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7 Ways to Kill a Cat

7 Ways to Kill a Cat
  • Author(s): Matías Néspolo
  • Location(s): Buenos Aires
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 2001

Set in a shanty-town on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, this fine first novel focuses on Gringo and Chueco, both 20, who live in an eternal present of hustling for food, sex, alcohol and drugs. Neither future nor past...

A Body in Barcelona (Max Cámara 5)

A Body in Barcelona (Max Cámara 5)
  • Author(s): Jason Webster
  • Location(s): Barcelona, Valencia
  • Genre(s): Crime, Suspense
  • Era(s): Modern

Tensions in Spain are rising: political violence and social unrest have suddenly re-emerged. Madrid is trying to keep a tight leash on Catalonia, where the call for independence is getting louder by the day. The last time Barcelona moved...

A Burden Shared

A Burden Shared
  • Author(s): Malcolm Archibald
  • Location(s): Dundee/St Andrews
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Second half 19th Century

The second book in the Mendick Mystery Series. Following “The Darkest Walk”, when Sergeant Mendick is sent to Dundee to collect a prisoner, he expects a speedy return to London but instead an unfortunate turn of events see him...

A Cold Day for Murder

A Cold Day for Murder
  • Author(s): Dana Stabenow
  • Location(s): Alaska
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Somewhere in the hinterlands of Alaska, among the millions of sprawling acres that comprise “The Park,” a young National Park Ranger has gone missing. When the detective sent after him also vanishes, the Anchorage DA’s department must turn to...

A Cold Season

A Cold Season
  • Author(s): Alison Littlewood
  • Location(s): The Peak District, The Pennines
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Horror
  • Era(s): Modern

Cass is building a new life for herself and her young son Ben after the death of her soldier husband Pete, returning to the village where she lived as a child. But their idyllic new home is not what...

A Concert for Christmas

A Concert for Christmas
  • Author(s): Helen Hawkins
  • Location(s): The Cotswolds
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Unwrap a story of festive song, good cheer and – just maybe – a sprinkling of love … Schoolteacher Sophie Lawson has fled to the Cotswold countryside after a tragic break-up and is throwing herself into dating and organising...

A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers

A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
  • Author(s): Xiaolu Guo
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 2000s

A young Chinese woman comes to London to learn English, and learns about love, men, Europe and living amongst the British. She falls for a quasi hippie and the fact it is written in a stilted English adds to...

A Conspiracy of Friends

A Conspiracy of Friends
  • Author(s): Alexander McCall Smith
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

The third novel in the London-based Corduroy Mansions series from Alexander McCall Smith, comparable in warmth and humour to 44 Scotland Street

A Conspiracy of Paper

A Conspiracy of Paper
  • Author(s): David Liss
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): 18th Century

Benjamin Weaver, a Jew and an ex-boxer, is an outsider in eighteenth-century London, tracking down debtors and felons for aristocratic clients. The son of a wealthy stock trader, he lives estranged from his family-until he is asked to investigate...

A Crack in the Wall

A Crack in the Wall
  • Author(s): Claudia Pinero
  • Location(s): Buenos Aires
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Pablo Sim’s life is a mess. His career as an architect is at a dead-end: reduced to designing soulless office buildings desecrating the heart of Buenos Aires. His marriage seems to be one endless argument with his wife over...

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