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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 Best Things by Mel Giedroyc – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Warm, funny, life-affirming and true, The Best Things is the joyous debut novel from much-loved comedian, writer, actor and presenter Mel Giedroyc. It’s the story of a family who lose everything, only to find themselves, and each other, along the way. Sally and Frank Parker have it all. Then one day, because of…
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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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The April Dead by Alan Parks – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB NO ONE WILL FORGET . . . In a grimy flat in Glasgow, a homemade bomb explodes, leaving few remains to identify its maker. Detective Harry McCoy knows in his gut that there’ll be more to follow. The hunt for a missing sailor from the local US naval base leads him to the…
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Scare Me To Death by CJ Carver – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB A homemade bomb exploded mid-air, killing 214 people on board. Thirteen people survived. Sixteen years later one of the survivors is found brutally bludgeoned to death. It looks like a crime of passion but DC Lucy Davies knows something is wrong. They were trying to find the bombers. Lucy’s search for the killer…
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Birdsong in a Time of Silence by Steven Lovatt – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB A lyrical celebration of birdsong, and the rekindling of a deep passion for nature. “At this time of year, blackbirds never simply fly: instead, like reluctantly retired officers, they’re always ‘on manoeuvres’, and it’s easy to see from their constant agitation that for them every flower bed is a bunker, every shed a…
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Nighthawking by Russ Thomas – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB After the gut-punch ending of Firewatching, DS Adam Tyler returns to another shocking cold case… A body has been discovered in Sheffield’s beautiful Botanical Gardens. A young woman, dead from a stab wound, buried in a quiet corner. Police quickly determine that the body has been there for months, and would have gone…
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Hunt by Leona Deakin – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB The Foreign Secretary is being held under the Terrorism Act. He will answer the police’s questions on one condition – they let him speak to Dr Augusta Bloom. He asks Bloom to track down his niece, Scarlett, who hasn’t spoken to her family for ten years. The last they heard, Scarlett was getting…
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Special Offer from Audible – 99p for 3 MONTHS !
For lovers of audiobooks, Audible are offering 3 MONTHS for 99p….. New customers signing up to Audible via the link below will pay £0.99 for 3 months, instead of the regular £7.99 per month. Audible membership includes a credit every month, applicable to any audiobook, regardless of price or length. The books are yours to keep…
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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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*GUEST POST* from Luke Carter, author, with Anna Ametller, of The Gardener and other short stories..
Hello from the Bookwormery, today I am lucky to be hosting a guest post from Luke Carter, who along with Anna Ametller, is the author of The Gardener and other short stories. Enjoy! The Gardener and Other Short Stories by Luke Carter and Anna Ametller Where do you start when introducing The Gardener and Other Short…
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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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