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Fallen Angels

Fallen Angels
  • Author(s): Gunnar Staalesen, Don Bartlett (translator)
  • Location(s): Bergen
  • Genre(s): Crime, In Translation, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1980s

Exploring his own dark memories may be the only way to find a killer When Bergen PI Varg Veum finds himself at the funeral of a former classmate on a sleet-grey December afternoon, he’s unexpectedly reunited with his old...

Fallen Land

Fallen Land
  • Author(s): Patrick Flanery
  • Location(s): The Midwest
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Post 9/11

Poplar Farm has been in Louise’s family for generations, inherited by her sharecropping forebears from a white landowner after a lynching. Now, the farm has been carved up, the trees torn down: a mini-massacre replicating the destruction of lives...

Far

Far
  • Author(s): Rosa Ribas
  • Location(s): Central Spain
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In a housing development in the middle of the nowhere, one of the many that were built in Spain, but never finished because of the crash, lives a small community of neighbours, trying to lead a normal life, despite...

Far Out: Sailing into a Disappearing World

Far Out: Sailing into a Disappearing World
  • Author(s): Corinna Weyreter
  • Location(s): Pacific Ocean, The South Seas
  • Genre(s): Travelogue

Tired of their careers in the oil industry, Corinna Weyreter and Gjalt van der Zee sailed away from the rat race in search of freedom and adventure in the fabled South Pacific. Taking only what could justify its space...

Farewell Fountain Street

Farewell Fountain Street
  • Author(s): Selçuk Altun, Mel Keene (translator), Nilgün Dungan (translator)
  • Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople), Geneva
  • Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Ziya Bey has six months left to live. From his mansion on Farewell Fountain Street, the Ottoman aristocrat plans to tie up some questionable business affairs and say goodbye to the people he cherishes. He hires Artvin, a disillusioned...

Fatal Inheritance

Fatal Inheritance
  • Author(s): Rachel Rhys
  • Location(s): Antibes, French Riviera (Cote d'Azur)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1948

1948: an English housewife trapped in a dull marriage escapes to the South of France to claim a mystery inheritance. But rivals to her unexplained fortune begin to emerge, and now they want her out of the way …...

Fatherland

Fatherland
  • Author(s): Robert Harris
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1960s

Fatherland is set in an alternative world where Hitler has won the Second World War. It is April 1964 and one week before Hitler’s 75th birthday. Xavier March, a detective of the Kriminalpolizei, is called out to investigate the...

Feast Days

Feast Days
  • Author(s): Ian MacKenzie
  • Location(s): Sao Paulo
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Intelligent and deeply felt, Feast Days follows a young wife who relocates with her financier husband to Sao Paulo–a South American megacity that impresses and unsettles, conceals and erupts. Here in her new home, she reckons with the twenty-first...

Fever

Fever
  • Author(s): Deon Meyer
  • Location(s): South Africa
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Nico Storm and his father Willem drive a truck filled with essential supplies through a desolate land. They are among the few in South Africa–and the world, as far as they know–to have survived a devastating virus which has...

Fever City

Fever City
  • Author(s): Tim Baker
  • Location(s): Dallas, Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1960s/2014

Nick Alston, a Los Angeles private investigator, is hired to find the kidnapped son of America’s richest and most hated man. Hastings, a mob hitman in search of redemption, is also on the trail. But both men soon become...

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