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The Village. A Novel of Wartime Crete

The Village. A Novel of Wartime Crete
  • Author(s): Philip Duke
  • Location(s): Crete
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1940s

A Cretan village confronts the Nazi juggernaut sweeping across Europe. A village matriarch tries to hold her family together…Her grieving son finds a new life in the Cretan Resistance…A naive English soldier unwillingly finds the warrior in himself…And a...

The Vineyard

The Vineyard
  • Author(s): Karen Aldous
  • Location(s): The South of France (Le Midi), Kent
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It’s been five years, and Lizzie Lambert has decided it’s time to try to make things right with her estranged mother. She’s made a success of things in Cannes, she’s bringing up a lovely little boy on her own,...

The Vineyard in Alsace

The Vineyard in Alsace
  • Author(s): Julie Stock
  • Location(s): Alsace
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Is there really such a thing as a second chance at love? Fran Schell has only just become engaged when she finds her fiancé in bed with another woman. She knows this is the push she needs to break...

The Vinyl Detective

The Vinyl Detective
  • Author(s): Andrew Cartmel
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

He is a record collector — a connoisseur of vinyl, hunting out rare and elusive LPs. His business card describes him as the “Vinyl Detective” and some people take this more literally than others. Like the beautiful, mysterious woman...

The Violet Hour

The Violet Hour
  • Author(s): James Cahill
  • Location(s): Hollywood
  • Genre(s): Fiction, LGBTQIA+
  • Era(s): Mid-2010s

Thomas Haller has achieved the kind of fame that most artists only dream of: shows in London and New York, paintings sold for a fortune. The vision he presents to the world is one of an untouchable genius at...

The Violinist of Venice

The Violinist of Venice
  • Author(s): Alyssa Palombo
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 18th century

Like most 18th-century Venetians, Adriana d’Amato adores music—except her strict merchant father has forbidden her to cultivate her gift for the violin. But she refuses to let that stop her from living her dreams and begins sneaking out of...

The Violinist’s Secret

The Violinist’s Secret
  • Author(s): M J Hollows
  • Location(s): Hamburg
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

Charlotte Weber is against the Nazi regime and what it stands for, but as she attends Hamburg University, she struggles to make sense of the war she finds herself a part of. Practising her violin for the university orchestra...

The Vipers

The Vipers
  • Author(s): Katy Hays
  • Location(s): Capri
  • Genre(s): Horror, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back

On glittering Capri, anything can be a mirage. And one thing is true: no one holds a grudge like family. The world was shocked by playwright Sarah Lingate’s death thirty years ago at an opulent, white-washed villa on the...

The Virgin of Small Plains

The Virgin of Small Plains
  • Author(s): Nancy Pickard
  • Location(s): Kansas
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1987

Small Plains, Kansas, January 23, 1987: In the midst of a deadly blizzard, eighteen-year-old Rex Shellenberger scours his father’s pasture, looking for helpless newborn calves. Then he makes a shocking discovery: the naked, frozen body of a teenage girl,...

The Virgin of the Wind Rose: A Christopher Columbus Mystery-Thriller

The Virgin of the Wind Rose: A Christopher Columbus Mystery-Thriller
  • Author(s): Glen Craney
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): Dual period thriller: 15th Century and Present

While investigating the murder of an American missionary in Ethiopia, rookie State Department lawyer Jaqueline Quartermane stumbles upon a Latin palindrome embedded with a cryptographic time bomb. Separated by half a millennium, two global conspiracies dovetail in this historical...

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