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The Curious Life of Elizabeth Blackwell

The Curious Life of Elizabeth Blackwell
  • Author(s): Pamela Holmes
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1700 - 1740

An engrossing historical saga based on the life of the eighteenth-century woman who endured loss and betrayal—and dared to pursue her dreams. Her parents warned Elizabeth that Alexander Blackwell would not make a dependable husband, and only after eloping...

The Current

The Current
  • Author(s): Tim Johnston
  • Location(s): Minnesota
  • Genre(s): Suspense, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When two young women leave their college campus in the dead of winter for a 700-mile drive north to Minnesota, they suddenly find themselves fighting for their lives in the icy waters of the Black Root River, just miles...

The Curse of La Fontaine

The Curse of La Fontaine
  • Author(s): M L Longworth
  • Location(s): Aix-en-Provence
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery, Food and Drink
  • Era(s): Modern

Provençal Mystery Series #6 Chef Sigisbert “Bear” Valets has just opened his own restaurant, La Fontaine, in Aix-en-Provence. It’s an immediate success—glowing reviews and a loyal clientele, including our favorite investigative duo, Verlaque and Bonnet. But when he decides to extend...

The Curse of Misty Wayfair

The Curse of Misty Wayfair
  • Author(s): Jaime Jo Wright
  • Location(s): Wisconsin
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1908 and early 21st century

Left at an orphanage as a child, Thea Reed vowed to find her mother someday. Now grown, her search takes her to Pleasant Valley, Wisconsin, in 1908. When clues lead her to a mental asylum, Thea uses her experience...

The Curse of Penryth Hall

The Curse of Penryth Hall
  • Author(s): Jess Armstrong
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s

1922. Ruby Vaughn has made a life for herself running a bookshop alongside octogenarian Mr Owen. When she finds herself at Penryth Hall, deep in the Cornish countryside, painful memories emerge of her lost friendship with Tamsyn, now married...

The Cursing Stone

The Cursing Stone
  • Author(s): Adrian Harvey
  • Location(s): London, Glasgow, The Hebrides
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present day

Fergus Buchanan has led a charmed life: a doting family, a loving sweetheart and the respect of his neighbours. All is as it should be and nothing stands between him and the limitless happiness that is his destiny. But...

The Cut Out Girl

The Cut Out Girl
  • Author(s): Bart van Es
  • Location(s): Amsterdam
  • Genre(s): Biography
  • Era(s): WW2 onwards

Little Lien wasn’t taken from her Jewish parents – she was given away in the hope that she might be saved. Hidden and raised by a foster family in Amsterdam during the Nazi occupation, she survived the war only...

The Cutting

The Cutting
  • Author(s): James Hayman
  • Location(s): Maine
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Detective Sergeant Michael McCabe moved from New York City to Portland, Maine, to escape a dark past: both the ex-wife who’d left him for an investment banker, and the tragic death of his brother, a hero cop gone bad....

The Cutting Place

The Cutting Place
  • Author(s): Jane Casey
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The gripping new thriller from the Top Ten Sunday Times bestselling author, shortlisted for the Irish Crime Book Awards 2020. You’ve got to be in the club to know the truth. Everyone’s heard the rumours about elite gentlemen’s clubs,...

The Cypress Maze

The Cypress Maze
  • Author(s): Fiona Valpy
  • Location(s): Tuscany
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1943 / 2015

In this haunting tale from the bestselling author of The Storyteller of Casablanca, Beatrice kept a wartime secret to protect the innocent. Now, could telling it set her free? Tuscany, 1943. Stranded in war-ravaged Italy, Beatrice’s dream of an...

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