Month: Aug 2020
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Ritual Demise by Sally Rigby – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Someone is watching…. No one is safe The once tranquil woods in a picturesque part of Lenchester have become the bloody stage to a series of ritualistic murders. With no suspects, Detective Chief Inspector Whitney Walker is once again forced to call on the services of forensic psychologist Dr Georgina Cavendish. But this […]
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A Ruined Girl by Kate Simants – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Two boys loved her. But which one killed her? Two years ago, teenagers Rob and Paige broke into the house of Paige’s school counsellor and stole only a necklace, but traumatised their victims in the process. No one knows why. And Paige hasn’t been seen since that night. Having spent her life in […]
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Grubane by Karl Drinkwater – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Major Grubane is commander of the Aurikaa, the most feared cruiser in the UFS arsenal. His crew is handpicked and fiercely loyal. Together, they have never failed a mission, and their reputation precedes them. But this time he’s been sent to a key planet that is caught up in political tensions at the […]
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Deadline By Geoff Major – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Adam Ferranti was drinking away his waking hours, getting by in a regional newspaper in the North of England. An award-winning journalist, he moved to England to escape the media glare that followed his spectacular fall from grace at The Washington Post; only to be thrust back in it when a mysterious serial […]
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Killing The Story by Joan Livingston – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Killing the Story An accidental death that was no accident… For the record, Estelle Crane, the gutsy editor of The Observer newspaper, died after a hard fall on ice. But years later, her son discovers a cryptic note hinting her death might not have been an accident after all. Was Estelle pursuing a […]
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Escaping The Whale by Ruth Rotkowitz – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Escaping the Whale – bookdescription To everyone who knows her, 28-year-old Marcia Gold leads the perfect life. A good job as a high school guidance counselor specializing in helping pregnant teens as well as a handsome, successful boyfriend, she seems to have it all in 1980 Brooklyn, New York. However, beneath the shiny […]
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Innocent by Erin Kinsley – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB A MURDER TEARS A SMALL TOWN APART. BUT WHO DID IT? ‘Brilliant, compelling, heart-wrenching writing.’ Peter James The pretty market town of Sterndale is a close-knit community where everyone thinks they know everyone else. But at a lavish summer wedding a local celebrity is discovered slumped in the gardens, the victim of a […]
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The Hit List by Holly Seddon – Audiobook Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB You don’t know who. You don’t know why. But someone wants you dead. When Marianne’s husband Greg is knocked off his bike and killed on the way to work, she must unpick the life he left behind. Numb with grief, Marianne consoles herself by scouring Greg’s laptop, finding comfort in reading his old […]
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Son Of Escobar: First Born by Roberto Sendaya Escobar – *EXTRACT*
Welcome to the Bookwormery and an extract from Son Of Escobar. But first a little about the book….. PUBLISHERS BLURB THE UNBELIEVABLE TRUE STORY Rescued as a baby from a fatal shoot out at which his mother dies and his father escapes, adopted by an MI6 agent working out of Colombia, kept in the dark […]
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Witness by Mandasue Heller – *EXTRACT*
Welcome to The Bookwormery, I have an extract from Witness, by Mandasue Heller, a dark and gritty thriller….as you will see. But first a little about Witness. PUBLISHERS BLURB She saw too much. She knows too much. Dark and gritty, Witness is a heart-pounding thriller set in Manchester. Holly Evans and her over-protective mother, Josie, […]
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Road Kill: The Duchess Of Frisian Tun by Pete Adams – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Cataclysmic events have occurred in the decorous upper middle class enclave within Southsea, Portsmouth, on the south coast of England. But what were the circumstances that contributed to this violent clash involving a Sherman tank and a bazooka? The strange occurrence is Investigated by Lord Everard Pimple, a naive, upper class twit who […]
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The Majesties by Tiffany Tsao – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB She would kill for her family Gwendolyn and Estella have always been as close as sisters can be. Growing up in Jakarta in a wealthy, eminent, and sometimes deceitful family, they’ve relied on only each other for support. But now Gwendolyn is lying in a coma, the sole survivor of Estella’s poisoning of […]
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Vintage Crime : From The Crime Writers Association – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Vintage Crimes will be a CWA anthology with a difference, celebrating members’ work over the years. The book will gather stories from the mid- 1950s until the twenty-first century by great names of the past, great names of the present together with a few hidden treasures by less familiar writers. The first CWA […]
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Sight Unseen by Sandra Ireland – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Alie Gowdie marries Richard Webster during a turbulent time in Scotland’s history. Charles I is about to lose his head, and little does Alie know that she too will meet a grisly end within the year. Sarah Sutherland is struggling to cope with the demands of her day job, caring for her […]
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The Apocalypse Strain by Jason Parent – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB A multi-national research team, led by a medical genomics expert suffering from MS, study an ancient pandoravirus at a remote Siberian research facility. Called “Molli” by the research team, the organic substance reveals some unique but troublesome characteristics, qualities that, in the wrong hands, could lead to human extinction. The researchers soon learn […]
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Stoker’s Wilde West by Steven Hopstaken and Melissa Prusi – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Thinking they have put their monster-hunting days behind them, Oscar Wilde and Bram Stoker return to their normal lives. But when their old ally Robert Roosevelt and his nephew Teddy find a new nest of vampires, they are once again pulled into the world of the supernatural, this time in the American West. […]
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Not books…….
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The Last To Know by Jo Furniss – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB A family’s past pursues them like a shadow in this riveting and emotional novel of psychological suspense by the Amazon Charts bestselling author of All the Little Children. American journalist Rose Kynaston has just relocated to the childhood home of her husband, Dylan, in the English village of his youth. There’s a lot […]
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Final Cut by SJ Watson – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB SJ Watson writes : In writing Final Cut I wanted to move away slightly from the entirely domestic, urban and claustrophobic feel of Before I Go To Sleep and open the story world a little. I’m returning to my preoccupations of memory, narrative and identity, though bringing a fresh spin and new maturity […]
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