Category: blog tour
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Vanished by James Delargy – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB From the groundbreaking author of 55 comes an extraordinary new thriller… The Kane family, Lorcan, Naiyana and their young son, are desperate to move their young family far away from the hustle and bustle of modern city life in Perth. The abandoned town of Kallayee, an abandoned mining town in the Great Victoria…
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The Black Fox by Gordon Bickerstaff – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Incredible conspiracy. Intricate espionage. Spy story. Zoe Tampsin is resourceful, smart and Special Forces-trained, but she has been given an impossible mission. She has to protect scientist, Gavin Shawlens, from assassination by the CIA, and discover the secret trapped in Gavin’s mind that the CIA want destroyed. As the pressure to find Shawlens…
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Facets Of Death by Michael Stanley – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB A dark and sophisticated thriller set in the heart of Botswana, introducing Michael Stanley’s beloved Detective Kubu. Recruited straight from university to Botswana’s CID, David ‘Kubu’ Bengu has raised his colleagues’ suspicions with his meteoric rise within the department, and he has a lot to prove. When the richest diamond mine in the…
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Missing Pieces by Tim Weaver – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Rebekah Murphy knows too much. . . She knows she’s alone on an abandoned island with a killer on her trail. She knows that to get home to her children, she must survive long enough to understand why this is happening. She knows someone tried to kill her for a secret. What she…
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Look What You Made Me Do by Nikki Smith – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Two people can keep a secret . . . if one of them is dead. Sisters Jo and Caroline are used to hiding things from each other. They’ve never been close – taking it in turns to feel on the outside of their family unit, playing an endless game of favourites. Jo envies…
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The Source by Sarah Sultoon – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB 1996. Essex. Thirteen-year-old schoolgirl Carly lives in a disenfranchised town dominated by a military base, struggling to care for her baby sister while her mum sleeps off another binge. When her squaddie brother brings food and treats, and offers an exclusive invitation to army parties, things start to look a little less bleak……
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The April Dead by Alan Parks – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB NO ONE WILL FORGET . . . In a grimy flat in Glasgow, a homemade bomb explodes, leaving few remains to identify its maker. Detective Harry McCoy knows in his gut that there’ll be more to follow. The hunt for a missing sailor from the local US naval base leads him to the…
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Nighthawking by Russ Thomas – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB After the gut-punch ending of Firewatching, DS Adam Tyler returns to another shocking cold case… A body has been discovered in Sheffield’s beautiful Botanical Gardens. A young woman, dead from a stab wound, buried in a quiet corner. Police quickly determine that the body has been there for months, and would have gone…
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Hunt by Leona Deakin – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB The Foreign Secretary is being held under the Terrorism Act. He will answer the police’s questions on one condition – they let him speak to Dr Augusta Bloom. He asks Bloom to track down his niece, Scarlett, who hasn’t spoken to her family for ten years. The last they heard, Scarlett was getting…
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The Takers and Keepers by Ivan Pope – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Where do the disappeared go? The girls and women who vanish, seldom to resurface. Allen Kimbo, a freelance reporter, believes there is a network of men who guard their “taken” and keep the silence that surrounds such deeds. An email lures him to Eastern Europe, to a meeting of the Takers and Keepers.…
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bound by Vanda Symon – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB The passionate, young police officer Sam Shephard returns in a taut, atmospheric and compelling police procedural, which sees her take matters into her own hands when the official investigation into the murder of a local businessman fails to add up… The New Zealand city of Dunedin is rocked when a wealthy and apparently…
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The Devil’s Mark by WD Jackson-Smart – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Bloody remains. Multiple victims. Ritual sacrifice? When a blood-stained effigy of body parts is found in a central London park, D.I Daniel Graves must set about trying to discover what it could mean and find the person responsible. Symbols at the crime scene suggest the occult. Who would leave a murder victim in…
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The Favour by Laura Vaughan – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB When she was thirteen years old, Ada Howell lost not just her father, but the life she felt she was destined to lead. Now, at eighteen, Ada is given a second chance when her wealthy godmother giftsher with an extravagant art history trip to Italy. In the palazzos of Venice, the cathedrals of…
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Hotel Cartagena by Simone Bucholz – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Twenty floors above the shimmering lights of the Hamburg docks, Public Prosecutor Chastity Riley is celebrating a birthday with friends in a hotel bar when twelve heavily armed men pull out guns, and take everyone hostage. Among the hostages is Konrad Hoogsmart, the hotel owner, who is being targeted by a young man…
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The Foreign Girls by Sergio Olguín – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB When two European backpackers are found murdered after attending a high society party in northern Argentina, sacrificial offerings left near the bodies point to their involvement in a Macumba rite. But for their friend Veronica Rosenthal, a courageous investigative journalist with a proclivity for sexual adventure, the story smacks of a cover-up. Sure…
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Holes In The Veil by Beth Overmyer – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Having killed his lifelong enemy, Aidan Ingledark finds himself in possession of a map to the Questing Goblet, one of the Goblets Immortal that gives the drinker luck beyond measure. Meraude seeks this Goblet to wipe out magic- kind. Aidan and his traveling companion are determined to find it first but they must…
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The Last Snow by Stina Jackson – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Early spring has its icy grip on Ödesmark, a small village in northernmost Sweden, abandoned by many of its inhabitants. But Liv Björnlund never left. She lives in a derelict house together with her teenage son, Simon, and her ageing father, Vidar. They make for a peculiar family, and Liv knows that they…
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Deity by Matt Wesolowski – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB When pop megastar Zach Crystal dies in a fire at his remote mansion, his mysterious demise rips open the bitter divide between those who adored his music and his endless charity work, and those who viewed him as a despicable predator, who manipulated and abused young and vulnerable girls. Online journalist, Scott King,…
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The Children God Forgot by Graham Masterton – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Forsake the living. Forget the dead. Fear the children… The brand new chilling page-turner from the master of horror. A TERRIFYING BIRTH A young woman is rushed to the hospital with stabbing pains in her stomach. The chief surgeon delivers a living child with the face of an angel and the body of…
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Smoke Screen by Thomas Enger & Jørn Lier Horst – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Oslo, New Year’s Eve. The annual firework celebration is rocked by an explosion and the city is put on terrorist alert. Police officer Alexander Blix and blogger Emma Ramm are on the scene, and when a severely injured survivor is pulled from the icy harbour, she is identified as the mother of two-year-old…