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Say Hello to My Little Friend

Say Hello to My Little Friend
  • Author(s): Jennine Capó Crucet
  • Location(s): Miami
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Scarface meets Moby Dick in this groundbreaking, darkly comic novel about a young man’s attempt to capitalize on his mother’s murky legacy – a story steeped in Miami’s marvelous and sinister magic. Failed Pitbull impersonator Ismael Reyes – you...

Bonjour, Sophie

Bonjour, Sophie
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Buchan
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1959

Can she escape the darkness of her past in the City of Light? It’s 1959 and time for eighteen-year-old Sophie’s real life to start. Her existence in the village of Poynsdean, Sussex, with her austere foster-father, the Reverend Osbert...

The White Villa

The White Villa
  • Author(s): Emily Hourican
  • Location(s): Ibiza
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

What happens when you invite an outsider in? It was supposed to be the holiday of a lifetime – a luxury villa in Ibiza, a group of university friends, and their last chance to cut loose before embarking on...

Loyalty

Loyalty
  • Author(s): Lisa Scottoline
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 19th Century

Loyalty can save a soul — or destroy one. Franco Fiorvante is a handsome lemon-grower who has toiled for years on the estate of boss Baron Zito. Franco dreams of owning his own lemon grove, but the rigid class...

No One Saw A Thing

No One Saw A Thing
  • Author(s): Andrea Mara
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

No one saw it happen. Your two little girls jump on the train ahead of you. As you try to join them, the doors slide shut and the train moves away, leaving you behind. Everyone is lying. It’s only...

A Wedding in the Sun

A Wedding in the Sun
  • Author(s): Leonie Mack
  • Location(s): France, Spain, The Pyrenees
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Four exes and a wedding. And a road trip no one expected… Jo Watters would rather do anything than go to her ex-husband Ben’s wedding to perfect Monica, and if it wasn’t for her beloved children she would already...

The Dream Home

The Dream Home
  • Author(s): T M Logan
  • Location(s): Nottingham
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction, Mythology
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Adam and Jess move into a new house with their three young children: a rambling Victorian villa in a nice neighbourhood right at the very top of their price range. Before long Adam discovers a door hidden behind a...

Murder at La Villette

Murder at La Villette
  • Author(s): Cara Black
  • Location(s): 19th arrondissement, Paris
  • Genre(s): Cosy Mystery, Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Aimée Leduc #21 Parisian private investigator Aimée Leduc doesn’t know that her life is about to be upended. Her ex, Melac, has been hounding her to move their daughter, Chloé, to Brittany. Aimée is fed up with his threats...

The Dark Frontier

The Dark Frontier
  • Author(s): A B Decker
  • Location(s): Switzerland
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): Later 1930s and early 1970s

It is 1971, and journalist Frank Goss is assigned to cover Switzerland’s referendum on women’s suffrage. When he arrives in Basel on the border with Germany, he suffers hallucinations that land him in a psychiatric clinic. Ellen is called...

White Villa

White Villa
  • Author(s): Emily Hourican
  • Location(s): Ibiza
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

What happens when you invite an outsider in? It was supposed to be the holiday of a lifetime – a luxury villa in Ibiza, a group of university friends, and their last chance to cut loose before embarking on...

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