- Location(s): Alaska
- Genre(s): Mystery, Suspense, Thriller
- Era(s): The present (+ some history of Alaska)
For a change, the butler didn’t do it; a bear did. Or did it? In “Unbearably Deadly”, Roger and Suzanne visit Alaska to find out the circumstances surrounding their friends’ deaths. The FBI investigation concludes the cause of death...
- Location(s): China, Jinshanling
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 16th Century
John Shors reimagined one of the world’s greatest love stories—the romance that inspired the Taj Mahal—in his critically acclaimed, international bestseller Beneath a Marble Sky. Now, with Unbound, Shors recreates an ancient and celebrated Chinese legend about a pair...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Present day
Young Grace has led a sheltered life. Focused. Serious. No men to distract her. But that’s about to change. After winning a prestigious internship at Huntington Ventures, Grace travels to London for the summer. Enter CEO Jonathan Huntington. He’s...
- Location(s): San Francisco, Silicon Valley
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Contemporary
At twenty-five years old, Anna Wiener was beginning to tire of her assistant job in New York publishing. There was no room to grow, and the voyeuristic thrill of answering someone else’s phone had worn thin. Within a year...
- Location(s): Tajikistan
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): post collapse of Soviet Union
The new novel from Commonwealth Writers Prize winner Marion Molteno High in the mountains of war-torn Tajikistan, rebels abduct inspirational UN peace negotiator, Rahul Khan. The lives of his closest friends begin to unravel. Tessa, now married with two...
- Location(s): The Maldives
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
When twenty-three-year-old dot-com millionaire Owen Sparks walked away from his charmed life, he had one goal in mind: to get as far away as possible from the people who resented his success, or had their hand out for a...
- Location(s): The Bahamas
- Genre(s): Suspense
- Era(s): current
Set in the Bahamas on a sailboat, UNCHARTED uses a turbulent period in the Bahamas’ history as the backdrop for a present-day catastrophe. Carter McDowell is a a broken man. Guilt and grief haunt him as he struggles to...
Uncle Joe’s Revenge (Death On The Cut)
- Location(s): Ireland, North-West England
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery, Thriller
- Era(s): Current
Devastated by recent events in Ireland Anthony Smith decides to return to the U.K. start a new life and hopefully vanish completely. Despite help from old friends Bob and Elaine who provide a narrow boat on the Leeds Liverpool...
Uncle Petros and Goldbach’s Conjecture
- Location(s): Greece, Athens
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th century
Uncle Petros is a family joke. An ageing recluse, he lives alone in a suburb of Athens, playing chess and tending to his garden. If you didn’t know better, you’d surely think he was one of life’s failures. But...
Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings
- Location(s): Georgia
- Genre(s): Historical, Short Stories
- Era(s): 1881
Uncle Remus is the fictional title character and narrator of a collection of black American folktales compiled and adapted by Joel Chandler Harris and published in book form in 1881. Harris was a journalist in post-Reconstruction Atlanta, and he...
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