Prolific reader, enthusiastic theatre and movie-goer and ex-Olivier Awards judge who spent twenty years working in the music industry in London. I love sharing my favourite books with friends - nearly always spoiler-free as I hate reading a synopsis of the whole book in other reviews.
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Just when you think that Caroline Mitchell can’t surprise you she comes up with The Perfect Mother. Roz is just about scraping by in a job that she hates in Dublin. When she realises that she is pregnant after an ill advised one night stand things are pretty desperate. She […]
I’m a bit late to the party on this one. Published in February this year I bought the book as a hardcover because I fell in love with its cover. It was such beautiful autumnal colours and a bizarre combination of delicate William Morris type motifs intertwined with a noose. […]
I’m not good with change. I was ridiculously excited when I read that Robert Bryndza had a new book coming out and then I read that he had changed publisher and that the new book didn’t feature the tortured heroine Erika Foster. It didn’t bode well… When I was sent […]
Genie is dreading this Christmas. The gloomy days and frosty nights just serve to remind her that it is almost a year since she lost Anna her adoptive mother in a tragic accident. David is really worried about her. Genie has spent most of the year barely able to leave […]
You’ve probably discovered Tess Gerritsen even if you’ve never read any of her books. She was the author of the the hugely successful crime series which was turned into the TNT television series “Rizzoli & Isles” starring Angie Harmon and Sasha Alexander. The Shape of Night is a new stand […]
Over the past few years Louise Jensen has become one of my favourite writers of psychological thrillers. Always uniquely British and always impossible to predict they are stories that will keep you gripped right to the very last page. Laura is struggling. Recently widowed, she is about to lose her […]
You might remember Jessie Burton as the author of the phenomenally successful 2014 book The Miniaturist. It has been a long wait for this, her third book, but one that was well worth it. The story begins in London in 1980. On Hampstead Heath a young woman called Elise Morceau […]
And finally I get around to telling you about the book that the lovely people at MIRA sent me to review. The Lies We Tell is the second main book in the Undertaker’s Daughter series. It COULD be read on its own as a standalone story as you do get […]
In this the first full book in the Undertaker’s Daughter series Rowan Dupont has returned home to the funeral home in Winchester, Tennessee where she grew up. Following the murder of her father at the hands of a notorious serial killer she has taken over the business that has been […]
I’ve done my usual trick with this series. I was sent The Lies We Tell to review and realised that it was the second full book in the series. Enjoying the premise of the book that I’d picked up I decided to go back to the very beginning. The Undertakers’ […]
