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A Cold Death in Amsterdam

A Cold Death in Amsterdam
  • Author(s): Anja de Jager
  • Location(s): Alkmaar, Amsterdam
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Set in Amsterdam, the novel introduces Lotte Meerman, a Cold Case detective still recovering from the emotional devastation of her previous investigation. A tip-off leads Lotte to an unresolved ten-year-old murder case in which her father was the lead...

A Death at the Hotel Mondrian

A Death at the Hotel Mondrian
  • Author(s): Anja de Jager
  • Location(s): Amsterdam
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Lotte Meerman is faced with the choice of interviewing the latest victim in a string of assaults or talking to a man who claims he really isn’t dead, she picks the interview. After all, the man cannot possibly...

A Death in the Afternoon (The Clapham Trilogy Book 2)

A Death in the Afternoon (The Clapham Trilogy Book 2)
  • Author(s): Julie Anderson
  • Location(s): Clapham
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1948

Summer 1948 London swelters amid post-war reconstruction, while continued rationing and the black-market fuel the rising crime wave. The empires of gangland bosses grow and thrive, protected by corruption and bribery. During a party in Clapham a student nurse...

A Death in the Family

A Death in the Family
  • Author(s): Michael Stanley
  • 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...

A Fort of Nine Towers

A Fort of Nine Towers
  • Author(s): Qais Akbar Omar
  • 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...

A Free Man

A Free Man
  • Author(s): Aman Sethi
  • 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....

A Free Man of Color

A Free Man of Color
  • Author(s): Barbara Hambly
  • 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

A Friend is a Gift you Give Yourself
  • Author(s): William Boyle
  • 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...

A Gladiator Dies Only Once

A Gladiator Dies Only Once
  • Author(s): Steven Saylor
  • 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.

A Harvest of Thorns

A Harvest of Thorns
  • Author(s): Corban Addison
  • 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...

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