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Clash of Civilisations over an elevator in Piazza Vittorio

Clash of Civilisations over an elevator in Piazza Vittorio
  • Author(s): Amara Lakhous
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 2000s

A small, culturally mixed community living in an apartment building in the centre of Rome is thrown into disarray when one of the neighbours is murdered. As each of the victim’s neighbours is questioned, the reader is offered an...

Cliff Diver

Cliff Diver
  • Author(s): Carmen Amato
  • Location(s): Acapulco
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

When Emilia Cruz, Acapulco’s first and only female police detective, dives into the investigation of a dirty cop’s death, she might just hit the rocks instead of the water. With hot nights on the beach and suspense straight out...

Close to Home

Close to Home
  • Author(s): Cara Hunter
  • Location(s): Oxford
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 2016

HOW CAN A CHILD GO MISSING WITHOUT A TRACE? Last night, eight-year-old Daisy Mason disappeared from a family party. No one in the quiet suburban street saw anything – or at least that’s what they’re saying. DI Adam Fawley...

Coal Creek

Coal Creek
  • Author(s): Alex Miller
  • Location(s): Queensland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Bobby Blue is caught between loyalty to his only friend, Ben Tobin, and his boss, Daniel Collins, the new Constable at Mount Hay. ‘Ben was not a big man but he was strong and quick as a snake. He...

Cold Comfort

Cold Comfort
  • Author(s): Ellis Vidler
  • Location(s): Williamsburg
  • Genre(s): Romance, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Claire Spencer runs the little Christmas shop called “The Mistletoe.” After being dumped by her faithless fiancé, she has abandoned her dreams of a family of her own tucked neatly inside a picket fence. Instead, she’s plotting her solo...

Cold Hit (Alexandra Cooper Book 3)

Cold Hit (Alexandra Cooper Book 3)
  • Author(s): Linda Fairstein
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1990s

Renowned sex-crimes prosecutor and bestselling author Linda Fairstein sends her acclaimed heroine — the stylish and steely-nerved D.A. Alexandra Cooper — on a hunt for a killer inside New York City’s glitzy art world. Alexandra Cooper has seen many...

Cold Remains

Cold Remains
  • Author(s): Sally Spedding
  • Location(s): Carmarthenshire
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

When Jason Robbins arrives at the eerie Heron House in deepest Carmarthenshire for a writing course, he soon meets its two weird servants who seem to exercise a sinister power over their scheming employer, Monty Flynn. Another newcomer is...

Comfort and Joy

Comfort and Joy
  • Author(s): India Knight
  • Location(s): London, Marrakech
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2009-2011

It’s two days before Christmas and wife and mother of two, Clara Dunphy, has finally finished her last-minute shopping on Oxford Street. On a whim she decides to treat herself to a champagne cocktail at the Connaught hotel, where...

Concentration Camps of Canada

Concentration Camps of Canada
  • Author(s): Baron Alexander Deschauer, Lucky Deschauer
  • Location(s): Canada
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Early to mid 20th Century

Imagine a world where everyone lives in harmony. A world where square miles of farmland are given to settlers in exchange for them agreeing to move there. A world of freedom, laws, and opportunity. That world is Canada, then...

Confessions of a Chalet Girl

Confessions of a Chalet Girl
  • Author(s): Lorraine Wilson
  • Location(s): Verbier
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Verbier. Exclusive Swiss ski resort and the winter playground of the rich and famous = every chalet girl’s dream! Good for: Maximum time on the ski slopes – and in the bars at night! Looking for flings – or...

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