Category: Domestic noir
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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 Push by Ashley Audrain – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB ‘The women in this family, we’re different . . .’ Blythe Connor doesn’t want history to repeat itself. Violet is her first child and she will give her daughter all the love she deserves. All the love that her own mother withheld. But firstborns are never easy. And Violet is demanding and fretful.…
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The Man Behind Closed Doors by Maria Frankland – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB What could be so bad that a six-year-old stops talking? Domestic violence isn’t only perpetrated by men. Ask Paul Jackson who is on remand, accused of stabbing his wife, Michelle. As he reveals his reality behind their troubled marriage, it seems that only his six-year-old knows what really happened. But she’s trapped…
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Little Whispers by K.L. Slater – Audiobook Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB You shared a secret with the wrong person. Janey Markham is thrilled to be moving with her family to Buckingham Crescent, the smartest address in a desirable suburban town. Worried she’ll be excluded by the glossy local mothers, Janey is thrilled when she meets Tanya, the kind of woman she has always…
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Under Your Skin by Rose McClelland – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB When Kyle’s wife Hannah goes missing, the whole town is out in force to try to find her. One person knows where she is. One person is keeping a secret. Detective Inspector Simon Peters and Detective Kerry Lawlor have been brought in to investigate the case but Hannah has left no traces…
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Ash Mountain by Helen Fitzgerald – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Fran hates her hometown, and she thought she’d escaped. But her father is ill, and needs care. Her relationship is over, and she hates her dead-end job in the city, anyway. She returns home to nurse her dying father, her distant teenage daughter in tow for the weekends. There, in the sleepy town…
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The Second Wife – Rebecca Fleet – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB In this dark, menacing thriller, Rebecca Fleet shows us a suspenseful, twisty yet emotionally devastating portrait of a family in turmoil. Everyone brings baggage to a new relationship. When Alex met Natalie she changed his life. After the tragic death of his first wife, which left him a single parent to teenage daughter…
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The Last Cuckoo by Maria Frankland – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Do you listen to your mother? Even after she’s dead? Anna Hardaker is following you … This seemingly innocent Tweet fills Jamie Hardaker with confusion and fear. After all, his mother Anna has been dead for nearly three weeks. What follows is an orchestrated Twitter campaign to lead those Anna loved, and didn’t…
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Someone Close To Home by Alex Craigie – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Talented pianist Megan Youngblood has it all – fame, fortune and Gideon. But Gideon isn’t good enough for Megan’s ambitious, manipulative mother, whose meddling has devastating repercussions for Megan and for those close to her. Now, trapped inside her own body, she is unable to communicate her needs or fears as she faces…
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Her Last Secret by P L Kane – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Jordan Radcliffe is found stabbed to death. Her boyfriend’s finger prints are on the knife and his clothes are covered in her blood. Case closed… Or is it? When Jordan’s estranged father Jake learns of his only daughter’s death, he is convinced that there is more to her murder than he is being…
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The Winter’s Sleep by Monica Cafferky – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Spooky and compelling – a great debut’ Peter James A fast-paced thriller with a supernatural twist, The Winter’s Sleep takes the reader on a breathtaking ride from Leeds to the Yorkshire coast in a tale of ghosts, betrayal and fraud. A handsome husband. A beautiful home. A job she loves. Yet Brigid Raven…
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All The Wrong Places by Joy Fielding – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB You always know who you’re meeting online . . . don’t you? Four women decide to explore online dating, downloading an app that promises they will swipe their way to love and happiness. But not everyone is who they seem online. Hidden behind a perfect smile and charming humour, one man appears to…
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Unprotected by Sophie Jonas-Hill – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB She’s fighting to save everyone else, but will she have anything left to save herself? Witty, sharp and sarcastic tattoo artist Lydia’s life is imploding. Her long-term relationship has broken down after several miscarriages and she’s hiding from her hurt in loss and rage. After a big night out she wakes beside a…
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17 Church Row by James Carol – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB For fans of J. P. Delaney’s The Girl Before comes a thriller that makes us question our relationship with technology and the lengths we would go to, to keep our family safe. Three years ago, Ethan and Nikki Rhodes suffered a devastating loss. Their four-year-old daughter Grace was tragically killed when she ran…
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Bad Seed by Jessica Eames – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB A tragic death. A dark family secret. A past you can’t escape. How well do you really know those closest to you? Sarah’s world has descended into a nightmare. Her only hope of moving on is to find out the truth of what happened, and make sure the guilty are brought to justice.…
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The Introvert Confounds Innocence by Michael Paul Michaud – Book Review. @MichaelPMichaud @BOTBSPublicity #TheIntrovertConfoundsInnocence
PUBLISHERS BLURB THE INTROVERT CONFOUNDS INNOCENCE continues the story of the eponymous anti-hero introduced in THE INTROVERT. With his life disrupted by an unscrupulous work colleague and a bully at his son Toby’s school, things go from bad to worse when his neighbor’s abusive boyfriend goes missing, plunging the introvert into the center of a…
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Hands Up by Stephen Clark – Book Review. @StephCWrites #HandsUp
PUBLISHERS BLURB Officer Ryan Quinn, a rookie raised in a family of cops, is on the fast track to detective until he shoots an unarmed black male. Now, with his career, reputation and freedom on the line, he embarks on a quest for redemption that forces him to confront his fears and biases and choose…
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In The Absence Of Miracles by Michael J Malone – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB In this powerful new thriller, Michael J Malone returns to A Suitable Lie territory, movingly and perceptively addressing a shocking social issue. Chilling, perceptive and heartbreakingly emotive, In the Absence of Miracles is domestic noir at its most powerful, and a sensitively wrought portrait of a family whose shameful lies hide the very…
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