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grk: Operation Tortoise

grk: Operation Tortoise
  • Author(s): Josh Lacey
  • Location(s): Seychelles
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Modern

When Tim discovers a man badly hurt on a beach, his sun-kissed relaxing holiday in the Seychelles takes on a more dangerous twist. He and Grk are the only ones, it seems, who want to know what happened. They...

Haiti, Love and Murder in the Season of Soup Joumou

Haiti, Love and Murder in the Season of Soup Joumou
  • Author(s): Michael Matza
  • Location(s): Haiti
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Set amid Haiti’s worst security crisis in a century – foreshadowing the assassination of President Jovenel Moise – Haiti, Love and Murder in the Season of Soup Joumou blends history, culture, religion and superstition in a suspenseful story about...

Hangover Square

Hangover Square
  • Author(s): Patrick Hamilton
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s

The story of unrequited love, George Harvey Bone seeks solace in the sordid low life area of Earls Court. A tremendous piece of writing.

Hard By A Great Forest

Hard By A Great Forest
  • Author(s): Leo Vardiashvili
  • Location(s): Tbilisi
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Tbilisi’s littered with memories that await me like landmines. The dearly departed voices I silenced long ago have come back without my permission. The situation calls for someone with a plan. I didn’t even bring toothpaste. Saba’s father is...

Hausfrau

Hausfrau
  • Author(s): Jill Alexander Essbaum
  • Location(s): Zurich
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Anna was a good wife, mostly . . . Anna Benz lives in comfort and affluence with her husband and three young children in Dietlikon, a picture-perfect suburb of Zurich. Anna, an American expat, has chosen this life far...

Her Child’s Cry (Boyle and Keneally #3)

Her Child’s Cry (Boyle and Keneally #3)
  • Author(s): S A Dunphy
  • Location(s): Dublin
  • Genre(s): Police Procedural, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Little Rosie Blake has been taken. Since going missing from the hospital where she was being treated for cancer, Rosie’s distraught parents haven’t heard a word. And time is swiftly running out. They have to find her, and right...

Hold Tight, Don’t Let Go: A Novel of Haiti

Hold Tight, Don’t Let Go: A Novel of Haiti
  • Author(s): Laura Rose Wagner
  • Location(s): Haiti
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): 2010

Hold Tight, Don’t Let Go is the vivid story of two teenage cousins, raised as sisters, who survive the devastating 2010 earthquake in Haiti, though they lose the woman who raised them, Manman. They must fend for themselves in...

Home Before Dark

Home Before Dark
  • Author(s): Eva Björg Ægisdóttir
  • Location(s): Iceland
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): 1960s/1970s

November, 1967, Iceland. Fourteen-year-old Marsi has a secret penpal – a boy who lives on the other side of the country – but she has been writing to him in her older sister’s name. Now she is excited to...

Hooker Avenue

Hooker Avenue
  • Author(s): Jode Millman
  • Location(s): Pennsylvania, The Hudson Valley
  • Genre(s): Crime, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The Queen City Crimes series is inspired by true crimes in the Hudson Valley. Being a Good Samaritan is hazardous. Amid a violent Hudson Valley thunderstorm, Jessie Martin discovers a woman lying unconscious in a roadside ditch. The badly...

Hope For The Railway Girls (Railway Girls #5)

Hope For The Railway Girls (Railway Girls #5)
  • Author(s): Maisie Thomas
  • Location(s): Manchester, Leeds
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WWII

Manchester, 1942 A new year brings new hope for the railway girls. Alison’s romance with the charming Dr Maitland is blossoming, but then she is posted away from Manchester. Working in a canteen isn’t part of her plan, nor...

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