Month: Jun 2020
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Deep As Death by Katja Ivar – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB The second in a three-book series featuring Hella Mauzer, to follow on the success of Evil Things. A Nordic Noir of the first-order set in Helsinki in 1953. A dark psychological thriller about ruthless ambition, unrequited love and the lies we tell others and ourselves to avoid facing what has become of […]
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The Silent Wife by Karin Slaughter – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Atlanta, Georgia. Present day. A young woman is brutally attacked and left for dead. The police investigate but the trail goes cold. Until a chance assignment takes GBI investigator Will Trent to the state penitentiary, and to a prisoner who says he recognises the MO. The attack looks identical to the one he […]
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The Last Sword Maker by Brian Nelson – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB In the high mountains of Tibet, rumors are spreading. People whisper of an outbreak, of thousands of dead, of bodies pushed into mass graves. It is some strange new disease … a disease, they say, that can kill in minutes. The Chinese government says the rumors aren’t true, but no one is allowed […]
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*COVER REVEAL* for Not The Deaths Imagined by Anne Pettigrew
Welcome to The Bookwormery….I’m pleased to be taking part in this COVER REVEAL for Anne Pettigrew’s novel…….Not The Deaths Imagined….but here’s a little about the book first…… PUBLISHERS BLURB In a leafy Glasgow suburb, Dr Beth Semple is busy juggling motherhood and full-time GP work in the 90s NHS. But her life becomes even […]
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First Lie by A.J. Park – *PROMO* Happy Publication Day
Firstly….. Happy Publication Day “A. J. Park is a master of suspense who knows how to keep readers hovering tensely over the edges of their seats.” Sophie Hannah THE FIRST LIE BY A.J. PARK “This is a real page-turner. I finished it in one go!” Martina Cole A husband and wife cover […]
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Coming For You by Deborah Rogers – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB A brutal crime. A traumatised mind. A victim no one believes… Amelia Kellaway is hiding a secret. Still deeply traumatized by a kidnapping incident she suffered three years ago, Amelia is struggling to cope with a crippling anxiety disorder where she compulsively checks her locks and doors. She’s also experiencing frightening blackouts that […]
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Bad Love by Maame Blue – Audiobook Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Bad Love tells the story of Ekuah Danquah, a London-born Ghanaian who is 18 years old when she falls in love for the first time. As both narrator and protagonist now in her 30s, she delves into her memories of angst and confusion that dismantled her experience of that first, impactful romantic relationship. […]
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Final Verdict by Sally Rigby – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB The judge has spoken……everyone must die. When a killer starts murdering lawyers in a prestigious law firm, and every lead takes them to a dead end, Detective Chief Inspector Whitney Walker finds herself grappling for a motive. What links these deaths, and why use a lethal injection? Alongside forensic psychologist, Dr Georgina Cavendish, […]
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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 Man Behind Closed Doors by Maria Frankland – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB What could be so bad that a six-year-old stops talking? Domestic violence isn’t only perpetrated by men. Ask Paul Jackson who is on remand, accused of stabbing his wife, Michelle. As he reveals his reality behind their troubled marriage, it seems that only his six-year-old knows what really happened. But she’s trapped […]
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All Fall Down by M.J. Arlidge – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB “You have one hour to live.” Those are the only words on the phone call. Then they hang up. Surely, a prank? A mistake? A wrong number? Anything but the chilling truth… That someone is watching, waiting, working to take your life in one hour. But why? The job of […]
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Monstrous Souls by Rebecca Kelly – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB What if you knew the truth but couldn’t remember? Over a decade ago, Heidi was the victim of a brutal attack that left her hospitalised, her younger sister missing, and her best friend dead. But Heidi doesn’t remember any of that. She’s lived her life since then with little memory of her friends […]
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Val McDermid’s highly anticipated 2020 ‘New Blood’ showcase is announced today
I’m delighted to share Val McDermid’s highly anticipated 2020 ‘New Blood’ showcase, which is announced today: Jessica Moor (Keeper) Deepa Anappara (Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line) Elizabeth Kay (Seven Lies) Trevor Wood (The Man on the Street). T his year, Deepa Anappara has been selected for her part coming-of-age, part detective mystery Djinn Patrol […]
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If Cats Could Talk Would They Cry? by Anatoli Scholz – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB One morning Julie wakes up to find herself transformed into a cat. Around her nothing else seems to have changed, her little Parisian studio apartment still smelling of last night’s opened bottle of Bourgogne. The world is still turning. Julie stretches and yawns and decides to take a moment to relax in her […]
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Perfect Lie by Claire Sheldon – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB What is ‘perfect’ trying to hide? Jen Garner tries her best to be ‘wife and mother of the year’. She helps organise school plays and accompanies her husband to company dinners, all with a big smile on her face. But Jen has started to receive strange gifts in the post … first flowers, […]
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River Rats by Andy Griffee – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Jack Johnson has a talent for trouble – wherever he goes on his narrowboat, it seems to follow him. Moored up on the River Avon in the beautiful Georgian surroundings of Bath, he’s working at the local paper when a prominent magistrate and heritage campaigner is attacked and drowned. Could it be a […]
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Canal Pushers by Andy Griffee – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB CANAL PUSHERS A Johnson & Wilde Mystery #1 Introducing Jack Johnson and Nina Wilde. A chance meeting on the towpath, and trouble seems to follow … Jack Johnson, ex-journalist, newly divorced and feeling unmoored, has bought a 64-foot narrowboat with absolutely no idea how to captain it. So when an attractive stranger takes […]
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Little Whispers by K.L. Slater – Audiobook Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB You shared a secret with the wrong person. Janey Markham is thrilled to be moving with her family to Buckingham Crescent, the smartest address in a desirable suburban town. Worried she’ll be excluded by the glossy local mothers, Janey is thrilled when she meets Tanya, the kind of woman she has always […]
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No One Will Hear Your Screams by Thomas O’Callaghan – * EXCERPT*
Here’s an excerpt from the suspense thriller No One Will Hear Your Screams by Thomas O’Callaghan ( my review will follow in a day or so)…. Excerpted from No One Will Hear Your Screams. Copyright © 2020 by Thomas O’Callaghan. All rights reserved. Published by WildBlue Press. Pearsol opened the mortuary cooler and pulled out […]
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The Truants by Kate Weinberg – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB People disappear when they most want to be seen. Jess Walker, middle child of a middle-class family, has perfected the art of vanishing in plain sight. But when she arrives at a concrete university campus under flat, grey, East Anglian skies, her world flares with colour. Drawn into a tightly-knit group of rule […]
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