Category: blog tour
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Snatched From Home by Graham Smith – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Middle-class parents Victoria and Nicholas Foulkes are distraught when their children are kidnapped against Nicholas’ gambling debts. Penniless and desperate the couple turn to crime as a way to raise the ransom. Hot on their heels is recently bereaved DI Harry Evans and his Major Crimes team. Evans is fighting against enforced retirement…
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Clockwork Sherlock by Ian W. Sainsbury – Audiobook Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB A thrilling new adventure featuring literature’s favourite detective like you’ve never seen him before. The first in a series, Clockwork Sherlock follows ex-soldier Captain Jo Barnes. The mysterious VR detective singles her out as his own Dr Watson, but he’s about to find out she’s no fawning sidekick. When tech giant Robert Fairfield…
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The Resident by David Jackson – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Thomas Brogan is a serial killer, and he has nowhere left to hide. At least until he finds an abandoned house at the end of a terrace on a quiet street. And when he discovers that he can access three other houses through the attic space, the real fun begins. Because the one…
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Deadly Revenge by Leigh Russell – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB When a hysterical mother reports her baby’s sudden disappearance, suspicion immediately falls on the absent husband. But Detective Geraldine Steel’s gut instinct tells her this case is not as simple as her colleagues think… Complications in the mother’s life begin to surface, including her relationship with her controlling father, a controversial political figure.…
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The Moscow Whisper by Michael Jenkins – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB ‘Sometimes you have to enter the death zone to save the innocent.’ A top-secret clique of former spies meet for dinner to hatch a plan to murder a competitor, not knowing that they are under surveillance from a covert arm of British Intelligence. Hours later, with bodies strewn across a terrace, a piece…
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Shed No Tears by Caz Frear – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Christopher Masters, known as ‘The Roommate Killer’, strangled three women over a two-week period in a London house in November 2012. Holly Kemp, his fourth victim, was never found. Until now. Her remains have been unearthed in a field in Cambridgeshire and DC Cat Kinsella and the major investigation team are…
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Hush Little Baby by Jane Isaac – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Someone stole a baby… One sunny day in July, someone took three-month-old Alicia Owen from her pram outside a supermarket. Her mother, Marie, was inside. No one saw who took Alicia. And no one could find her. They silenced her cry… Fifteen years later, a teenager on a construction site sees…
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Playdate by Alex Dahl – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB It was meant to be your daughter’s first sleepover. Now it’s an abduction. Lucia Blix went home from school for a playdate with her new friend Josie. Later that evening, Lucia’s mother Elisa dropped her overnight things round and kissed her little girl goodnight. That was the last time she saw her daughter. The next…
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The Mechanical Maestro by Emily Owen – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Immerse yourself in the world of three brilliant siblings and their musical automaton, Maestro. London, 1857. Brothers George and Douglas Abernathy are clockmakers who are barely scraping a living in their family’s shop. They are also brilliant inventors with a sideline building custom- built androids and other technology ahead of its time. Their…
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The Little Girl Who Gave Zero Fucks by Amy Charlotte Kean – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB An irreverent, feminist fairy tale for adults that teaches us to care less about what others think. This is the story of a brave young girl, Elodie-Rose, who one day decides to change the world and keep all her fucks in her basket. Wait a minute. You’re confused. What are fucks, you ask?…
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One Step Behind by Lauren North – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Jenna is a wife, a mother, a doctor. She’s also the victim of a stalker. Every time she leaves her house, she sees him. Disturbing gifts are left at her door. Cruel emails are sent to her colleagues. She has no idea who this man is but she feels powerless against him. Until…
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The Big Chill by Doug Johnstone – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Haunted by their past, the Skelf women are hoping for a quieter life. But running both a funeral directors’ and a private investigation business means trouble is never far away, and when a car crashes into the open grave at a funeral Dorothy is conducting, she can’t help looking into the dead driver’s…