- Location(s): Hamburg
- Genre(s): Crime
A girl’s body lies, posed, on the pale sand of a Hamburg beach, a message concealed in her hand. ‘I have been underground, and now it is time for me to return home…’ Jan Fabel, of the Hamburg murder...
Brujas (Cantabria American School Book 3)
- Location(s): Northern Spain, The Basque Country
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Now in his third year at the Cantabria American School, Harvey Jones has hit his stride, but the recalcitrant teachers, the “brujas” are working harder than ever to stop him. This year, however, things begin to go terribly wrong...
- Location(s): Florence
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): 1300s, 1400s
Even in an age of soaring skyscrapers and cavernous sports stadiums, the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence, with its immense, terracotta-tiled cupola, still retains a rare power to astonish. Yet the elegance of the building belies...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Early 21st Century
Visitors to Venice might hope to find a Venetian friend who will guide them through the narrow streets, explaining a bit of history here, a story from his youth there, perhaps grumbling about the tourists, occasionally stopping for a...
- Location(s): Beijing (Peking)
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Cultural Revolution of China
“This is the book I struggled not to write. I buried the pain along with my Chinese name and changed my fate.” This is a fictional memoir by Chinese artist, Little Winter, who tries to re-establish the bond with...
- Location(s): Budapest
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): 1930s
Set in Budapest 1936. The author brings Budapest to life, in similar vein to Philip Kerr’s Berlin based Bernie Gunther novels. Zsigmond Gordon is a crime journalist with a local newspaper who follows up the murder of a young woman....
- Location(s): Budapest
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Modern
When Kati Dunai travels to Budapest to settle her father’s estate, the last thing on her mind is the pursuit of pleasure. She’s a busy international conference planner, her life rooted in Manhattan. But from the moment she sets...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Bull Street is the story of Richard Blum, a naïve, young Wall Streeter who gives a jaded billionaire the chance for redemption, as they team up to bring down an insider trading ring before they wind up in jail...
- Location(s): Egypt
- Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
- Era(s): Late 18th Century
Spy thriller based around Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt in 1798. From Amazon: 1798. James Burke, British spy, is in Egypt. His task: to investigate the rumour that Napoleon is planning an invasion. It turns out that the French are coming...
- Location(s): Argentina
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 19th Century
In 1806 the British invaded in Buenos Aires. What were they doing there? Who was the British spy involved in the plot? And what happened afterwards? ‘Burke in the Land of Silver’ is based on the adventures of real-life...










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