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Burned Alive: A Victim of the Law of Men

Burned Alive: A Victim of the Law of Men
  • Author(s): Souad
  • Location(s): Jordan
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1990s

“When Souad was seventeen she fell in love. In her West Bank village, as in so many other villages, sex before marriage is considered a grave dishonor to one’s family and is punishable by death. This was her crime....

Burned and Broken

Burned and Broken
  • Author(s): Mark Hardie
  • Location(s): Southend
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

An enigmatic policeman – currently the subject of an internal investigation – is found burned to death in his car on the Southend sea front. A vulnerable young woman, fresh out of the care system, is trying to discover...

Burning Angel and Other Stories

Burning Angel and Other Stories
  • Author(s): Lawrence Osborne
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Contemporary

This first collection of stories by Lawrence Osborne perfectly showcases his talent for tension, atmosphere – and characters out of their depth A naïve young linguist sent to the forests of Irian Jaya is manipulated into betraying her mission...

Burning Country

Burning Country
  • Author(s): Robin Yassin-Kassab, Leila Al-Shami
  • Location(s): Syria
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 2011

Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2017* In 2011, many Syrians took to the streets of Damascus to demand the overthrow of the government of Bashar al-Assad. Today, much of Syria has become a war zone where foreign journalists...

Burning Greed

Burning Greed
  • Author(s): Diane M Dickson
  • Location(s): Oxfordshire
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): present day

In the second of the Tanya Miller series an investigation into a warehouse fire turns into a murder inquiry when a woman’s body is found in the debris.

Burning Karma

Burning Karma
  • Author(s): David Rafn Kristjannson
  • Location(s): Vietnam, Iceland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Böddi wakes up in a hospital bed one morning with no idea of what has happened to put him there. While still in hospital he has an intense psychological Experience which leaves him realizing it is time to change...

BURNING SUSPICION

BURNING SUSPICION
  • Author(s): James Andrew
  • Location(s): Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): present

After a devastating house fire, a blame game starts to tear a family apart… When Alex Ross receives a phone call telling him that his house is on fire, he immediately drives home from work at full pelt. Noticeably...

Burnt Island

Burnt Island
  • Author(s): Kate Rhodes
  • Location(s): Isles of Scilly, St Agnes
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

As the sun sets on a cold November evening, the tiny community of St Agnes prepares for their annual Fifth-of-November festivities. Moments before the fireworks are scheduled to commence, an islander discovers a charred body left on the bonfire,...

Burnt Mountain

Burnt Mountain
  • Author(s): Anne Rivers Siddons
  • Location(s): North Carolina, Atlanta
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Growing up, the only place tomboy Thayer Wentworth felt at home was at her summer camp – Camp Sherwood Forest in the North Carolina Mountains. It was there that she came alive and where she met Nick Abrams, her...

Burnt Paper Sky

Burnt Paper Sky
  • Author(s): Gilly Macmillan
  • Location(s): Bristol
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

In her enthralling debut, Gilly Macmillan explores a mother’s search for her missing son, weaving a taut psychological thriller as gripping and skilful as The Girl on the Train and I Let You Go. Will also appeal to fans of The...

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