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The Murder Rule

The Murder Rule
  • Author(s): Dervla McTiernan
  • Location(s): Virginia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1990s and late 2010s

No one is innocent in this story. First Rule: Make them like you. Second Rule: Make them need you. Third Rule: Make them pay. They think I’m a young, idealistic law student, that I’m passionate about reforming a corrupt...

The Mussel Feast

The Mussel Feast
  • Author(s): Birgit Vanderbeke
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 1980s

The German book that has shaped an entire generation. A mother and her two teenage children sit at the dinner table. In the middle stands a large pot of cooked mussels. Why has the father not returned home? As...

The New Wife

The New Wife
  • Author(s): Sue Watson
  • Location(s): Devon, Dartmoor
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

You can never truly know what goes on behind closed doors… My darling son, Sam, is marrying his childhood sweetheart and I couldn’t be prouder of the man he’s grown into. Walking out on his abusive father all those...

The Night She Disappeared

The Night She Disappeared
  • Author(s): Lisa Jewell
  • Location(s): Surrey Hills
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): 2017-2019

‘Mum, there’s some people here from college, they asked me back to theirs. Just for an hour or so. Is that OK?’ Midsummer 2017: teenage mum Tallulah heads out on a date, leaving her baby son at home with...

The Northern Clemency

The Northern Clemency
  • Author(s): Philip Hensher
  • Location(s): Sheffield
  • Era(s): 1970s/1980s

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2008. An epic chronicle of the last twenty years of British life from the Booker shortlisted and Granta Best of Young British novelist, Philip Hensher. Beginning in 1974 and ending with the fading...

The Other Boleyn Girl

The Other Boleyn Girl
  • Author(s): Philippa Gregory
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1500s

The Other Woman

The Other Woman
  • Author(s): Hanki Phillippi Ryan
  • Location(s): Boston
  • Era(s): Modern

Jane Ryland is a Boston television journalist is a television journalist who has got into trouble for no naming sources and consequently gets fired. She picks up a job at a small newspaper where she gets caught up in...

The Pain Tourist

The Pain Tourist
  • Author(s): Paul Cleave
  • Location(s): Christchurch
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

How do you catch a killer… When the only evidence is a dream? James Garrett was critically injured when he was shot following his parents’ execution, and no one expected him to waken from a deep, traumatic coma. When...

The Parisian’s Return

The Parisian’s Return
  • Author(s): Julia Stagg
  • Location(s): The Pyrenees
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

When Stephanie brains an intruder with a stale baguette, she doesn’t realise she has assaulted the new owner of the village grocery. Parisian-exile Fabian’s welcome goes from bad to worse as his attempts to drag the shop into the...

The Perfect Find

The Perfect Find
  • Author(s): Tia Williams
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

She’s finally found her soulmate. But he’s completely off-limits . . . Former fashion editor Jenna Jones is forty, broke and starting over. Dumped by her fiancé and fired from her job, Jenna begs her arch nemesis, Darcy Vale,...

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