Book #1 of the Series
Go back to where it all began with book number one of these popular series!
Bridgerton
The Duke and I by Julia Quinn
The Duke and ISimon Basset, the irresistible Duke of Hastings, has hatched a plan to keep himself free from the town’s marriage-minded society mothers. He pretends to be engaged to the lovely Daphne Bridgerton. It isn’t as if he has any real plans to marry, although there is something about the alluring Miss Bridgerton that sets Simon’s heart beating a bit faster. As Daphne waltzes across ballroom after ballroom with Simon, she soon forgets that their courtship is a complete sham. Can she keep herself from losing her heart and soul completely?
Song of Ice and Fire
A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
A Game of ThronesSummers span decades. Winter can last a lifetime. And the struggle for the Iron Throne has begun… The kingdom of the royal Stark family faces its ultimate challenge in the onset of the generation-long winter, the poisonous plots of the rival Lannisters, the emergence of the Neverborn demons, and the arrival of barbarian hordes. In the game of thrones, you win or you die.
Outlander
Outlander (also published as Cross Stitch) by Diana Gabaldon
OutlanderWhat if your future was in the past? While visiting the Scottish Highlands with her husband Frank, Claire walks through a circle of stones and finds herself in 1743. Marooned among danger, passion and violence, her only chance of safety lies in Jamie Fraser. What begins in compulsion becomes urgent need, and Claire finds herself torn between two very different men, in two irreconcilable lives.
Phryne Fisher
Cocaine Blues by Kerry Greenwood
Cocaine BluesIt’s the end of the roaring twenties, and the exuberant Honourable Miss Phryne Fisher grows bored with London and the endless round of parties. In search of excitement, she sets her sights on a spot of detective work in Melbourne. And so mystery and the beautiful Russian dancer, Sasha de Lisse, appear in her life. From then on it’s all cocaine and communism until her adventure reaches its steamy end in the Turkish baths of Little Lonsdale Street.
Aaron Falk
The Dry by Jane Harper
The Dry It hasn’t rained in Kiewarra for two years. Tensions in the farming community become unbearable when three members of the Hadler family are discovered shot to death on their property. Everyone assumes Luke Hadler committed suicide after slaughtering his wife and six-year-old son. Federal Police investigator Aaron Falk returns to his hometown for the funerals and is unwillingly drawn into the investigation. Because Falk and his childhood friend Luke shared a secret, one which Luke’s death threatens to unearth.
Cormac Reilly
The Ruin by Dervla McTiernan
Young Garda Cormac Reilly is called to a scene he will never forget. Two silent neglected children – fifteen-year-old Maude and five-year-old Jack – are waiting for him at a crumbling country house. Upstairs their mother lies dead. Twenty years later, a body surfaces in the ice black waters of the River Corrib. Cormac is thrown back into the cold case their has haunted his entire career. What links the two deaths, two decades apart?
Witcher
The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski
The Last WishGeralt is a witcher, a man whose magic powers, enhanced by long training and a mysterious elixir, have made him a brilliant fighter and merciless assassin. Yet he is no ordinary murderer: his targets are the multifarious monsters and vile fiends that ravage the land and attack the innocent. He roams the country seeking assignments, but gradually comes to realise that while some of his quarry are unremittingly vile, vicious grotesques, others are the victims of sin, evil or simple naivety.