- Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): 1950
In the fourth rip-roaring thriller in the award-winning Malabar House series, Persis and Archie travel to the old colonial capital of Calcutta, where they collide head-on with the prejudices and bloody politics of an era engulfed in flame. Can...
- Location(s): Syria
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1840
Damascus 1840. Aslan Farhi’s quiet, sheltered life is turned upside down when his brutish father, a wealthy businessman, decides he should wed. Aslan finds the wedding a painful ordeal, lightened only by the presence of the exotic dancer, Umm-Jihan,...
- Location(s): Madrid
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Spanish Civil War
This war has drawn international attention. In a dress rehearsal for World War II, fascists support the Nationalists, while communists have come to the aid of the Republicans. Atrocities have devastated both sides. It is at this moment, when...
- Location(s): Slovenia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
Who really was Lea Kralj? What was the truth about the beautiful, mysterious, passionate diva who was admired and fated throughout her career and who thrilled opera house audiences in cities across Europe? What was her relationship with her...
Death of a Telenovela Star (A Novella) (A Havana Mystery Book 3)
- Location(s): Havana
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Teresa Dovalpage’s deliciously twisted novella, set on a Caribbean cruise, showcases the dark—sometimes deadly—side of celebrity. Former Havana detective Marlene Martínez, now happily running a bakery in Miami, has booked a week-long cruise to Mexico and the Caribbean with...
Death Of Dignity: Angola’s Civil War
- Location(s): Angola
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1970s -
Angola has been embroiled in war almost continuously since its independence in 1975. Yet despite countless casualties, including some two million displaced people, Western media have paid scant attention to this devastataling conflict — one of apartheid South Africa’s...