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Clear

Clear
  • Author(s): Carys Davies
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1840s

1843. On a remote Scottish island, Ivar, the sole occupant, leads a life of quiet isolation until the day he finds a man unconscious on the beach below the cliffs. The newcomer is John Ferguson, an impoverished church minister...

My Favourite Mistake

My Favourite Mistake
  • Author(s): Marian Keyes
  • Location(s): Ireland, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Anna has just lost her taste for the Big Apple… She has a life to envy. An apartment in New York. A well-meaning (too well-meaning?) partner. And a high-flying job in beauty PR. Who wouldn’t want all that? Anna,...

James

James
  • Author(s): Percival Everett
  • Location(s): Mississippi, Mississippi River
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1860s

The Mississippi River, 1861. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a new owner in New Orleans and separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson’s Island...

The Children’s Bach

The Children’s Bach
  • Author(s): Helen Garner
  • Location(s): Melbourne
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s/80s

Athena and Dexter Fox are happy. They love each other. They are friends. They live with their young sons in a sparsely furnished house near the Merri Creek: its walls cracking, its floors sloping and its doors hanging loosely...

There Should Have Been Eight

There Should Have Been Eight
  • Author(s): Nalini Singh
  • Location(s): Southern Alps (NZ)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In this chilling thriller from New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh, a remote estate in the New Zealand Alps hosts a reunion no one will ever forget. Seven friends. One last weekend. A mansion half in ruins. No...

Quiet in Her Bones

Quiet in Her Bones
  • Author(s): Nalini Singh
  • Location(s): Waitakere Ranges
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In this gripping thriller set in New Zealand, New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh takes you into the twisted world of an exclusive cul-de-sac located on the edge of a sprawling forest. My mother vanished ten years ago....

The Djinn’s Apple

The Djinn’s Apple
  • Author(s): Djamila Morani
  • Location(s): Baghdad
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Crime, Historical
  • Era(s): 8th century

Historical fiction meets crime fiction in The Djinn’s Apple, an award-winning YA murder mystery set in the Abbasid period―the golden age of Baghdad. A ruthless murder. A magical herb. A mysterious manuscript. When Nardeen’s home is stormed by angry...

Silenced

Silenced
  • Author(s): Sólveig Pálsdóttir
  • Location(s): Iceland, Reykjavik
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Ice and Crime Book 2 The darker the secret, the harder to bury it. Compelling reading – Lilja Sigurðardóttir As a police team is called in to investigate a woman’s suicide at the Hólmsheiði prison outside Reykjavík, to detective...

Devil of Delphi

Devil of Delphi
  • Author(s): Jeffrey Siger
  • Location(s): Delphi, Greece
  • Genre(s): Political, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Chief Inspector Andreas Kaldis Mysteries Book 7 2016 Barry Awards nominee for Best Novel “Siger brings Chief Inspector Andreas Kaldis some very big challenges in his seventh mystery set in troubled contemporary Greece…The final plot twist proves well worth...

Split

Split
  • Author(s): Alida Bremer, Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp (Translator)
  • Location(s): Split
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

Nazis, spies, romance, and murder collide in prewar eastern Europe in a mesmerizing historical novel by the award-winning author of Oliva’s Garden. It’s 1936. The seaside-resort village of Split on the Adriatic coast bustles. The tourist spots are booming,...

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