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Cover Blown

Cover Blown
  • Author(s): Ian Robinson
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Present day

Realistic crime fiction set in the unforgiving streets of London An advertising executive is found murdered in her luxury London apartment. DI Nash and DS Moretti quickly exhaust the obvious leads when a near identical killing occurs. Though joined...

Cover the Bones

Cover the Bones
  • Author(s): Rachel Amphlett
  • Location(s): Vale of White Horse
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

(Detective Mark Turpin Book 5) When archaeologists discover a skeleton in secluded woodland, the body is first thought to be related to an ancient Saxon settlement. Then the torn and rotten remains of another woman’s bones are uncovered, her...

Cradle to Grave

Cradle to Grave
  • Author(s): Rachel Amphlett
  • Location(s): Kent
  • Genre(s): Police Procedural, Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

(Detective Kay Hunter Book 8) When a faceless body is found floating in the river on a summer’s morning, Detective Kay Hunter and her team are tasked with finding out the man’s identity – and where he came from....

Craven Scar

Craven Scar
  • Author(s): Susan Parry
  • Location(s): Yorkshire Dales
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Current

When Georgina O’Neill disappears without trace, a postcard arrives convincing everyone that she is fine…. Everyone except her husband Tim. When he meets Mills Sanderson at a wedding in Burnsall three years later, he begs her to help him...

Crime at Christmas

Crime at Christmas
  • Author(s): C H B Kitchen
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

A Christmas party in Hampstead is rudely interrupted by a violent death. Can the murderer be one of the relatives and intimate friends celebrating the festive season in the great house? The stockbroker sleuth Malcolm Warren investigates, in this...

Criminal Justice

Criminal Justice
  • Author(s): Ian Robinson
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

The first book in a totally gripping hard-boiled crime fiction series Undercover detective Sam Batford is through with police budget cuts and ineffectual superiors. But has he gone rogue? He is sent to work with a serious crime team...

Crossed Skis

Crossed Skis
  • Author(s): Carol Carnac
  • Location(s): Bloomsbury
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 1950s

In London’s Bloomsbury, Inspector Julian Rivers of Scotland Yard looks down at a dismal scene. Here is the victim, burnt to a crisp. Here are the clues – clues which point to a good climber and expert skier, and...

Cuddy

Cuddy
  • Author(s): Benjamin Myers
  • Location(s): North of England
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 7th century AD onwards

The triumphant new novel from the Walter Scott Prize-winning author of The Gallows Pole and The Offing Cuddy is a bold and experimental retelling of the story of the hermit St. Cuthbert, unofficial patron saint of the North of...

Cultivating a Fuji

Cultivating a Fuji
  • Author(s): Miriam Drori
  • Location(s): Bournemouth, Japan, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Mostly 1970s

Grace J Reviewerlady: “What a beautiful book! This is a novel I will reflect on time and time again.” Convinced that his imperfect, solitary existence is the best it will ever be, Martin unexpectedly finds himself being sent to...

Curandera

Curandera
  • Author(s): Irenosen Okojie
  • Location(s): Cape Verde (Cabo Verde), London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 17th century and modern day

This Summer, the award-winning author of Butterfly Fish and Nudibranch will release this extraordinary, thrilling, and mythical novel that will explore the darker elements of shamanism, desire, betrayal and friendship – spanning time and dimensions. Set in the mountainous...

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