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Significance

Significance
  • Author(s): Jo Mazelis
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Lucy Swann is trying on a new life. She’s cut and dyed her hair and bought new clothes, but she’s only got as far as a small town in northern France when her flight is violently cut short. When...

Silenius’ Gift

Silenius’ Gift
  • Author(s): Richard Szweda
  • Location(s): The North East (England)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 90s AD

This story tells the adventures of Antonious, a hapless British slave as he trails around Northern Britain in a quest for a box. The story is set in Britain, just after the murder of Emperor Domitian; Nerva is on...

Silent in the Grave

Silent in the Grave
  • Author(s): Deanna Raybourn
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 1800s

The first in the Lady Grey series. It’s London, 1886. To say I met Nicholas Brisbane over my husband’s dead body is not entirely accurate. Edward, it should be noted, was still twitching upon the floor…For Lady Julia Grey,...

Silent Voices (DI Lottie Parker #9)

Silent Voices (DI Lottie Parker #9)
  • Author(s): Patricia Gibney
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When twenty-five-year-old Beth Mullen returns home, expecting to find her twin Rachel waiting for her, the silent house sends a shiver down her spine. She races upstairs to find her beautiful beloved sister cold in her childhood bed, her...

Silesian Station

Silesian Station
  • Author(s): David Downing
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): WW2

In July 1939 Russell returns to Berlin as the newly-appointed Central European correspondent of an American newspaper. With his communist past, German son and English-American parentage he’s the perfect catch for any of Europe’s warring espionage services — and...

Silk

Silk
  • Author(s): Alessandro Baricco
  • Location(s): France, Japan
  • Genre(s): Novella
  • Era(s): 1861

The year is 1861. Herve Joncour is a French merchant of silkworms, who combs the known world for their gemlike eggs. Then circumstances compel him to travel farther, beyond the edge of the known, to a country legendary for...

Silver Stallion: A Novel of Korea

Silver Stallion: A Novel of Korea
  • Author(s): Junghyo Ahn
  • Location(s): South Korea
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

The mountain village of Kumsan, South Korea, is changed forever when the liberating U.N. forces set up a special encampment called Texas Town.

Simon Sixsmith: A Ghost Story

Simon Sixsmith: A Ghost Story
  • Author(s): Daniel Pembrey
  • Location(s): South Carolina
  • Genre(s): Horror, Novella
  • Era(s): Modern

“Daniel Pembrey tells a cracking tale with verve and style. He can write, the jury’s not out on that one…” Susan Hill, Booker Prize short-listed writer, and author of ghost story The Woman In Black THE HORRORS OF FAMILY...

Sin Walks into the Desert

Sin Walks into the Desert
  • Author(s): Matt Ingwalson
  • Location(s): Arizona
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Sin gets a late night call from la Calavera. She’s an ex-federal agent living on half a lung in a retirement home near the border. And she says el Viejo is missing. This is el Viejo she’s talking about....

Since I don’t have you

Since I don’t have you
  • Author(s): Louise Candlish
  • Location(s): Santorini
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

They were friends who shared everything – until tragedy singled one out. At the birth of their daughters, best friends Rachel, Mariel and Jenny make a promise: to love and care for each other’s girls exactly as they would...

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