- Location(s): New Jersey
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
Catch a professional assassin: top priority. Find a failure-to-appear and collect big bucks: top score. How she’ll pull it all off: top secret. Trenton, New Jersey’s favorite used-car dealer, Jimmy Poletti, was caught selling a lot more than used...
- Location(s): Sicily, North Wales
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
A young English woman is forced to face the dark world of Sicilian organised crime in a desperate race against time in this gritty contemporary thriller, a story of intrigue and betrayal. Like any mother, Hanna would do anything...
- Location(s): West Virginia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): early 21st century
Chloe hasn’t had the best life. With a mother who is gone more often than not, she has had to raise herself. After graduating high school, she leaves to start a new life away at West Virginia University with...
- Location(s): Monterey
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1930s
Adopting the structure and themes of the Arthurian legend, Steinbeck created a “Camelot” on a shabby hillside above the town of Monterey, California and peopled it with a colourful band of knights. At the center of the tale is...
- Location(s): Marseilles (Marseille)
- Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction, Noir
- Era(s): Contemporary
(Marseilles Trilogy, 1) Fabio Montale is the perfect protagonist in this city of melancholy beauty. A disenchanted cop with an inimitable talent for living who turns his back on a police force marred by corruption and racism and, in...
- Location(s): Plymouth
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Present day
Harry likes pretty things. He likes to look at them. Sometimes that isn’t enough. He wants to get closer. Naughty Harry. DI Charlotte Savage and her team in Plymouth are struggling with their investigation into a string of horrific...
- Location(s): Peru
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
Touching the Void is the heart-stopping account of Joe Simpson’s terrifying adventure in the Peruvian Andes. He and his climbing partner, Simon, reached the the summit of the remote Siula Grande in June 1995. A few days later, Simon...
- Location(s): Northern France
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Contemporary
Following on from her hugely popular books, My Good Life in France and My Four Seasons in France, ex-pat Janine Marsh shares more heart-warming and entertaining stories of her new life in rural France. Since giving up their city...
Toward That Which Is Beautiful
- Location(s): Altiplano, Peru
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1964-1965
Sister Mary Katherine, a young American nun, is working in a small town in the Highlands of Peru in 1964. One day she slips away from the convent with no money and no destination. Disoriented in a culture not...
Toward the Corner of Mercy and Peace
- Location(s): Kentucky
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950's
It’s 1952 in the small western Kentucky town of Paducah and Mrs. Minerva Place would prefer everyone mind his own business, follow the rules, and if dead, stay dead. Nosy neighbors and irritating church members are bad enough but...
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