I picked a lot of books to read during August, in fact at times seeing my list was overwhelming. I am new to book blogging. Finding netgalley was amazing, I felt like a child in a sweet shop, and seeing all the books I knew I would like to read I got carried away. Not … More AUGUST MONTHLY ROUND UP OF BOOKS I’VE READ.
SYNOPSIS A locked room. A dead body. A secret that went to the grave When retired police officer Finlay Shaw is found dead in a locked room, everyone thinks it’s suicide. But disgraced detective William ‘Wolf’ Fawkes isn’t so sure. Together with his former partner Detective Emily Baxter and private detective Edmunds, Wolf’s team begin … More ENDGAME By Daniel Cole
SYNOPSIS In a dark, dark wood In summer 1990, Caroline and Joanna are sent to stay with their great aunt, Dora, to spend their days in the sunlit village near the Forest if Dean. The countryside is a welcome change from the trauma they know back home in the city; a chance to make the … More A PLACE TO LIE By Rebecca Griffiths
Synopsis A violent murder. An ice cold killer …. On a bitterly cold winter night, Kelly Ramage leaves her suburban home, telling her husband she’s going to meet a friend. But she never comes back. When her body is discovered, murdered in what seems to be a sex game gone horribly wrong, Detectives Gino and … More ICE COLD HEART By P.J. Tracy
SYNOPSIS When the long buried bones of a man turn up in the middle of December, Pennsylvania homicide detective Parker Reed knows he’s in for a cold case. Trisha and her friends were teenagers when Trisha’s stepdad went missing. Now, thirty years later, his remains have been found in the mountains. The women have always … More COLD WOODS By Karen Katchur
SYNOPSIS ‘She reached into the pram and placed her hands on the cotton blanket. It was still warm. But her smiling, new baby sister, with her wide blue-grey eyes, was gone…’ Twenty five years later, three bodies are found at a ramshackle cottage in the Irish countryside, and Detective Iris Locke is sick to her … More SILENT NIGHT By Geraldine Hogan
SYNOPSIS Mother. Liar. Murderer? When Genevieve’s seven year old son is found bleeding to death in his own home, she’s horrified when the police turn to her for answers. There’s no evidence of a break in, and parts of Genevieve story don’t seem to make sense. But could a mother really kill her own child? … More THE BOY By Tami Hoag
SYNOPSIS PLAY Andrew, the manager of Shanamore Holiday Cottages, watches his only guest via a hidden camera in her room. One night the unthinkable happens: a shadowy figure emerges onscreen, kills her and destroys the camera. But who is the murderer? How did they know about the camera? And how will Andrew live with himself? … More REWIND By Catherine Ryan Howard
SYNOPSIS Jane Tennyson has worked hard to become the first female detective ever post to the infamous Flying Squad, or ‘the Sweeney’. But the Dirty Dozen is a notorious boys’ club, and Jane’s new colleagues make it clear that they don’t think a woman is up to the dangers of the job. Dealing with some … More THE DIRTY DOZEN By Lynda LaPlante
SYNOPSIS Desperate to put her past in the rear view mirror, Finn Hunt leaves the Midwest for Phoenix, Arizona, where no one knows her story. While she is working a dead-end job, a chance meeting with Philip Martin, son of a prominent U S Senator, leads Finn to a position as nanny for Amabel, his … More THE GIRL IN THE REARVIEW MIRROR By Kelsey Rae Dimberg
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