Category: Classic Fiction
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Saving Lucia by Anna Vaught – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB How would it be if four lunatics went on a tremendous adventure, reshaping their pasts and futures as they went, including killing Mussolini? What if one of those people were a fascinating, forgotten aristocratic assassin and the others a fellow life co-patient, James Joyce’s daughter Lucia, another the first psychoanalysis patient, known to […]
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Blind Witness by Vicki Goldie – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB In 1922 a blind WW1 veteran and former intelligence officer attends a weekend with his aristocratic wife and her family at a country house in the New Forest, Hampshire, England. Fourteen people sit down to dinner on the Friday night; by the end of the weekend there are two murders, an attempted murder […]
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Died And Gone To Devon by T.P Fielden – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB X marks the spot for murder… Temple Regis, 1959: Devon’s prettiest seaside resort is thrown into turmoil by the discovery of a body abandoned in the lighthouse. It’s only weeks since another body was found in the library – and for the Riviera Express’s ace reporter-turned-sleuth Judy Dimont, there’s an added complication. Her […]
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Shamus Dust by Janet Roger – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB London, 1947. A hard-nosed American detective with a hard-boiled mystery to solve. It’s Christmastime 1947, in the City of London’s square mile of high finance. A seeming vice killing spooks a City councilor into hiring Newman, an expatriate American shamus, to keep his name out of a murder. Newman’s private inquiries split two different […]
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The Burning Hill by A.D. Flint – Book Review. @brazil_thriller @Unbound_Digital @annecater #TheBurningHill
PUBLISHERS BLURB On the run from unjust court-martial back home, a young British soldier gets robbed and shot on Copacabana Beach. The bullet in Jake’s head should have killed him but, miraculously, it saves him from a previously undetected brain aneurysm that soon would have killed him. Jake doesn’t believe in fate, nor does he […]
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Foxfire, Wolfskin and other Stories of Shapeshifting Women by Sharon Blackie – Book Review. @sharonblackiemythmakings @annecater @septemberbooks @RKbookpublicist #FoxfireWolfskin
PUBLISHERS BLURB Part rally cry, part warning, part manifesto and all parts enchanting, Sharon Blackie’s Foxfire, Wolfskin is a deeply evocative and haunting collection. Humming with the strength of our immutable voices, each story sings with the transformation that is possible when women take agency of our lives. I want to press this powerful book […]
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The Merchant Of Menace by Richard T. Ryan – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Reluctantly, Sherlock Holmes agrees to assist Inspector Lestrade who is being hounded by an obnoxious nobleman whose jewel-encrusted dagger has gone missing. However, what Holmes initially believes to be a simple theft turns out instead to be his first encounter with a master criminal, who is as ruthless as he is brilliant, and […]
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The Magic Carpet by Jessica Norrie – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Outer London, September 2016, and neighbouring eight-year-olds have homework: prepare a traditional story to perform with their families at a school festival. But Nathan’s father thinks his son would be better off doing sums; Sky’s mother’s enthusiasm is as fleeting as her bank balance, and there’s a threatening shadow hanging over poor Alka’s […]
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Death Comes To Dartmoor by Vivian Conroy – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB The mist-shrouded moors of Devon proffer a trove of delights for two vacationing zoologists–but also conceal a hoard of dark secrets reaching down to the fathomless depths of the ocean. Miss Merula Merriweather barely saved her uncle from the gallows after he was wrongly accused of murder–and now, she’s left the bustle of […]
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A Shot In The Dark by Neil Richards and Matthew Costello – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Sussex, England, 1929. Mydworth is a sleepy English market town just 50 miles from London. But things are about to liven up there considerably, when young Sir Harry Mortimer returns home from his government posting in Cairo, with his unconventional American wife – Kat Reilly. No sooner have the two arrived, when a […]
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The Decoy by Florrie Palmer – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB In the rural English village of Heronsford, Eliza and Jay Armstrong live in the farmhouse Eliza was brought up in. Her now elderly mother lives in a small converted barn close by. Surrounded by friends, the Armstrongs appear to have an idyllic life. But when two members of their social group die in […]
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The Teeth Of Giants by Gordon Wallis – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB In the brutal war on Elephant poaching in Africa one man takes a stand against a ruthless international ivory smuggling syndicate. A stand that almost costs him everything. Jason Green never for one minute expected the appalling violence and horror he would endure when he returned to Africa to pay his respects to […]
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The Art of Sherlock Holmes by Phil Growick – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB The Art of Sherlock Holmes The Art of Sherlock Holmes is a totally unique experience. Imagine a dozen or more of the finest artists in the U.S. creating art for some the best new short stories written by some of the finest Holmes authors in the world. Each artist has envisioned their version […]
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