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The Truth Must Dazzle Gradually

The Truth Must Dazzle Gradually
  • Author(s): Helen Cullen
  • Location(s): Galway, Dublin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 1970s - 2015

On an island off the west coast of Ireland, the Moone family gathers. Maeve is an actor, struggling with her most challenging role yet – as a mother to four children. Murtagh, her devoted husband, is a potter whose...

The Turn of The Tide (The Sturmtaucher Trilogy Book #3)

The Turn of The Tide (The Sturmtaucher Trilogy Book #3)
  • Author(s): Alan Jones
  • Location(s): Germany, United Kingdom
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1941-1945 with additions from 2001

The Turn of the Tide is the third book in the Sturmtaucher Trilogy: a powerful and compelling story of two families torn apart by evil. As Hitler’s greed turns eastwards to the fertile and oil rich Soviet heartlands, life...

The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra

The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra
  • Author(s): Vaseem Khan
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Mumbai, murder and a baby elephant combine in a charming, joyful mystery for fans of Alexander McCall Smith and Rachel Joyce. On the day he retires, Inspector Ashwin Chopra discovers that he has inherited an elephant: an unlikely gift...

The Unspeakable Acts of Zina Pavlou

The Unspeakable Acts of Zina Pavlou
  • Author(s): Eleni Kyriacou
  • Location(s): London, North London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1954

THEY HAVE TOLD SO MANY LIES ABOUT ME. London, 1954. Zina Pavlou, a Cypriot grandmother, waits quietly in the custody of the Metropolitan police. She can’t speak their language, but she understands what their wary looks mean: she has...

The Vernazza Effect

The Vernazza Effect
  • Author(s): Roberta R Carr
  • Location(s): San Francisco, Cinque Terre
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern day

Twenty-nine-year-old Ella Walker strives to live her best life. When tragedy strikes at both work and home, her world spirals out of control. She confides in her best friend, Tara Collins, who helps her confront her fears. With Tara...

The War Child

The War Child
  • Author(s): Renita D'Silva
  • Location(s): England, India
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1914 - 1995

“Her mother cradled Clara tightly as they crouched under the table in the basement. As the house started to shake, she took off her silver necklace and with fumbling fingers fastened it around her daughter’s little neck. There was...

The Widows of Malabar Hill

The Widows of Malabar Hill
  • Author(s): Sujata Massey
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s

Bombay, 1921: Perveen Mistry, the daughter of a respected Zoroastrian family, has just joined her father’s law firm, becoming one of the first female lawyers in India. Armed with a law degree from Oxford, Perveen also has a tragic...

The Willow Wren

The Willow Wren
  • Author(s): Philipp Schott
  • Location(s): Germany
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Begins in 1944

The touching and nuanced portrait of the rise and fall of Nazi Germany through the eyes of a resourceful German boy. Ludwig is an odd and introverted child, growing up in Hitler’s Germany. While Ludwig’s father, Wilhelm, is a...

The Wind is not a River

The Wind is not a River
  • Author(s): Brian Payton
  • Location(s): Alaska, The Aleutian Islands
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 1940s

April 1943. In the bloody turmoil of war, John Easley, a journalist mourning his lost brother, is driven to expose a hidden and growing conflict: the Japanese invasion and occupation of Alaska’s Aleutian Islands. But when his plane is...

The Wings of the Sphinx

The Wings of the Sphinx
  • Author(s): Andrea Camilleri
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Detective Montalbano is going through a distinctly rocky patch with his long-distance lover, Livia, and he has other concerns: he is uneasily conscious of anno domini and the dispiriting effect of the violence that is such an omnipresent part...

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