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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...

The Virgins

The Virgins
  • Author(s): Siddharth Tripathi
  • Location(s): Varanasi
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

How does one become a man? Three young friends are about to find out. With six unmarried sisters and a perennially drunk father, Pinku, a 19-year-old school dropout, has only one dream left: to marry the plump girl who’d...

The Virtual Kibbutz: Stories from a Changing Society

The Virtual Kibbutz: Stories from a Changing Society
  • Author(s): Ellis Shuman
  • Location(s): Israel
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): late 20th century

For over fifty years, the magnificent oak tree stood as a solitary landmark in the middle of the valley, witnessing the cool, wet winters and the hot, humid summers. Young pioneers established a new kibbutz nearby, celebrating their collective...

The Visitor (Jack Reacher 4)

The Visitor (Jack Reacher 4)
  • Author(s): Lee Child
  • Location(s): United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Two female army high-flyers. Both acquainted with Jack Reacher. Both forced to resign from the service. Now they’re both dead. Found in their own homes, naked, in a bath full of paint. Apparent victims of an army man. A...

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