Category: Thriller
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Mirrorland by Carole Johnstone – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB With the startling twists of Gone Girl and the haunting emotional power of Room, Mirrorland is a thrilling work of psychological suspense about twin sisters, the man they both love, and the dark childhood they can’t leave behind. Cat lives in Los Angeles, far away from 36 Westeryk Road, the imposing gothic house…
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Falling by TJ Newman – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB You just boarded a flight to New York. There are one hundred and forty-three other passengers onboard. What you don’t know is that thirty minutes before the flight your pilot’s family was kidnapped. For his family to live, everyone on your plane must die. The only way the family will survive is if…
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The Assistant by Kjell Ola Dahl – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB The award-winning Godfather of Nordic Noir returns with a fascinating and richly authentic portrait of Oslo’s interwar years, featuring Nazis operating secretly on Norwegian soil and militant socialists readying workers for war… Oslo, 1938. War is in the air and Europe is in turmoil. Hitler’s Germany has occupied Austria and is threatening Czechoslovakia;…
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The Source by Sarah Sultoon – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB 1996. Essex. Thirteen-year-old schoolgirl Carly lives in a disenfranchised town dominated by a military base, struggling to care for her baby sister while her mum sleeps off another binge. When her squaddie brother brings food and treats, and offers an exclusive invitation to army parties, things start to look a little less bleak……
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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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Out For Blood by Deborah Masson – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB THE RETURN Of DI EVE HUNTER: DI Eve Hunter is back in the edge-of-your-seat new detective thriller from Deborah Masson, winning author of the Bloody Scotland Crime Debut of the Year 2020. A young man, the son of an influential businessman, is discovered dead in his central Aberdeen apartment. Hours later, a teenaged…
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Book Trailer for Number 10 by C. J. Daugherty
Wow, look at this Looks great……here’s the publishers blurb…. One of the UK’s most critically acclaimed teen authors returns with a new novel set in the world of her hugely popular Night School series. Number 10 tells the spinetingling story of 16-year-old Gray Langtry, the daughter of the UK’s female prime minister, who is about…
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The Pretenders by Agatha Zaza – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB ‘I’m perfectly happy lying to myself…If it means getting to stay with you.’ Jasper is ready to surprise his brother; Holly is ready to celebrate their engagement. Anne tags along for fear of missing out, and John might just be going for another drink. But Edmund and Ovidia had other plans for their…
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Coyote Fork by James Wilson – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB New Fiction from Slant Books Coyote Fork: A Thriller by James Wilson British journalist Robert Lovelace travels to California to report on the social media giant Global Village. He’s horrified by what he finds: a company—guided by the ruthless vision of its founder, Evan Bone—that seems to be making journalism itself redundant. Appalled,…
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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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Innocent by Erin Kinsley – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB A MURDER TEARS A SMALL TOWN APART. BUT WHO DID IT? ‘Brilliant, compelling, heart-wrenching writing.’ Peter James The pretty market town of Sterndale is a close-knit community where everyone thinks they know everyone else. But at a lavish summer wedding a local celebrity is discovered slumped in the gardens, the victim of a…
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The Curious Case Of Faith & Grace by David B. Lyons – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Pretty… or pretty twisted? ALMOST TWO YEARS AGO FAITH AND GRACE TIDDLE ARRIVED HOME FROM THEIR USUAL SATURDAY MORNING DANCE CLASS TO FIND BOTH OF THEIR PARENTS FACE DOWN IN POOLS OF BLOOD. Five days later, the twins — only nine years old at the time — were arrested for the double homicide.…
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The Last Sword Maker by Brian Nelson – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB In the high mountains of Tibet, rumors are spreading. People whisper of an outbreak, of thousands of dead, of bodies pushed into mass graves. It is some strange new disease … a disease, they say, that can kill in minutes. The Chinese government says the rumors aren’t true, but no one is allowed…
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The July Girls by Phoebe Locke – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Every year, on the same night in July, a woman is taken from the streets of London; snatched by a killer who moves through the city like a ghost. Addie has a secret. On the morning of her tenth birthday, four bombs were detonated across the capital. That night her dad came home…
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No One Will Hear Your Screams by Thomas O’Callaghan – * EXCERPT*
Here’s an excerpt from the suspense thriller No One Will Hear Your Screams by Thomas O’Callaghan ( my review will follow in a day or so)…. Excerpted from No One Will Hear Your Screams. Copyright © 2020 by Thomas O’Callaghan. All rights reserved. Published by WildBlue Press. Pearsol opened the mortuary cooler and pulled out…
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Everything To Lose by Gordon Bickerstaff – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Scientists claim their new sports drug will boost the performance of every athlete in the world. The Lambeth Group send scientist, Gavin Shawlens, to investigate the claim. The product is stolen, top athletes disappear, and the research team are unaware that their product has a dangerous side effect. Gavin must stop the sports…
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Singapore Killer by Murray Bailey – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB A helicopter crash and burned bodies. A faceless corpse. A mysterious town. Carter is drawn into a dark case from which there seems no escape. MY REVIEW #5 in the Ash Carter series, but can also be read as a stand-alone. Wow….the action starts from the off and really…
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Fire And Vengeance by Robert McCaw – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB The story in Fire and Vengeance is propelled by the unthinkable—an elementary school, knowingly built atop a volcanic vent, has now exploded. The subsequent murders of the school’s contractor and architect only add urgency to Koa’s search for the truth. Was it an act of terrorism? Or a result of greed, power,…
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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…