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Black Reed Bay

Black Reed Bay
  • Author(s): Rod Reynolds
  • Location(s): Long Island
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Don’t trust ANYONE… When a young woman makes a distressing middle-of-the-night call to 911, apparently running for her life in a quiet, exclusive beachside neighbourhood, miles from her home, everything suggests a domestic incident. Except no one has seen...

Black Woods, Blue Sky

Black Woods, Blue Sky
  • Author(s): Eowyn Ivey
  • Location(s): Alaska
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Birdie’s keeping it together, of course she is. So she’s a little hungover on her shifts, and has to bring her daughter to the lodge while she waits tables, but Emaleen never goes hungry. It’s a tough town to...

Blood In The Water

Blood In The Water
  • Author(s): Jack Flynn
  • Location(s): Boston
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Present day

Homeland Security agent, Kit Steel, is committed to avenge terrorism. And she’s after the blood of her nemesis, one of world’s most ruthless and dangerous criminals, Vincente Carpio. He has the blood of her husband and young son on...

Blue Running

Blue Running
  • Author(s): Lori Ann Stephens
  • Location(s): Texas
  • Genre(s): Dystopian, Fantasy
  • Era(s): Future

In the new Republic of Texas, guns are compulsory and nothing is forgiven. Blue Running is a gripping coming-of-age thriller for fans of Station Eleven and Thelma and Louise. Fourteen-year-old Bluebonnet Andrews is on the run across the Republic...

Cannery Row

Cannery Row
  • Author(s): John Steinbeck
  • Location(s): Monterey
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

John Steinbeck’s paean to the Monterey County of his youth, Cannery Row contains an introduction by Susan Shillinglaw in Penguin Modern Classics. In the din and stink that is Cannery Row a colourful blend of misfits – gamblers, whores, drunks, bums and artists...

Cape May

Cape May
  • Author(s): Chip Cheek
  • Location(s): New Jersey
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1957

September 1957 Henry and Effie, young newlyweds from Georgia, arrive in Cape May, New Jersey, for their honeymoon. It’s the end of the season and the town is deserted. As they tentatively discover each other, they begin to realize...

Coffee Killed My Mother

Coffee Killed My Mother
  • Author(s): Donna Koros Stramella
  • Location(s): New Jersey, Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present Day

Coffee Killed My Mother tells the story of Anna Lee, an anxious 17-year-old whose life is stuck, largely because of her strained relationship with her mother Jacqueline, a quirky recovering alcoholic who is now addicted to coffee. The two...

Cross My Heart

Cross My Heart
  • Author(s): D K Hood
  • Location(s): Montana
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

She wakes to the sound of footsteps outside her secluded home. Moving toward the window, she scans the dark woods around her and freezes. A tall figure in a long dark coat holds a crossbow pointed right at her....

Dashboard Elvis is Dead

Dashboard Elvis is Dead
  • Author(s): David F Ross
  • Location(s): Glasgow, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): Turn 21st Century

A failed writer connects the murder of an American journalist, a drowned 80s musician and a Scottish politician’s resignation, in a heart-wrenching novel about ordinary people living in extraordinary times. Renowned photo-journalist Jude Montgomery arrives in Glasgow in 2014,...

Deep Down Dead

Deep Down Dead
  • Author(s): Steph Broadribb
  • Location(s): California, Florida, Georgia, West Virginia
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Lori Anderson is as tough as they come, managing to keep her career as a fearless Florida bounty hunter separate from her role as single mother to nine-year-old Dakota, who suffers from leukaemia. But when the hospital bills start...

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