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Death of a Lesser God

Death of a Lesser God
  • Author(s): Vaseem Khan
  • 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...

Death of a Monk

Death of a Monk
  • Author(s): Alon Hilu
  • 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,...

Death of a Nationalist

Death of a Nationalist
  • Author(s): Rebecca Paweł
  • 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...

Death of a Prima Donna

Death of a Prima Donna
  • Author(s): Brina Svit
  • 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 Salesman

Death of a Salesman
  • Author(s): Arthur Miller
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2nd half 20th century

For a salesman, there is no rock bottom to life. He don’t put a bolt to a nut, he don’t tell you the law or give you medicine. He’s a man way out there in the blue, riding on...

Death of a Secretary

Death of a Secretary
  • Author(s): Malcolm Forsythe
  • Location(s): Wivenhoe, Essex
  • Genre(s): Police Procedural
  • Era(s): 1990s

Trudy Thornton’s body is run over on the A12 in the early hours of the morning, but DCI Millson’s attempts to find the killer are hampered by her secretive nature. One suspect is her boss, Charles Howard, an Under...

Death of a Spy

Death of a Spy
  • Author(s): Dan Mayland
  • Location(s): Georgia (Asia)
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): early 2000s

Mark Sava is thrown into the fight of his life when an unresolved Cold War mystery involving his first love collides with a present-day Russia on the march. Life has never been better for Mark Sava, the former CIA...

Death of a Telenovela Star (A Novella) (A Havana Mystery Book 3)

Death of a Telenovela Star (A Novella) (A Havana Mystery Book 3)
  • Author(s): Teresa Dovalpage
  • 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

Death Of Dignity: Angola’s Civil War
  • Author(s): Victoria Brittain
  • 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...

Death On A Longship

Death On A Longship
  • Author(s): Marsali Taylor
  • Location(s): Shetland Islands
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Death on a Longship: When she wangles the job of skippering a Viking longship for a film, Cass Lynch thinks her big break has finally arrived – even though it means returning home to the Shetland Islands, which she...

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