Category: blog tour
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The Runner by P.R. Black – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB You can’t escape him. He abducts lone joggers and forces them to run for their lives. When he catches them, he pulls out his blade… Now he’s locked away and will be in prison for years. They call him a psychopath, a murderer, the ‘Woodcutter Killer’. But what if you just found out…
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The Beresford by Will Carver – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB There’s a routine at The Beresford. For Mrs May, every day’s the same: a cup of cold, black coffee in the morning, pruning roses, checking on her tenants, wine, prayer and an afternoon nap. She never leaves the building. Abe Schwartz also lives at The Beresford. His housemate Smythe no longer does. Because…
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Girls Who Lie by Eva Björg Ægisdóttir – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB When single mother Maríanna disappears from her home, leaving an apologetic note on the kitchen table, it is assumed that she’s taken her own life – until her body is found on the Grábrók lava fields seven months later, clearly the victim of murder. Her neglected fifteen-year-old daughter Hekla has been placed in…
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The Lies We Tell by Jane Corry – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB WHAT IF YOUR SON HAD MURDERED SOMEONE? Sarah always thought of herself and her husband, Tom, as good people. But that was before their son Freddy came home saying he’d done something terrible. Begging them not to tell the police. Soon Sarah and Tom must find out just how far they are willing…
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Mirrorland by Carole Johnstone – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB With the startling twists of Gone Girl and the haunting emotional power of Room, Mirrorland is a thrilling work of psychological suspense about twin sisters, the man they both love, and the dark childhood they can’t leave behind. Cat lives in Los Angeles, far away from 36 Westeryk Road, the imposing gothic house…
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One Last Time by Helga Flatland – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Anne’s life is rushing to an unexpected and untimely end. But her diagnosis of terminal cancer isn’t just a shock for her – and for her daughter Sigrid and granddaughter Mia – it shines a spotlight onto their fractured and uncomfortable relationships. A spur-of-the moment trip to France acts as a catalyst for…
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Preacher Boy by GWYN GB – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB IT’S TIME FOR A NEW CRIME MYSTERY HERO Dr Harrison Lane is everything you wouldn’t expect from a man with a psychology doctorate. For victims, he’s everything they need. As Head of the Metropolitan Police’s Ritualistic Behavioural Crime Unit, Dr Harrison Lane knows his Voodoo from his Aum Shinrikyo and a Satanist from…
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Falling by TJ Newman – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB You just boarded a flight to New York. There are one hundred and forty-three other passengers onboard. What you don’t know is that thirty minutes before the flight your pilot’s family was kidnapped. For his family to live, everyone on your plane must die. The only way the family will survive is if…
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Fresh Water For Flowers by Valérie Perrin – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Violette Toussaint is the caretaker at a cemetery in a small town in Bourgogne. Her daily life is lived to the rhythms of the hilarious and touching confidences of random visitors and her colleagues—three gravediggers, three groundskeepers, and a priest. Violette’s routine is disrupted one day by the arrival of police chief Julien…
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This is How We Are Human by Louise Beech – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Sebastian James Murphy is twenty years, six months and two days old. He loves swimming, fried eggs and Billy Ocean. Sebastian is autistic. And lonely. Veronica wants her son Sebastian to be happy, and she wants the world to accept him for who he is. She is also thinking about paying a professional…
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Everything Happens For A Reason by Katie Allen – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Mum-to-be Rachel did everything right, but it all went wrong. Her son, Luke, was stillborn and she finds herself on maternity leave without a baby, trying to make sense of her loss. When a misguided well-wisher tells her that ‘everything happens for a reason’, she becomes obsessed with finding that reason, driven by…
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Echoes Of Home by M. L. Rayner – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB After accepting a generous opportunity to start afresh, Leslie Wills, a young man from Stoke-on-Trent, eagerly begins his long-distance journey to the Scottish Highlands of Elphin, a settled village that sits huddled amongst the dominating mountains. Its people are welcoming, and the beauty of the land is great. But deep within its Highland…
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Matilda Windsor is Coming Home by Anne Goodwin – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB In the dying days of the old asylums, three paths intersect. Henry was only a boy when he waved goodbye to his glamorous grown-up sister; approaching sixty, his life is still on hold as he awaits her return. As a high-society hostess renowned for her recitals, Matty’s burden weighs heavily upon her, but…
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Sword of Bone by Anthony Rhodes – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB In May 2021, IWM will publish two more novels in their Wartime Classics Series which was launched in September 2019 to great acclaim, bringing the total number of novels in the series to ten. Each has been brought back into print to enable a new generation of readers to hear stories of those…
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The Hunting Season by Tom Benjamin – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB It’s truffle season and in the hills around Bologna the hunt is on for the legendary Boscuri White, the golden nugget of Italian gastronomy. But when an American truffle ‘supertaster’ goes missing, English detective Daniel Leicester discovers not all truffles are created equal. Did the missing supertaster bite off more than he could…
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Pathfinders by Cecil Lewis – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUMS TO PUBLISH ANOTHER NOVEL IN THEIR WARTIME CLASSICS SERIES FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE FAMOUS MEMOIR SAGITTARIUS RISING In May 2021, IWM will publish two more novels in their Wartime Classics series which was launched in September 2019 to great acclaim, bringing the total novels in the series to ten.…
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The Crazy Season by Jim Ody – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Joel Baxter is infamous for solving weird and bizarre cases that others avoid. So, when he receives an email from a teenage boy Tim saying his town is cursed, he cannot turn it down. “…I will more than likely be dead when you read this. There is nothing I can do about it.…
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The Assistant by Kjell Ola Dahl – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB The award-winning Godfather of Nordic Noir returns with a fascinating and richly authentic portrait of Oslo’s interwar years, featuring Nazis operating secretly on Norwegian soil and militant socialists readying workers for war… Oslo, 1938. War is in the air and Europe is in turmoil. Hitler’s Germany has occupied Austria and is threatening Czechoslovakia;…
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The Bone Code by Kathy Reichs – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Number One bestselling author Kathy Reichs returns with her twentieth edge-of-your seat thriller featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan. A storm has hit South Carolina, dredging up crimes of the past. En route to Isle of Palms, a barrier island off the South Carolina coast, forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan receives a call from the…
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Mirrorland by C L Johnstone – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB With the startling twists of Gone Girl and the haunting emotional power of Room, Mirrorland is a thrilling work of psychological suspense about twin sisters, the man they both love, and the dark childhood they can’t leave behind. Cat lives in Los Angeles, far away from 36 Westeryk Road, the imposing gothic house…