- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
She’s watching you, but who’s watching her? Lily Gullick lives with her husband, Aiden, in a brand-new apartment opposite a building that has been marked for demolition. A keen bird-watcher, she can’t help spying on her neighbors. Until one...
- Location(s): Texas
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
No one could blame Bev Putterman for becoming estranged from her sister. No one but Bev, anyway. Growing up, Diana was difficult and selfish yet always their mother’s favorite. And then came the betrayal that took away the future...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
This is the summer that Lewis Little, precocious thirteen-year-old, is spending in Paris with his mother, Alice. Alice is translating the latest medieval romance by Valentina Gavrilovich, the bestselling and exotic Russian émigré, Lewis is there to make his...
- Location(s): South Africa
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
How can you speak when speech has been taken away? When the only person listening refuses to understand? Milla, trapped in silence by a deadly paralysing illness, confined to her bed, struggles to make herself heard by her maidservant...
- Location(s): Naples
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1940s
Italy during the war, tantalising italian food, a beautiful novel, war is raging and Mussolini is in power….
- Location(s): North Carolina
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Some people stay all summer long on the idyllic island of Belle Isle, North Carolina. Some people come only for the weekends and it’s something they look forward to all week long. When Riley Griggs is waiting for her...
- Location(s): Snowdonia, Wales
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Mid 1940s
In 1944, a German Jewish refugee is sent to Wales to interview Rudolf Hess: in Snowdonia, a seventeen-year-old girl, the daughter of a fiercely nationalistic shepherd, dreams of the bright lights of an English city: and in a nearby...
- Location(s): Barcelona
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): 1950s
Barcelona, 1952: General Franco’s fascist government is at the height of its oppressive powers, casting a black shadow across the city. When wealthy socialite Mariona Sobrerroca is found dead in her mansion in the exclusive Tibidabo district, the police...
- Location(s): Sweden
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Karin knew what she was getting herself into when she fell for John, the high-flying criminal and love of her life. But she never imagined things would turn out like this: John is now gone and the coke-filled parties,...
- Location(s): Rome
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): contemporary
In the hot, shadowy streets of Rome, Vicki Wilson’s lovers keep turning up dead. Vittoria, as she’s known in Italy, is a small-time actress who left behind a dark past in her native Texas and followed her fading writer...
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