- Location(s): Portland (Oregon)
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Modern
When Parker Blanton meets Ben Olsen during her freshman year of college, the connection is immediate—and platonic. Six years later, they’re still best friends, sharing an apartment in Portland’s trendy Northwest District as they happily settle into adult life....
- Location(s): The Hudson Valley, New York State
- Genre(s): Fantasy, Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
After narrowly escaping death in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, seventeen-year-old Avaline Hall is sent to Blythewood Academy, the elite girls’ boarding school in New York’s Hudson Valley that her mother attended years before. Ava hopes to solve the...
- Location(s): South Carolina
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): early 2000s
As director of the Ballantyne Foundation on Sea Pine Island, SC, Elliott Lisbon scratches her detective itch by performing discreet inquiries for Foundation donors. Usually nothing more serious than retrieving a pilfered Pomeranian. Until Jane Hatting, Ballantyne board chair,...
- Location(s): Shillong, North East India
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Various
Boats on Land is a unique way of looking at India’s northeast and its people against a larger historical canvas—the early days of the British Raj, the World Wars, conversions to Christianity, and the missionaries. This is a world...
- Location(s): Sri Lanka, United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): early 2000s
Like the sweet heat of a palate-pleasing curry or the brilliant radiance of bougainvillea, the short stories in Mary Anne Mohanraj’s Bodies in Motion will delight the senses and sensibilities. Her tales follow two generations of two families living...
- Location(s): Italy, Malta, North Africa
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
The Inspector George Zammit Series Book 1 An unwilling hero Inspector George Zammit, of the Maltese Pulizija likes a quiet life, keeping his head down and avoiding trouble. But when he investigates a body floating in the waters of...
- Location(s): Liverpool
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): contemporary
Murder or suicide? Merseyside detectives investigate… Early one winter morning, DI Jordan Carr has a nasty shock whilst travelling on a motorway near Liverpool. An unfortunate fellow has apparently jumped from a bridge and ended up under a truck....