Better Than Suicide (The Yakuza Path #2) by Amy Tasukada

A stash of drugs. A twisted cop. A mob on the verge of self-destruction…

Nao Murata is the new godfather of the Matsukawa syndicate. When Detective Yamada confronts Nao over a dead drug dealer, Nao knows his organization isn’t responsible. The Matsukawa doesn’t deal drugs… or does it?

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The Girl with No Shadow (Chocolat #2) by Joanne Harris

The wind has always dictated Vianne Rocher's every move, buffeting her from the French village of Lansquenet-sous-Tannes to the crowded streets of Paris. Cloaked in a new identity, that of widow Yanne Charbonneau, she opens a chocolaterie on a small Montmartre street, determined to still the wind at last and keep her daughters, Anouk and baby Rosette, safe. But the weather vane soon turns, and Zozie de l'Alba blows into their lives.

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Holy Fools by Joanne Harris

In the year 1605 a young woman, hiding from her past, takes up the veil becoming Soeur Auguste. Five years later the past has found her and to protect herself and her beloved child she'll have to perform one last act of dazzling daring more audacious than any she has previously attempted.

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Blackberry Wine by Joanne Harris

Like her well-received 1999 novel, Chocolat, Harris's latest outing unfolds around the arrival of an outsider in a tiny French town.

This time wine replaces chocolate as Harris's magic elixir, and the newcomer to the village of Lansquenet sur Tannes is Jay Mackintosh, a 37-year-old has-been writer from London.

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Coastliners by Joanne Harris

Mado has been adrift for too long.
After ten years in Paris, she returns to the small island of Le Devin, the home that has haunted her since she left.

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Saving Fish from Drowning by Amy Tan

San Francisco art patron Bibi Chen has planned a journey of the senses along the famed Burma Road for eleven lucky friends. But after her mysterious death, Bibi watches aghast from her ghostly perch as the travelers veer off her itinerary and embark on a trail paved with cultural gaffes and tribal curses, Buddhist illusions and romantic desires. On Christmas morning, the tourists cruise across a misty lake and disappear.

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The Game of Kings (The Lymond Chronicles #1) by Dorothy Dunnett

Dunnett introduces her irresistible hero Francis Crawford of Lymond, a scapegrace nobleman of elastic morals and dangerous talents whose tongue is as sharp as his rapier. In 1547 Lymond is returning to his native Scotland, which is threatened by an English invasion. Accused of treason, Lymond leads a band of outlaws in a desperate race to redeem his reputation and save his land.

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Checkmate (The Lymond Chronicles #6) by Dorothy Dunnett

Cultural > Scotland

For the first time Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles are available in the United States in quality paperback editions.

Sixth
in the legendary Lymond Chronicles, Checkmate takes place in 1557,
where Francis Crawford of Lymond is once again in France, leading an
army against England. But even as the Scots adventurer succeeds
brilliantly on the battlefield, his haunted past becomes a subject of
intense interest to forces on both sides.

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