Month: Jul 2020
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The Summoned Ones: Book One Flight To Bericea by Darryl A. Woods – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB The Bericean army was in Malabrim for the ninth straight fighting season. Over the past 9 years, Zybaro, the leader of a small band of unknowns, had evolved from his days as a minor usurper of a tiny kingdom. Now, almost the entire country of Malabrim was under Zybaro’s control, and his army […]
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Deadly Revenge by Leigh Russell – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB When a hysterical mother reports her baby’s sudden disappearance, suspicion immediately falls on the absent husband. But Detective Geraldine Steel’s gut instinct tells her this case is not as simple as her colleagues think… Complications in the mother’s life begin to surface, including her relationship with her controlling father, a controversial political figure. […]
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*SPOTLIGHT* on Justice Gone by N. Lombardi Jr
Welcome to The Bookwormery. I am pleased to be hosting a SPOTLIGHT on N. Lombardi Jr’s book, Justice Gone. PUBLISHERS BLURB WINNER OF FIVE AWARDS 2020 INDEPENDENT PRESS AWARD NEW YORK CITY BIG BOOK AWARD 2019 2019 AMERICAN FICTION AWARD NATIONAL INDIE EXCELLENCY AWARD – Best Legal Thriller of 2019 SILVER MEDAL WINNER […]
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The Moscow Whisper by Michael Jenkins – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB ‘Sometimes you have to enter the death zone to save the innocent.’ A top-secret clique of former spies meet for dinner to hatch a plan to murder a competitor, not knowing that they are under surveillance from a covert arm of British Intelligence. Hours later, with bodies strewn across a terrace, a piece […]
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Shed No Tears by Caz Frear – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Christopher Masters, known as ‘The Roommate Killer’, strangled three women over a two-week period in a London house in November 2012. Holly Kemp, his fourth victim, was never found. Until now. Her remains have been unearthed in a field in Cambridgeshire and DC Cat Kinsella and the major investigation team are […]
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Hush Little Baby by Jane Isaac – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Someone stole a baby… One sunny day in July, someone took three-month-old Alicia Owen from her pram outside a supermarket. Her mother, Marie, was inside. No one saw who took Alicia. And no one could find her. They silenced her cry… Fifteen years later, a teenager on a construction site sees […]
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Playdate by Alex Dahl – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB It was meant to be your daughter’s first sleepover. Now it’s an abduction. Lucia Blix went home from school for a playdate with her new friend Josie. Later that evening, Lucia’s mother Elisa dropped her overnight things round and kissed her little girl goodnight. That was the last time she saw her daughter. The next […]
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The Mechanical Maestro by Emily Owen – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Immerse yourself in the world of three brilliant siblings and their musical automaton, Maestro. London, 1857. Brothers George and Douglas Abernathy are clockmakers who are barely scraping a living in their family’s shop. They are also brilliant inventors with a sideline building custom- built androids and other technology ahead of its time. Their […]
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The Little Girl Who Gave Zero Fucks by Amy Charlotte Kean – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB An irreverent, feminist fairy tale for adults that teaches us to care less about what others think. This is the story of a brave young girl, Elodie-Rose, who one day decides to change the world and keep all her fucks in her basket. Wait a minute. You’re confused. What are fucks, you ask? […]
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One Step Behind by Lauren North – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Jenna is a wife, a mother, a doctor. She’s also the victim of a stalker. Every time she leaves her house, she sees him. Disturbing gifts are left at her door. Cruel emails are sent to her colleagues. She has no idea who this man is but she feels powerless against him. Until […]
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The Big Chill by Doug Johnstone – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Haunted by their past, the Skelf women are hoping for a quieter life. But running both a funeral directors’ and a private investigation business means trouble is never far away, and when a car crashes into the open grave at a funeral Dorothy is conducting, she can’t help looking into the dead driver’s […]
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Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of The Year 2020 Winner Announced……..Congratulations to Adrian McKinty for The Chain.
I am delighted to share the news that uber driver turned best-selling sensation Adrian McKinty has won the UK’s most prestigious crime novel award, Theakston Old Peculier, for his page-turning thriller The Chain. The Chain was chosen by public vote and the prize Judges, triumphing against a tremendously strong shortlist – including books from Oyinkan […]
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The Knock by Jessie Keane – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Dora O’Brien had a good start in life, but things went bad when she began to mix with the wrong company. Pregnant by her gangster lover, she found herself on the streets and then in the grips of a bent copper called Donny Maguire. When her daughter Angel is born, Dora is already […]
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Set My Heart To Five by Simon Stephenson – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB A story of loneliness, love and loose connections, Set My Heart to Five is a hilarious, touching, dazzlingly perceptive debut novel, and a profound exploration of what it truly means to be human. 10/10 Jared does not have friends. Because friends are a function of feelings. Therefore friends are just one more human […]
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Miss Benson’s Beetle by Rachel Joyce – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB It is 1950, two unlikely women set off on a hare-brained adventure to the other side of the world to try and find a beetle, and in doing so discover friendship and how to be their best of themselves. This is quintessential Joyce: at once poignant and playful, with huge heart and the […]
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Starchild: A Memoir of Adoption, Race and Family – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Michaela Foster Marsh and her brother Frankie grew up as “twins” in Glasgow, Scotland in the sixties. Born only weeks apart, Michaela was white and Frankie was black, and they were an unusual sight in their dual pram. Despite the love from his adopted family Frankie’s life was rarely easy, and it ended […]
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The Third Magpie by M.S. Clements – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Caring teacher and loving husband, Finn tolerates daily humiliation to be with Sophie, the woman he loves. Fragile & naturally compliant he must summon all his courage to survive the system. Despite the injustice, they dream of a normal life, where liberty and identity are not subverted by ever tightening restrictions. When a […]
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Lost by Leona Deakin – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB HOW CAN YOU SOLVE A CRIME IF YOU CAN’T REMEMBER THE CLUES? In the second compelling thriller from Leona Deakin, Dr Bloom returns to solve another mystery. But how can she solve the crime when the victim can’t remember anything? There is an explosion at a military ball. The casualties are rushed to […]
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Tennis Lessons by Susannah Dickey – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB You never say the right thing. You’re a disappointment to everyone. You’re a far cry from beautiful – and your thoughts are ugly too. You seem bound to fail, bound to break. But you know what it is to laugh with your best friend, to feel the first tentative tingles of attraction, to […]
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Hinton Hollow Death Trip by Will Carver – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB It’s a small story. A small town with small lives that you would never have heard about if none of this had happened. Hinton Hollow. Population 5,120. Little Henry Wallace was eight years old and one hundred miles from home before anyone talked to him. His mother placed him on a train with […]
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