Jackie’s Reading Corner

I would like to thank Emma from #damppebblesblogtours for my spot on this tour. SYNOPSIS Would you gamble everything you possess to win more than you can imagine? Jewish gangster, Alex Cohen leaves jail to find salvation from the 1940s mob in the hotels of Las Vegas. When Bugsy Siegel invites him to take over … More CASINO CHISELER (Alex Cohen Book 4) By Leopold Borstinski #CasinoChiseler #AlexCohenSeries @borstinski @damppebbles #damppebblesblogtours #Bookblogger

SYNOPSIS Who will heed the call when Death comes whispering? Small time drug dealer, Marcus Stone and DCI Clive Burston had never met until one night in August. By the end of that night, both had been shot dead in a small bedroom in the heart of gang territory. DI Erika Piper is called to … More WHISPERS IN THE DARK (DI Erika Piper Book 2) By Chris McDonald @cmacwritescrime @RedDogTweets @RousselMeggy #WhispersintheDark

SYNOPSIS One mistake can unravel everything….. She only left her daughter in the car for a minute. Just a quick minute whilst she ran into the shop. She barely thought twice about making that decision, but it soon began to consume her every thought. And not just her thoughts, but those of every neighbour, police … More CAT STEP By Alison Irvine #deadinkbooks

SYNOPSIS WHAT WOULD YOU DO TO SAVE YOUR LOVED ONE? AND DO YOU KNOW WHO SHE REALLY IS? They took your fiancée. They framed you for murder. You’re given one chance to save her. To clear your name. You must kill someone for them. They give you the time and place. The weapon. The target … More KILL A STRANGER By Simon Kernick. @simonkernick #netgalley #HeadlinePublishers

SYNOPSIS LIES. AMBITION. FAMILY. It’s a dark, smog-choked New Delhi winter. Indian American single mother Anjali Morgan juggles her job as a psychiatrist with caring for her autistic teenage son. She is in a long-standing affair with ambitious police commissioner Jatin Bhatt- an irresistible attraction that could destroy both their lives. Jatin’s home life is … More YOU BENEATH YOUR SKIN By Damyanti Biswas

SYNOPSIS Snow is falling in the exclusive alpine ski resort of Saint Antoine, as the shareholders and directors of Snoop, the hottest new music app, gather for a make or break corporate retreat to decide the future of the company. At stake is a billion-dollar dot com buyout that could make them all millionaires, or … More ONE BY ONE By Ruth Ware #Bookblogger

SYNOPSIS Some cases won’t die. A young boy walks into a police station in France. He claims to be Carl Meagan – a missing child from Sheffield whose name is still whispered as a warning to kids who stay out after dark. Some children won’t be found. On her way home from the supermarket, nine-year-old … More Stolen Children By Michael Wood

SYNOPSIS In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet up once a week to investigate unsolved murders. But when a brutal killing takes place on their very doorstep, the Thursday Murder Club find themselves in the middle of their first live case. Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron might be pushing eighty but they still … More THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB By Richard Osman # Bookblogger

SYNOPSIS Frank owns a service station on a little-used highway. His granddaughter, Allie, is sent to stay with him for the summer, but they don’t talk a lot. Simon is a dreamer and an idealist, in thrall to the romance of the open road and desperately in search of something. Maggie is the woman who … More THE HUNTED By Gabriel Bergmoser

SYNOPSIS To unravel that long-lost summer, she had to follow the thread…. Florence Connelly is broken hearted. Her marriage has collapsed under the weight of the loss she shares with her husband, and her beloved grandmother has just died. Even the joy she found in dressmaking is gone. But things change when Flo opens a … More THE MISSING PIECES OF NANCY MOON By Sarah Steele #HeadlinePublishers #Bookblogger