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The Clues in the Fjord

The Clues in the Fjord
  • Author(s): Satu Rämö, Kristian London (Translator)
  • Location(s): Westfjords
  • Genre(s): Police Procedural
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Hildur Rúnarsdottir is the only police detective working on the isolated west coast of Iceland. She is desperate to forget her traumatic past by burying herself in her cases alongside her new trainee, Jakob Johanson. But Jakob’s life has...

The Coach Trip

The Coach Trip
  • Author(s): Jo Lyons
  • Location(s): L'Albir, Costa Blanca
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

After suddenly losing her job, dedicated workaholic and chronic people-pleaser, Nell, is on the trip of a lifetime in search of something to spark joy – green tea, kale smoothies and wall pilates aren’t quite doing it. During a...

The Cocktail Bar

The Cocktail Bar
  • Author(s): Isabella May
  • Location(s): Glastonbury
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Rock star, River Jackson, is back in his hometown of Glastonbury to open a cocktail bar… and the locals aren’t impressed. Seductive Georgina is proving too hot to handle; band mate, Angelic Alice, is messing with his heart and...

THE COCOA GIRLS

THE COCOA GIRLS
  • Author(s): Annie Doyle
  • Location(s): Gateshead, London, New York City (NYC), Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 19th and early 20th centuries

Gateshead, 1903 – four-year old Evie’s world crumbles when her grandmother dies. Evie’s unmarried mother Margaret and Aunt Dinah discover their mother’s death has left them deeply in debt to their vicious aunt. She orders the sisters into service...

The Codebreaker’s Secret

The Codebreaker’s Secret
  • Author(s): Sara Ackerman
  • Location(s): Hawai'i, Oahu
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 1943, 1965

During WW2, a young codebreaker is posted to Hawaii. Having lost her brother in the attack on Pearl Harbour, she seeks to connect with his best friend, who is still posted there. In the mid 1960s a young reporter...

The Coffin Maker’s Garden

The Coffin Maker’s Garden
  • Author(s): Stuart MacBride
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A village on the edge… As a massive storm batters the Scottish coast, Gordon Smith’s home is falling into the North Sea. But the crumbling headland has revealed what he’s got buried in his garden: human remains. A house...

The Coffin Path

The Coffin Path
  • Author(s): Katherine Clements
  • Location(s): North York Moors
  • Genre(s): Gothic, Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): Mid 17th Century

An eerie and compelling ghost story set on the dark wilds of the Yorkshire moors Maybe you’ve heard tales about Scarcross Hall, the house on the old coffin path that winds from village to moor top. They say there’s...

The Coffin Quilt

The Coffin Quilt
  • Author(s): Ann Rinaldi
  • Location(s): West Virginia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1870s / 1880s

Fanny McCoy has lived in fear and anger ever since that day in 1878 when a dispute with the Hatfields over the ownership of a few pigs set her family on a path of hatred and revenge. From that...

The Coin

The Coin
  • Author(s): Yasmin Zaher
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A bold and unabashed novel about a young Palestinian woman’s unraveling as she teaches at a New York City middle school, gets caught up in a scheme reselling Birkin bags, and strives to gain control over her body and...

The Coincidence of Coconut Cake

The Coincidence of Coconut Cake
  • Author(s): Amy E Reichert
  • Location(s): Milwaukee
  • Genre(s): Food and Drink, Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

You’ve Got Mail meets How to Eat a Cupcake in this delightful novel about a talented chef and the food critic who brings down her restaurant–whose chance meeting turns into a delectable romance of mistaken identities. In downtown Milwaukee,...

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