Spain and The Balearics

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Cordoba/London
Meet Eva, an only child full of questions about her beginnings. Between her emotionally absent mother and her physically absent father, there is nobody to answer them. Eva is convinced that all is not as it seems. Why are there no baby pictures of her? Why do her parents avoid all questions about her early years? When her parents’ relationship crumbles, Eva begins a journey to find these answers for herself. Her desire to discover where she belongs leads Eva on a journey spanning decades and continents – and, along the way, she meets women who challenge her idea of what a mother should be, and who will change her life forever…
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France/Spain
Zoe is an artist from California. Martin an engineer from Yorkshire. Both have found themselves in Cluny, France coming to terms with their recent past. For Zoe it is the death of her husband, for Martin a difficult divorce. Looking to make a fresh start, each sets out alone to walk 2000km from Cluny to Santiago de Compostela in NW Spain, following in the footsteps of pilgrims who have walked the camino for centuries. It's said the Camino changes you - it's a chance to find a new version of yourself. But can these two very different people find each other?

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Mallorca Book 1
Every summer, Jenn and her husband Greg return to Deia, on Mallorca's dramatic west coast. This year the arrival of Emma, Jenn's stepdaughter, and her new boyfriend Nathan threatens to upset their equilibrium. Beautiful and reckless, Nathan stirs something unexpected in Jenn. As she is increasingly seduced by Nathan's youth and the promise of passion, the line between desire and obsession begins to blur. What follows is a highly-charged liaison that puts lives and relationships in jeopardy.

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Menorca Book 1
A story that switches between the present day and the violence of the Spanish Civil War. Kate is running away. The hide-out she chooses is Menorca, the simple, beautiful island she knew as a child. A chance encounter with an old friend enmeshes her in a web of family and island secrets that have endured since the Civil War, warping the lives of three generations. The last person to champion truth over reticence, she is nevertheless a catalyst for breaking a sixty year 'pact of forgetting'. Until the only secret left is her own.

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Mallorca Book 2
Thriller. The holiday of their dreams. One night that changed it all ... 1989: The tunes are loud and the clothes are louder when a group of friends arrives in Mallorca for a post-graduation holiday of decadence and debauchery at a luxury villa. A beach party marks the pinnacle of their fun, until it isn't fun any longer. Because amidst the wild partying - sand flying from dancing feet and revellers leaping from yachts - an accident happens. Suddenly, the night of a lifetime becomes a living nightmare. Now: The truth about that summer has been collectively buried. But someone knows what happened that night. And they want the friends to pay for what they did.
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Mallorca Book 3
When Finn Hensen gets a call from his sister Jess to say their father has died, neither is heartbroken. Their parents divorced many years ago, after which their father, Jimmy, continued to live a bohemian lifestyle in sun-soaked Mallorca. Ownership of his beautiful but dilapidated farmhouse in the mountains now passes to Finn and his sister. The only problem is that Jimmy recently remarried and his new wife, Ruensa, is still living there. The pair agree that Finn should go to Mallorca and tactfully take possession of their inheritance. When he arrives, however, Finn is surprised to find that Finca Siquia has been completely transformed into a chic Mediterranean bolthole by Ruensa and her twenty-seven-year-old daughter, Roze. The Spanish police, meanwhile, are asking awkward questions about Jimmy's death . . . Are Ruensa and Roze the helpless victims of circumstance? Or will they stop at nothing to get Finca Siquia for themselves?
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Spain Book 1
Andalucía/London. Historical fiction. 1967, Odelle takes a job at a London gallery. Employed as a typist her enigmatic employer spots and begins to unlock a talent for writing. When a lost masterpiece arrives at the gallery, Odelle sets out to discover its story. The trail leads back to 1936, a large house in beautiful, rural Spain and another young women with ambitions of her own. Against a background of political unrest,  two young strangers become involved in the fragile paradise with potentially devastating consequences.

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Spain/Sweden
Part scandi-noir, part historical fiction. Spain, 1938: The country is wracked by civil war, and as Valencia falls to Franco’s brutal dictatorship, Republican Therese witnesses the murders of her family. Captured and sent to the notorious Las Ventas women’s prison, Therese gives birth to a daughter who is forcibly taken from her. Falkenberg, Sweden, 2016: A wealthy family is found savagely murdered in their luxurious home. Discovering that her parents have been slaughtered, Aliénor Lindbergh, a new recruit to the UK’s Scotland Yard, rushes back to Sweden and finds her hometown rocked by the massacre. Profiler Emily Roy joins forces with Aliénor and soon finds herself on the trail of a monstrous and prolific killer. Little does she realise that this killer is about to change the life of her colleague, true-crime writer Alexis Castells. Joining forces once again, Roy and Castells’ investigation takes them from the Swedish fertility clinics of the present day back to the terror of Franco’s rule, and the horrifying events that took place in Spanish orphanages under its rule.
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