Shadow Sands is the second book in his new series featuring university lecturer Kate Marshall. If you haven’t read it yet please go back and find Nine Elms. You can read this as a standalone but why would you? Nine Elms is a deliciously creepy serial killer story that feeds […]
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes
When Ruth is offered her first role in a Broadway play it feels as though things are really starting to take off with her career. Coupled with the fact that she and her boyfriend Adam have been asked to house-sit a beautiful old house in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, it has been […]
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes
Choose a book by it’s cover? Hell yeah! As soon as I got sent the publicity photos for this book I just knew that I had to read it. In a kind of William Morris arts and crafts style the colours just grabbed me and insisted that i pick the […]
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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 […]
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After a few standalone stories from Slaughter it is great to get back to the world of the GBI and the ninth Will Trent book. It many ways this feels much more like early Will as he is left foundering without a safety net and suddenly finds himself without Sara. […]
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Alice Feeney is on a bit of a roll. Her first book Sometimes I Lie was a huge hit worldwide and is being made into a Warner Bros TV Series starring Sarah Michelle Gellar. It must have made it quite the challenge to come up with a story that could […]
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When I was young we used to go and visit my grandmother. If it coincided with a visit from my cousins it used to be great fun. On dark wet winter days not so much. My grandmother was an avid reader though and one wall of her bedroom had books […]
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Andrea knows everything about her mother Laura. They’ve lived in the idyllic seaside town of Belle Isle for most of Andy’s life. She’s seen her mum through breast cancer and divorce and watched her become a much loved speech therapist at the centre of the small community. Meeting Laura for […]
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Some weeks ago I was in my local bookshop looking for inspiration. On one of their crime tables there was a weighty tome called The Crow Girl. It had an interesting cover and unlike most of the other books there were only 2 copies left in the pile. As soon […]
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes
After eighteen novels in her “Bones” series it would be very easy to write off Kathy Reichs as a one trick pony. “Two Nights” demonstrates that she is much more than the queen of forensic pathology and truly a master of the suspenseful thriller. Sunnie Night is a real character. […]
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It is great that some of the best fictional detectives over the past couple of years have been strong female characters with personality and intelligence and I suspect the fact that a lot of these have been through Bookouture is no coincidence. Carol Wyerβs latest book is her first foray […]
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UK Publication Date: 3 Mar 2016. 288 pages. Thin Ice is the fifth book in the Icelandic detective series featuring Officer Gunnhildur although it does work quite well as a standalone story if you havenβt read any of the others. This was my first Quentin Bates book and Iβll definitely […]
Estimated reading time: 1 minute