SYNOPSIS The case was closed. Now everyone connected is getting killed. Let the games begin…. Henry and Caroline Redfearne’s annual ball is the hottest social event of the year. But the fun is cut short by the discovery of their son’s body, apparently the victim of a frenzied assault. He was last seen heading off … More THE RULES OF MURDER by Rob Sinclair (Book 2 in the Dani Stevens series)
MY REVIEW I finished this book in one sitting, well written, the story gradually unfolds, with each chapter, I enjoyed the pace as it flowed, keeping you guessing as to what has happened, until I was half way through, then I just knew, but wanted to see how and if it was something the characters … More THE Mothers by Sarah J Naughton
SYNOPSIS There is a stranger outside Caroline’s house. Her spectacular new beach house, built for hosting expensive parties and vacationing with the family she thought she’d have. But her husband is lying to her and everything in her life is upside down, so when the stranger, Aidan, shows up as a bartender at the same … More A STRANGER ON THE BEACH by Michelle Campbell
SYNOPSIS It begins with a mystery. Sylvie, the beautiful, brilliant, successful older daughter of the Lee family, flies to the Netherlands for one final visit with her dying grandmother – and then vanishes. Amy, the sheltered baby of the Lee family, is too young to remember a time when her poor parents were newly immigrated … More SEARCHING FOR SYLVIE LEE by Jean Kwok
SYNOPSIS At a dark place in Edinburgh’s heart, secrets refuse to lie dormant. At Police Scotland HQ, Grace MacAllan has pitched up in Counter Corruption. But the demons of her past are never far behind. Meanwhile, Edinburgh’s gangland is in turmoil. As a new breed of upstarts challenges the old criminal order, their battle for … More OUR LITTLE SECRETS by Peter Ritchie (Detective Grace MacAllan Book 5)
I could never have imagined this time last year that I would have done my own blog, it’s not something I had even ever considered. I find I had a very naive view on writers and the publishing world. I have learnt a lot since I started my blog at the end of May early … More ROUNDING UP 2019 MY BEST READS FOR THE YEAR.
SYNOPSIS They won’t all live to tell the tale…. Seven friends. One killer. No escape…. A group of childhood friends are reunited at a luxury inn on a remote west coast peninsula in Ireland. But as a storm builds outside, the dark events that marred their childhoods threaten to resurface. And when a body is … More I, CONFESS By Alex Barclay
Synopsis London, 1816 At a fashionable London ball, the unpopular but entertaining Society gossip Marmaduke Yarnton is found dead in the cloakroom—- strangled with his own cravat. Having argued with him shortly before, Lord Velmond finds himself the prime murder suspect. Determined to clear his name, Velmond’s scholarly friend Justin Rutherford teams up with his … More A REPUTATION DIES By Alice Chetwynd Lee Book one of The Rutherford Trilogy
SYNOPSIS It’s Livia’s 40th birthday and she’s having the party of a lifetime to make up for the wedding she never had. Everyone she loves will be there except her daughter Marnie, who’s studying abroad. But although Lucia loves Marnie, she’s secretly glad she won’t be at the party. She needs to tell Adam something … More THE DILEMMA by B.A.Paris
MY REVIEW Before I start my review on this book, I would just like to give a trigger warning as it does cover sexual harassment in the work place and incest. At times some of this was difficult for me to read not for the two reasons mentioned but another aspect of sexual abuse. This … More HORSE SHOES AND HAND GRENADES BY S.M.Stevens
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