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The Blue

The Blue
  • Author(s): Lucy Clarke
  • Location(s): New Zealand (Aotearoa), Pacific Ocean
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Suspense
  • Era(s): Modern

They had found paradise. What would they do to keep it? With a quick spin of the globe, Kitty and Lana escape their grey reality and journey to the Philippines. There they discover The Blue – a beautiful yacht, with a...

The Boy at the Door

The Boy at the Door
  • Author(s): Alex Dahl
  • Location(s): Sandefjord
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Suspense
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘Unsettling, layered, bold, unpredictable, dark. EXCELLENT’ Will Dean, author of Dark Pines. What would you do for the perfect life? Would you lie? Would you cheat? Would you kill? Cecilia Wilborg has the perfect life. A handsome husband, two...

The Cat and The City

The Cat and The City
  • Author(s): Nick Bradley
  • Location(s): Tokyo
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

In Tokyo – one of the world’s largest megacities – a stray cat is wending her way through the back alleys. And, with each detour, she brushes up against the seemingly disparate lives of the city-dwellers, connecting them in...

The Chalet

The Chalet
  • Author(s): Catherine Cooper
  • Location(s): French Alps
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
  • Era(s): Present looking back to 1998

‘Pure adrenaline’ ERIN KELLY ‘I was gripped from start to finish’ CASS GREEN French Alps, 1998 Two young men ski into a blizzard… but only one returns. 20 years later Four people connected to the missing man find themselves...

The Cherry Blossom Murder

The Cherry Blossom Murder
  • Author(s): Fran Pickering
  • Location(s): Japan, Tokyo
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Behind the scenes a killer is lurking… When Tokyo-based Londoner Josie finds a body under the cherry blossom, she sets out to track down the killer. But she finds that everyone has a secret and no one can be...

The Christmas Cafe

The Christmas Cafe
  • Author(s): Amanda Prowse
  • Location(s): Edinburgh, Sydney
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Bea does not believe in second chances. A widow at fifty-three, Bea knows she must accept that she will be alone forever. She buries her grief in hard work, and soon the deli she runs in Surry Hills has...

The Clearing

The Clearing
  • Author(s): Dan Newman
  • Location(s): St Lucia
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1970s onwards

In 1976, four boys walked into a jungle. Only three came back alive. Haunted by terrifying childhood memories he doesn’t fully understand, journalist Nate Mason returns to the Caribbean island of St. Lucia where he grew up. Back then,...

The Crooked Maid

The Crooked Maid
  • Author(s): Dan Vyleta
  • Location(s): Vienna
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1948

Vienna, 1948. The war is over, and as the initial phase of de-Nazification winds down, the citizens of Vienna struggle to rebuild their lives amidst the rubble. Anna Beer returns to the city she fled nine years earlier after...

The Cruise Club

The Cruise Club
  • Author(s): Caroline James
  • Location(s): The Mediterranean
  • Genre(s): Fiction, RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Escape to the sun with the #1 bestselling author of The Cruise in a feelgood rom com full of romance, fun and mischief, which will sweep you away to the azure waters of the Mediterranean with every turn of...

The Double Comfort Safari Club (11)

The Double Comfort Safari Club (11)
  • Author(s): Alexander McCall Smith
  • Location(s): Botswana
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi are called to a safari lodge in Botswana’s Okavango Delta to carry out a delicate mission on behalf of a former guest. The Okavango makes Precious appreciate once again the beauty of her homeland:...

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