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Maya

Maya
  • Author(s): Jostein Gaarder
  • Location(s): Spain, Fiji
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): late 20th century

A chance meeting on the Fijian island of Taveuni is the trigger for a fascinating and mysterious novel that intertwines the stories of John Spooke, an English author who is grieving for his dead wife; Frank Andersen, a Norwegian...

Maybe This Time

Maybe This Time
  • Author(s): Jill Mansell
  • Location(s): The Cotswolds, Mallorca
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Mimi isn’t looking for love when she spends a weekend in Goosebrook, the Cotswolds village her dad has moved to. And her first encounter with Cal, who lives there too, is nothing like a scene in a romantic movie...

Mazurka for Two Dead Men

Mazurka for Two Dead Men
  • Author(s): Camilo José Cela
  • Location(s): Galicia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Later 1930s

Mazurka for Two Dead Men, the culmination of Camilo José Cela’s literary art, opens in 1936 at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War: Lionheart Gamuzo is savagely murdered. In 1939, as the war ends, his brother avenges his...

Meet Me at Sunset

Meet Me at Sunset
  • Author(s): Carol Kirkwood
  • Location(s): Mallorca
  • Genre(s): Romance, Suspense
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Lies, seduction and secrets await under a Spanish sun… When Camille Fontaine arrives on the sun-drenched island of Majorca, she’s running from a shattered love affair. But even amongst the palm trees and the golden sands, she can’t forget...

Meet Me in Madrid

Meet Me in Madrid
  • Author(s): Verity Lowell
  • Location(s): Madrid
  • Genre(s): Fiction, LGBTQIA+, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In this sexy, sophisticated romantic comedy, two women juggle romance and career across continents. Charlotte Hilaire has a love-hate relationship with her work as a museum courier. On the one hand, it takes her around the world. On the...

Mira’s Way

Mira’s Way
  • Author(s): Amy Maroney
  • Location(s): The Pyrenees (Catalonia), The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Era(s): sixteenth century and modern day (dual timeline)

History brims with silenced stories. Will Mira’s be one of them? Mira’s Way, book two of The Miramonde Series, continues the mesmerizing tale of a Renaissance-era female artist and the modern-day art scholar who risks everything to learn her...

Mum and Dad

Mum and Dad
  • Author(s): Joanna Trollope
  • Location(s): Spain
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

“What a mess, she thought now . . . what a bloody, unholy mess the whole family has got itself into.” It’s been 25 years since Gus and Monica left England to start a new life in Spain, building...

Murder in Barcelona

Murder in Barcelona
  • Author(s): Christina Koning
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Crime, Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1937

#6 Blind Detective series Summer, 1937. Frederick Rowlands’ peaceful holiday in Cornwall is derailed when a film star is found dead in his hotel. The suspicious nature of Dolores La Mar’s death points to murder and Rowlands soon finds...

Murder in La Ciudad del Inglés

Murder in La Ciudad del Inglés
  • Author(s): Andrew Anzur Clement
  • Location(s): La Alberca
  • Genre(s): Adventure, Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Present day

Two murders. A missing child. And a killer searching for the treasure of the Knights Templar. As a native English speaker, Luka Williamson isn’t expecting much from La Ciudad del Ingles. He has volunteered to spend one week talking...

Murder in Seville

Murder in Seville
  • Author(s): Nick Sweet
  • Location(s): Seville
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

(Inspector Velázquez Mysteries Book 1) Inspector Velázquez finds himself at odds with his superiors after failing to solve his previous three investigations. The pressure is mounting on him to make an arrest after a gay vet is murdered in...

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