- Location(s): Beirut
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Late 1900s
Why did he return to Beirut? Why did Karim leave his wife and children and the life he had built in France to return to a homeland still reeling from war? It was not to answer his brother Naseem’s...
- Location(s): Ohio
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
The mysterious disappearance of her great- grandmother and twenty-five other elderly inmates from a Shaker Heights nursing home has left Lenore Stonecipher Beadsman emotionally stranded on the edge of the Great Ohio Desert. But that is simply one problem...
- Location(s): Finland
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1809
At only 122 pages, this is a short but intense novel set in icy, rural Finland, 1809. Erik and Henrik are two brothers who fought on opposite sides in the Russian-Swedish war, and have returned to their mother’s snowed-in...
- Location(s): Buenos Aires
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
When Pepe Carvalho’s uncle asks him to find his son, in Buenos Aires, Pepe is reluctant. All he knows about Argentina is the tango and Maradona, and he has no desire to find out more. But family is family...
- Location(s): Vermont
With his trademark emotional heft and storytelling skill, bestselling author Chris Bohjalian presents this resonant novel about the formation of an unconventional family-the ties that bind it, and the strains that pull it apart. Two years after their twin...
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern (looking back to 1990s)
In the LAPD’s Open-Unsolved Unit, not many murder victims die almost a decade after the crime. So when a man succumbs to complications from being shot by a stray bullet ten years earlier, Bosch catches a case in which...
- Location(s): Africa, France
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 20th century
This first volume of the second Courtney sequence, The Burning Shore is a marvellous epic of courage and love that moves from the blazing skies of war torn France to the secret heart of the African wilderness. It is...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
DS Dennis Milne kills three innocent people, initiating an investigation. A few hours later Milne is on the streets again investigating the death of a woman found by Regent’s Canal. As his investigation grows, he discovers a level of...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1760s
Georgian London, in the summer of 1763. At nineteen, Anne Jaccob is awakened to the possibility of joy when she meets Fub, the butcher’s apprentice, and begins to imagine a life of passion with him. The only daughter of...
- Location(s): Nottinghamshire
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Fiction
“When I met the Devil I was twelve years old. I’d just started holding hands with Holly from the top end of the village and, even though I thought she was only messing me around when she said that...
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