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Viper’s Nest of Lies

Viper’s Nest of Lies
  • Author(s): Daniella Bernett
  • Location(s): London, Malta
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Suspense
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Twice dead…A living nightmare The discovery of a blood-encrusted stiletto knife in journalist Emmeline Kirby’s bag at Heathrow Airport sets in motion a chain of events that ensnares everyone she holds dear. The body of Sebastian Jardine is soon...

Virals

Virals
  • Author(s): Kathy Reichs
  • Location(s): Charleston, South Carolina
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller, Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Fourteen-year-old Tory Brennan is as fascinated by bones and dead bodies as her famous aunt, acclaimed forensic anthropologist, Tempe Brennan. However living on a secluded island off Charleston in South Carolina there is not much opportunity to put her...

Virgin and Child

Virgin and Child
  • Author(s): Maggie Hamand
  • Location(s): County Cork, Rome, Vatican City
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Present Day

‘A surprisingly realistic and robust exploration of the church’s view on femininity, abortion, the body, love and more… clever and intriguing’ – The Irish Times In Virgin & Child, acclaimed novelist, Maggie Hamand tackles issues of abortion, sexuality, gender,...

Virtuoso

Virtuoso
  • Author(s): Yelena Moskovich
  • Location(s): Prague, Paris, Wisconsin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s/90s

1980s Prague. For Jana, childhood means ration queues and the smell of boiled potatoes on the grey winter air. But just before Jana’s seventh birthday, a new family moves in to their building: a bird-eyed mamka in a fox-fur...

Visitation

Visitation
  • Author(s): Jenny Erpenbeck
  • Location(s): Brandenburg
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary and historical

By the side of a lake in Brandenburg, a young architect builds the house of his dreams – a summerhouse with wrought-iron balconies, stained-glass windows the colour of jewels, and a bedroom with a hidden closet, all set within...

Visitation Street

Visitation Street
  • Author(s): Ivy Pochoda
  • Location(s): Brooklyn
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

As the hot summer rolls on in Red Hook, Brooklyn, bored and listless fifteen-year-olds June and Val are looking for some fun. Forget the boys, the bottles, the coded whistles, Val wants to take a raft out onto the...

Vital Signs

Vital Signs
  • Author(s): Candy Denman
  • Location(s): Hastings
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): present

A forensic physician fuels political uproar when she sticks to her findings When bodies of immigrants begin to wash up on a Hastings beach, no one would envy police doctor Callie Hughes’ sad job of checking for vital signs...

Vivaldi’s Virgins

Vivaldi’s Virgins
  • Author(s): Barbara Quick
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 18th Century

Vladivostok Circus

Vladivostok Circus
  • Author(s): Elisa Shua Dusapin, Aneesa Abbas Higgins (Translator)
  • Location(s): Vladivostok
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Nathalie arrives at the circus in Vladivostok, Russia, fresh out of art college in Geneva. She is there to design the costumes for a trio of artists who are due to perform one of the most dangerous acts of...

Vodka-Flavored Tears

Vodka-Flavored Tears
  • Author(s): Timothy J Hillegonds
  • Location(s): Chicago
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs

Vodka-Flavored Tears is a memoir told through twenty-six stories about growing up on the South Side of Chicago and trying to navigate through the stormy waters of childhood, adolescence, and the author’s early twenties. It’s a book about taking...

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