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The Connellys of County Down

The Connellys of County Down
  • Author(s): Tracey Lange
  • Location(s): Port Chester
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Tara Connelly is released from prison after serving eighteen months on a drug charge, she knows rebuilding her life at thirty years old won’t be easy. With no money and no prospects, she returns home to live with...

The Consequences of Fear

The Consequences of Fear
  • Author(s): Jacqueline Winspear
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1941

London, September 1941. Freddie Hackett, a message runner for a government office, witnesses an argument that ends in murder. Hiding in the doorway of a bombed-out house, Freddie waits until the coast is clear. But when he arrives at...

The Consequences of Love

The Consequences of Love
  • Author(s): Sulaiman Addonia
  • Location(s): Saudi Arabia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1998 - 2000

A Romeo and Juliet story set against the strict Muslim laws of Saudi Arabia, Sulaiman Addonia’s astonishing debut novel is a sensuous and intensely wrought story of a young immigrant and a girl behind a veil who defy law...

The Consequences of Love

The Consequences of Love
  • Author(s): Gavanndra Hodge
  • Location(s): Tunisia, London
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1990s and now

Seven-year-old Gavanndra Hodge’s life is a precarious place. Her father is a hairdresser and drug dealer to Chelsea’s most decadent inhabitants; her mother an alcoholic ex-model. So, it is up to Gavanndra to keep her little sister Candy safe....

The Consortium

The Consortium
  • Author(s): Nicola Clifford
  • Location(s): Mid Wales
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

One morning after an illegal rave in a Welsh valley, a hill farmer finds a young woman’s body… Reporter Stacey Logan has been investigating the party scene, and when it is established the girl died after taking drugs, she...

The Continuity Girl

The Continuity Girl
  • Author(s): Patrick Kincaid
  • Location(s): Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): 1969, 2014

1969. Hollywood descends on a tiny Scottish village for the making of Billy Wilder’s most ambitious picture yet: a sprawling epic detailing The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes. But the formidable director and his crew soon come into conflict...

The Contract

The Contract
  • Author(s): Dwight Kopp
  • Location(s): Zambia (Northern Rhodesia)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): late 20th century

Zimbabwe’s dictator exploits critical faults in the decaying infrastructure of his own country. Evil reigns unchecked and greed has no limit. But the blood-soaked grass, empty shelves, and unmarked graves birth a new era of African resistance. When political...

The Convalescent Corpse

The Convalescent Corpse
  • Author(s): Nicola Slade
  • Location(s): Hampshire
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery, Young Adult
  • Era(s): Edwardian

3 teenage girls start a business and solve a murder in 1918 Hampshire town not unlike Romsey.

The Cook of Castamar

The Cook of Castamar
  • Author(s): Fernando J Muñez, Rahul Bery (translator), Tim Gutteridge (Translator)
  • Location(s): Madrid
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 18th Century

NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES SHE IS the daughter of a disgraced physician, forced to work in the kitchen of a great eighteenth-century Spanish house, hiding her intense agoraphobia from everyone. HE IS the Duke of Castamar, one of...

The Cook of the Halcyon

The Cook of the Halcyon
  • Author(s): Andrea Camilleri
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

The Cook of the Halcyon is the penultimate novel in the Inspector Montalbano mystery series from the master of Sicilian crime, Andrea Camilleri. Moments later the all-white schooner, which looked like a hospital ship, began to pass ever so...

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