- Location(s): Bad Münstereifel, Cologne (Köln)
- Genre(s): Mystery, Young Adult
- Era(s): Modern
The first death Seventeen-year-old Lin Fox finds a body in an orchard. As she backs away in horror, she steps on broken glass. The second death Then blood appears on her doorstep – blood, and broken glass. The third...
- Location(s): Scotland
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 1900s
Beatrice Colin’s The Glass House is a gorgeously transporting novel filled with turn-of-the-century detail and lush blooms, about two women from vastly different worlds Scotland, 1912. Antonia McCulloch’s life hasn’t gone the way she planned. She and her husband,...
- Location(s): Burma (Myanmar), India, Malaysia (Malaya)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Second half 19th century onwards
Beginning in 1885, with the British invasion of Mandalay and the capture of the Burmese king and queen, and encompassing over 100 years to modern-day India and Burma (Myanmar), Amitav Ghosh has created in The Glass Palace a monument...
The Glass Room (Vera Stanhope #5)
- Location(s): Northumberland
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
DI Vera Stanhope is not one to make friends easily, but her hippy neighbours keep her well-supplied in homebrew and conversation. But when one of them goes missing, her path leads her to more than a missing friend ....
- Location(s): Kottayam
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s
This is the story of Rahel and Estha, twins growing up among the banana vats and peppercorns of their blind grandmother’s factory, and amid scenes of political turbulence in Kerala. Armed only with the innocence of youth, they fashion...
- Location(s): The Salton Sea
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s
The year is 1978. Ares Ramirez, age 12, lives with his mother, Laurel, and his younger brother Malcolm in a trailer at the edge of the Salton Sea, an unintentionally man-made body of water in the middle of the...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Post WW2
The story of Don Vito Corleone, the head of a New York Mafia family, inspired some of the most successful movies ever. It is in Mario Puzo’s The Godfather that Corleone first appears. As Corleone’s desperate struggle to control...
- Location(s): Bangkok
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Number 4 in the Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep novels by John Burdett.He is summoned to investigate the most shocking murder of his career. Solving it could mean a promotion but, still reeling from a personal tragedy, Sonchai is more interested...
- Location(s): Argentina
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1913
Arriving in Buenos Aires in 1913, with only a suitcase and her father’s cherished violin to her name, seventeen-year-old Leda is shocked to find that the husband she has travelled across an ocean to reach is dead. Unable to...
- Location(s): Sydney
- Genre(s): Thriller, Young Adult
- Era(s): 1960s
The Vietnam War rages overseas, but back at home, in a year that begins with the hanging of one man and ends with the drowning of another, eleven schoolgirls embrace their own chilling history when their teacher abruptly goes...
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