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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
UK Publication Date: 3rd Dec 2015. 336 pages. The Bronte Plot is quite a difficult book to characterise. On one level it is a Romantic romp through the best of British Literature but more than that it is about coming to terms with your own flaws, seeking redemption and recognising […]
UK Publishing Date: 31 Oct 2015. 328 pages. Five Steps is quite a difficult book for me to review. I found it quite cumbersome and slow at times and if felt like a book that didn’t really know what genre it was aspiring to be. Part crime thriller and part […]
UK Publishing Date: 29 Oct 2015. 320 pages. “The Little Red Chairs” is the new book by Irish author Edna O’Brien and her first for about ten years. She specializes in crafting superb characters in sleepy communities that are completely believable and I’ve enjoyed quite a few of her novels. […]
UK Publishing Date: 1 Sept 2015. 234 pages. “Hanover House” is a digital prequel to a new suspense series by Brenda Novak. At 234 pages it is described as a novella to set the scene for the rest of the Hanover House chronicles. As a teen Evelyn was terrorized by […]
I got an email today from an author inviting me to vote in the latest Goodreads Choice Awards 2015. As I’ve read over 150 books so far in 2015 I thought that would put me in a pretty good position to be able to vote in a lot of the […]
UK Publishing Date: 2 July 2015. 256 pages. Fire Colour One is a rare book. It’s one of those Young Adult books that have the ability to touch anyone of any age that reads it. My only frustration with it was that it wasn’t long enough! Iris lives in America […]
UK Publishing Date: 13 Aug 2015. 432 pages. A beautiful book that seems to be marketed as a Young Adult story but “What Milo Saw” has a message for every age group. Milo has a degenerative sight problem (retinitis pigmentosa) so he sees very little. His tunnel vision leaves him […]
UK Publishing Date: 27 August 2015. 512 pages. Another one with a supernatural theme for Halloween! Its been a while since my last Derek Landy book. I did enjoy the first couple of Skulduggery Pleasant books so thought that this might make an interesting change. Amber is a tubby teenager […]
UK Publishing Date: 3rd Sept 2015. 320 pages. The Blackthorn Key is a great book aimed at tweens and teens but deserves a much wider readership. Christopher is an apprentice apothecary in 1665 London. When his master is suddenly murdered it falls to Christopher and his young friend Tom to […]
UK Publication Date: 22 Oct 2015. 270 pages. In recent years the Northern Europeans seem to have become the masters of the murder suspense genre. Authors like Jo Nesbo and Stieg Larsson have become synonymous with the dark and brooding crime fiction of Scandi Noir but you can’t rule out […]
UK Publishing Date: 17th Sept 2015. 400 pages. When I finished reading this book I jotted down a few thoughts on a page and realised that they were almost exclusively negative. So I had a quite scan over some other reviews and I was quite surprised that so many people […]
UK Publishing Date: 13 Aug 2015. 272 Pages Its probably a bit quirky but I find short stories fundamentally unfulfilling. You just start to get under the skin of a character and then the story ends. Next you are launched into a different setting and a new bunch of characters. […]
UK Publishing Date: 10 Sept 2015. 352 pages. Dark Room is the first Tom Becker novel that I’ve picked up. I didn’t have very high hopes when I started reading it. A teenage serial killer, with a love of photography? It had the capacity to be truly awful. Instead it […]
UK Publishing Date: 1st Oct 2015. 400 pages. Livvy is married to Adam. They’ve been together for about twenty years and have a son. Joe is a good kid. He has Asperger’s and has sometimes been difficult to manage over the years. Livvy has just discovered that Adam has been […]
UK Publishing Date: 6 Aug 2015. 336 pages. Historical fiction really isn’t my thing. I’d much rather read a factual account of real events that have taken place. So when I started reading this book I had no idea what it was about. I was quite surprised when I realised […]
UK Publishing Date: 22 Oct 2015. 736 pages. I can honestly say that it took me the best part of a month to get through this book. “A Little Life” is a deceptive title for a tome that weighs in at over 730 pages and is one of the most […]
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