The Shadow Lines

The Shadow Lines
Author: Amitav Ghosh
Publisher: Penguin Books India
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2010-01-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0143066560

Opening in Calcutta in the 1960s, Amitav Ghosh's radiant second novel follows two families -- one English, one Bengali -- as their lives intertwine in tragic and comic ways. The narrator, Indian born and English educated, traces events back and forth in time, from the outbreak of World War II to the late twentieth century, through years of Bengali partition and violence, observing the ways in which political events invade private lives.

The Library of Light and Shadow

The Library of Light and Shadow
Author: M. J. Rose
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2017-07-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1476778124

Sought by society patrons who admire her ability to create stunning "shadow portraits" revealing her subjects' most scandalous secrets, a mystical artist in 1925 Manhattan renounces her gift in the wake of a tragedy and flees to southern France.

The Distant Echo

The Distant Echo
Author: Val McDermid
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Total Pages: 484
Release: 2007-04-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1429977620

This "cunningly plotted" (New York Times) thriller is coming to Britbox this October! Bestselling, award-winning author Val McDermid delivers her most stunning story yet in The Distant Echo--an intricate, thought-provoking tale of murder and revenge. Four in the morning, mid-December, and snow blankets St. Andrews School. Student Alex Gilbery and his three best friends are staggering home from a party when they stumble upon the body of a young woman. Rosie Duff has been raped, stabbed and left for dead in the ancient Pictish cemetery. The only suspects are the four young students stained with her blood. Twenty-five years later, police mount a cold case review. Among the unsolved murders they're examining is that of Rosie Duff. But someone else has his own idea of justice. One of the original quartet dies in a suspicious house fire and soon after, a second is killed. Alex fears the worst. Someone is taking revenge for Rosie Duff. And it might just save his life if he can uncover who really killed Rosie all those years ago.

Shadow’s Lure

Shadow’s Lure
Author: Jon Sprunk
Publisher: Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.
Total Pages: 460
Release: 2018-10-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1625673841

The Shadow Saga continues with in this “fun, fast, action-packed novel” of magic, mystery, and monstrous evil (Elitist Book Reviews). After helping his lover Josephine lay claim to the throne of Nimea, the assassin Caim has ventured north to the land that has haunted his dreams—cold, unforgiving Eregoth. He departs seeking answers to his parents’ murder and hoping that this knowledge will explain his ability to bend the shadows to his will. In searching for his past, Caim wanders into war. But Eregoth is threatened by a power more terrifying than any army—the witch Sybelle, Queen of the Dark. If given the chance, her aims at destruction would not cease at Eregoth but storm through Nimea where Josey struggles to secure her reign. With nothing more than a force of ragtag warriors at his side, Caim knows that standing against Sybelle’s onslaught may be suicide. But as a son of the Shadow, he has no choice but to fight. Even if every life he takes brings him closer to the blackness that would claim him body and soul...

The Shadow Hour

The Shadow Hour
Author: Melissa Grey
Publisher: Ember
Total Pages: 450
Release: 2017-06-06
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0385744684

With the firebird awakened, the war has become even more dangerous for Echo and her friends. There is a darkness spreading too and staying in hiding might not be enough to keep them alive.