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Mystery At The Old Mill

Mystery At The Old Mill
  • Author(s): Clare Chase
  • Location(s): Cambridge
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When the calm of Saxford St Peter is disrupted by a deadly fire at the Old Mill, amateur sleuth Eve Mallow finds herself investigating a most surprising mystery! Everyone in Saxford St Peter is desperate to know more about...

Mystery At Windswept Farm (Rosalie Hart #3)

Mystery At Windswept Farm (Rosalie Hart #3)
  • Author(s): Wendy Sand Eckel
  • Location(s): Maryland
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In Wendy Sand Eckel’s much-anticipated third book in the Rosalie Hart Mystery Series, Rosalie’s hard-earned organic farm certification is threatened by a toxic neighbour who is about to crop dust his winter wheat. When their impulsive farm hand decides...

Mystery By The Sea (Lady Eleanor Swift #5)

Mystery By The Sea (Lady Eleanor Swift #5)
  • Author(s): Verity Bright
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): 1920s

A magnificent seaside hotel, striped deckchairs, strawberry ice cream… and a rather familiar dead body? Lady Swift is on the case! Spring, 1921. Lady Eleanor Swift, explorer extraordinaire and accidental sleuth, hasn’t had a vacation since she arrived in...

Mythopedia: An Encyclopedia of Mythical Beasts and Their Magical Tales

Mythopedia: An Encyclopedia of Mythical Beasts and Their Magical Tales
  • Author(s): Good Wives and Warriors
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Children, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Timeless

From the West African fable of Anansi the Spider, to Michabo, the magical hare who rebuilt the world and Tanuki, the sweet but troublesome racoon-dog of Japanese folklore, Mythopedia is an encyclopedia of mythical creatures that covers legends, tales...

Nairobi Heat

Nairobi Heat
  • Author(s): Mukoma Wa Ngugi
  • Location(s): Nairobi
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

It’s big news when African peace activist Joshua Hakizimana – famous for saving hundreds of people from Rwandan genocide – accepts a position at the University in Madison, Wisconsin. Then a young girl is found murdered on his doorstep....

Names for the Sea

Names for the Sea
  • Author(s): Sarah Moss
  • Location(s): Iceland
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Novelist Sarah Moss had a childhood dream of moving to Iceland, sustained by a wild summer there when she was nineteen. In 2009, she saw an advertisement for a job at the University of Iceland and applied on a...

Nanny Needed

Nanny Needed
  • Author(s): Georgina Cross
  • Location(s): Upper West Side, Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back 20 years

When Sarah Larsen answers the Bird family’s advertisement, her life changes overnight. The job seems like a dream come true: nannying in a glamorous penthouse apartment with a salary that adds several zeroes to her current income. Sarah signs...

Nantucket Nights

Nantucket Nights
  • Author(s): Elin Hilderbrand
  • Location(s): Nantucket
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

A full moon, a twenty-year old friendship- and a Nantucket night no one would ever forget… For 20 years, Kayla, Antoinette, and Val have performed their own special summer ritual. Once a year, the old friends put aside their...

Naples ’44: An Intelligence Officer in the Italian Labyrinth

Naples ’44: An Intelligence Officer in the Italian Labyrinth
  • Author(s): Norman Lewis
  • Location(s): Naples
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Historical
  • Era(s): 1940s

Norman Lewis is one of the least appreciated authors and travel writers fot he last century. The city is liberated in 1944 by the Allies and this book captures the bleakness and futility of war, yet the the true...

Narcoland

Narcoland
  • Author(s): Anabel Hernandez
  • Location(s): Mexico
  • Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Various

The product of five years of investigative reporting, the subject of intense national controversy, and the source of death threats that forced the National Human Rights Commission to assign two full-time bodyguards to Anabel Hernández, Narcoland has been a...

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