- Location(s): Georgia (Asia)
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): 20th century
Spanning fifty years, but with a particular emphasis on post-independence fiction, this collection features a diverse range of styles and voices, offering a window onto a vibrant literary scene that has been largely inaccessible to the English-language reader until...
- Location(s): Latvia
- Genre(s): Poetry
- Era(s): Contemporary
The three books of this anthology present three generations of poets in the Baltic countries: those born before the Soviet occupation, during it, and shortly before the countries regained independence in the 1990’s. From the classical perspective of Latvian...
- Location(s): Europe
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
It’s just a normal morning when Anna’s husband announces that he’s leaving her for her best friend and taking their two daughters with him. With her safe, comfortable world shattered, Anna distracts herself with someone else’s story: a true-crime...
Cooking for Ghosts: Book I in The Secret Spice Cafe Trilogy
- Location(s): Long Beach
- Genre(s): Fiction, Magical Realism
- Era(s): mid-2000
Do hearts broken long ago forever leave a tangible trace? A Vegas cocktail waitress. An Indian herbalist. A British chemistry professor. An Italian-American widow. Four unique women with one thing in common: each is haunted by a tragedy from...
- Location(s): Juan-les-Pins, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1930s, present
“A tasty blend of romance, mystery, and French cooking.”–Margaret Atwood, via Twitter The French Riviera, spring 1936: It’s off-season in the lovely seaside village of Juan-les-Pins, where seventeen-year-old Ondine cooks with her mother in the kitchen of their family-owned...
- Location(s): West Africa
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Set against the background of corrupt government and voracious oil companies, Cooper’s Promise is the story of Sergeant Cooper Chance, army deserter and sharpshooter, who’s ended up adrift in a West African country. He wants nothing more than to...
- Location(s): Northern Virginia
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller, Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): 1980s
As summer dies, the first boy is found in a shallow grave. More will follow. His hometown has a serial child killer in its midst…. At seventeen, John Ray has silently survived years of molestation at the hands of...
- Location(s): Portland, Maine
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1896
In the idyllic summer of 1896 in Portland, Maine, several people are embarking on adventures of a most audacious and entertaining nature. The lovely Cordelia Underwood unexpectedly inherits a large parcel of land, and discovers that it holds an...
Cords of the Grave: A Jack Sargent mystery.
- Location(s): London, Sussex
- Genre(s): Crime, Historical
- Era(s): June 1973
Together with the medical skills of Ann Black, Jack Sargent investigates death and gets further insight into the levels of organised crime from London to Sussex in June 1873. Two momentous events affect Jack’s work, health and love life...