Lisa Wingate Pages: 334 Published: 2017
The book: It’s Memphis, Tennessee in 1939. The five Foss children, who are all under twelve, live on a riverboat with their parents. One stormy night, when their mother is taken ill, the children are left alone. Unbeknownst to the parents, some strangers have nefarious plans for their children. Read more
Hania Allen Pages: 378 Published: 2018
The book: There’s been a murder! A dead body appears, propped up like a scarecrow, in a field near Dundee in Scotland. D S Dania Gorska is called in to investigate. Originally from Poland, she has recently transferred from London to Dundee Police’s Specialist Crime Division. Gorska learns about a case, closed before she arrived, that involved two runaway teenage girls. She’s convinced the runaways and the murder are connected. Can Gorska find the murderer? Are the two cases linked? Did the girls really runaway? Read more
Kelli Estes Pages: 390 Published: 2015
The book: It’s modern-day Seattle. Inara has graduated and is about to start a corporate job her father has arranged for her. She’s unenthused with the idea and has other plans that involve an old family home she has inherited on Orcas Island in the Puget Sound. There she finds an old piece of embroidered cloth and sets out to discover its origins.
Mei Lien lives in Seattle during the 1800s, a time period during which racism was rampant. Tragedy befalls her family. Read more
Fredrik Backman Pages: 415 Published: 2017
The book: Beartown is a small town in economic decline. The local junior ice hockey team has made it to the national semi-finals. The whole town is vested in the team and its success. A violent act occurs that is related to the team. How will the team and the town handle it? Where will priorities lie? Read more
Helen Oyeyemi Pages: 259 Published: 2019
The book: Perdita Lee appears to be a regular teenage schoolgirl. She lives on the seventh floor of a house in London, with her mother Harriet, where they bake gingerbread from an old family recipe.
Perdita’s life seems to be proceeding as normal. Or rather, as normal as can be expected when you’re originally from Druhástrana, a country most people don’t believe exists, and you have four opinionated plant dolls (part plant part doll) that talk to you. Read more
James Church Pages: 280 Published: 2006
The book: Inspector O is a police detective in Pyongyang, North Korea. Early one morning he is sitting on a remote hillside outside the city, waiting for a mystery car that he has been told will appear from the south. His job is to photograph it. The body of a dead foreigner is found in the Koryo hotel. Two very senior officials are interested in both the car and the dead foreigner but will not say why. Are the two things connected? Will Inspector O work out what is going on? Can he stay alive while doing so? Read more
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