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Sakina’s Kiss

Sakina’s Kiss
  • Author(s): Srinath Perur (Translator), Vivek Shanbhag
  • Location(s): Bangalore (Bengaluru)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A knock on the door shouldn’t be a cause for alarm. But when Venkat finds two insolent young men on his doorstep, he knows something is off. They say they need to get in touch with his daughter Rekha,...

Salt City

Salt City
  • Author(s): Robert C Fleet
  • Location(s): New York State
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

Syracuse, upstate New York. The “Salt City.” An apartment building on the edge of The Projects – and Anne Malloy dies, flying out of a sixth floor window, an apparent suicide, while Mark Cornell watches. Mark was there for...

Sanctuary

Sanctuary
  • Author(s): Luca D'Andrea
  • Location(s): South Tyrol / Trentino Alto Adige
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Later 20th Century

Marlene Wegener is on the run. She has stolen something from her husband, something priceless, irreplaceable. But she doesn’t get very far. When her car veers off a bleak midwinter road she takes refuge in the remote home of...

Santa Fe Rules

Santa Fe Rules
  • Author(s): Stuart Woods
  • Location(s): Hollywood, Santa Fe
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Late 1900s

Affluent Hollywood producer Wolf Willet has engine trouble with his small plane and lands by the Grand Canyon. He happens to read a report in the NYT that his wife Julia and his business partner and seemingly he himself...

Scordril

Scordril
  • Author(s): Kelsey Drake
  • Location(s): East Lothian
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 1950s

Set in 1950 in East Lothian, Scotland, this title tells the tale of an ancient magic that has imprisoned the dragons of Traprain Law.

Scripted

Scripted
  • Author(s): Fearne Cotton
  • Location(s): Richmond-upon-Thames
  • Genre(s): Fiction, New Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Jade Shaw has lost control. Stuck in the middle of her chaotic family and taken for granted by her self-obsessed boyfriend, Adam, she’s forgotten how to speak for herself. The last place she expects to find answers is on...

Secret of the Tides

Secret of the Tides
  • Author(s): Hannah Richell
  • Location(s): Dorset
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern looking back

The Tides are a family with dark secrets. Haunted by the events of one tragic day ten years ago, they are each, in their own way, struggling to move forwards with their lives. Dora, the youngest daughter, lives in...

Seven Years

Seven Years
  • Author(s): Peter Stamm
  • Location(s): Munich
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Recent modern

Alex has spent the majority of his adult life torn between two very different women-and he can’t make up his mind. Sonia, his wife and business partner, is everything a man would want. Intelligent, beautiful, charming, and ambitious, she...

Shadow of Sounds

Shadow of Sounds
  • Author(s): Alex Gray
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

The Glasgow Orchestra are rehearsing to perform, but little do they know of the sequence of events happening backstage. When George Millar, the orchestra’s leader, is brutally murdered in his dressing room, his colleagues are shocked. But the show...

Shelley’s Heart

Shelley’s Heart
  • Author(s): Charles McCarry
  • Location(s): Washington DC
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 21st Century

The first US presidential election of the twenty-first century is stolen through computer fraud. The losing candidate discovers the truth and demands that the victor, his long-time friend and rival, step down. The incumbent President refuses, thereby sparking a...

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