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Shrouded

Shrouded
  • Author(s): Sólveig Pálsdóttir
  • Location(s): Iceland, Reykjavik
  • Genre(s): Police Procedural
  • Era(s): Contemporary

(Ice and Crime Book 4) A retired, reclusive woman is found on a bitter winter morning, clubbed to death in Reykjavik’s old graveyard. Detectives Guðgeir and Elsa Guðrún face one of their toughest cases yet, as they try to...

Signatures in Stone: A Bomarzo Mystery

Signatures in Stone: A Bomarzo Mystery
  • Author(s): Linda Lappin
  • Location(s): Lazio, Bomarzo
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 1920's

Seeking inspiration in the timeless Italian landscape, four unlikely misfits find their destinies entangled in the meanders of the mysterious sculpture garden of Bomarzo, peopled with freaks and monsters. Daphne, a writer with a hashish habit, Clive, American gigolo...

Simonetta

Simonetta
  • Author(s): Fay Picardi
  • Location(s): Florence
  • Genre(s): Biography, Fiction
  • Era(s): 15th Century

Have you ever wondered about who Botticelli chose to depict in his immortal painting Birth of Venus? Was she a real person, his model or his mistress? Most people recognize her image, but few can name her. Even fewer...

Slanting Towards the Sea

Slanting Towards the Sea
  • Author(s): Lidija Hilje
  • Location(s): Zadar
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

An evocative meditation on longing and buried resentment, set in the beautiful Croatian city of Zadar. Ivona has returned to her childhood home to care for her father. While there, she reconnects with the man she divorced over ten...

Solito

Solito
  • Author(s): Javier Zamora
  • Location(s): El Salvador, Mexico
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘If there’s any justice, Solito will someday be considered a classic.’ Rumaan Alam Young Javier dreams of eating orange sherbet ice cream with his parents in the United States. For this to happen, he must embark on a three-thousand-mile...

Someday Everything Will All Make Sense

Someday Everything Will All Make Sense
  • Author(s): Carol LaHines
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): present day

Someday Everything Will All Make Sense follows Luther van der Loon, an eccentric harpsichordist and professor of early music, as he navigates the stages of grief after the untimely death of his mother. Luther obsesses over burial practices, rails...

Song of the Yukon

Song of the Yukon
  • Author(s): Trisha Sugarek
  • Location(s): Alaska
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1921

Alaska was calling! LaVerne’s dream was to follow the poet Robert Service’s footsteps to the wilds of Alaska. At sixteen she was already writing her own music and believed that her talent could only flourish on the back trails...

Songs for the Flames

Songs for the Flames
  • Author(s): Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Anne McLean (Translator)
  • Location(s): Colombia, Spain
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Various

A morally complex, searing set of stories by the award-winning author of The Sound of Things Falling and The Shape of the Ruins (shortlisted for the Booker International Prize 2019). A renowned photographer probes a traumatic incident in the...

Spanish Lavender

Spanish Lavender
  • Author(s): Joan Fallon
  • Location(s): Málaga
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1937 Spanish Civil War

‘Spanish Lavender’ is a love story set in the Spanish Civil War. The war has been raging for months and now Elizabeth and her parents have been ordered to leave Spain and return to Britain. The young English woman...

Split

Split
  • Author(s): Alida Bremer, Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp (Translator)
  • Location(s): Split
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

Nazis, spies, romance, and murder collide in prewar eastern Europe in a mesmerizing historical novel by the award-winning author of Oliva’s Garden. It’s 1936. The seaside-resort village of Split on the Adriatic coast bustles. The tourist spots are booming,...

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