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A Rattle of Bones

A Rattle of Bones
  • Author(s): Douglas Skelton
  • Location(s): Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1752

In 1752, Seamus a’Ghlynne, James of the Glen, was executed for the murder of government man Colin Campbell. He was almost certainly innocent. When banners are placed at his gravesite claiming that his namesake, James Stewart, is innocent of...

A Recipe for Daphne

A Recipe for Daphne
  • Author(s): Nektaria Anastasiadou
  • Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Fanis is at the center of a dwindling yet stubbornly proud community of Rum, Greek Orthodox Christians, who have lived in Istanbul for centuries. When Daphne, the American-born niece of an old friend, arrives in the city in search...

A Red Cherry on a White-tiled Floor

A Red Cherry on a White-tiled Floor
  • Author(s): Maram al-Massri
  • Location(s): Syria
  • Genre(s): Poetry
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Syrian poet Maram al-Massri writes of love and the place of women in the modern age with striking candor and intensity. “I am this mix between the submissive and rebellious woman,” she writes, “my freedom is so difficult and...

A Red Death

A Red Death
  • Author(s): Walter Mosley
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1950s

It’s 1953 in Red-baiting, blacklisting Los Angeles, a moral tar pit ready to swallow Easy Rawlins. Easy is out of “the hurting business” and into the housing (and favour) business when a racist IRS agent nails him for tax...

A Reliable Wife

A Reliable Wife
  • Author(s): Robert Goolrick
  • Location(s): Wisconsin, St Louis
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1909

He placed a notice in a Chicago paper, an advertisement for “a reliable wife.” She responded, saying that she was “a simple, honest woman.” She was, of course, anything but honest, and the only simple thing about her was...

A Reluctant Warrior

A Reluctant Warrior
  • Author(s): Kelly Brooke Nicholls
  • Location(s): Buenaventura
  • Era(s): Modern

A gripping novel that gives readers a rare glimpse into Colombia’s notorious drug wars, told by someone who knows the landscape intimately. When Luzma’s brother Jair unwittingly uncovers the plan by Colombia’s most notorious drug cartel to smuggle an...

A Remedy For All Things

A Remedy For All Things
  • Author(s): Jan Fortune
  • Location(s): Hungary
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s/1990s

What if you began to dream someone else’s life? And what if this stranger was dreaming yours? Belief is Catherine’s gift, or it was once. Now, in her thirties, Catherine knows what she has lost and what she has...

A Ride to Khiva

A Ride to Khiva
  • Author(s): Frederick Burnaby
  • Location(s): Khiva, Uzbekistan
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Historical
  • Era(s): 1875

In the winter of 1875, a young British officer set out across central Asia on an unofficial mission to investigate the latest secret Russian moves in the Great Game. His goal was the mysterious caravan city of Khiva, closed...

A Riot of Goldfish

A Riot of Goldfish
  • Author(s): Kanoko Okamoto
  • Location(s): Japan
  • Genre(s): Novella
  • Era(s): Earlier 20th Century

The son of lower-class goldfish sellers falls in love with the beautiful daughter of his rich patron. After he is sent away to study the science of goldfish breeding, with strict orders to return and make his patron’s fortune,...

A Rising Man

A Rising Man
  • Author(s): Abir Mukherjee
  • Location(s): Kolkata (Calcutta)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1919

The winner of the Harvill Secker/Daily Telegraph crime writing competition Captain Sam Wyndham, former Scotland Yard detective, is a new arrival to Calcutta. Desperately seeking a fresh start after his experiences during the Great War, Wyndham has been recruited to...

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