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 […]
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes
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 […]
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes
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: 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 […]
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes
UK Publication Date: 27 Oct 2015. 496 pages. I rarely read period dramas, unless they were written in the time that they are set. Think Wilkie Collins or Dickens and you are along the right lines. Modern day versions of these books tend towards the melodramatic and I normally find […]
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UK Publishing Date: 20 Oct 2015. 304 pages. This is the first book I’ve picked up by Max Wirestone and I’m sincerely hoping that there will be many more books in the Dahlia Moss series. I was kind of dubious when I started the book imagining Dahlia to be something […]
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UK Publishing Date:22 Sept 2015 The books description says that it is a modern day Gatsby take. At this point I slap my forehead and wish I’d read this before I go to write the review because it was bugging me the whole way through. I couldn’t put my finger […]
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes