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Coronation Year

Coronation Year
  • Author(s): Jennifer Robson
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1953

Following the lives of a London hôtelier and some of her guests throughout 1953.

Corpus

Corpus
  • Author(s): Rory Clements
  • Location(s): Cambridge, Kent, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

1936. Europe is in turmoil. The Nazis have marched into the Rhineland. In Russia, Stalin has unleashed his Great Terror. Spain has erupted in civil war. In Berlin, a young Englishwoman evades the Gestapo to deliver vital papers to...

Corrupted

Corrupted
  • Author(s): Simon Michael
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1964

A sordid secret lies at the heart of political London… London, 1964, Charles Holborne has cemented his reputation as a successful murder trial lawyer, But in trying to save an innocent child, he finds himself investigating a sex ring...

Covent Garden in the Snow

Covent Garden in the Snow
  • Author(s): Jules Wake
  • Location(s): Covent Garden
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Tilly Hunter has fabulous friends, her dream job as a make-up artist with a prestigious opera company and Felix, her kind and caring husband to be. It looks set to be the most perfect Christmas yet! But when a...

Cover Blown

Cover Blown
  • Author(s): Ian Robinson
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Present day

Realistic crime fiction set in the unforgiving streets of London An advertising executive is found murdered in her luxury London apartment. DI Nash and DS Moretti quickly exhaust the obvious leads when a near identical killing occurs. Though joined...

Crime at Christmas

Crime at Christmas
  • Author(s): C H B Kitchen
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

A Christmas party in Hampstead is rudely interrupted by a violent death. Can the murderer be one of the relatives and intimate friends celebrating the festive season in the great house? The stockbroker sleuth Malcolm Warren investigates, in this...

Criminal Justice

Criminal Justice
  • Author(s): Ian Robinson
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

The first book in a totally gripping hard-boiled crime fiction series Undercover detective Sam Batford is through with police budget cuts and ineffectual superiors. But has he gone rogue? He is sent to work with a serious crime team...

Crossed Skis

Crossed Skis
  • Author(s): Carol Carnac
  • Location(s): Bloomsbury
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 1950s

In London’s Bloomsbury, Inspector Julian Rivers of Scotland Yard looks down at a dismal scene. Here is the victim, burnt to a crisp. Here are the clues – clues which point to a good climber and expert skier, and...

Cultivating a Fuji

Cultivating a Fuji
  • Author(s): Miriam Drori
  • Location(s): Bournemouth, Japan, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Mostly 1970s

Grace J Reviewerlady: “What a beautiful book! This is a novel I will reflect on time and time again.” Convinced that his imperfect, solitary existence is the best it will ever be, Martin unexpectedly finds himself being sent to...

Curandera

Curandera
  • Author(s): Irenosen Okojie
  • Location(s): Cape Verde (Cabo Verde), London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 17th century and modern day

This Summer, the award-winning author of Butterfly Fish and Nudibranch will release this extraordinary, thrilling, and mythical novel that will explore the darker elements of shamanism, desire, betrayal and friendship – spanning time and dimensions. Set in the mountainous...

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