- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1921
NEW YORK CITY, 1921 An impossible dream. The war is over, the twenties are roaring, but in the depths of the city that never sleeps, Dorothy Parker is struggling to make her mark in a man’s world. A broken...
- Location(s): Genoa
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Chief Inspector Giacomo Amaldi knows he is dealing with a serial killer, a taxidermist who stalks his victims: amidst a garbage strike, the detective has to find his clues in this unnamed Italian city.
The Many Lives and Secret Sorrows of Josephine B
- Location(s): France
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Second half the 18th Century
‘You will be unhappily wed. You will be widowed. You will be Queen.’ To fourteen-year-old Rose, eldest daughter of a poor plantation landlord, the fortune teller’s prophecy is both thrilling and laughable. Poorly educated and without a dowry, it...
- Location(s): Egypt
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 20th Century span
In 1900 Lady Anna Winterbourne travels to Egypt where she falls in love with Sharif, and Egyptian Nationalist utterly committed to his country’s cause. A hundred years later, Isabel Parkman, an American divorcee and a descendant of Anna and...
- Location(s): Austria, Germany, Majdanek, New York City (NYC), Ravensbrück
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): WW2 / 1960s-80s
Based on a true story Hermine Braunsteiner was the first person to be extradited from the Unites States for Nazi war crimes. Hermine was one of a few thousand women to work as a female concentration camp guard. Prisoners...
The Marigold Cottages Murder Collective
- Location(s): Santa Barbara
- Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Mrs B, landlady of the Marigold Cottages, only rents to favoured tenants, and they’re an eccentric (read: odd, slightly broken) bunch. There’s anxious playwright Sophie, agoraphobe over-sharer Hamilton, single mum and sculptor Ocean, perfectionist Lily-Ann, and the ever-mysterious Nicholas....
- Location(s): Providence, Rhode Island
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
Brown University, 1982. Madeleine Hanna, dutiful English student and incurable romantic, is writing her thesis on Jane Austen and George Eliot – authors of the great marriage plots. As Madeleine studies the age-old motivations of the human heart, real...
- Location(s): Israel
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
After a series of black ops missions, Steve was looking forward to a relaxing intelligence assignment in beautiful Israel. What he found was a conspiracy that would rock the Middle East. He also found Neena. After a series of...
- Location(s): Moscow
- Genre(s): Fantasy
- Era(s): Second half 20th century
In Soviet Moscow, God is dead, but the devil – to say nothing of his retinue of demons, from a loudmouthed, gun-toting tomcat, to the fanged fallen angel Koroviev – is very much alive. As death and destruction spread...
- Location(s): England, London
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1850s
A cold October night, 1854. In a dark passageway, an innocent man is stabbed to death. So begins the extraordinary story of Edward Glyver, book lover, scholar and murderer. As a young boy, Glyver always believed he was destined...
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