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Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of Beach Read, a sparkling new novel that will leave you with the warm, hazy afterglow usually reserved for the best vacations. Poppy and Alex. Alex and Poppy. They have nothing in common. She's a wild child; he wears khakis. She has insatiable wanderlust; he prefers to stay home with a book. And somehow, ever since a fateful car share home from college many years ago, they are the very best of friends....
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Her happiness shattered by her movie director boyfriend's announcement that he intends to reconnect with a woman from his past, travel columnist Annie Adams impulsively marries a charming chef and attempts to restart her life in rural Massachusetts.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin Love Inspired
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
218 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Jules Sheehan will do anything to keep custody of the two orphaned girls in her care--including a marriage of convenience with their uncle. Cam Quinn crosses the globe as a travel writer, but he's ready to settle down. Now tough, tender Jules is offering the home he's secretly longed for. Can this marriage in name only become a family of the heart?" -- Page [4] cover.
Author
Series
Publisher
Travel Passages
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
225 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Travel writer Frank Dodge needs a breakout piece to resurrect his sinking career. So when he gets a tip about one of the last surviving descendants of the notorious mobster John Looney, he drops everything and heads to Davenport, Iowa. But after a long and boozy interview, his article turns into a murder mystery when his source is found floating face down in the Mississippi. Pegged by the police as their prime suspect, Dodge vows to catch the real...
6) Red rain
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
369 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of a hurricane from which she barely escapes while on a small island off the coast of South Carolina, travel writer Lea Sutter impulsively adopts a pair of orphaned twin boys against the wishes of her family before encountering the twins' sinister natures.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
239 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
While celebrating their anniversary in Italy, amateur sleuth/caterer Faith Fairchild and her husband, the Reverend Tom Fairchild, find murder on the itinerary when a new acquaintance is killed in the Eternal City and someone tries to sabotage her former assistant's new cooking school in Florence.
Author
Series
Publisher
Travel Passages
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
317 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Writer Frank Dodge is feeling optimistic for a change. He just landed a plum assignment from a national magazine to write about the growth of boutique food in the Midwest. Dodge's mood quickly turns sour, though, when his scheming rival Helen shows up--is she trying to steal another story from him? When a fire erupts at the food convention Dodge is scouting out, two people die and Dodge can't shake the feeling that the fire was no accident. He puts...
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
276 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
George Gates used to be a travel writer who specialized in places where people disappeared-Judge Crater, the Lost Colony. Then his eight-year-old son was murdered, the killer never found, and Gates gave up disappearance. Now he writes stories of redemptive triviality about flower festivals and local celebrities for the town paper, and spends his evenings haunted by the image of his son's last day. Enter Arlo MacBride, a retired missing-persons detective...
10) One for the road
Author
Series
Bourbon tour mystery volume 1
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
198 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Travel writer Jill Curtis loves her job, but she desperately needs a break if she's to achieve her dream of becoming an investigative reporter. Sent to Kentucky by her boss to find out why thousands of tourists flock to Bourbon Country every year, Jill's dream seems to be slipping further away. After all, nothing interesting ever happens in rural America...does it? Staying at an estranged relative's B&B, Jill's plan to uncover what makes the state's...
Author
Series
Frank Dodge mystery volume 3
Publisher
Travel Passages
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
276 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Freelance journalist Frank Dodge vowed to stay by his estranged lover's side until the bitter end. But when he's offered a plum assignment covering the economic impact of frac sand mining, he's torn between his career and reconciling with his dying ex. Believing he can do both, he's midway through the gig when a bomb goes off, taking innocent lives. Discovering that corruption runs fatally deep in the clash between greedy corporates and luckless...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st Atria Books hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
535 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Travel writer Thomas Nesbitt, age 50, retreats into his house in Maine to wallow in memories of living in Germany 25 years earlier after the success of his first book. In West Berlin as a worker for Radio Liberty, Thomas meets his soul mate, Petra Dussmann, a translator with an iron curtain around her heart. Petra's mysterious melancholy proves irresistible, and as Thomas is drawn into a passionate affair, he also becomes entangled in spy games played...
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
353 pages ; 17 cm
Language
English
Description
Dane Hearne, the Irish fertility god, must find a bride or be transformed into a mortal, while Alrik Sigurdsson must sail his Viking ship along the Scandinavian coast forever, unless he can find a woman who can break the curse.
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2015].
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Back when Poke Rafferty first arrived in Bangkok to write a travel guide, some of the old-timers in the Expat Bar on Patpong Road helped him make sense of the city. Now these men--many of whom have been living in Southeast Asia since the Vietnam War--have grown old and, in some cases, frail. When a talkative stranger named Arthur Varney turns up, they accept him without suspicion, failing to see that he's actually using them to get to Poke. Varney...
15) For the dead
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
347 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Poke Rafferty is happier than he's ever been. He's financially solvent, his family is about to grow larger, and his adopted Thai daughter, Miaow, seems to have settled in at junior high school. All that is endangered when Miaow and her boyfriend, Andrew, buy a stolen iPhone from a shady vendor and discover photographs of two dead police officers on it--disgraced officers, violently murdered to avenge the long-dead. Surrounding the murder investigation...
16) Desertion
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Early one morning in 1899, an Englishman named Martin Pearce stumbles out of the desert into an East African coastal town and collapses at the feet of Hassanali, a local shopkeeper. When Hassanali's sister, the beautiful and disillusioned Rehana, nurses Pearce back to health, a love affair sparks, with consequences that will ripple decades into the future, when another clandestine affair bursts into flame, with equally unforeseen and dramatic consequences....
17) Enchanted
Author
Series
(Jan S.).Accidental billionaires volume 4
Publisher
Montlake Romance
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
239 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Years ago, Noah Sinclair promised his dying mother that he'd stay strong and work hard for his younger brothers and sisters. Even with the Sinclairs' newfound wealth, Noah has never steered from that blue-collar drive. His siblings think it's time--with the gift of a Cancún vacation. To Noah, being forced to relax isn't bliss. It's a chore. Especially under the watch of a beautiful family friend enlisted to make sure every laptop under the sun stays...
18) Street music
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
370 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Poke Rafferty's hand-made intercultural family is disrupted in unexpectedly complicated ways by the birth of his son, littering their small Bangkok apartment with emotional land mines. At the same time, the most cantankerous member of the small gang of Old Bangkok Hands who hang out at The Expat Bar suddenly goes missing under suspicious circumstances. Engaged in the search for the missing American and the challenges of life with a newborn, Rafferty...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
11 audio discs (approximately 750 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In a Scottish cemetery, Jade MacGregor's carefree vacation abroad is marred by a seemingly random tragedy. A year later, back home on a shadowy French Quarter street, she glimpses an oddly familiar face. Surrounded by her friends and engrossed in her work, Jade should feel secure. But somebody is dogging her every move. Somebody who knows what she saw on that long ago afternoon. Somebody who will try to rescue her from the evil that is waiting to...