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The Shadows of Men

The Shadows of Men
  • Author(s): Abir Mukherjee
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay), Kolkata (Calcutta)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1920s

Wyndham and Banerjee Book 5   Calcutta, 1923. When a Hindu theologian is found murdered in his home, the city is on the brink of all-out religious war. Can officers of the Imperial Police Force, Captain Sam Wyndham and...

The Shakespeare Secret

The Shakespeare Secret
  • Author(s): J L Carrell
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

A modern serial killer – hunting an ancient secret. A woman is left to die as the rebuilt Globe theatre burns. Another woman is drowned like Ophelia, skirts swirling in the water. A professor has his throat slashed open...

The Shakespeare Sisters

The Shakespeare Sisters
  • Author(s): Juliet Greenwood
  • Location(s): Stratford-upon-Avon
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Around WW2

Four motherless sisters, raised by a distant father in a crumbling, ivy-choked country estate. A terrible war on the horizon that will tear an ancient family apart. Stratford-upon-Avon, 1940. Rosalind Arden, born into one of the oldest families in...

The Shallows

The Shallows
  • Author(s): Holly Craig
  • Location(s): Queensland
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Her best friend is dead. Emma and Ariella, neighbours in one of Sydney’s most exclusive suburbs, appear to have it all—perfect homes, perfect husbands, perfect lives. But they both know dark secrets lurk beneath the surface and shallow waters...

The Shaman of Turtle Valley

The Shaman of Turtle Valley
  • Location(s): Virginia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

The author of the award-winning What the Zhang Boys Know ( …utterly beautiful and unforgettable Kevin Wilson, author of The Family Fang) now gives us a heart-rending first novel about love, displacement, and the powerful ghosts that haunt so...

The Shaman’s Secret

The Shaman’s Secret
  • Author(s): Rich Curtin
  • Location(s): Utah
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern and 1700s

A member of “The Keepers of Order,” an armed militia determined to hunt down the culprits who have been poaching bighorn sheep, is shot while patrolling one of the remotest parts of Utah’s rugged backcountry. In pursuit of the...

The Shampoo Effect

The Shampoo Effect
  • Author(s): Jenny Jackson
  • Location(s): Massachusetts
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

OVER ONE LONG SUMMER, WHO KNOWS WHAT MIGHT COME OUT IN THE WASH? When writer Caroline Lash arrives in Greenhead, she falls immediately for its scenic beaches and New England charm – and even harder for Van Whittaker, a...

The Shape of Darkness

The Shape of Darkness
  • Author(s): Laura Purcell
  • Location(s): Bath
  • Genre(s): Gothic, Fiction, Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 19th century

Wicked deeds require the cover of darkness… A struggling silhouette artist in Victorian Bath seeks out a renowned child spirit medium in order to speak to the dead – and to try and identify their killers – in this...

The Shark Caller

The Shark Caller
  • Author(s): Dianne Wolfer
  • Location(s): Papua New Guinea
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): late 20th century

Isabel is on a plane heading back to her island birthplace in Papua New Guinea. Izzy is looking forward to seeing her family again, but there’s another tragic reason for the trip. Izzy’s twin brother, Ray, died in a...

The Shark Caller

The Shark Caller
  • Author(s): Zillah Bethell, Saara Katariina Söderlund (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): Papua New Guinea
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

Dive beneath the waves with this spell-binding adventure of friendship, forgiveness and bravery, set on the shores of Papua New Guinea, perfect for fans of Katherine Rundell and Eva Ibbotson. “I want to be able to call the sharks....

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