- Location(s): Chicago
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Modern
Charles “Cash” Carmichael traded his high-rise condo and family-firm career for a job coaching soccer for Chicago’s inner-city kids. He’s adjusting to living on minimum wage when his young cousin, newly out and running away from home, shows up...
- Location(s): England, Netherlands
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
The pulse-pounding new thriller from Marnie Riches. For anyone who loves Jo Nesbo and Stieg Larsson, this book is for you! When the mutilated bodies of two sex-workers are found in Amsterdam, Chief Inspector van den Bergen must find...
The girl who fell from the Sky
- Location(s): France, Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): WW2
Also known as Trapeze. Marian Sutro is a young woman recruited by the British Intelligence Service to go to occupied France and work with the resistance there and carry out a particular mission – essentially to encourage her first...
- Location(s): Liverpool, London
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): 2014/1981
London 2014. Holly Smith has never fitted in. Adopted when just a few months old, she’s always felt she was someone with no history, the girl who just appeared. All she has is the address of where she was...
- Location(s): Anglesey
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): 1994 and contemporary
Twenty-five years ago, a local girl went missing. Now, another girl comes back… When five-year-old Elsie Button was snatched from a garden in a sleepy town on the Welsh island of Anglesey, and a local man later confessed, it...
The Girl Who Was Saturday Night
- Location(s): Montreal
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
At birth, Nouschka forms a bond with her twin that can never be broken. At six, she’s the child star daughter of Quebec’s most famous musician. At sixteen, she’s a high-school dropout kicking up with her beloved brother. At...
- Location(s): Amsterdam
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Winner of the Patricia Highsmith Award for Most Exotic Location 2015. HE’S WATCHING HER. SHE DOESN’T KNOW IT…YET When a bomb explodes at the University of Amsterdam, aspiring criminologist Georgina McKenzie is asked by the police to help flush...
- Location(s): Pisa
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Late 20th and Late 12th Century
Two women, centuries apart, bound together by the secrets of one of the most iconic buildings ever created. Pisa, 1999 Sam Campbell sits by her husband’s hospital bed. Far from home and her children, she must care for Michael...
The Girl with the Painted Face
- Location(s): Modena
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1580s
Modena, Italy, 1582. Seventeen-year-old seamstress Sofia Genotti is on the run, falsely accused of theft. Penniless and desperate to avoid the perils of whoredom, she is introduced to a troupe of travelling actors, who ask her to join them as costume...
- Location(s): Alexandria, England
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s onwards
Memories are fragile when you are seventy years old. I can’t afford to lose any more of them, not when remembering the past might help with the here and now. Nadia needs help. Help getting out of her hospital...










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