The Two Minute Rule
Sponsored by Griffin Bookshop griffin.bookshop@portugalresident.com The Two Minute Rule By Robert Crais This book shows just how long or short this time span can be, depending on your standpoint. Two
Mother Killers
Sponsored by Griffin Bookshop griffin.bookshop@portugalresident.com Mother Killers by John Piper DR JOHN Piper is a well-known character in the Algarve, as a surgeon and as a longstanding resident. This is
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
By Lisa See Lily is the daughter of a humble farmer and to her family she is just another expensive mouth to feed. Then the local matchmaker delivers startling news:
The Inheritance of Loss
By Kiran Desai In the north-eastern Himalayas, at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga in a crumbling isolated house, there lives a cantankerous old judge, who wants nothing more than to
Treasure of Khan
By Clive Cussler (co-authored by his brother, Dirk Cussler). Following on from Cussler’s last Dirk Pitt thriller, Black Wind, he takes his avid fans into the lands and legend of
Under orders
By Dick Francis After six years of silence, Dick Francis has gone into print again with a new Sid Halley racing thriller (his 39th novel to date). Death at the
Unseen
By Mari Jungstedt An altogether more gentle, albeit thrilling, debut from this Swedish author – Unseen is a welcome new voice in European crime. The picturesque holiday island of Gotland,
Crusader Gold
By: Linda Taylor-Gonçalves Email: griffin.bookshop@portugalresident.com The first book from David Gibbins was Atlantis, set in the Mediterranean, focusing on the search for lost treasure. He has now followed this up
Dying Light
By: Linda Taylor-Gonçalves Email: griffin.bookshop@portugalresident.com MacBride is gaining increasingly in popularity with his second novel, which is set in Aberdeen and features DS Logan McRae. Cold Granite was the first;
The Mayor of Lexington Avenue
By: Linda Taylor-Gonçalves Email: griffin.bookshop@portugalresident.com If these two books are not for you, how about a courtroom drama? James Sheehan is a practicing trial attorney and has just had his

