- Location(s): Ghana, Cornwall, Mongolia
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): N/A
Three girls born on the same day in wolf light are bound together to protect the world. They can dazzle or destroy. They have wind-song and fire-fury at their fingertips, but their enemies are everywhere. From the bleak steppes...
- Location(s): Värmland
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): contemporary
A Times Crime Club Pick of the Week When there’s a pack on the hunt, nobody’s safe A closed community Rose Farm is home to a group of survivalists, completely cut off from the outside world. Until now. A...
- Location(s): North America
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Late 20th Century
A mature man, driving alone from Virginia to the Thousand Islands near the Canadian border, impulsively stops to pick up two hitchhikers, Jenny and Lester, a young woman and her long-haired companion. They have quite some story to tell,...
- Location(s): Mongolia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s
Beijing intellectual Chen Zhen volunteers to live in a remote settlement on the border of Inner and Outer Mongolia, where he discovers life of apparent idyllic simplicity amongst the nomads and the wild wolves who roam the plains. But...
- Location(s): Bergen
- Genre(s): Noir, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Varg Veum #19 One dark January night a car drives at high speed towards PI Varg Veum, and comes very close to killing him. Veum is certain this is no accident, following so soon after the deaths of two...
- Location(s): Russia, Pripyat/Chernobyl
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): early 2000s
Chernobyl: the Zone of Exclusion. A ghostly place, deserted and forgotten for almost two decades; now inhabited by militia, shady scavengers, a few reckless scientists, and some elderly Ukrainian peasants . . . This is the eerie and dangerous...
- Location(s): Saudi Arabia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 2000s
“The first great Saudi novel.” —The New York Sun Banned in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, this provocative, fast-paced debut novel confirms what The Washington Post reported about its award-winning author: “Yousef Al-Mohaimeed is taking on some of the...
- Location(s): Arctic Ocean, Alaska, Pacific Ocean
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Lili is a runaway. She’s left behind her native France to go in search of freedom, of adventure, of life. Her search takes her to Kodiak, Alaska, home to a ragtag community of fishermen, army vets and drifters who...
- Location(s): Amsterdam
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary / historical
In the Rijksmuseum of Amsterdam, there is a painting called Woman in Blue Reading a Letter. Each day a man visits to gaze at it. He is irresistibly drawn to it. Obsessed by it. He studies the painting, in...
- Location(s): Colorado
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 20th Century
“There is one every generation―a seer who keeps the stories.” Luz “Little Light” Lopez, a tea leaf reader and laundress, is left to fend for herself after her older brother, Diego, a snake charmer and factory worker, is run...
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