Colin Garrow's Blog, page 20
February 12, 2023
‘King of Kings’ by MJ Porter
Welcome to my stop on the Blog Tour for King of King’s, via Rachel’s Random Resources. Blurb AD925 Athelstan is the king of the English, uniting the petty kingdoms of Wessex, Mercia, the Danish-held Five Boroughs and York following the sudden death of his father, King Edward. His vision is to unite the realms of…
February 9, 2023
‘The Small Hand’ by Susan Hill
My Review (4 stars out of 5) Antiquarian bookseller Adam Snow gets lost on his way home from seeing a client. Discovering an apparently abandoned Edwardian house, he has a look around. In doing so, he experiences a strange sensation – the feeling of a child’s hand slipping into his own. Following a series of…
February 6, 2023
‘The Blue Bar’ by Damyanti Biswas
My Review (3 stars out of 5) A Mumbai police officer striving to solve a spate of murders, finds himself hindered at every turn. It seems someone is keen to stop him tracking down a serial killer. Troubled by his own past, Inspector Arnav Singh Rajput can’t escape the memory of his former lover, Tara,…
February 2, 2023
‘The Flight’ by Heather J Fitt
Welcome to my stop on the Blog Tour for Flight by Heather J Fitt. Blurb A young mother is trapped with a killer thirty thousand feet up, in this gripping mid-air murder mystery by the author of Open Your Eyes. On a plane to Barbados, nurse Melissa sits with her young son, Theo. On the…
January 28, 2023
‘Thin Air’ by Ann Cleeves
My Review (5 stars out of 5) A group of friends travel to Shetland to join the celebrations when one of their number gets married to a local. But following the wedding party, one of the women disappears. When she is found dead, cops Jimmy Perez and Willow Reeves launch an investigation. Learning that the…
January 23, 2023
‘Dancing with the Devil’ by Matthew Jones
Welcome to my spot on the Blog Tour for Dancing with the Devil, via Rachel at Rachel’s Random Resources. Blurb A wealthy oligarch, a failing business and a man who sacrificed everything for one final shot at freedom. When Danny accepts a job from wealthy Conrad Szekely to spy on his business partner, Jerry, he…
January 21, 2023
‘In Ice’ by Dave Sivers
Welcome to my stop on the Blog Tour for ‘In Ice’, via Heather Fitt. Blurb An anonymous call leads DI Nathan Quarrel and his team to a secluded house in a Hertfordshire village and a horrific discovery: three chest freezers containing the naked bodies of five women. As the painstaking business of identifying the apparently unconnected…
January 18, 2023
‘The Fear Index’ by Robert Harris
My Review (4 stars out of 5) Alex Hoffmann doesn’t care about money, but he has the means to make lots. Having developed an algorithm to generate millions on the financial markets, his method works by targeting fear. When an intruder cracks Hoffman’s elaborate security system, the millionaire is thrown into a world of violence…
January 14, 2023
‘Playing Under the Piano’ by Hugh Bonneville
My Review (5 stars out of 5) British actor Hugh Bonneville is a familiar face to audiences all over the word for his roles in Notting Hill, the Paddington films and Downton Abbey. Charting his rise to stardom from nativity play to the heights of Hollywood, he recounts the highs, lows and day-to-day life of…
January 4, 2023
‘Looking for Trouble’ by Cath Staincliffe
My Review (5 stars out of 5) Single parent and private eye Sal Kilkenny, takes on what appears to be a straightforward case when Mrs Hobbs asks her to hunt down her missing son. Initially, the search doesn’t turn up much, but as she becomes more involved, Sal realises the story she’s been told isn’t…
