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Capital Christie

Capital Christie
  • Author(s): Agatha Christie
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Earlier 20th Century

Murder, mystery and majesty combine in this new Special Edition hardback of the Queen of Crime’s very best short stories set in London. Agatha Christie is recognized throughout the world as the writer of remarkable country house mysteries and...

Captor Captive

Captor Captive
  • Author(s): L J Kane
  • Location(s): Devon
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Present day

Kidnapped. On the run. Hunted by a psychopath. What if you’re with her right to the end? Will Ellie survive? Would you? Snatched from her sadistic captor’s lair by his own getaway driver, eighteen-year-old student Ellie realises that she’s...

Career of Evil

Career of Evil
  • Author(s): Robert Galbraith
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): Present Day

When a mysterious package is delivered to Robin Ellacott, she is horrified to discover that it contains a woman’s severed leg. Her boss, private detective Cormoran Strike, is less surprised but no less alarmed. There are four people from...

Careless

Careless
  • Author(s): Kirsty Capes
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

At 3.04 p.m. on a hot, sticky day in June, Bess finds out she’s pregnant. She could tell her social worker Henry, but he’s useless. She should tell her foster mother, Lisa, but she won’t understand. She really ought...

Carl Goes London Islands

Carl Goes London Islands
  • Author(s): Sasha Arms
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Islands represent freedom, independence and creativity. They appear and disappear over time, according to weather events, water flow and intervention by people. Islands have an enduring and often romantic appeal. Being closer to nature, at the mercy of the...

Case Study

Case Study
  • Author(s): Graeme Macrae Burnet
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1965

London, 1965. An unworldly young woman suspects charismatic psychotherapist Collins Braithwaite of involvement in a death in her family. Determined to find out more, she becomes a client of his under a false identity. But she soon finds herself...

Cassandra Darke

Cassandra Darke
  • Author(s): Posy Simmonds
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Cassandra Darke is an art dealer, mean, selfish, solitary by nature, living in Chelsea in a house worth £7 million. She has become a social pariah, but doesn’t much care. Between one Christmas and the next, she has sullied...

Cast a Horoscope

Cast a Horoscope
  • Author(s): Suzi Stembridge
  • Location(s): Greece, Middle East, Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 1960s

Rosalind Peters can’t believe her luck when in 1960, just in her twenties, she lands a job as an air-hostess, that is what cabin crew was called in those days. Life was every bit as glamourous as she imagined...

Casting Off (Cazalet Chronicles Book 4)

Casting Off (Cazalet Chronicles Book 4)
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Jane Howard
  • Location(s): Sussex
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction

The aftermath of war, and the slow dawning of a new era of freedom and opportunity, shape the destinies of the Cazalets. Polly, Clary and Louise, now grown up, are ready to discover the truth about the adult world....

Catfish

Catfish
  • Author(s): Sadie Norman
  • Location(s): King's Lynn
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): contemporary

A seductive detective mystery set in the summery landscape of England’s east coast… When Norfolk police officer Anna McArthur escapes the most boring date ever experienced, she isn’t quite prepared for the grim kind of excitement that will soon...

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