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What You Need From The Night

What You Need From The Night
  • Author(s): Laurent Petitmangin, Shaun Whiteside (translator)
  • Location(s): Northern France
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

After the death of his wife, a father raises his two sons alone. His bond with Fus, the eldest, and Gillou, the youngest, is a close one. But their town is not one of opportunity, and it soon becomes...

What You Want to See

What You Want to See
  • Author(s): Kristen Lepionka
  • Location(s): Columbus
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): Present day

‘Roxane with one n’ is back, in the thrilling follow-up to the hit-debut The Last Place You Look. Shaken by the outcome of her last big case, PI Roxane Weary is keeping a low profile. When she takes on...

What’s Mine and Yours

What’s Mine and Yours
  • Author(s): Naima Coster
  • Location(s): North Carolina
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When a county initiative in the Piedmont of North Carolina forces the students at a mostly black public school on the east side to move across town to a nearly all-white high school on the west, the community rises...

What’s the Girl Worth

What’s the Girl Worth
  • Author(s): Christina Fitzpatrick
  • Location(s): Madrid
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s

Catherine Kelly explores the loss she experienced when her Father abandoned her as a child, she navigates her way through Madrid – along the cobble stoned alleys, the splendid sights, the heat filled courtyards in the company of Esteban....

Whatever Comes My Way: Travels in The Netherlands

Whatever Comes My Way: Travels in The Netherlands
  • Author(s): Roger Gaess
  • Location(s): Netherlands
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): contemporary

“off-beat and real” from the preface: I’d finally quit New York and now found myself in the Low Countries, unsure what to do with my life. I was a writer/photographer and liked to travel so, Why not take a...

Whatever gets you through the night

Whatever gets you through the night
  • Author(s): Charlie Higson
  • Location(s): Corfu
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 2020

Most people travel to Corfu to escape the real world for a couple of weeks and embrace the fantasy of olive trees, sandy beaches, and little fishing boats bobbing on sparkling blue water under a warm sun. But not...

Whatever happened to Harold Absalon

Whatever happened to Harold Absalon
  • Author(s): Simon Okotie
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Harold Absalon, the Mayor’s Transport Advisor, has gone missing. Down-at-heel detective Marguerite is trying to find him. Aware that his every action is being monitored by those reading the novel, Marguerite’s mind and world is at constant risk of...

Whatever It Takes

Whatever It Takes
  • Author(s): Joy Wood
  • Location(s): Nottingham, Greece
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

THE WIFE: Lorna lives with her husband in her dream home, loves socialising and has a passion for the finer things in life. THE HUSBAND: Dan owns a successful accountancy business, enjoys golf and exercise, and loves Lorna deeply....

Wheel of Fortune (Detective Louis Martelli, NYPD, Mystery/Thriller Series) (Volume 6)

Wheel of Fortune (Detective Louis Martelli, NYPD, Mystery/Thriller Series) (Volume 6)
  • Author(s): Theodore Jerome Cohen
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Brooklyn, Pennsylvania
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): Present

Even as a child, Katlyn Lundquist was drop-dead gorgeous. She also was willful. In her teens, perhaps out of spite, she created her own name and persona. As she grew up, she readily accepted money and gifts from her...

When A Hyena Laughs: A Somalian Novel

When A Hyena Laughs: A Somalian Novel
  • Author(s): Abdi Sheik-Abdi
  • Location(s): Somalia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

I found myself thoroughly entranced by this quiet, slow gentle storytelling — all the more violence in the death of Habib (not described) at the end, which makes its impact as symbolic of the violation of the country (by...

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