I have had some very good reads this month, and managed to get through quite a few ARC’s for September and have made a good start on October’s. I think I mentioned before that I got carried away when I first found netgalley, and have spent my first three months playing catch up. I think … More ROUNDUP OF SEPTEMBER READING
SYNOPSIS How well do you know your girlfriend? How well do you know your lover? How well do you know yourself? Daniel and Victoria are together. They’re trying for a baby. Ruby is in prison, convicted of assault on an abusive partner. But when Daniel joins a pen pal program for prisoners, he and Ruby … More THIS LITTLE DARK PLACE By A.S.Hatch
SYNOPSIS The newly married and most beautiful of the Mitford sisters, Diana, hot-steps around Europe with her husband and fortune heir Bryan Guinness, accompanied by maid Louisa Cannon, as well as some of the most famous and glamorous luminaries of the era. But murder soon follows, and with it, a darkness grows in Diana’s heart…. … More THE MITFORD SCANDAL
SYNOPSIS It’s 1919, and Louisa Cannon dreams of escaping her life of poverty in London, and most of all her oppressive and dangerous uncle. Louisa’s salvation is a position within the Mitford household at Asthall Manor, in the Oxfordshire countryside. There she will become nursery maid, chaperone and confidante to the Mitford sisters, especially sixteen … More THE MITFORD MURDERS By Jessica Fellowes
SYNOPSIS Counting things in threes usually calms Dell’s crippling anxiety-the passionflower vine along the shop wall, the jimsonweed by the roadside, the sleeping valley in the distance- but when her baby daughter goes missing, her world shatters completely. 1979, Virginia. Growing up amongst the sprawling valleys and forests of Blyth, beautiful young Dell has always … More THE FORTUNE TELLER’S PROMISE By Kelly Heard
SYNOPSIS HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO TO PROTECT YOUR DAUGHTER? Carolyn, Bronnie, Elise, and Kendall are bound together by one thing – their four daughters are best friends at the highly competitive Orla Flynn Academy for the Performing Arts. Imogen Curwood is a new girl at the Academy and her behaviour is odd from the … More THE UNDERSTUDY By Sophie Hannah, BA Paris,Clare Mackintosh and Holly Brown.
SYNOPSIS A two hundred year old curse. A tangled thread of mental illness. A growing list of Ross women dying young. The house where it all began, Desolate Ridge, holds all the secrets. Abandoned at a hospital when she was only three years old, Aubrey Ross grey up as a ward of the state, passed … More NOTHING HIDDEN EVER STAYS By H.R.Mason
SYNOPSIS People are dying at Strong Lake, and the worst is yet to come. An idyllic weekend camping trip is cut short when Reece Wallace’s friends are brutally murdered. As the group’s only survivor, Reece is the prime suspect, and his story doesn’t make much sense. A disembodied voice warning him to leave the campground … More THOSE WHO CAME BEFORE By J.H.Moncrieff
SYNOPSIS A town gripped by fear. A woman accused of murder. Who can save Pale Harbour from itself? 1846. Desperate to escape the ghosts of his past, Gabriel Stone takes a position as a minister in the remote Pale Harbour, but not all is as it seems in the sleepy town. As soon as Gabriel … More THE WIDOW OF PALE HARBOUR By Hester Fox
Synopsis We’ve all done things we are ashamed of …… When Ava arrives at Brodie’s Watch, she thinks she has found the perfect place to hide from her past. Something terrible happened, something she is deeply ashamed of, and all she wants is to forget. But the old house on the hill both welcomes and … More THE SHAPE OF NIGHT By Tess Gerritson
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