The Horse Whisperer, by Nicholas Evans

The Horse Whisperer (made famous by the movie with the same name, starring Robert Redford) is a quiet, beautiful book.
The author, Nicholas Evans was born and grew up in Worcestershire and [...]

Death at La Fenice, by Donna Leon

La Fenice is the name of the famed opera house in Venice. The novel starts with the death of the well-known German conductor Helmut Wellauer. He is found dead in his dressing room after an intermission, shortly before he was to conduct La Traviata. Of course, the police are called.
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Ida Elisabeth, by Sigrid Undset

(Oslo : Aschehoug, 1932, New York : Knopf, 1933.) Ida Elisabeth marries Frithjof, her teenage sweetheart. They get four children together, but only two of them live to grow up. Soon Ida Elisabeth discovers that she has married a real shirker of a man.
When Frithjof embarks on an affair with another woman, Ida Elisabeth [...]

The Day of the Jackal, by Frederick Forsyth

The Day of the Jackal is a novel about whose main character is the Jackal, a highly feared and infamous terrorist at the time when this novel was written. The plot of the book is a (fictional) account of an attempt by this terrorist to assassinate president de Gaulle.
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