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Category: Mystery
I received a copy of this book for review. About The Book The gripping new detective crime thriller featuring Maeve Kerrigan and Josh Derwent from the Top Ten Sunday Times bestselling author. At first glance, Jellicoe Close seems to be a perfect suburban street – well-kept houses with pristine lawns, neighbours chatting over garden fences, … Continue reading Blog Tour Review: The Close – Jane Casey
I received a copy of this book from the publisher. About The Book Don't end up on the cutting room floor Some girl dies. Film editor Marissa has read better loglines for films, but still jumps at the chance to travel to a small island to work with the legendary - and legendarily demanding - … Continue reading Blog Tour Review: Pretty as a Picture – Elizabeth Little
I received a copy of this book from the publisher. About The Book Helen has it all... Daniel is the perfect husband.Rory is the perfect brother.Serena is the perfect sister-in-law. And Rachel? Rachel is the perfect nightmare. When Helen, finally pregnant after years of tragedy, attends her first antenatal class, she is expecting her loving architect husband to arrive soon after, along … Continue reading Book Review: Greenwich Park – Katherine Faulkner
I received a copy of this book from the publisher in return for an honest review. About The Book Cal Hooper thought a fixer-upper in a remote Irish village would be the perfect escape. After twenty-five years in the Chicago police force, and a bruising divorce, he just wants to build a new life in … Continue reading Book Review: The Searcher – Tana French
I received a copy of the book from the publisher. About The Book It is 1997, and in a basement flat in Hackney Isla Green is awakened by a call in the middle of the night: her father, Joe, phoning from Sydney. 30 years ago, in the suffocating heat of summer 1967, the Greens’ … Continue reading Blog Tour Review: The Silence – Susan Allott
I received a copy of this book from the publisher. About The Book 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 … Continue reading Blog Tour Review: The Truants – Kate Weinberg
About The Book The arrival of three strangers on Lark, a remote island with a population of 300, is the cause of much speculation. The first, a young teacher – the only male teacher on the island – the other two, a mother and her teenage daughter. What have they come to escape? And what … Continue reading Book Review: Impossible Causes – Julie Mayhew
About The Book Three brothers. One Death. No Answers. He had started to remove his clothes as logic had deserted him, and his skin was cracked. Whatever had been going through Cameron's mind when he was alive, he didn’t look peaceful in death. Two brothers meet at the border of their vast cattle properties under the unrelenting … Continue reading Blog Tour Review: The Lost Man – Jane Harper
About The Book An isolated Swedish town. A deaf reporter terrified of nature. A dense spruce forest overdue for harvest. A pair of eyeless hunters found murdered in the woods. It’s week one of the Swedish elk hunt and the sound of gunfire is everywhere. When Tuva Moodyson investigates the story that could make her … Continue reading Book Review: Dark Pines – Will Dean
About The Book Detective Chief Inspector Ryan retreats to Holy Island seeking sanctuary when he is forced to take sabbatical leave from his duties as a homicide detective. A few days before Christmas, his peace is shattered and he is thrust back into the murky world of murder when a young woman is found dead … Continue reading Book Review: Holy Island – L.J. Ross
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