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 business and her home. Daughter…
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Book Review: The Confession – Jessie Burton 📗📗📗📗📗
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 meets Constance Holden. Connie is…
Book Review: The Lies We Tell – Debra Webb 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪
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 a reprise of a lot…
Book Review: The Secrets We Bury – Debra Webb 🔪🔪🔪🔪
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 in their family for generations….
Book Review: The Undertaker’s Daughter – Debra Webb 🔪🔪🔪
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’ Daughter is classed as book…
Book Review: Truth Hurts – Rebecca Reid 🏖🏖🏖🏖
Truth Hurts is the second book from journalist Rebecca Reid. When children’s nanny Poppy is suddenly sacked by her overbearing employer in the middle of their summer holiday in Ibiza she finds herself penniless at a bar at the side of the road. With nothing more than the clothes she is wearing – and her…
Book Review: Lies Lies Lies – Adele Parks ✍🏻✍🏻✍🏻
I’ve reviewed Adele Parks a few times on here before and unlike other writers she always seems to go for something a bit different. A bit quirky and unexpected. This is a story of a family, a life lived with secrets. Daisy is married to Simon. He is an unacknowledged alcoholic and when sober he…
Book Review: In Her Eyes – Sarah Alderson ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
If you’ve been reading these reviews for a while you’ll already know that I’m a huge Sarah Alderson fan. I’ve been reading her books since her publisher handed me an ARC of her debut YA book Hunting Lila at a Twilight convention! When I got sent In Her Eyes as a pre-release review copy I…
Book Review: The Postcard – Zoë Folbigg ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Sometimes you just know that you are going to really enjoy reading a particular book. So much so that I put it to one side and went back to read the start of Maya and James’ story – The Note. This sequel picks up straight after where the previous book stopped. Now a couple and…
Book Review: The Note -Zoë Folbigg ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I started reading – and really enjoying – Zoë Folbigg’s new book The Postcard, quickly realised it was a sequel and went out and downloaded her first book. I’m not quite sure how it managed to pass me by when it came out in 2017 as it is exactly the kind of fun romantic read…
Book Review: The Strawberry Thief – Joanne Harris ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Meeting up with an old friend like Vianne Rocher is always a pleasure and if, like me, you are a fan of Harris’s Chocolat series this book is unmissable – even if you do find yourself hunting through the cupboard for some chocolate goodness while you are reading it. Not a great choice for a…
Book Review: Three Days in Florence – Chrissie Manby ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Picking up a new Chrissie Manby book is like meeting up with a really good friend that you haven’t seen for ages. You know pretty much all of their best stories but its still an absolute pleasure. Kathy Courage is in Italy for her boyfriend’s brother’s wedding. Neil is being his usual ebullient and rather…
