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The Wrong Girl

The Wrong Girl
  • Author(s): David Hewson
  • Location(s): Amsterdam
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): early 21st century

She knew they would come for her. How long can she wait? The Wrong Girl is the second title in the Detective Pieter Vos series, David Hewson’s atmospheric crime novels set in the city of canals and coffee shops.

The Wrong Goodbye

The Wrong Goodbye
  • Author(s): Toshihiko Yahagi, Alfred Birnbaum (Translator)
  • Location(s): Yokosuka, Yokohama
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

The Wrong Goodbye pits homicide detective Eiji Futamura against a shady Chinese business empire and U.S. military intelligence in the docklands of recession Japan. After the frozen corpse of immigrant barman Tran Binh Long washes up in midsummer near...

The Wronged

The Wronged
  • Author(s): Owen Mullen
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): 2017

A complex case of missing persons draws Scottish PI Charlie Cameron into Glasgow’s deadly underworld. Private Investigator Charlie Cameron is searching for a man who disappeared after his son’s suicide. When an unidentified body turns up at the morgue,...

The Wronged Daughter

The Wronged Daughter
  • Author(s): Mary Wood
  • Location(s): Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

The Wronged Daughter by Mary Wood is an emotional and moving novel that reunites old friends and heals old wounds. Mags has never forgotten the friendship she forged with Flora and Ella, two fellow nurses she served with at...

The Yankee Years Books 1 – 3

The Yankee Years Books 1 – 3
  • Author(s): Dianne Ascroft
  • Location(s): Northern Ireland
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s

After the Allied troops arrived in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland during the Second World War, life in the quiet, rural county would never be the same again. Book 1: The Shadow Ally June 1941: When Ruth Corey finds a...

The Yankee Years Books 4 – 6

The Yankee Years Books 4 – 6
  • Author(s): Dianne Ascroft
  • Location(s): Northern Ireland
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s

After the Allied troops arrived in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland during the Second World War, life in the quiet, rural county would never be the same again. The Christmas Cure December 1942: U.S. Army nurse, Lieutenant Marjorie Baxter, newly...

The Yanks Are Starving: A Novel of the Bonus Army

The Yanks Are Starving: A Novel of the Bonus Army
  • Author(s): Glen Craney
  • Location(s): France, Washington DC
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 20th century

In 1932, a charismatic hobo led 20,000 jobless American WWI veterans into Washington, D.C., only to be driven out of the city with tanks and gas. The novel unfolds the events that led to this confrontation through the experiences...

The Year I Flew Away

The Year I Flew Away
  • Author(s): Marie Arnold
  • Location(s): Haiti, Brooklyn
  • Genre(s): Children, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1985

In this magical middle-grade novel, ten-year-old Gabrielle finds out that America isn’t the perfect place she imagined when she moves from Haiti to Brooklyn. With the help of a clever witch, Gabrielle becomes the perfect American — but will...

The Year I Lay My Head In Water: Swimming Scandinavia in Search of a Better Life

The Year I Lay My Head In Water: Swimming Scandinavia in Search of a Better Life
  • Author(s): Laura Hall
  • Location(s): Scandinavia
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Laying your head in water is what you do when you’re having a bad day. The water is where you go when you need time to think. It’s where you go when you reach a crossroads in your life....

The Year of Ice

The Year of Ice
  • Author(s): Brian Malloy
  • Location(s): Minneapolis - St Paul
  • Genre(s): Fiction, LGBTQIA+, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1978

It is 1978 in the Twin Cities, and Kevin Doyle, a high school senior, is a marginal student in love with keggers, rock and roll, and–unbeknownst to anyone else–a boy in his class with thick eyelashes and a bad...

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