Month: Apr 2019
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SPRING PROMOTION for One Last Summer by Victoria Connelly
Book Description: They have the whole summer ahead of them. Is it enough to rekindle the friendship they once shared? Harriet Greenleaf dreams of spending the summer in a beautiful ancient priory on the Somerset coast with her two best friends—but her dream is bittersweet. On the one hand, it’s a chance to reconnect three […]
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Searching For Sylvia by Joanna Stephen-Ward – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Sylvia has been missing for thirty years. Will her daughters ever find her? Tordorrach is 70,000 acres of drought stricken land in the Australian outback. Why do a group of wealthy people from London want to buy it? Seamus, the owner of Tordorrach, lives in poverty. His homestead is derelict and he is […]
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The Way of All Flesh by Ambrose Parry – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB A vivid and gripping historical crime novel set in 19th century Edinburgh, by bestselling author Chris Brookmyre and consultant anaesthetist Dr Marisa Haetzman. In Edinburgh, 1847. Will Raven is a medical student, apprenticing for the brilliant and renowned Dr Simpson. Sarah Fisher is Simpson’s housemaid, and has all of Raven’s intelligence but none […]
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Fatal Fortune by Miranda Rijks – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Is someone trying to frame psychologist Pippa Durrant for the brutal murder of a woman she’s never even met? It certainly seems that way when Pippa’s photo is found on the body of murdered lottery winner, Leanne Smith. Pippa soon finds herself a suspect at the centre of a huge media storm. But […]
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Blood On The Stone by Jake Lynch – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Historical mystery thriller about a detective who defends justice and human rights March 1681. Oxford is hosting the English Parliament under the ‘merry monarch’, King Charles II. As politicians and their hangers-on converge on the divided city, an MP is found murdered, triggering tensions that threaten mayhem on the streets. Luke Sandys, Chief […]
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Jaded by Rob Ashman – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB A body washes up on a Blackpool beach, tortured and shot through the head. A man is found in an alleyway with his throat ripped open. A woman is murdered in a hospital bed. What connects them? DI Roz Kray’s private life is in turmoil as she struggles to unravel a baffling case […]
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NetGalley
Well this made my day…..after catching up on a couple of reviews….finally reached the elusive 80% on Netgalley……Now how to I stop looking for more titles…..theres so many good books…..ahhhhh
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Scandal by Mari Hannah – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB When an young man is found stabbed to death in a side street in Newcastle city centre in the run up to Christmas, it looks like a botched robbery to DCI David Stone. But when DS Frankie Oliver arrives at the crime scene, she gets more than she bargained for. She IDs the […]
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Lies Behind The Ruin by Helen Matthew – Book Review and #Giveaway
PUBLISHERS BLURB Emma Willshire has overcome plenty of obstacles in her life. From student bride to single mum of a son, Owen, but she has found happiness with her second husband, Paul and another child, Mollie. Emma’s dark days seem far behind her until a fatal accident happens at Paul’s work and he is held […]
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The Stars in the Night by Clare Rhoden – Book Review and #Giveaway
PUBLISHERS BLURB “Harry Fletcher is a confident young man, sure that he will marry Nora, no matter what their families say. He will always protect Eddie, the boy his father saved from the gutters of Port Adelaide. Only the War to End All Wars might get in the way of Harry’s plans… From the […]
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The Suspects by Katherine Johnson – Book Review and #Giveaway
PUBLISHERS BLURB Shallow Grave meets The Secret History in this quirky psychological thriller. Bristol, 1988. Five young graduates on the threshold of their careers buy a house together in order to get a foot on the property ladder before prices spiral out of their reach. But it soon becomes the house share from hell. […]
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Rosie and Ruby by Patricia Dixon – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Ruby lives one-step away from poverty on a rundown, crime infested estate in Manchester, with Stella, her feckless, self centred a mother. In the quiet suburbs of Cheshire Rosie, Ruby’s cousin, leads a charmed, middle class existence but feels suffocated by her domineering mother Doreen. Although Stella and Doreen have little in common, […]
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The Family Lie by Jake Cross – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB You whispered goodnight to your daughter. You didn’t know that would be your last goodbye. You wake up in the middle of the night. Your five-year-old daughter is gone. Your husband is nowhere to be seen. Your family think he took her. The police believe he’s guilty. But he wouldn’t do that, would […]
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The Inside City by Anita Mir – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB There are ancient walled cities all across the world. This story begins in Lahore’s walled, or inside city, as it is called in Urdu, in what was then India. It’s fear, Khurshid thought, just fear. Unwatched, her face was grim. Barefoot, she walked to the wall of her rooftop courtyard and looked out […]
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The Passing Tribute by Simon Marshall – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB In the tumultuous aftermath of the First World War the Wilson brothers head in opposite directions: Richard, interned in Austria throughout the conflict, returns to England; Edward, a junior officer, is dispatched from Italy to Vienna as part of the British Army s relief mission. For Edward, it will be a return to […]
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A Tale of Two Sisters by Merryn Allingham – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Separated by time and distance, two sisters seek answers for all they’ve lost When Alice Verinder’s beloved sister Lydia goes missing, Alice boards the Orient Express bound for Topkapi Palace in Constantinople, determined to find her. Lydia was governess to the Sultan’s young children and though her letters spoke of exotic delights and […]
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Suspicion by Leigh Russell – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Happily married to the charismatic headmaster of a prestigious boarding school, Louise thinks her life is perfect. But after hearing that her husband is having an affair, Louise must decide how far she is prepared to go to save her marriage. Confident in her IT skills, Louise cyber bullies her rival. When the […]
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Tainted Love by T S Hunter – Book Review and #Giveaway
PUBLISHERS BLURB SOME RELATIONSHIPS ARE JUST MURDER It’s 1985, and Joe Stone is excited to be joining his old school friend, and lifelong crush, Chris, for a long weekend in London’s Soho—home to a vibrant, developing gay scene, and a million miles from the small town Joe and Chris grew up in. When Chris is […]
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A Clean Canvas by Elizabeth Mundy – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Crime always leaves a stain… Lena Szarka, a Hungarian cleaner, dusts off her detective skills when a masterpiece is stolen from a gallery she cleans with her cousin Sarika. When Sarika goes missing too, accusations start to fly. Convinced her cousin is innocent, Lena sweeps her way through the secrets of […]
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Radioactive Evolution by Richard Hummel – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB How far would you go to change humanity’s fate? Jared Cartwright has spent the last two years delving into the twisted, scarred wastelands of an earth ravaged by nuclear war. The rich and powerful have taken to the oceans and skies on floating utopias, escaping destruction and leaving the rest of humanity to […]
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