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The Confession

The Confession
  • Author(s): Jessie Burton
  • Location(s): Hampstead, Los Angeles, Mexico, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s / 2000s

One winter’s afternoon on Hampstead Heath in 1980, Elise Morceau meets Constance Holden and quickly falls under her spell. Connie is bold and alluring, a successful writer whose novel is being turned into a major Hollywood film. Elise follows...

The Consorts of Death

The Consorts of Death
  • Author(s): Gunnar Staalesen
  • Location(s): Norway
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1995 looking back

It is September 1995 and Veum is in his office when a telephone call takes him back 25 years, to a case where a small boy was separated from his mother under tragic circumstances. In the following decades, the...

The Contest

The Contest
  • Author(s): Karen Hamilton
  • Location(s): Tanzania
  • Genre(s): Crime, Destination Thriller, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

THE TRIP OF A LIFETIME. A PRIZE WORTH KILLING FOR. We call it the Great Escape. The annual trip where my boss asks us expert travel guides to escort a group of privileged, uber-wealthy clientele on some far-flung expedition,...

The Convenience Store by the Sea

The Convenience Store by the Sea
  • Author(s): Sonoko Machida, Bruno Navasky (Translator)
  • Location(s): Kitakyushu
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Welcome to Tenderness! A quaint seaside town in Kitakyushu, Mojiko is full of hidden delights. And one unexpected treasure is the 24/7 convenience store, Tenderness. At first glance, it’s a store like any other. Sure, it’s a bit odd...

The Cornish House

The Cornish House
  • Author(s): Liz Fenwick
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

When artist Maddie inherits a house in Cornwall shortly after the death of her husband, she hopes it will be the fresh start she and her step-daughter Hannah desperately need. Trevenen is beautiful but neglected, a rambling house steeped...

The Corpse at the Crystal Palace (Daisy Dalrymple #23)

The Corpse at the Crystal Palace (Daisy Dalrymple #23)
  • Author(s): Carola Dunn
  • Location(s): Crystal Palace
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 1928

April 1928: Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher is being visited in London by her young cousins who are desperate to see the Crystal Palace. On discovering that her children’s nanny, Gilpin, has also never seen the palace, Daisy decides to make...

The Corruptionist

The Corruptionist
  • Author(s): Christopher G Moore
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Set during the recent turbulent times in Thailand, the 11th novel in the Calvino series centers around the street demonstrations and occupation of Government House in Bangkok. Hired by an American businessman, Calvino finds himself caught in the middle...

The Cottage at Glass Beach

The Cottage at Glass Beach
  • Author(s): Heather Barbieri
  • Location(s): Maine
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Nora, has come to Glass Beach to find out who she is and what she needs to do after being devastated by her husband’s infidelity. This is where Nora’s spent some of her childhood and as she and her...

The Country of Ice Cream Star

The Country of Ice Cream Star
  • Author(s): Sandra Newman
  • Location(s): United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fantasy
  • Era(s): Future

In the ruins of a future America, fifteen-year-old Ice Cream Star and her people survive by scavenging in the detritus of an abandoned civilization. Theirs is a world of children – by the time they reach twenty, each of...

The Courier’s New Bicycle

The Courier’s New Bicycle
  • Author(s): Kim Westwood
  • Location(s): Melbourne
  • Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future
  • Era(s): Future

A beautifully written story of the near future and its murky underworld … Salisbury Forth is a courier of contraband in the alleyways of inner Melbourne, a city of fuel rationing, rolling power outages and curfews. It’s a stressful...

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