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January 12, 2017
Reblog: Her Husband’s Lover by Julia Crouch – Reviewed by PORTOBELLO BOOK BLOG
Her Husband’s Lover by Julia Crouch is an absolutely brilliant psychological thriller. It begins with a bang, literally, as Louisa’s car with her children in the back is forced off the road by her husband’s car and crashes. Her husband, Sam, is killed in the accident and as Louisa manages to crawl free, her car erupts in a fireball. We next meet her as she is rebuilding her life following many months in hospital and having had counselling to help her get over the traum...
January 11, 2017
Reblog: The Dry by Jane Harper – Reviewed by The Quiet Knitter
Reviewed: 11 January 2017 4 out of 5 stars Copy supplied by Little, Brown Book Group UK as part of the blog tour
Description:
I just can’t understand how someone like him could do something like that.
Amid the worst drought to ravage Australia in a century, it hasn’t rained in small country town Kiewarra for two years. Tensions in the community become unbearable when three members of the Hadler family are brutally murdered. Everyone thinks Luke...
Reblog: Sirens by Joseph Knox – Reviewed by Novel Gossip
Goodreads|Amazon
Release date: January 12, 2017
Publisher: Doubleday
Genre: Crime Fiction, Mystery/Thriller
Blurb:
Sirens is the brooding and assured debut from Joseph Knox, the next big name in crime fiction.
Set in a sprawling, twilight northern city, Sirens introduces Aidan Waits, a disgraced young detective caught stealing drugs from evidence and subsequently blackmailed into going undercover. When an MP’s daughter runs away from home, Waits is sent to track her down and find...
January 10, 2017
Which One Was Your Favourite This Week?
So, the new year hangover has subsided and the writing has commenced… just. Let’s leave it there for this week, shall we?
Steph Broadribb joined me this week to kick off the new 5WH interview slot, which was a real success. Loads of great authors participating over the coming months, with Nick Quantrill joining me in February.
I also kicked off the new Author in the Spotlight feature on Joanne’s fantasticPortobello Book Blogwhich was great fun.
And last but by no means least, wonderful Sue fr...
Reblog: The Dry by Jane Harper – Reviewed by crimeworm
BLURB: WHO REALLY KILLED THE HADLER FAMILY?
I just can’t understand how someone like him could do something like that…
Amid the worst drought to ravage Australia in a century, it hasn’t rained in small country town Kiewarra for two years. Tensions in the community become unbearable when three members of the Hadler family are brutally murdered. Everyone thinks Luke Hadler, who committed suicide after slaughtering his wife and six-year-old son, is guilty.
Policeman Aaron Falk returns...
January 9, 2017
Reblog: Snatched From Home by Graham Smith – Reviewed by THE BOOK REVIEW CAFÉ
Middle-class parents Victoria and Nicholas Foulkes are distraught when their children are kidnapped against Nicholas’ gambling debts. Penniless and desperate the couple turn to crime as a way to raise the ransom.
Hot on their heels is recently bereaved DI Harry Evans and his Major Crimes team. Evans is fighting against enforced retirement and his replacement – DI John Campbell – is foisted upon him along with other cases. If he must leave the police the...
Reblog: The River at Night by Erica Ferencik – Reviewed by For Winter Nights
For winter nights - A bookish blog
Raven Books | 2017 (12 January) | 304p | Review copy | Buy the book
Win Allen is struggling. After the death of her brother and an unhappy divorce, she wants to keep the world firmly locked outside. She sees danger everywhere and her fear and sadness are almost crippling. But when her old friend Pia proposes a white-water rafting adventure in the Maine wilderness, Win is torn. An adventure, particularly THIS type of adventure, is the last thing she wants bu...
January 8, 2017
Reblog: Investigating Cold Cases with High-Tech Forensic Methods – Via Author Jennifer Chase
There are more than 14,000 murders committed every year across the United States (on average). That number averages out to about 38 murders every single day. This number is based on crime statistical data from 2011 by the FBI Uniform Crime Reports. What is also concerning is that violent crime is trending upward across the United States.
The FBI Uniform Crime Reports are the collection of statistics and data from approximately 17,000 law enforcement agencies including...
January 7, 2017
Reblog: Dark Water by Robert Bryndza – Reviewed by Passionate About Books
Firstly – wowza – what a fabulous cover! Love it.
Dark Water is the third novel in the Erika Foster Series. Often you find a new series starts off brilliantly, but then begins to peter out, and so it was with a little trepidation that I began Dark Water.
I shouldn’t have worried. Erika Foster gets better and better.
We join Erika after she’s been ‘encouraged’ to leave the Murder Investigation Squad after she made a bit of a fuss at the end of the previous novel ‘The N...
Reblog: Now You See Me by SJ Bolton – Reviewed by The Misstery
Lacey Flint #1
One night after interviewing a reluctant witness at a London apartment complex, Lacey Flint, a young detective constable, stumbles onto a woman brutally stabbed just moments before in the building’s darkened parking lot. Within twenty-four hours a reporter receives an anonymous letter that points out alarming similarities between the murder and Jack the Ripper’s first murder—a letter that calls out Lacey by name. If it’s real, and they have a killer bent on re-cre...
