Month: Aug 2025

THE MYSTERY GUEST By Nita Prose @HarperCollinsUK @NitaProse #The MysteryGuest #BookReview

29th Aug 2025

SYNOPSIS A new mess. A new mystery. Molly the maid returns… Molly Gray wears her Head Maid badge proudly for every shift at the Regency Grand Hotel: plumping pillows, sweeping up secrets, silently restoring rooms to a state of perfection. But the hotel’s reputation is sullied when a guest – a famous mystery writer – … More THE MYSTERY GUEST By Nita Prose @HarperCollinsUK @NitaProse #The MysteryGuest #BookReview

MURDER ON THE MARLOW BELLE By Robert Thorogood @HQstories @robthor #MurderOnTheMarlowBelle #BookReview

28th Aug 2025

SYNOPSIS Beresford is worried about her husband. Oliver didn’t come home last night so of course Verity goes straight to Judith Potts, Marlow’s resident amateur sleuth, for help. Oliver, founder of the Marlow Amateur Dramatic Society, had hired The Marlow Belle, a private pleasure cruiser, for an exclusive party with the MADS committee but no … More MURDER ON THE MARLOW BELLE By Robert Thorogood @HQstories @robthor #MurderOnTheMarlowBelle #BookReview

THE WATERFALL By Gareth Rubin @simonschusterUK @likely_suspects @garethrubin #TheWaterfall #BookReview#BookBlogger

27th Aug 2025

SYNOPSIS A story about stories within stories, as four interconnected mysteries take the reader through the ages, from Shakespeare’s day to a 19th-century Gothic former Priory, to 1920s Venice, and finally to 1940s California, from the internationally bestselling author of The Turnglass. We begin with the last testament of William Shakespeare as he investigates the real-life … More THE WATERFALL By Gareth Rubin @simonschusterUK @likely_suspects @garethrubin #TheWaterfall #BookReview#BookBlogger

BEAUTIFUL UGLY By Alice Feeney @panmacmillan @alicewriterland #BeautifulUgly #BookReview

26th Aug 2025

SYNOPSIS Author Grady Green is having the worst best day of his life. Grady calls his wife as she’s driving home to share some exciting news. He hears Abby slam on the brakes, get out of the car, then nothing. When he eventually finds her car by a cliff edge, the headlights are on, the … More BEAUTIFUL UGLY By Alice Feeney @panmacmillan @alicewriterland #BeautifulUgly #BookReview

Bodies In The Water by A.J.Aberford (Book 1 in Inspector Zammit series) @HobeckBooks @AJAberford #BodiesInTheWater #BookReview

25th Aug 2025

SYNOPSIS An unwilling hero Inspector George Zammit, of the Maltese Pulizija likes a quiet life, keeping his head down and avoiding trouble. But when he investigates a body floating in the waters of Valletta’s Grand Harbour, he soon finds himself entangled in an international criminal plot which leads him on a perilous adventure. A powerful crime family … More Bodies In The Water by A.J.Aberford (Book 1 in Inspector Zammit series) @HobeckBooks @AJAberford #BodiesInTheWater #BookReview

THE EXECUTIONERS THREE By Susan Dennard @daphne.press @blackcrowpr @stdennard #TheExecutionersThree #BookReview

22nd Aug 2025

SYNOPSIS Freddie Gellar didn’t mean to get half the rival high school arrested. She’d simply heard shrieks coming from the woods, so she’d called the cops like any good human would do. How was she supposed to know it was just kids partying? Except the next day, a body is found. And while the local … More THE EXECUTIONERS THREE By Susan Dennard @daphne.press @blackcrowpr @stdennard #TheExecutionersThree #BookReview

THE DEVILS SMILE By Daniel Sellars @AllisonandBusby @DJSellarsAuthor #TheDevilsSmile #Book Review

19th Aug 2025

SYNOPSIS October, 1995. Adrian Brown’s second year at Leeds University is a blur of throbbing bass line and neon-lit nights out. However, a violent encounter with a man he met in a basement club has the power to sober him up. Sheila Hargreaves, who has grown fond of Adrian following their brush with the infamous … More THE DEVILS SMILE By Daniel Sellars @AllisonandBusby @DJSellarsAuthor #TheDevilsSmile #Book Review

WATCHING YOU By Helen Sarah Fields @AvonBooksUK @Helen_Fields #WatchingYou #BookReview

18th Aug 2025

SYNOPSIS On the dark streets of Edinburgh, a killer is waiting.  When a body is found, it is only the beginning. Soon there will be seven more. In the city’s hospital, renowned surgeon Beth Waterfall is grieving.  Her beloved only daughter fell prey to a vicious stalker a year previously – and now he’s coming … More WATCHING YOU By Helen Sarah Fields @AvonBooksUK @Helen_Fields #WatchingYou #BookReview

THE FINAL VOW By M.W.Craven @LittleBrownUK @MWCravenUK #TheFinalVow #WashingtonPoe #PoeandTilly #BookReview

12th Aug 2025

SYNOPSIS An invisible killer with a 100% success rate. No one is safe. Not even those closest to Washington Poe . . .  A shooting at Gretna Green. A bride is murdered on her wedding day, seconds after she slips on her new ring. It’s brutal and bloody but she isn’t the first victim and … More THE FINAL VOW By M.W.Craven @LittleBrownUK @MWCravenUK #TheFinalVow #WashingtonPoe #PoeandTilly #BookReview

DEAD BEHIND THE EYES By Ian Moore @Duckbooks @IanMooreAuthor #DeadBehindTheEyes #BookReview

11th Aug 2025

SYNOPSIS A HEADLESS MAN. A MISSING GIRL. A LIFE RULED BY SECRETS. When a decapitated body washes up on the banks of the River Loire in the ancient city of Tours, the reluctant juge d’instruction Matthieu Lombard is brought in to lead the investigation. But when Lombard’s young niece appears, the inquiry changes course. Suddenly immersed in … More DEAD BEHIND THE EYES By Ian Moore @Duckbooks @IanMooreAuthor #DeadBehindTheEyes #BookReview