- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
The Traitor (The Carnivia Trilogy): 3 He died in the darkness, surrounded by friends. They found him at sunrise, on Venice’s most popular beach. His throat had been cut, his tongue removed. Captain Kat Tapo suspects a Masonic ritualistic...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
When renowned translator Hanne Schubert falls down a flight of stairs, she suffers a brain injury and ends up with an unusual but real condition: the ability to only speak the language she learned later in life: Japanese. Isolated...
The Translator: A Tribesman’s Memoir of Darfur
- Location(s): The Sudan, Darfur
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 2003
I am the translator who has taken journalists into dangerous Darfur. It is my intention now to take you there in this book, if you have the courage to come with me. The young life of Daoud Hari–his friends...
- Location(s): Havana
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Moern looking back
Mario Conde is facing down his sixtieth birthday. What does he have to show for his decades on the planet? A failing body, a slower mind, and a decrepit country, in which both the ideals and failures of the...
- Location(s): Edinburgh
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): contemporary
How far would you go to catch a killer? This is the question UK agent Emma Makepeace must ask herself when she is sent to Edinburgh for the upcoming global G7 Summit. The Russians are in town and Emma...
- Location(s): United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Meet James Samuel Vincent, an affluent Manhattan attorney who shirks his modest Irish American background but hews to his father’s meandering ways. James muddles through a topsy-turvy relationship with his son, Rufus, which is further complicated when Rufus marries...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Nana is on a road trip, but he is not sure where he is going. All that matters is that he can sit beside his beloved owner Satoru in the front seat of his silver van. Satoru is keen...
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
- Location(s): Mexico
- Genre(s): Fiction
One of the greatest books ever written. It was made into a movie by the same name, which in turn is regarded as one of the greatest movies ever made. First published in 1935, The Treasure of the Sierra...
- Location(s): Angola
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 20th Century
What if a forgotten map leads to death? A thrilling, high-stakes adventure awaits in The Treasure of Tundavala Gap. When Mateus, a quiet PhD student, stumbles upon a cryptic map and wartime letters left by his grandfather, his life...
- Location(s): Rome
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Melody Meeks is a struggling freelance writer at Zenith magazine when a chance encounter on Facebook brings her back in touch with her first love, the love she never really got over: Spencer Channing. But little does she know...
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