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The Commuter

The Commuter
  • Author(s): Emma Curtis
  • Location(s): London, West London
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Rachel wakes from a coma to discover her controlling husband has been killed, and the police suspect her of involvement. But all Rachel can recall from the last few weeks are tantalising flashes of a fellow commuter. A man...

The Company She Keeps

The Company She Keeps
  • Author(s): Diana R Chambers
  • Location(s): Iran, Paris
  • Era(s): Modern

A young southern woman, Evelyn-also known as “E”-is confronted by a CIA officer, Nick, who says her mysterious lover is being investigated as a foreign mole. Shocked, she agrees to cooperate, secretly. E thus enters the international world of...

The Concubine’s Child

The Concubine’s Child
  • Author(s): Carol Jones
  • Location(s): Kuala Lumpur
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s and contemporary

In 1930s Malaya a sixteen-year-old girl, dreaming of marriage to her sweetheart, is sold as a concubine to a rich old man desperate for an heir. Trapped, and bullied by his spiteful wife, Yu Lan plans to escape with...

The Consequences of Finding Daniel Morgan

The Consequences of Finding Daniel Morgan
  • Author(s): Peter J Robinson
  • Location(s): Australia, Florida, Mexico
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Present day

International Wildlife Expert, Phillip Royle, is recalled to Florida mid-flight to help find his missing former federal enforcement colleague, Daniel Morgan, soon finding Dan’s messy remains in a tiger pen. But what the hell was Dan doing there? With...

The Consul General’s Wife

The Consul General’s Wife
  • Author(s): Aliefka Bijlsma
  • Location(s): Rio de Janeiro
  • Genre(s): Fiction

Melchior Steenbergen is leading an idyllic life. An elite member of Holland’s diplomatic corps, he is the Consul General in Rio, with a sweeping view of the Ipanema bay from his official residence, and a beautiful wife 20 years...

The Consul’s Daughter

The Consul’s Daughter
  • Author(s): Jane Jackson
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 19th Century

With family honour at stake, the price of failure is high… The Consul’s Daughter is the first in Jane Jackson’s epic new historical series, The Captain’s Honour. Caseley is the 21-year-old daughter of Teuder Bonython, successful shipyard owner and...

The Coral Thief

The Coral Thief
  • Author(s): Rebecca Stott
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 19th Century

July 1815, Daniel Connor arrives by mail coach in Paris and his affair with a beautiful coral thief. In his luggage are three rare fossils and the bones of a mammoth. Napoleon is already in exile…this is post revolutionary...

The Corrieva Contract

The Corrieva Contract
  • Author(s): Jai Baidell
  • Location(s): Australia, Canberra, Melbourne
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

A country girl with city problems… Joanne was notorious for tackling problems head-on during her teenage years in Yass, but she has left her home town behind to pursue a stable marriage and career in Canberra instead. It was...

The Cotton Harvest

The Cotton Harvest
  • Author(s): A K Nawaz
  • Location(s): Manchester
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Manchester: England’s Second City. A migrant worker who disappears without trace… A human trafficker who boils his victims alive… A century-old blood sport returns to the streets… Disillusioned police recruit Khorum Choudry is already thinking of quitting when he’s...

The Courtesan and the Samurai: The Shogun Quartet #3

The Courtesan and the Samurai: The Shogun Quartet #3
  • Author(s): Lesley Downer
  • Location(s): Tokyo
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Second half 19th Century

1868. In Japan’s exotic pleasure quarters, sex is for sale and the only forbidden fruit is love … Hana is just seventeen when her husband goes to war, leaving her alone and vulnerable. When enemy soldiers attack her house...

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