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Audiobook Review – A Christmas at Gingerbread Falls.

A Christmas at Gingerbread Falls by Katie Mettner

Actress Carrie Murray’s films are a Christmas lover’s delight. Filled with twinkling lights, festive carols, and happy endings, they’re the perfect escape from reality – for her and the audience. Then Tinseltown calls. Braxton Timothy is Hollywood’s biggest action star. Handsome and talented but decidedly on the naughty list, no one can fathom his sudden desire to produce a feel-good Christmas movie – least of all, his no-name co-star.

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Audiobook Review – Northern Exposures

Northern Exposures by Ann Jeffries

US Air Force Colonel Benjamin “Benny” Alexander has been raising his daughter alone while continuing to search for the woman they both love, US Navy Lieutenant Stacy Greene. She has been deployed and the fact that no one in the Pentagon will reveal her mission to him gives him reason to suspect that where ever she has been is dangerous to her life. His search will lead him from Tokyo, Japan, to the Blue Ridge Mountains around Asheville, North Carolina. H...

Audiobook Review – A Fine Year for Murder by Lauren Carr

After ten months of marital bliss, Jessica Faraday and Murphy Thornton are still discovering and adjusting to their life together. Settled in their new home, everything appears to be perfect … except in the middle of the night when, in the darkest shadows of her subconscious, a deep secret from Jessica’s past creeps to the surface to make her strike out at Murphy.

When investigative journalist Dallas Walker tells the couple about her latest case, known as the Pine Bridge Massacre, they re...

Book Review – Agnes, Treading Water by Charlotte French

Love is blind. Lies come easy. Secrets can sink a wedding.

Thanks to her late mother’s trust fund, Agnes Andersson is financially secure. She’s insecure about pretty much everything else. Since last week she’s also disillusioned due to a washout trip to Australia and a holiday crush that’s left her heart broken. Returned to Sweden, Agnes is determined to mend it. Despite her best friend’s protests, she agrees to an impromptu wedding, settling for the man she’s dated on and off for years....

Book Review – The Merchant’s Dilemma

A Companion Novella to The Meonbridge ChroniclesSummary

1362. Winchester. Seven months ago, accused of bringing plague and death from Winchester, Bea Ward was hounded out of Meonbridge by her former friends and neighbours. Finding food and shelter where she could, she struggled to make her way back to Winchester again.

Yet, once she arrived, she wondered why she’d come.

For her former lover – the love of her life – Riccardo Marchaunt, had married a year ago. And she no longer had th...

Audiobook Review – A Murderous Grudge

A Murderous Grudge by J.M. Roberts
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Peggy Rector didn’t expect to be solving any murders when she returned to her hometown of Stinky Springs in Texas. Then again, she didn’t ever imagine she’d be on the suspect list either.
In between writing her novel and trying to catch a stalker, and attempting to avoid being eaten by a mountain lion, she has enough on her plate. But when you add in her quirky neighbours, a possible romance and her beloved pets, Peggy’s life just go...

Audiobook Review – Death in Tranquility

Death in Tranquility by Sharon Linnéa
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

A most enjoyable cozy mystery with the added twist of a cocktail recipe at the end of each chapter, all of which I’m tempted to try
Avalon Nash finds herself unexpectedly employed as a bartender in Tranquillity when she was only meant to be passing through. However, the death of her predecessor gives her the opportunity of a job and a new start (from what we have to discover as her past is only glossed upon here but, no doubt, more w...

Blog Tour ‘n’ Book Review – Luminous: The Story of a Radium Girl

by Samantha WilcoxsonBook InformationAmazon link: https://www.amazon.com/Luminous-Story-Radium-Samantha-Wilcoxson-ebook/dp/B085ZWBFCQGoodreads link: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/52288751Genre:  Fictional account of real events, 1920s and 30s.Print length: 321 pages (83K words)Age range: This is an adult book, but may be suitable for mature older teenagersTrigger warnings: Distressing medical contentAmazon Rating: 4.5*ABOUT LUMINOUS

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Blog Tour ‘n’ Book Review – Murder in the Bookshop

Murder in the BookshopSomeone’s been read their last rites…

1915, London: Working in the dusty bookshop that her Aunt Violet mysteriously inherited, Hannah Merrill is accustomed to finding twists in every tale. But discovering her beloved best friend Lily-Anne – with a paperknife through her heart – in the middle of the bookshop, is not a plotline she saw coming.

The case is anything but textbook. With the discovery of a coded German message, and Hannah’s instinct that Lily-Anne’s ...

Book Review – The Christmas Appeal

* THE CAST OF SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING THE APPEAL RETURN FOR A FESTIVE MURDER MYSTERY *
* FROM THE WINNER OF THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS CRIME AND THRILLER BOOK OF THE YEAR *

One dead Santa. A town full of suspects. Will you discover the truth?

This immersive holiday caper from the “modern Agatha Christie” (The Sunday Times, London) follows the hilarious Fairway Players theatre group as they put on a Christmas play—and solve a murder that threatens their production.

The Christmas season has ...