Rachel Burton is one of my favourite authors of recent years and I’m really pleased to have been invited to join to blog tour for the paperback launch of The Last Party at Silverton Hall. Like a lot of my recent reads it features the dual timeline with the two […]
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Care giver, life saver… or cold-blooded killer? Running away from a past she’d rather forget, Doctor Alison Wilson has moved to a new town to take up the role of Medical Officer at failing hospital St Margaret’s. Tasked with shaking things up, she quickly learns that things are worse than […]
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If you’ve ever had nightmare neighbours you can sympathise with the residents of Lowland Way. It’s a pretty well to do street in an area of South London that has become gentrified. Waitrose shoppers aspiring to send their well heeled offspring to good schools and to have the best start […]
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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 […]
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I’m really lucky in that I often get sent books to review several months before their publication date. I’m usually pretty good and add them to my reading schedule and plan to read them just before the launch date. When The Family Upstairs arrived on my kindle three months early […]
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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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Elle arrives back at her house by the sea after a writer’s retreat. It is the first time that she has rented out her dream house on Airbnb. Something doesn’t feel quite right about the place since she got home. There is a coldness, a shift in the atmosphere. Her […]
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Back in 2015 Heaberlin had one of the hits of the year with the darkly sinister Black Eyed Susans. If you enjoyed her deeply immersive story you won’t be disappointed by Paper Ghosts. In fact my only real gripe with this book is with the cover. The UK publishers have […]
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To celebrate the paperback launch of this amazing book I’m really pleased to be launching the blog tour for The Legacy today. It is always good to discover that there is a new book from Yrsa Sigurdardottir and it’s even better when you realise that it is the first in […]
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The fifth and final book in the Cainsville series sees Liv facing a choice between the two supernatural forces vying for her support. As it looks increasingly like she is close to making her decision both parties decide to up the ante and force her to choose them. The only […]
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The latest instalment of Bryndza’s detective series sees Erika coming to terms with Peterson’s injuries and thinking about her future with the Met. When a suitcase is pulled out of the Thames containing dismembered body parts it becomes clear that there is a brutal killer on the loose in London. […]
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It is always good to discover that there is a new book from Yrsa Sigurdardottir and it’s even better when you realise that it is the first in a new series. The Children’s House works with traumatised young people advising the police on how best to question and approach them […]
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Honestly by the end of this book I was having palpitations and struggling for breath along with Jenna, the main character. Louise Jensen has this great gift of being able to drag you directly into the story and carry you along kicking and screaming! The Gift is the second book […]
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At the end of The Night Stalker Erika Foster was disillusioned by her lack of career progression and as this book opens she has moved to another area and is now working on a different team trying to put away a big time drug dealer. They have a tip off […]
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A young woman has been stopped for shoplifting. She has stolen a bread roll, some cheese and an apple. She is starving and looking at the haul in desperation. The supermarket call in the police and her interrogation begins. They can’t find out who she really is or a prison […]
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I’ve had Lucie Whitehouse on my list of authors that interested me for quite a while now but never actually got around to picking up one of her books. I now realise that I was missing out because she is a master craftswoman when it comes to constructing the perfect […]
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The second part of Blakely’s jewel heist romance carries on right where The Sapphire Affair left off. Stop reading now if you haven’t read that because there will be spoilers. Having just made a connection with Jake and spending the night together Steph is devastated to see that the safe […]
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As you’ve probably guessed from the title this is the first part in a raunchy new adult romance duology from Lauren Blakely. You know what you are getting when you pick up one of Lauren’s books. One of our most prolific romance writers at the moment she knows how to […]
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This is a new psychological thriller from the author of The Ice Twins. Rachel is blissfully happy. Just married to a handsome older man and beginning to become accustomed to all the trappings of wealth that comes with marriage to a successful City lawyer. David spends the week living in […]
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This was my first book by Liane Moriarty and there were times when I felt like giving up on this weighty tome. It requires quite a considerable injection of your time as it rocks up at a mighty 480 pages. Honestly I only persevered with it because two authors that […]
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