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The Cotton Town Girls

The Cotton Town Girls
  • Author(s): Leah Fleming
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): early 20th century

Sophia Seddon and Grace Thompson are poles apart – the one a member of the notorious Seddons of Plover Street, the other the vicar’s spoilt only child. But their childhood friendship is revived when they find themselves fighting a...

The Counterfeit Detective

The Counterfeit Detective
  • Author(s): Simpson Grears
  • Location(s): Edinburgh, London, Pittsburgh
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1900s 1970s

THE COUNTERFEIT DETECTIVE is an epic Gothic literary crime thriller set mostly in Victorian London in 1900 but also in 1970s England, Scotland and the United States. An American professor discovers the diaries of John Ledbury, known as the...

The Couple In The Cabin

The Couple In The Cabin
  • Author(s): Daniel Hurst
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

They’ll do anything to get out. She’ll do anything to keep them in. When happily married Grace comes home early one night and catches her husband, Dominic, with another woman in the cabin at the bottom of their garden,...

The Crime Writer

The Crime Writer
  • Author(s): Jill Dawson
  • Location(s): Earl Soham
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

In 1964, the eccentric American novelist Patricia Highsmith is hiding out in a cottage in Suffolk, to concentrate on her writing and escape her fans. She has another motive too – a secret romance with a married lover based...

The Crossing Places

The Crossing Places
  • Author(s): Elly Griffiths
  • Location(s): Norfolk
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

No. 1 in the Dr Ruth Galloway series WINNER OF THE 2016 CWA DAGGER IN THE LIBRARY. A child’s bones are discovered on the windswept Norfolk marshes. Believing them to be ancient, the police call in Dr Ruth Galloway,...

The Crown, the Tiger, and the Curious Case of the Forty Elephants

The Crown, the Tiger, and the Curious Case of the Forty Elephants
  • Author(s): David Fribbins
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Humour, Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Victorian

In the beginning, Victoria wanted to be King. Following an uncomfortable discussion with her parents about the birds and the bees, Victoria decided that she wanted to be Queen. And so began the sociopathic journey toward the British throne...

The Crusaders

The Crusaders
  • Author(s): Richard T Kelly
  • Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

It is set in Newcastle in 1996 and follows a young Anglican clergyman who returns to his native North East to plant a new church in a deprived area and the interesting characters he meets in the process. As...

The Cry of the Dove

The Cry of the Dove
  • Author(s): Fadia Faqir
  • Location(s): Jordan, England
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

“Exquisitely woven.”–Leila Aboulela Timely and lyrical, The Cry of the Dove is the story of one young woman and an evocative portrait of forbidden love and violated honor in a culture whose reverberations are felt profoundly in our world...

The Crystal Crypt

The Crystal Crypt
  • Author(s): Fiona Veitch Smith
  • Location(s): Oxford
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): 1920s

The 1920s most stylish sleuth returns in The Crystal Crypt for another thrilling murder mystery! “But accidents can still happen… Perhaps there was something out of her control, something she couldn’t have foreseen…” “Like someone plotting to kill her?”...

The Cult

The Cult
  • Author(s): Abby Davies
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The gripping new thriller that will have you on the edge of your seat from the first page to the last! ‘Such a clever plot; a sinister decades-old cult and a modern-day missing children mystery, brilliantly woven together’ Jackie...

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