UK Publishing Date: 14 Jan 2016. 368 Pages. Dead Secret is one of those books that grabs you by the scruff of the neck and drags you along for the ride. Jodie is an artist and housewife. When she threatens to leave her psychologically abusive husband Ethan he murders their […]
Estimated reading time: 1 minute
UK Publishing Date: 7 Jan 2016. 400 pages. The Darkest Secret begins in Bournemouth in the summer of 2004. Coco Jackson is three years old and has vanished from her bed overnight. The story begins to unfold from witness statements taken at the scene. There is obviously a conspiracy story […]
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes
UK Publishing Date: 31 Dec 2015. 321 pages. If I See You First is one of those books that feels like it is more than the sum of its parts and even though it is about a teenage girl at High School don’t let that put you off picking up […]
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UK Publishing Date: 29 Dec 2015. 384 Pages Laurelin Paige has got a strong track record in the “adult” romance market. While the genre only came to mass market with the success of the Fifty Shades books, her Fixed series managed to stand out amongst the competition with Hudson Pierce […]
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UK Publishing Date: 22 Dec 2015. 336 pages. I didn’t really know what to expect from this book. The cover featuring Teague in his sharp suit made it feel like it was setting you up for a Mr Grey style CEO power struggle. You couldn’t be further from the truth. […]
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes
UK Publishing Date: 3 Dec 2015. 352 pages. It is hard to describe my journey through The Silver Witch. At about a quarter of the way through I was about to give up on it. It isn’t the easiest read. The pacing is very slow with little happening as the […]
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UK Publishing Date: 24 Nov 2015. 317 pages. There aren’t many books that make me cry on the train but this was one of them. In Butterfly Dreams A Meredith Walters had created an emotional roller coaster of a ride that just can’t fail to touch your heart. If you […]
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UK Publishing Date: 30/07/2015. 354 Pages. In a Dark, Dark Wood is the debut from Ruth Ware. It is a modern day Agatha Christie style crime thriller with all the protagonists isolated in a cottage for the weekend. When Nora receives an invitation to a hen party she is quite […]
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UK Publishing Date: 24 Nov 2015. 276 pages. I’ve had this book for a couple of months and honestly I was putting off reading it. The cover just doesn’t do it justice. Generic muscular hot guy in scantily clad pose – just like 90% of the self published novels on […]
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It’s bizarre to think that I read about 160 books in a year but when I was asked yesterday what my favourite book of the year was I struggled to come up with one. It was all I could do to think about the books that I had given the highest […]
Estimated reading time: 9 minutes
UK Publishing Date: 19 Nov 2015. 272 pages. As Good as Dead is described in the book notes as “an exquisitely tuned psychological high-wire act” and unfortunately this is a bit misleading. As I went into this book I was expecting a fast paced psychological thriller and instead i got […]
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UK Publishing Date: 17 Dec 2015. 90 pages Operation White Christmas is a short but very sweet read and the perfect distraction during the Christmas holidays. Australian Hollie is about to marry her high school sweetheart when she realises that he has been cheating on her and that he wants […]
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UK Publishing Date: 20 Nov 2015. 98 Pages. Christmas Cravings is another story in the Greedily Yours series by Emma Hamilton. It is really a long short story or a short novella specially released for the festive season. If you haven’t read any of the other stories it doesn’t really […]
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UK Publishing Date: 10 Nov 2015. 322 pages. For the Record is the debut book by author Charlotte Huang and should not be confused with the adult title of the same name by K A Linde. Aimed at a younger YA audience this is the story of Chelsea and her […]
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UK Publishing Date: 5 Nov 2015. 352 Pages Smoke and Mirrors is a quintessentially British novel set in post World War 2 Britain. This is the second of the DI Stephens & Mephisto stories but can easily be read as a standalone novel (I did!) It is nearly Christmas and […]
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UK Publication Date: 19 Nov 2015. 528 pages. The Man Who Watched Women has got a feel of Scandi-Noir about it and if you liked The Killing or the Stieg Larsson books then you will surely enjoy this, the second in the Sebastian Bergman series. I hadn’t read the first […]
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UK Publication Date: 5 Nov 2015. 288 pages. I’ve never been a huge fan of Tess Gerritsen’s Rizzoli and Isles series so it was a great surprise when I found myself enjoying Playing with Fire, a standalone novel. It is a story of two violinists. One present day, living in […]
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UK Publishing Date: 3 Dec 2015. 400 Pages. Holly Johnson lives in Dublin. She’s a sometime researcher for a run of the mill radio station – and controversially not the singer from Eighties band Frankie Goes to Hollywood! Life is ticking along nicely but she hasn’t met The One. Signing up […]
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UK Publishing Date: 15 Oct 2015. 300 pages. The publishers blurb for this book says that it is a “gripping psychological thriller for fans of Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train” and while that might be true to an extent, I think that I actually preferred this book […]
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UK Publishing Date: 10 Nov 2015. 400 pages. Becca Fitzpatrick likes to write about troubled teens and Stella Gibson in “Dangerous Lies” is no exception. After witnessing a murder she is uplifted from her comfortable home in Philadelphia and placed in the Witness Protection Programme for her own safety. Suddenly […]
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes