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One Breath Away

One Breath Away
  • Author(s): Heather Gudenkauf
  • Location(s): Iowa
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

He has a gun. Who? Tell me, where are you? Who has a gun? I love you, Mum. An ordinary school day in March, snowflakes falling, classroom freezing, kids squealing with delight, locker-doors slamming. Then the shooting started. No-one...

One Last Time

One Last Time
  • Author(s): Helga Flatland
  • Location(s): Norway
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Anne’s diagnosis of terminal cancer shines a spotlight onto fractured relationships with her daughter and granddaughter, with surprising, heartwarming results. A moving, warmly funny novel by the Norwegian Anne Tyler. _______________ Anne’s life is rushing to an unexpected and...

One of the Girls

One of the Girls
  • Author(s): Lucy Clarke
  • Location(s): Aegean Sea
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

ONE IS A LIAR. ONE IS A STRANGER. ONE IS A CHEATER. WHO IS A KILLER? We were dying for a holiday . . . The six of us arrived on that beautiful Greek island dreaming of sun-drenched beaches...

One Perfect Morning

One Perfect Morning
  • Author(s): Pamela Crane
  • Location(s): Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller, Mystery
  • Era(s): 21st Century

Mackenzie, Robin and Lily have been best friends since college. Twenty years on, they all live in the same neighbourhood with their perfect families, perfect houses, perfect lives… It would seem that nothing could come between these three women....

Open City

Open City
  • Author(s): Teju Cole
  • Location(s): Brussels, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A stream of consciousness as Julius, a young Nigerian doctor, processes thought and experiences as he ambles around the streets of Manhattan. He takes off for Brussels, and Nigeria and on his return to Manhattan, he meets a young...

Open Door

Open Door
  • Author(s): Iosi Havilio
  • Location(s): Argentina
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

When her partner disappears, a young veterinary assistant drifts from the city towards Open Door, a small town in the Argentinean Pampas named after its psychiatric hospital. Embarking on a new life in the country, she finds herself living...

Or the Bull Kills You

Or the Bull Kills You
  • Author(s): Jason Webster
  • Location(s): Valencia
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Chief Inspector Max Cámara thinks in proverbs – ones his Anarchist grandfather repeats all the time – but he hates one thing above all… bullfighting. So when he’s roped into investigating the murder of Spain’s most celebrated matador, found...

Orange County Noir

Orange County Noir
  • Author(s): Gary Phillips
  • Location(s): California
  • Genre(s): Crime, Short Stories

These noir stories take readers on a hard-boiled tour behind the Orange curtain where a reclusive rock star has lived way too long in his own head, a crooked judge uses the court for illicit means, a cab driver...

Ordinary Joe

Ordinary Joe
  • Author(s): Jon Teckman
  • Location(s): California, Cannes, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A brilliant, fast-paced comedy about what happens when all of your dreams become true. What would you do if… …you were happily married …with two gorgeous children …and the most gorgeous film star in the world walked up to...

Original Skin

Original Skin
  • Author(s): David Mark
  • Location(s): Hull
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Simon and Suzie are two pleasure seekers defined by their flamboyant tattoos. Peter Tressider is a politician on the fast track to the top. DS Aector McAvoy is a policeman with scars to his body and career. Each is...

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