- Location(s): Edmonton
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Leo Desroches is a reporter for an Edmonton newspaper and attends a murder scene and comes from a native background. Much of this is his story as he rebuilds his life and investigates the murder.
- Location(s): Bletchley, Wilmslow
- Era(s): 1940/50s
June 8, 1954. Alan Turing, the visionary mathematician, is found dead at his home in sleepy Wilmslow, dispatched by a poisoned apple. Taking the case, Detective Constable Leonard Corell quickly learns Turing is a convicted homosexual. Confident it’s a...
- Location(s): Tilos
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Modern
I came here looking for some kind of happiness. I think it might be the cleverest thing I have ever done. One heartbroken winter, Jennifer decides to act on her dream of moving to a tiny Greek island –...
Falling off the Edge of the World
- Location(s): Saudi Arabia
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
What would tempt a young woman to run off to a country she knew almost nothing about? I was that young woman. Fleeing a bitter divorce and my safe, but mundane, life I accepted a job in Saudi Arabia,...
- Location(s): Patagonia
- Genre(s): Travelogue, Adventure
- Era(s): Contemporary
Part reportage, part personal essay, part travelogue, False Calm finds Argentinian author María Sonia Cristoff writing against romantic portrayals of Patagonia as she journeys from one small town to the next. Cristoff returns home to chronicle the ghost towns...
- Location(s): London, South America
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth… Private Investigator and former MI6 agent Joe Wilde is hired by Sally Devlin to investigate her son’s disappearance. Liam Devlin was a rising football star. His car was found...
- Location(s): Argentina, Italy
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
Gerardo Fischer is missing. Can you help?Theater director Gerardo Fischer has vanished from the Argentinian artists’ colony where he was rehearsing a pioneering new work. No note. No warning. No trace.His colleagues are frightened for him, so they call...
- Location(s): Marseilles (Marseille), Laos, London
- Genre(s): Espionage, Fiction
- Era(s): Post WW2
1949: William Catesby returns to London in disgrace, accused of murdering a ‘double-dipper’ the Americans believed to be one of their own. His left-wing sympathies have him singled out as a traitor. Henry Bone throws him a lifeline, sending...
- Location(s): Spain
- Genre(s): Historical, Travelogue
- Era(s): 1930s
Travelogue of Spain written by Irish author in 1937.
- Location(s): Australia
- Genre(s): Fiction
Two immigrants, Salimah and Sayuri, navigate isolation, a new language, and devastating loss on their way to a lifelong friendship. Far from her native country of Nigeria and now living as a single mother of two, Salimah works the...
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