on top of Beverly Hills. Wealthy twenty-two-year-old Chrissie Montgomery, set...

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