Category: Book reviews
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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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Book.tv launches tonight with a reading from Ruthless Women………LIVE from her home !
Welcome to The Bookwormery this evening, I’m excited at this new channel for BOOKS….launching tonight at 10pm with a reading from Ruthless Women by the author herself…..Melanie Blake All you have to do is download OOOOO from the app store on your smartphone, (it’s free), and then open the Book.TV channel at any time between…
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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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Not In My Name by Michael Coolwood – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB What if the British people had been given a vote about invading Iraq in 2003. And the referendum split the nation with a 52% to 48% yes vote. A young activist is beaten to death after an anti-war demonstration. The police say her murder was random. It wasn’t. More activists will be murdered.…
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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…
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No Ceremony For The Dead by Shane Dunphy – Audiobook Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB ‘I know I has special needs. So does Stanley and Francis and Billy and Josh. People don’t listen to us, ’cause they thinks we’re thick in our heads.’ Charlie works at St Patrick’s residential home, where the walls are so thick no one can hear you cry. He’s asking child protection expert Shane…
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Evil Impulse by Leigh Russell – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Living with her colleague and long time love interest, Detective Inspector Ian Peterson, it seems that Geraldine Steel has finally found happiness. But life is never that simple. As a psychopath starts killing random women on the streets of York, Geraldine is abducted by a drugs syndicate who have been threatening her sister.…
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The Sanatorium by Sarah Pearse – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB An imposing, isolated hotel, high up in the Swiss Alps, is the last place Elin Warner wants to be. But she’s taken time off from her job as a detective, so when she receives an invitation out of the blue to celebrate her estranged brother’s recent engagement, she has no choice but to…
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Crow Court by Andy Charman – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Spring, 1840. In the Dorset market town of Wimborne Minster, a young choirboy drowns himself. Soon after, the choirmaster—a belligerent man with a vicious reputation—is found murdered, in a discovery tainted as much by relief as it is by suspicion. The gaze of the magistrates falls on four local men, whose decisions will…
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Danger by Robin Nye – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Danger’ is a riveting, fast-paced thriller that ranges from the leafy countryside of Kent to the windswept shores of the Black Sea and to the dramatic coastline of Cornwall. At its heart, ‘Danger’ is a compelling story depicting the hopelessness, desolation and suffering of those caught up in people-trafficking across Europe. A guest…
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The Shape Of Darkness by Laura Purcell – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Wicked deeds require the cover of darkness… A struggling silhouette artist in Victorian Bath seeks out a renowned child spirit medium in order to speak to the dead – and to try and identify their killers – in this beguiling new tale from Laura Purcell. Silhouette artist Agnes is struggling to keep her…
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There’s Only One Danny Garvey by David F. Ross – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Danny Garvey was a sixteen-year old footballing prodigy. Professional clubs clamoured to sign him, and a glittering future beckoned. And yet, his early promise remained unfulfilled, and Danny is back home in the tiny village of Barshaw to manage the struggling junior team he once played for. What’s more, he’s hiding a secret…
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