- Location(s): Botswana
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Faced with the violent death of his own father, even Assistant Superintendent David ‘Kubu’ Bengu, Botswana’s keenest mind, is baffled. Who would kill such a frail old man? Set amidst the dark beauty of modern Botswana, A Death in...
- Location(s): Afghanistan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Qais Akbar Omar was eleven when a brutal civil war engulfed Kabul. For Qais, it brought an abrupt end to a childhood filled with kites and cousins in his grandfather’s garden: one of the most convulsive decades in Afghan...
- Location(s): Delhi
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Modern
Every morning in Sadar Bazaar, one of the oldest markets in Delhi, a gang of men gather looking for work in the building trade. For five years, Aman Sethi shared their lives, and in particular that of Mohammed Ashraf....
- Location(s): New Orleans
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): 1833
Benjamin January, an African American musician tries to help a woman who has gone into a ball to confront her late husband’s mistress. When the mistress is found murdered, he is scapegoated for the murder and must work to...
A Friend is a Gift you Give Yourself
- Location(s): Brooklyn
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
Thelma and Louise Meets Goodfellas… After Brooklyn mob widow Rena Ruggiero hits her eighty-year-old neighbor Enzio in the head with an ashtray when he makes an unwanted move on her, she retreats to the Bronx home of her estranged...
- Location(s): Rome
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): BC
This is 11 in Steven Saylor’s Roma Sub Rosa series of novels, set in the later Roman Republic (BC), featuring Gordianus the Finder. High calibre writing, and wonderfully illuminating descriptions of the ancient world.
- Location(s): Bangladesh, Dhaka, Malaysia (Malaya), Virginia, Washington DC
- Era(s): Modern
A beloved American corporation with an explosive secret. A disgraced former journalist looking for redemption. A corporate executive with nothing left to lose. In Dhaka, Bangladesh, a garment factory burns to the ground, claiming the lives of hundreds of...
A Hundred Million Years and a Day
- Location(s): The Dolomites
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
Stan has been hunting for fossils since the age of six. Now, in the summer of 1954, he hears a story he cannot forget: the skeleton of a huge creature – a veritable dragon – lies deep in an...
- Location(s): Connecticut
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
In the small city of Wharton, Connecticut, lives are beginning to unravel. A husband betrays his wife. A son struggles with addiction. A widow misses her late spouse. At the heart of these interlinking stories is one couple: Freddie...
- Location(s): Prague
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
It’s been years since Anna has seen Leo Knight. And of all the apartments in all the cities in all the world, he just happens to walk in to her cosy new attic home – as her new housemate....
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