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Mocha, Moonlight and Murder

Mocha, Moonlight and Murder
  • Author(s): MaryAnn Kempher
  • Location(s): Reno
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Instead of feeding her late-night appetite, a midnight food run nearly gets 28-year-old Katherine O’Brian killed. She’s the only person to see the man who brutally murdered a local woman, and the killer is hell-bent on making sure she...

Moloka’i

Moloka’i
  • Author(s): Alan Brennert
  • Location(s): Moloka'i
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1890s

Young Rachel Kalama, growing up in idyllic Honolulu in the 1890s, dreams of seeing far-off lands, but at the age of seven Rachel’s dreams are shattered by the discovery that she has leprosy. Forcibly removed from the family, she’s...

Monsoon Summer

Monsoon Summer
  • Author(s): Mitali Perkins
  • Location(s): Berkeley, Pune (Poona)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Jasmine (Jazz) lives in Berkeley, CA and is the child of an Indian Mother and a white Father. At 15 she is already running a small business with Steve, taking photos of tourists in front of Landmarks. Jazz’ Mum...

Mother Hens

Mother Hens
  • Author(s): Sophie McCartney
  • Location(s): Ibiza, Cheshire, Las Vegas
  • Genre(s): Fiction, RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Cara Carmichael’s bestie is finally getting hitched, and she’s over the moon because it means one thing and one thing only… Whoah, they’re going to Ibiza! Swapping the school run for old skool club classics; four friends are leaving...

Motherless Brooklyn

Motherless Brooklyn
  • Author(s): Jonathan Lethem
  • Location(s): Brooklyn
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Lionel Essrog is Brooklyn’s very own self-appointed Human Freakshow, an orphan whose Tourettic impulses drive him to bark, count, and rip apart our language in startling and original ways. Together with three veterans of the St. Vincent’s Home for...

Motiba’s Tattoos

Motiba’s Tattoos
  • Author(s): Mira Kamdar
  • Location(s): California, Saurashtra
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 20th Century, Early 21st

In a lyrical memoir spiced with mouth-watering Indian recipes and old family photographs, Mira Kamdar takes us back to the ancient world into which her grandmother was born: a tiny village in Kathiawar, India. Kamdar traces the Indian diaspora,...

Mr Wilder and Me

Mr Wilder and Me
  • Author(s): Jonathan Coe
  • Location(s): Los Angeles, Europe
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern back to 1970s

In the heady summer of 1977, a naïve young woman called Calista sets out from Athens to venture into the wider world. On a Greek island that has been turned into a film set, she finds herself working for...

Murder at Dolphin Bay

Murder at Dolphin Bay
  • Author(s): Kathi Daley
  • Location(s): Oahu
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Kailani Pope wants nothing more than to be a proud member of the Honolulu Police Department. Both her father and grandfather were cops, her five brothers are cops, and the only thing she has ever wanted from the time...

Murder, D.C.

Murder, D.C.
  • Author(s): Neely Tucker
  • Location(s): Washington DC
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

When Billy Ellison, the son of Washington, D.C.’s most influential African-American family, is found dead in the Potomac near a violent drug haven, veteran metro reporter Sully Carter knows it’s time to start asking some serious questions―no matter what...

My Absolute Darling

My Absolute Darling
  • Author(s): Gabriel Tallent
  • Location(s): Mendocino
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Turtle Alveston is a survivor. At fourteen, she roams the woods along the northern California coast. The creeks, tide pools, and rocky islands are her haunts and her hiding grounds, and she is known to wander for miles. But...

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