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The Mill River Recluse

The Mill River Recluse
  • Author(s): Darcie Chan
  • Location(s): Vermont
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Disfigured by the blow of an abusive husband, the widow Mary McAllister has spent almost sixty years secluded in a white marble mansion overlooking the town of Mill River, Vermont. Her links to the outside world are few: the...

The Ming Inheritance

The Ming Inheritance
  • Author(s): T Hunt Locke
  • Location(s): Thailand
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Historical and Modern

A six hundred year old legend brought to life~a heart stopping race against history…Phitsanulok, October 1465 AD. The long lost Ming Emperor Jianwen is secretly and finally laid to rest in the northern reaches of the Ayutthaya Kingdom. An...

The Ministry of Time

The Ministry of Time
  • Author(s): Kaliane Bradley
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Fantasy, Future
  • Era(s): Near future looking back

A BOY MEETS A GIRL. THE PAST MEETS THE FUTURE. A FINGER MEETS A TRIGGER. THE BEGINNING MEETS THE END. ENGLAND IS FOREVER. ENGLAND MUST FALL. In the near future, a disaffected civil servant is offered a lucrative job...

The Moon and Sixpence

The Moon and Sixpence
  • Author(s): William Somerset Maugham
  • Location(s): Paris, Tahiti
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 19th Century

Charles Strickland, a conventional stockbroker, abandons his wife and children for Paris and Tahiti, to live his life as a painter. Whilst his betrayal of family, duty and honour gives him the freedom to achieve greatness, his decision leads...

The Moonstone

The Moonstone
  • Author(s): Wilkie Collins
  • Location(s): Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Mid 1800s

The Moonstone, a priceless Indian diamond which has been brought to England as spoils of war, is given to Rachel Verrinder on her 18th birthday. That very night the stone is stolen. Suspicion then falls on a hunchbacked housemaid,...

The Moose Paradox

The Moose Paradox
  • Author(s): Antti Tuomainen
  • Location(s): Helsinki
  • Genre(s): Police Procedural
  • Era(s): Contemporary

VOL #2 Rabbit Factor Trilogy Insurance mathematician Henri Koskinen has finally restored order both to his life and to YouMeFun, the adventure park he now owns, when a man from the past appears – and turns everything upside down again. More problems arise when the park’s...

The Mourning Necklace

The Mourning Necklace
  • Author(s): Kate Foster
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): First half 18th Century

Set in Musselburgh (Fisherrow), Kelso and Edinburgh nspired by an infamous real-life case, The Mourning Necklace is the unforgettable original feminist historical novel from the Women’s Prize-longlisted author of The Maiden, Kate Foster. They said I would swing for...

The Murder Farm

The Murder Farm
  • Author(s): Andrea Maria Schenkel
  • Location(s): Germany
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1950s

Set in rural 1950s Germany, the narrator of the book returns to an isolated rural community where a whole family and their maid have been murdered and the rest of the community has turned a blind eye.

The Murder Mystery

The Murder Mystery
  • Author(s): Alice Castle
  • Location(s): Dulwich
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Originally published as Death in Dulwich. Meet Beth Haldane: a historian with a taste for gardening, snug coffee shops… and solving mysteries? It’s a crisp spring day in Dulwich Village when Beth arrives at Wyatt’s School for her new...

The Museum of Extraordinary Things

The Museum of Extraordinary Things
  • Author(s): Alice Hoffman
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 1900s

New York City, 1911. Meet Coralie Sardie, circus girl, web-fingered mermaid, shy only daughter of Professor Sardie and raised in the bizarre surroundings of his Museum of Extraordinary Things. And meet Eddie Cohen, a handsome young immigrant who has...

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