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Temptation Island

Temptation Island
  • Author(s): Victoria Fox
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Part set on the fictional island of Cacatra, but most of the action happens in Los Angeles. Welcome to Paradise. Only the rich are invited…only the strongest survive. But is it heaven on earth or a devil s playground?...

The Act of Roger Murgatroyd

The Act of Roger Murgatroyd
  • Author(s): Gilbert Adair
  • Location(s): Dartmoor
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 1930s

Boxing Day circa 1935. A snowed-in manor on the very edge of Dartmoor. A Christmas house-party. And overhead, in the attic, the dead body of Raymond Gentry, gossip columnist and blackmailer, shot through the heart. But the attic door...

The Alexandria Link (Cotton Malone)

The Alexandria Link (Cotton Malone)
  • Author(s): Steve Berry
  • Location(s): Middle East, World
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Various

A hidden treasure. A forgotten truth. Cotton Malone is in trouble. His son has been kidnapped and his bookshop in Copenhagen attacked, all because he is the only man alive who knows the whereabouts of the Alexandria link –...

The Antiquarian

The Antiquarian
  • Author(s): Julián Sánchez
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Modern back to Middle Ages

An intriguing letter from his adoptive father, Artur, turns novelist Enrique Alonso’s world upside down. Artur, a well-known antiquarian in Barcelona, reveals that he has discovered an ancient manuscript, but he feels uneasy, as though he’s in over his...

The Art of Fielding

The Art of Fielding
  • Author(s): Chad Harbach
  • Location(s): Lake Michigan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Henry Skrimshander is an insignificant player. But when a routine throw goes distatrously off course, the fates of five people are upended. “Henry’s right against self-doubt threatens to ruin his future. College president Guert Affenlight, a longtime bachelor, has...

The Ask

The Ask
  • Author(s): Sam Lipsyte
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 21st Century

Set in Queens. Milo Burke — husband to a ‘touched-out’ wife, father to a three-year-old son, fund-raising officer at a third-tier university — has just joined the swelling ranks of the unemployed. As he grasps after odd jobs to...

The Aviary Gate

The Aviary Gate
  • Author(s): Katie Hickman
  • Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople), Oxford
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Modern, 1599

Set in two time periods – the current day story of historical researcher, Elizabeth Staveley who finds a fragment of a manuscript in the Bodleian Library, suggesting that Celia, an English girl, may have been ship-wrecked at the end...

The Ballroom

The Ballroom
  • Author(s): Anna Hope
  • Location(s): Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1911

1911: Inside an asylum at the edge of the Yorkshire moors, where men and women are kept apart by high walls and barred windows, there is a ballroom vast and beautiful. For one bright evening every week they come...

The Barbecue at No.9

The Barbecue at No.9
  • Author(s): Jennie Godfrey
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1985

It’s the summer of 1985 and the residents of Delmont Close are preparing a neighbourhood barbecue to watch the biggest music event in history: Live Aid. A day like no other that will end having reached millions and changing...

The Basement

The Basement
  • Author(s): Stephen Leather
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Novella, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

New York is a city full of strangers. For NYPD detectives Turner and Marcinko, none are harder to figure out than the serial killer on the loose torturing and killing young women. In fact, right now, somewhere in the...

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