In these dark days of 2020 where many of us sit confined to our homes watching the Covid 19 news on our TV screens every night you need something in your life to help counter the fear, the depression, the isolation. Meet Dawn Elizabeth Brightside. She has been running from […]
The Mist is the third and final book in the Hidden Iceland series. Reviews of the previous two books can be found elsewhere on my site. I’ve really enjoyed this quirky take on Icelandic police work. The Hidden Iceland series begins at the end of Hulda’s career with the police. […]
Set in a crumbling country estate on the south coast of Ireland The Christmas Party is a little gem of a book. Declan Lorne is the last Knight in Ireland. A title that ceases to be when he dies suddenly with three female heirs. His estate is passed to his […]
This week our American cousins celebrate Thanksgiving and with the accompanying Black Friday shopping spree thus begins the official start of the Christmas season. And so dear friends it would be utterly remiss of me if I didn’t have the perfect Christmas book for your enjoyment. Ignore the queues in […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
If you are hunting for that last minute addition to your holiday suitcase then surely you have found it. One Last Greek Summer is that feel good holiday romance that oozes sunshine, cocktails and fun and just makes you smile while you are reading along. Beth Martin is 31 and […]
