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The Whiskey Bar Mystery

The Whiskey Bar Mystery
  • Author(s): David Pearson
  • Location(s): Connemara
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Current

A body behind the bar. A family torn apart. A pub where the spirits are as dark as the family’s secrets. Everyone in Westport knows the Lynch family. They own its most successful pub, the shoe shop next door,...

The Whiskey Rebels

The Whiskey Rebels
  • Author(s): David Liss
  • Location(s): Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early days of the USA

Ethan Saunders, once among General Washington’s most valued spies, now lives in disgrace, haunting the taverns of Philadelphia. An accusation of treason has long since cost him his reputation and his beloved fiancée, Cynthia Pearson, but at his most...

The Whisper of the River

The Whisper of the River
  • Author(s): Ferrol Sams
  • Location(s): Georgia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1938

Young for his class and small for his age, Porter Osborne, Jr., leaves his rural Georgia home in 1938 to meet the world at Willingham University, armed with the knowledge that he has been “Raised Right” in the best...

The Whispering House

The Whispering House
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Brooks
  • Location(s): Devon
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Suspense
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Freya Lyell is struggling to move on from her sister Stella’s suicide five years ago. Visiting the bewitching Byrne Hall, only a few miles from the scene of the tragedy, she discovers a portrait of Stella – a portrait...

The Whistleblower

The Whistleblower
  • Author(s): Robert Preston
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1997

1997. A desperate government clings to power; a hungry opposition will do anything to win. And journalist Gil Peck watches from the sidelines, a respected commentator on the sport of power politics. He thinks he knows how things work....

The Whistler

The Whistler
  • Author(s): Ondjaki
  • Location(s): Angola
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

From Angola, a country riddled with civil war and it’s aftereffects for the last 30 years, comes a surprising story of hope, passion, and magical realism from a groundbreaking, young African novelist. A young man arrives at the church...

THE WHISTLER’S OMEN

THE WHISTLER’S OMEN
  • Author(s): Iain Henn
  • Location(s): Seattle
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): contemporary

An impossible victim, a more than impossible killer! FBI Special Agent Ilona Farris has barely recovered from her first escapade with the newly formed Unsolvable Crimes Unit when a bizarre case lands on her desk. A man has been...

THE WHITBY PROTOCOL

THE WHITBY PROTOCOL
  • Author(s): Bernadette Bernson
  • Location(s): Whitby
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

WHITBY KEEPS ITS DEAD TO ITSELF. Detective Constable Martha Rowe was never supposed to make it out alive. Transferred to Whitby after a failed undercover operation, Martha hopes for a fresh start. Instead, she uncovers the traces of a...

The White

The White
  • Author(s): Deborah Larsen
  • Location(s): Pennsylvania
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1758

In 1758, when Mary Jemison is about sixteen, a Shawnee raiding party captures her Irish family near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Mary is the only one not killed and scalped. She is instead given to two Seneca sisters to replace their...

The White Album

The White Album
  • Author(s): Joan Didion
  • Location(s): California
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 1960s and 1970s

Joan Didion’s hugely influential collection of essays which defines, for many, the America which rose from the ashes of the Sixties. ‘We tell ourselves stories in order to live. The princess is caged in the consulate. The man with...

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