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Before You Die

Before You Die
  • Author(s): Samantha Hayes
  • Location(s): Warwickshire
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

D.I. Lorraine Fisher returns to her home town, Radcote, in fictional South Warwickshire, to stay with separated sister Jo and her nephew Freddie. The town has seen a spate of teenage suicides and when young homeless man, Dean, complete with...

Behind the Blue Shutters

Behind the Blue Shutters
  • Author(s): Brian Doswell
  • Location(s): Provence
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Provence remains a region where time stands still among the vineyards and olive groves that nestle on slopes unchanged since the earth was formed. On its glittering Mediterranean coast, the sun drenched Cote d’Azur attracts the unlimited wealth of...

Bella Summer takes a chance

Bella Summer takes a chance
  • Author(s): Michele Gorman
  • Location(s): London

When is enough not enough? Bella’s career and relationship are her life’s foundationwear: not glamorous and perhaps a bit binding, but supportive enough… until she realizes that they are not enough. Her life is sagging badly. She’s never been...

Below the Peacock Fan

Below the Peacock Fan
  • Author(s): Marian Fowler
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 19th Century

The lives of four Victorian gentlewomen are transformed when they leave the cozy confines of England for India to accompany their husbands or a brother who were appointed Viceroys of India, the crown jewel of the British Empire. Emily...

Beneath a Buried House

Beneath a Buried House
  • Author(s): Bob Avey
  • Location(s): Tulsa
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery

Things aren’t always what they seem. Tulsa Police Detective, Kenny Elliot’s quest to uncover the truth behind the death of a transient makes him a target – from whom or what he isn’t sure. When he brushes the dirt...

Beneath a Marble Sky

Beneath a Marble Sky
  • Author(s): John Shors
  • Location(s): Agra, Hindustan
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1630s

In 1632, the Emperor of Hindustan, Shah Jahan, consumed by grief over the death of his empress, Mumtaz Mahal, ordered the building of a grand mausoleum to symbolize the greatness of their love. Against scenes of unimaginable wealth and...

Beneath an Irish Sky

Beneath an Irish Sky
  • Author(s): Isabella Connor
  • Location(s): Dublin, England, Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

The past is never over … Jack Stewart thought he’d put the past behind him. On the surface, he has everything – success, money, a big house and he is never short of an attractive woman by his side,...

Berlin Noir (‘March Violets’, ‘The Pale Criminal’ and ‘A German Requiem’)

Berlin Noir (‘March Violets’, ‘The Pale Criminal’ and ‘A German Requiem’)
  • Author(s): Philip Kerr
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1930s 1940s

The three stories are set in 1936 (March Violets”), 1938 (“Pale Criminal”), and 1947 (the aptly named “German Requiem”) against the backdrop of the rise and fall of Hitler’s Nazi Germany. He left the Berlin police once the force...

Berlin Tales

Berlin Tales
  • Author(s): Helen Constantine
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Modern

Berlin Tales is a collection of seventeen translated stories associated with Berlin. The book provides a unique insight into the mind of this fascinating city through the eyes of its story-tellers. Nearly twenty years after the fall of the...

Between the Assassinations

Between the Assassinations
  • Author(s): Aravind Adiga
  • Location(s): West India
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Nestling on India’s southern coast lies the fictional town of Kittur, in West India. Ranging through the city’s streets and schoolyards, bedrooms and businesses, its inner workings and its outer limits, through the myriad and distinctive voices of its...

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