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The Beauty of Murder

The Beauty of Murder
  • Author(s): A K Benedict
  • Location(s): Cambridge
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern and 17th Century

Stephen Killigan has been cold since the day he came to Cambridge as a junior lecturer. Something about the seven hundred years of history staining the stones of the university has given him a chill he can’t shake. When...

The Beekeeper

The Beekeeper
  • Author(s): Juliet Moore
  • Location(s): Miami
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Miami homicide detective Elizabeth Stratton knows she’s lucky to still have a job, but she’s tired of only getting the easy cases. She’ll never be able to regain the respect of her colleagues without a chance to prove she’s...

The Beekeeper’s Apprentice

The Beekeeper’s Apprentice
  • Author(s): Laurie R King
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1910s

‘The Beekeeper’s Apprentice’ is a brilliantly inventive novel that tells the story of Mary Russell, a young girl, who, in 1914, meets a retired beekeeper on the Sussex Downs. His name is Sherlock Holmes, and smug misogynist though he...

The Beekeeper’s Secret

The Beekeeper’s Secret
  • Author(s): Josephine Moon
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘Maria knew about guilt. It was a stubborn, pervasive and toxic emotion, and incredibly difficult to shake. Especially if really, deep down, you didn’t think you deserved to let it go.’ Maria Lindsey is content. She spends her solitary...

The Beresford

The Beresford
  • Author(s): Will Carver
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Horror, Suspense
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Just outside the city – any city, every city – is a grand, spacious but affordable apartment building called The Beresford. There’s a routine at The Beresford. For Mrs May, every day’s the same: a cup of cold, black coffee in...

The Black Rose of Florence

The Black Rose of Florence
  • Author(s): Michele Giuttari
  • Location(s): Florence
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A beautiful young woman, a member of the Florentine jet set, is found dead – choked to death – in her apartment. She has been left naked on her bed, a black rose between her legs. Chief Superindendent Michele...

The Bookers: San Francisco Memories

The Bookers: San Francisco Memories
  • Author(s): Don C Becker
  • Location(s): Kansas, San Francisco
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s onwards

When nineteen-year-old Constance Connors, the beautiful and carefree Hawaiian-born daughter of an Episcopalian minister, meets a newly graduated West Point cadet, Second Lieutenant Joseph Booker, she’s instantly smitten. But it’s not long before she finds herself pregnant, married, and...

The Boy in the Suitcase

The Boy in the Suitcase
  • Author(s): Lena Kaaberbol and Agnete Friis
  • Location(s): Copenhagen, Denmark, Lithuania
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Nina Borg, a Red Cross nurse, wife and mother of two, is trying to live a quiet life. The last thing her husband wants is for her to go running off on another dangerous mission to help illegal refugees....

The Break Down

The Break Down
  • Author(s): B A Paris
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

‘A psychological page-turner’ – Good Housekeeping If you can’t trust yourself, who can you trust? It all started that night in the woods. Cass Anderson didn’t stop to help the woman in the car, and now she’s dead. Ever...

The Bridge of the Golden Horn

The Bridge of the Golden Horn
  • Author(s): Emine Sevgi Ozdamar
  • Location(s): Berlin, Istanbul (Constantinople)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

This is the story about two cultures and the role of women, the conflict and hardships.

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