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The Vanishing of Ruth

The Vanishing of Ruth
  • Author(s): Janet MacLeod Trotter
  • Location(s): Central Asia, Europe, India
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1970's and present day

1976: Ruth English and her lover Marcus, go missing in Afghanistan during an overland bus trip to Kathmandu. A generation later, Ruth’s niece Amber, haunted by the disintegration of her family, determines to get at the truth of their...

The Vanishing Place

The Vanishing Place
  • Author(s): Zoë Rankin
  • Location(s): New Zealand (Aotearoa)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back

One girl escaped. But the forest took another… A young girl wanders into the small town of Koraha, her hands stained with blood. She won’t speak, but her path is tracked through New Zealand’s unforgiving wilderness to a cabin...

The Vanishing Season

The Vanishing Season
  • Author(s): Joanna Schaffhausen
  • Location(s): Massachusetts
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Ellery Hathaway knows a thing or two about serial killers, but not through her police training. She’s an officer in sleepy Woodbury, MA, where a bicycle theft still makes the newspapers. No one there knows she was once victim...

The Vanishing Witch

The Vanishing Witch
  • Author(s): Karen Maitland
  • Location(s): Lincoln
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 14th Century

Lincoln, 1380. A raven-haired widow is newly arrived in John of Gaunt’s city, with her two unnaturally beautiful children in tow. The widow Catlin seems kind, helping wool merchant Robert of Bassingham care for his ill wife. Surely it...

The Vaster Wilds

The Vaster Wilds
  • Author(s): Lauren Groff
  • Location(s): United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1600s

A profound and explosive novel about a spirited girl alone in the wilderness, trying to survive A servant girl escapes from a settlement. She carries nothing with her but her wits, a few possessions, and the spark of god...

The Vatican Conspiracy

The Vatican Conspiracy
  • Author(s): Peter Hogenkamp
  • Location(s): Italy, Vatican City
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Present

A Marco Venetti Thriller Book 1 It is an ordinary day in Marco Venetti’s quiet coastal parish—but the woman who’s come to confess is not ordinary. Marco has always been drawn to beautiful Elena, and she brings news that...

The Veiled Kingdom

The Veiled Kingdom
  • Author(s): Carmen Bin Ladin
  • Location(s): Saudi Arabia
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 2001

On September 11th 2001, Carmen Bin Ladin heard the news on the radio that the Twin Towers had been struck. She instinctively knew that her brother-in-law was involved in these horrifying acts of terrorism, and her heart went out...

The Venetian Bargain

The Venetian Bargain
  • Author(s): Marina Fiorato
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1576

Venice, 1576. Five years after the defeat of the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Lepanto, a ship steals unnoticed into Venice bearing a deadly cargo. A man, more dead than alive, disembarks and staggers into Piazza San Marco....

The Venetian Candidate

The Venetian Candidate
  • Author(s): Philip Gwynne Jones
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

To tell the truth is a revolutionary act. Battered by floods and crushed by overtourism, the city of Venice faces an uncertain future. The election of a new Mayor, therefore, has never felt more important. As the candidates jostle...

The Venetian Daughter

The Venetian Daughter
  • Author(s): Ella Carey
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

When the Nazis storm into Venice, Evelina receives a terrified note from her best friend, a devoted Jewish schoolteacher: Help me. Evelina rushes to the rescue, but is devastated to find that her friend has been taken. Now Evelina...

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