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The Fox

The Fox
  • Author(s): Sólveig Pálsdóttir, Quentin Bates (Translator)
  • Location(s): East Iceland
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Noir
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Hoping to put behind him tragedy in his professional life and to resolve the turmoil in his personal life, Reykjavík police officer Guðgeir Fransson has moved as far away from home as he can, marking time in a dead-end...

How to Make a Bomb

How to Make a Bomb
  • Author(s): Rupert Thomson
  • Location(s): Cadiz, Crete
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

Philip Notman, an acclaimed historian, attends a conference in Bergen, Norway. On his return to London, and to his wife and son, something unexpected and inexplicable happens to him, and he is unable to settle back into his normal...

Lost to Dune Road

Lost to Dune Road
  • Author(s): Kara Thomas
  • Location(s): The Hamptons
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

For a disgraced reporter, unraveling a conspiracy of murder could mean redemption in a powerful novel of suspense by the bestselling author of Out of the Ashes. Reporter Lee Ellerin’s investigation into a young woman’s unsolved murder gained national...

A Calamity of Souls

A Calamity of Souls
  • Author(s): David Baldacci
  • Location(s): Virginia
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1968

Set in the tumultuous year of 1968 in southern Virginia, a murder case sets a duo of Black and white lawyers against a deeply unfair system as they work to defend their wrongfully-accused Black defendants in this courtroom drama...

In Search of Ethel Cartwright

In Search of Ethel Cartwright
  • Author(s): Tom Winter
  • Location(s): Clacton
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Norman Cartwright, an eighty-six-year-old man living in the small seaside town of Clacton, Essex, has kept his cross-dressing a secret his entire life. A trucker by trade, his lipstick and wigs were donned only in the lonely confines of...

The Cemetery of Untold Stories

The Cemetery of Untold Stories
  • Author(s): Julia Alvarez
  • Location(s): Dominican Republic
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Literary icon Julia Alvarez, bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies, shares an inventive and emotional novel about storytelling and her homeland–the Dominican Republic–that Kirkus Reviews calls a “rich and moving saga” and Shelf Awareness calls “a...

The Trials of Marjorie Crowe

The Trials of Marjorie Crowe
  • Author(s): C S Robertson
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery

How do you solve a murder when everyone thinks you’re guilty? Marjorie Crowe lives in Kilgoyne, Scotland. The locals put her age at somewhere between 55 and 70. They think she’s divorced or a lifelong spinster; that she used...

The Baddest Girl on the Planet

The Baddest Girl on the Planet
  • Author(s): Heather Frese
  • Location(s): Hatteras Island
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Evie Austin, native of Hatteras Island, North Carolina and baddest girl on the planet, has not lived her life in a straight line. There have been several detours—career snafus, bad romantic choices, a loved but unplanned child—not to mention...

Happily Never After

Happily Never After
  • Author(s): Rachel North
  • Location(s): Mallorca
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

I wouldn’t miss this wedding for the world. It will be my last chance to put a stop to it… A small group of family and friends head to a beautiful, secluded location in the mountains of Mallorca for...

Red Hollow

Red Hollow
  • Author(s): Natalie Marlow
  • Location(s): Warwickshire
  • Genre(s): Gothic, Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

Warwickshire, 1934 Deep in a hamlet in the Warwickshire countryside, Red Hollow Hall is a male-only sanatorium run by the charismatic psychiatrist Dr Moon. However, all is not well, and Dr Moon’s patients are leaving Red Hollow in droves....

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