- Location(s): California
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Anna Hart is a missing persons detective in San Francisco. When tragedy strikes her personal life, Anna, desperate and numb, flees to the Northern California village of Mendocino to grieve. She lived there as a child with her beloved...
- Location(s): Budapest, Dachau, New York City (NYC), Paris, Sopron
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1943, 1956-57, early 1990s
A sweeping tale about lovers separated by circumstance, the lives they each lead, and the various points at which their journeys intersect. Set mostly in Hungary (Sopron and Budapest) with chapters in both Germany (Dachau) and the USA (New...
- Location(s): Wales
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): Post WW1
A STIRRING HISTORICAL ADVENTURE FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE VALLEY OF LOST SECRETS. The First World War has ended, but it hasn’t gone away. When Natty has to move to a new village, she meets two young soldiers who...
- Location(s): Colorado
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
Frannie O’Neill is a young and talented veterinarian living in Colorado. Devastated by the mysterious murder of her husband, David, a local doctor, Frannie throws herself into her work. It is not long before another bizarre murder occurs and...
- Location(s): Vienna, England, Germany, Poland, Prague
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): World War Two
Three friends. Two sides. One memory. Vienna. 1936. Three young friends – Leo, Elsa and Max – spend a perfect day together, unaware that around them Europe is descending into a growing darkness, and that events soon mean that...
When Turtles Come Home: A Memoir on Life in the Philippines
- Location(s): The Philippines
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Later 20th Century
When Victoria Hoffarth was at graduate school in the U.S., her lecturer, the anthropologist Margaret Mead, once told her class, “There are so many varied places in the world. It is incumbent upon us to search for one where we most...
- Location(s): Cuba (Republic of), Florida
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s
In 1960s Florida, a young Cuban exile will risk her life—and heart—to take back her country in this exhilarating historical novel from the author of The Last Train to Key West and Next Year in Havana,a Reese Witherspoon Book Club...
- Location(s): London, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): WW2
An emotionally compelling tale of love and mystery set in the publishing world of World War II London, When We Meet Again tells the story of a mother searching for her stolen child, and illustrates the unbreakable bonds among...
- Location(s): Trinidad and Tobago
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Darwin is a down-on-his-luck gravedigger, newly arrived in the Trinidadian city of Port Angeles to seek his fortune, young and beautiful and lost. Estranged from his mother and the Rastafari faith she taught him, he is convinced that the...
- Location(s): Shanghai, London
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1930s
England, the 1930s. Christopher Banks has become the country’s most celebrated detective, his cases the talk of London society. Yet one unsolved crime has always haunted him: the mysterious disappearance of his parents, in old Shanghai, when he was...
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