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December 20, 2016
Which One Was Your Favourite This Week?
Wow! Even the impending Christmas festivities haven’t stopped those great reviews (and votes) coming through.
I started the ‘Reblog Blog’ as a way of keeping track of all the great books that have been recently published or revisited and were in danger of being forgotten about by me.
Now with the help of this weekly poll, it is really helping me sharpen my focus on my TBR (which though more focused is growing at an alarming rate – a sign of some great writing out there, I guess!) Tall Oaks wa...
Reblog: Flesh Evidence by Malcolm Hollingdrake – Reviewed by BYTHELETTERBOOKREVIEWS
Book Description:
In Harrogate things are about to get weird.
Jars of honey containing pieces of tattooed flesh are the first clue in the search for the whereabouts of a missing fourteen-year-old boy. Then another boy goes missing and further jars of honey are discovered.
Serial kidnappings taking place in Harrogate and the culprit is unlike any other Bennett has dealt with before.
A number of leads seem to be going nowhe...
December 19, 2016
Reblog: The Language of Dying by Sarah Pinborough – Reviewed by Cover to Cover
In this emotionally gripping, genre-defying novella from Sarah Pinborough, a woman sits at her father’s bedside, watching the clock tick away the last hours of his life. Her brothers and sisters–she is the middle child of five–have all turned up over the past week to pay their last respects. Each is traumatized in his or her own way, and the bonds that unite them to each other are fragile–as fragile perhaps as the old man’s health.
With her siblings all gone, back to their se...
Reblog: Witness by Caroline Mitchell – Reviewed by BOOKS FROM DUSK TILL DAWN
BOOK DESCRIPTION
To Rebecca it was a brave decision that led to her freedom from domestic abuse. To Solomon it was the ultimate betrayal.
It’s been ten years since Rebecca’s testimony saw Solomon locked away. Enough time for the nightmares to recede, the nerves to relax; enough time to rebuild her life and put the past behind her.
Then one day a phone rings in her bedroom—but it’s not her phone. Solomon has been in her home, and has a very simple message for her: f...
December 18, 2016
Reblog: Rupture by Ragnar Jónasson – Reviewed by BIBLIOPHILE BOOK CLUB
*My thanks, as always, to the ever-wonderful Karen Sullivan from Orenda Books for my review copy*
About the book:
1955. Two young couples move to the uninhabited, isolated fjord of Hedinsfjörður. Their stay ends abruptly when one of the women meets her death in mysterious circumstances. The case is never solved. Fifty years later an old photograph comes to light, and it becomes clear that the couples may not have been alone on the fjord after all…
In nearby Siglufjörðu...
Rupture by Ragnar Jónasson – Reviewed by BIBLIOPHILE BOOK CLUB
*My thanks, as always, to the ever-wonderful Karen Sullivan from Orenda Books for my review copy*
About the book:
1955. Two young couples move to the uninhabited, isolated fjord of Hedinsfjörður. Their stay ends abruptly when one of the women meets her death in mysterious circumstances. The case is never solved. Fifty years later an old photograph comes to light, and it becomes clear that the couples may not have been alone on the fjord after all…
In nearby Siglufjörðu...
December 17, 2016
Reblog: The Gift by Louise Jensen – Reviewed by BYTHELETTERBOOKREVIEWS
Book Description:
The perfect daughter. The perfect girlfriend. The perfect murder?
Jenna is seriously ill. She’s lost all hope of getting the heart transplant she needs to live. But just as her life is ebbing away, she receives a donor heart from a girl called Callie.
Who was Callie and how did she die? Jenna is determined to find out.
The closer Jenna gets to those who loved Callie, the more questions arise about her untimely death. Someone knows what happened to Ca...
December 15, 2016
Reblog: Rattle by Fiona Cummins – Reviewed by The Book Review Café
Book description
A serial killer to chill your bones A psychopath more frightening than Hannibal Lecter. He has planned well. He leads two lives. In one he’s just like anyone else. But in the other he is the caretaker of his family’s macabre museum. Now the time has come to add to his collection. He is ready to feed his obsession, and he is on the hunt.
Jakey Frith and Clara Foyle have something in common. They have what he needs. What begins is a terrifying cat-and-mou...
December 14, 2016
Reblog: Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough- Review by NOVELGOSSIP
Goodreads|Amazon|Author Website
Release date: January 31, 2017
Publisher:Flatiron Books
Genre: Psychological Thriller
Blurb:
Why is everyone talking about the ending of Sarah Pinborough’s Behind Her Eyes?
Louise is a single mom, a secretary, stuck in a modern-day rut. On a rare night out, she meets a man in a bar and sparks fly. Though he leaves after they kiss, she’s thrilled she finally connected with someone.
When Louise arrives at work on Monday, she meets her new boss, Dav...
Reblog: The Gift by Louise Jensen – Reviewed by The Writing Garnet
Blurb.
The perfect daughter. The perfect girlfriend. The perfect murder?
Jennais given another shot at life when she receives a donor heart from a girl calledCallie. Eternally grateful to Callie and her family, Jenna gets closer to them, but she soon discovers that Callie’s perfect family is hiding some very dark secrets …
Callie’s parents are grieving, yet Jenna knows they’re only telling her half the story. Where is Callie’s sisterSophie? She’s been ‘abroad’ since her si...
