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Baby Does A Runner

Baby Does A Runner
  • Author(s): Anita Rani
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Contemporary / Partition

Sometimes you need to run, to find out where you really belong. Baby has had it with just about everything. She’s fed up with her job and her colleagues, her love life is permanently casual, she’s grieving for her...

The Same Bright Stars

The Same Bright Stars
  • Author(s): Ethan Joella
  • Location(s): Delaware
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

From the author of the Read with Jenna Bonus Pick A Little Hope, an uplifting and emotionally resonant novel set in a Delaware beach town about a local restaurant owner at a turning point. Three generations of Schmidts have...

Death on the Thames

Death on the Thames
  • Author(s): Alan Johnson
  • Location(s): West London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Later 20th Century, Early 21st

1999. A young Detective Constable Louise Mangan crosses the Thames one misty morning in pursuit of a killer. She finds a tranquil community on a leafy island close to Hampton Court Palace, but soon realises that all is not...

On The Run

On The Run
  • Author(s): Max Luther
  • Location(s): Las Vegas
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Framed for murder. Out for revenge. Private bodyguard Alex Drayce is on assignment in the States, tasked with protecting a wealthy businessman under threat of assassination. He is presented with the opportunity to make some quick cash for a...

The Shadows of London

The Shadows of London
  • Author(s): Andrew Taylor
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Crime, Historical
  • Era(s): 1670s

London 1671 The damage caused by the Great Fire still overshadows the capital. The disfigured body of a man is unearthed in the ruins of the old almshouse, forcing architect Cat Hakesby to stop restoration work. It is clear...

A Quiet Life

A Quiet Life
  • Author(s): Seicho Matsumoto, Louise Heal Kawai (Translator)
  • Location(s): Tokyo
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): 20th Century

While on a business trip to Kobe, Tsuneo Asai receives the news that his wife Eiko has died of a heart attack. Eiko had a heart condition so the news of her death wasn’t totally unexpected. But the circumstances...

Waiting for Columbus

Waiting for Columbus
  • Author(s): Thomas Trofimuk
  • Location(s): Seville, Spain
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary / 15th Century

He appears out of the sea, washed up naked, in the treacherous Straits of Gibraltar. Seemingly delirious, and claiming to be Christopher Columbus, he is taken to an insane asylum in Seville, where astonishingly he starts to reveal the...

The Shadow Key

The Shadow Key
  • Author(s): Susan Stokes-Chapman
  • Location(s): Wales
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Gothic, Historical
  • Era(s): 1780s

There’s something mysterious about the village of Penhelyg. Will unlocking its truth bring light or darkness? Meirionydd, 1783. Dr Henry Talbot has been dismissed from his post in London. The only job he can find is in Wales where...

The Lotus Shoes

The Lotus Shoes
  • Author(s): Jane Yang
  • Location(s): China
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1800s

THE CAPTIVATING, HEART-RENDING STORY OF TWO WOMEN IN 1800S CHINA Love and loss. Sisterhood and betrayal. Little Flower and Linjing’s fates are bound together. As a child, Little Flower is sold to Linjing’s wealthy family to become a muizai....

The Devil You Know

The Devil You Know
  • Author(s): Neil Lancaster
  • Location(s): Glasgow, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

DS Max Craigie Scottish Crime Thrillers, Book 5 A CASE GONE COLD Six years ago, Beata Dabrowski arranged to meet her lover in Glasgow and was never seen again. There were no leads… until now. AN UNRELIABLE WITNESS Imprisoned...

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