Category: Mystery
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The Beresford by Will Carver – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB There’s a routine at The Beresford. For Mrs May, every day’s the same: a cup of cold, black coffee in the morning, pruning roses, checking on her tenants, wine, prayer and an afternoon nap. She never leaves the building. Abe Schwartz also lives at The Beresford. His housemate Smythe no longer does. Because…
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The Crazy Season by Jim Ody – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Joel Baxter is infamous for solving weird and bizarre cases that others avoid. So, when he receives an email from a teenage boy Tim saying his town is cursed, he cannot turn it down. “…I will more than likely be dead when you read this. There is nothing I can do about it.…
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No One Home by Tim Weaver – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF YOU WERE GONE ‘THE TENTH IN THE TERRIFIC DAVID RAKER SERIES – BLISS!’ LEE CHILD One night, the residents of Black Gale gather for a dinner party. As the only nine people living there, they’ve become close friends as well as neighbours. They eat, drink…
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No Love Lost by Robert Crouch – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB How can a simple job interview end in complete carnage? When Mandy Paige seeks Kent Fisher’s help to find the mother who abandoned her as a baby, he has no idea of the mayhem his investigation will unleash. With only a photograph of a woman he once knew, he discovers she left her…
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Even If We Break by Marieke Nijkamp – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB From #1 New York Times bestselling author Marieke Nijkamp comes a shocking new thriller about a group of friends tied together by a game and the deadly weekend that tears them apart. FIVE friends go to a cabin. FOUR of them are hiding secrets. THREE years of history bind them. TWO are doomed…
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Don’t Worry, Everything Is Going To Be Amazing by Billy Moran – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Chris Pringle: simpleton, casualty or local hero? Propped up by friends, benefits and a baffling faith in his plan, he lives in a world where every day is obsessively the same: wedged in his recliner, watching murder mysteries, taking notes. Until the day a serious and peculiar crime stumps the local police –…
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Sight Unseen by Sandra Ireland – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Alie Gowdie marries Richard Webster during a turbulent time in Scotland’s history. Charles I is about to lose his head, and little does Alie know that she too will meet a grisly end within the year. Sarah Sutherland is struggling to cope with the demands of her day job, caring for her…
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The Last To Know by Jo Furniss – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB A family’s past pursues them like a shadow in this riveting and emotional novel of psychological suspense by the Amazon Charts bestselling author of All the Little Children. American journalist Rose Kynaston has just relocated to the childhood home of her husband, Dylan, in the English village of his youth. There’s a lot…
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Gaijin by Sarah Z. Sleeper – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB The Japanese word gaijin means “unwelcome foreigner.” It’s not profanity, but is sometimes a slur directed at non-Japanese people in Japan. My novel is called Gaijin… Lucy is a budding journalist at Northwestern University and she’s obsessed with an exotic new student, Owen Ota, who becomes her lover and her sensei. When he…
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The Mystery Of Henri Pick by David Foenkinos – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB The delightful first title in a new collaboration with Channel 4’s Walter Presents: a fast-paced comic mystery enriched by a deep love of books. In the small town of Crozon in Brittany, a library houses manuscripts that were rejected for publication: the faded dreams of aspiring writers. Visiting while on holiday, young editor…
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Overboard by Ivy Ngeow – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Thailand. An epic storm. A shipwreck. A white man has been found alive. But who is he? Suffering horrific injuries and burns, he is taken to a local hospital. He is mute. Everything is a blank. They tell him his name. That is all he knows. When his Chinese wife arrives, he has…
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Auxiliary: London 2039 by Jon Richter – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB The silicon revolution left Dremmler behind, but a good detective is never obsolete. London is quiet in 2039—thanks to the machines. People stay indoors, communicating through high-tech glasses and gorging on simulated reality while 3D printers and scuttling robots cater to their every whim. Mammoth corporations wage war for dominance in a world…
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The Girl In The White Dress by Paul Barrell – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB The Girl in the White Dress is quite simply unforgettable and unputdownable. It is based on a true story . Every Family has secrets. Imagine discovering you were guilty of something you can’t remember. 1974 A family from London take a trip of a lifetime to the Caribbean aboard the cruise liner Oriana.…
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Five Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes by Maurice Barkley – Book Review
MY REVIEW This is a collection of five new stories featuring Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. I am a big fan of Conan-Doyle’s Creation and found these stories by Maurice Barkley capture the essence of the Sherlock Holmes original tales. The atmosphere and characters are truly spot on and the tales of mystery are well…
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