Month: Jul 2019
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The Misfit Tribe and The Secret of Mystery Island by B J Rowling and D G Lloyd – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Some secrets are best kept hidden… and some are just too magical not to share. Teenagers, who unexpectedly acquire a vast collection of magical, mystical powers and abilities, find an ancient map. This map leads them on a quest for buried treasure to a mysterious island filled with hidden secrets, booby traps and […]
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Clear My Name by Paula Daly – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Innocent? When Carrie was accused of brutally murdering her husband’s lover, she denied it. She denied it when they arrested her, when they put her in front of a jury, and when they sent her to prison. Now she’s three years into a fifteen-year sentence, away from the daughter she loves and the […]
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The July Girls by Phoebe Locke – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Every year, on the same night in July, a woman is taken from the streets of London; snatched by a killer who moves through the city like a ghost. Addie has a secret. On the morning of her tenth birthday, four bombs were detonated across the capital. That night her dad came home […]
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The Last Straw by Ed Duncan – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB The Last Straw is a thrilling crime novel by Ed Duncan. It is the second book in his Pigeon Blood Red series. Each book in the series can be read as a standalone. It started with a run-of-the-mill carjacking. An inner-city kid with no priors and no experience with a gun fumbled the […]
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The Art Of Murder by Rebecca Muddiman – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB How do you catch a killer who thinks murder is art? Michael Fisher sees himself as an artist rather than a killer and poses his victims to resemble famous paintings. Detective Nick Kelly is called to attend the latest crime scene and finds himself at the centre of a media storm. But while […]
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Nothing To Hide by James Oswald -Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB The new book in the brilliant Constance Fairchild series, from one of Scotland’s foremost crime writers. ‘THE NEW IAN RANKIN’ Daily Record ‘OSWALD’S WRITING IS A CLASS ABOVE’ Express Suspended from duty after her last case ended in the high-profile arrest of one of Britain’s wealthiest men, DC Constance Fairchild is trying to […]
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The Brotherhood Of The Dragon by Phil Hore – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Strange things are happening at Stamford House. “It was not that Mr Fortey was particularly loved, but that he died in such a horrible way, and in the presence of almost the entire household. We must have been only a few feet away, yet no one heard or saw anything. If it could […]
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A Predator And A Psychopath by Jay Kerk – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB “The plot is graphic and unapologetic….a novel for those who really have the stomach,” Readers’ Favorite. After Jason is committed to a mental institution, he begins to uncover things he never knew before or things his mind shut out to protect him. Under the care of the facility’s doctors, he finds himself questioning […]
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Appetite For Risk by Jack Leavers – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB A fast-paced action thriller inspired by real events in the aftermath of the Iraq War. With Saddam Hussein deposed and an entire country in need of rebuilding, former Royal Marine John Pierce hears the siren call of adventure and opportunity. His fledgling UK business is struggling to support his young family and […]
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American Dreams by Kenneth Bromberg – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB In 1904 Czarist Russia, Max, a four-year-old Jewish boy, witnesses his mother’s rape and murder by Russian soldiers. After the boy’s father extracts terrible revenge, father and son escape to New York and settle on the Lower East Side, a teeming melting pot of recent immigrants. Max meets a young Polish girl, Sophie, […]
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Someone Else’s Baby by Ruby Speechley – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB She gave away her children. Now she wants them back. Charlotte Morgan knows how it feels to desperately want a baby. As a child, seeing her mum devastated by losing her longed-for babies, Charlotte wished another woman could give her mother what she so craved. Now Charlotte’s a mum herself, and knowing how […]
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The Hidden Wife by Amanda Reynolds – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB A BRILLIANT NEW PSYCHOLOGICAL DRAMA, FROM THE EBOOK-BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF CLOSE TO ME AND LYING TO YOU WHAT HAPPENED TO JULIA BLAKE? She was young and beautiful, married to a famous author. They were celebrating their anniversary at their stunning country estate. So why did Julia Blake walk out of her perfect life, […]
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Life Ruins by Danuta Kot – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB How can you save someone else… when you can’t even save yourself? A body, briefly glimpsed at the bottom of an abandoned mineshaft, vanishes when the police investigate. Jared, recovering from an almost fatal injury and addicted to painkillers, knows he saw something terrible in that mine… but he has no evidence, and […]
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Found by Erin Kinsley – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB One child is safe… But how long until another is taken? A gripping, heart-wrenching and beautifully written thriller about the unexpected return of a missing child, combining the suspense of Cara Hunter’s Close to Home with the searing emotion of TV dramas such as Broadchurch. When 11 year old Evan vanishes without trace, […]
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Looker by Laura Sims – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB The Professor lives in Brooklyn; her partner Nathan left her when she couldn’t have a baby. All she has now is her dead-end teaching job, her ramshackle apartment, and Nathan’s old moggy, Cat. Who she doesn’t even like. The Actress lives a few doors down. She’s famous and beautiful, with auburn hair, perfect […]
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Riverflow by Alison Layland – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB After a beloved family member is drowned in a devastating flood, Bede and Elin Sherwell want nothing more than to be left in peace to pursue their off-grid life. But when the very real prospect of fracking hits their village, they are drawn in to the frontline protests. During a spring of relentless […]
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They Kill by Tim Waggoner – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB What are you willing to do, what are you willing to become, to save someone you love? Sierra Sowell’s dead brother Jeffrey is resurrected by a mysterious man known only as Corliss. Corliss also transforms four people in Sierra’s life into inhuman monsters determined to kill her. Sierra and Jeffrey’s boyfriend Marc work […]
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The Kompromat Kill by Michael Jenkins – Book Review and #Giveaway
PUBLISHERS BLURB They were preparing for decades – now it’s time to take them down. When a British Diplomat is kidnapped in the heart of London, followed by a brutal double-assassination in Chelsea, MI5 braces for the threat of deep sleeper cells coming alive. Hiding overseas with a price on his head, Sean Richardson is […]
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The LittleVineyard In Provence by Ruth Kelly – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Ava’s marriage has been a lie. For the past five years her husband Mark has been squandering their money on gambling and dodgy deals that have amounted to nothing. Mark has left Ava and their daughter, Sophia, to fend for themselves with a mountain of debt and not as much as an explanation […]
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Call Me A Liar by Colette McBeth – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB You could say it started with vanity. We believed we were special. But the truth is we were simply vulnerable. One of them is lying. One of them is guilty. No one is safe. Months after landing their dream job, five brilliant young minds are sent on a remote retreat. But when one […]
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