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Blind Side

Blind Side
  • Author(s): Jennie Ensor
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Suspense
  • Era(s): 2005 in the months before and after 7/7

Can you ever truly know someone? And what if you suspect the unthinkable? London, five months before 7/7. Georgie, a young woman wary of relationships after previous heartbreak, gives in and agrees to sleep with close friend Julian. She’s...

Blood and Beauty

Blood and Beauty
  • Author(s): Sarah Dunant
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 15th Century

By the end of the fifteenth century, the beauty and creativity of Italy is matched by its brutality and corruption, nowhere more than in Rome and in the Church. When Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia buys his way into the papacy...

Blood Count

Blood Count
  • Author(s): Reggie Nadelson
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

In New York’s Harlem, every street is steeped in history, and the music of jazz legends plays in the memories of its residents. Artie Cohen could feel at home here – if he wasn’t on the trail of a...

Blood from a Stone

Blood from a Stone
  • Author(s): Donna Leon
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

On a cold night shortly before Christmas, an immigrant street vendor is killed in Venice’s Campo Santo Stefano. The nearest witnesses to the event are the tourists who had been browsing the man’s wares before his death – fake...

Blood Med: (Max Cámara 4)

Blood Med: (Max Cámara 4)
  • Author(s): Jason Webster
  • Location(s): Valencia
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Spain is corrupt and on the brink of collapse.The king is ill, banks are closing, hospitals are in chaos, homes are lost, demonstrators riot and rightwing thugs patrol the street. The tunnels beneath the streets are at once a...

Blood on the Forge

Blood on the Forge
  • Author(s): William Attaway
  • Location(s): Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): First half of the 20th Century

This brutally gripping novel about the African-American Great Migration follows the three Moss brothers, who flee the rural South to work in industries up North. Delivered by day into the searing inferno of the steel mills, by night they...

Blood on the Sand (DI Andy Horton 5)

Blood on the Sand (DI Andy Horton 5)
  • Author(s): Pauline Rowson
  • Location(s): Isle of Wight
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Inspector Andy Horton’s holiday peace is shattered when stepping out across an abandoned golf course on the Isle of Wight on a cold, grey January, he finds himself facing a distraught young woman with a gun in her hand...

Blood Orange

Blood Orange
  • Author(s): Troy Blacklaws
  • Location(s): Cape Town, KwaZulu-Natal (Natal)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s/1980s

Gecko’s childhood is one of sheltered, almost magical innocence on a farm in Natal. He spends his days taking barefoot expeditions with his dogs and his nights listening to Springbok Radio, unaware of the cruel force in his life...

Blood Orange

Blood Orange
  • Author(s): Harriet Tyce
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Domestic Noir
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Alison has it all. A doting husband, adorable daughter, and a career on the rise – she’s just been given her first murder case to defend. But all is never as it seems… Just one more night. Then I’ll...

Blood Orchids

Blood Orchids
  • Author(s): Toby Neal
  • Location(s): Hawai'i
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Hawaii is palm trees, black sand and blue water-but for policewoman Lei Texeira, there’s a dark side to paradise. Lei has overcome a scarred past to make a life for herself as a cop in the sleepy Big Island...

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