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The Last Straw (Pigeon-Blood Red Book #2)

The Last Straw (Pigeon-Blood Red Book #2)
  • Author(s): Ed Duncan
  • Location(s): Chicago
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When a teenage girl witnesses a carjacking gone bad, she is marked for death by a crime boss with no apparent motive. A black lawyer and a white enforcer with an unlikely history forge an uneasy alliance to protect...

The Last Summer

The Last Summer
  • Author(s): Judith Kinghorn
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): WW1

Clarissa is almost seventeen when the spell of her childhood is broken. It is 1914, the beginning of a blissful, golden summer – and the end of an era. Deyning Park is in its heyday, the large country house...

The Last Tenant

The Last Tenant
  • Author(s): Eva Björg Ægisdóttir, Victoria Cribb (translator)
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller, In Translation
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Forbidden Iceland series: Volume 6 When the skeletons of a young woman and a baby are uncovered on a long-abandoned farm in Hvalfjörður, it is clear they were buried years apart. West Iceland CID begins to investigate the disturbing...

The Last Weynfeldt

The Last Weynfeldt
  • Author(s): Martin Suter
  • Location(s): Zurich
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Adrian Weynfeldt is an art expert in an international auction house, a bachelor in his mid-fifties living in a grand Zurich apartment filled with costly paintings and antiques. Always correct and well-mannered, he’s given up on love until one...

The Laughterhouse

The Laughterhouse
  • Author(s): Paul Cleave
  • Location(s): Christchurch
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Theodore Tate never forgot his first crime scene-ten year-old Jessica Cole found dead in “the Laughterhouse,” an old abandoned slaughterhouse with the “S” painted over. The killer was found and arrested. Justice was served. Or was it? Fifteen years...

The Left Bank

The Left Bank
  • Author(s): Kate Muir
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Olivier and Madison Malin live the “life” on the exclusive Left Bank. Madison is a film star: her beauty, talent and perfect accent hide her Texan roots and her husband, Olivier, is the darling of the sophisticated Left Bank:...

The Legacy of Eden

The Legacy of Eden
  • Author(s): Nelle Davy
  • Location(s): Iowa
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern and Various

This book is described as a reworking of I, Claudius, but set on a corn farm “Aurelia” in Iowa. The Grandmother is on her deathbed and talks to her Granddaughter – memories and details of relationships that have permeated...

The Lemon Orchard

The Lemon Orchard
  • Author(s): Luanne Rice
  • Location(s): Malibu
  • Era(s): Modern

Julia is in California at her aunt and uncle’s lemon orchard house sitting for them while they are in Ireland. The author pays superb attention to detail, with the vivid descriptions, and characters who are dealing with love, loss,...

The Levelling

The Levelling
  • Author(s): Dan Mayland
  • Location(s): Baku, Iran, Turkmenistan
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

These days, Mark Sava spends more time in tutoring sessions than in cloak-and-dagger rendezvous. The former CIA station chief of Azerbaijan has settled into the modest life of a professor in Baku…until an assassin makes a brazen attempt on...

The Levelling Sea

The Levelling Sea
  • Author(s): Philip Marsden
  • Location(s): Falmouth
  • Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Various

The story of Britain’s colourful maritime past seen through the changing fortunes of the Cornish port of Falmouth. Within the space of few years, during the 1560s and 1570s, a maritime revolution took place in England that would contribute...

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