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December 14, 2016

Reblog: Death and The Good Son by B. A. Steadman – Reviewed by BOOKS FROM DUSK TILL DAWN

BOOKS FROM DUSK TILL DAWN

I wish to thank Bloodhound Books for inviting me to be part of this Blog Tour. It has been a pleasure.

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Death And The Good Son: an edge of your seat crime thriller

Life is good for DI Dan Hellier. He has made several successful drugs’ busts and even the Assistant Chief Constable is smiling. But the discovery of two headless, handless corpses buried in the bog on Dartmoor will test his team to their limits. How are they expected to identify the bodie...

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Published on December 14, 2016 09:27

Reblog: A Man With One of Those Faces by Caimh McDonnell – Reviewed by PORTOBELLO BOOK BLOG

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Paul Mulchrone spends a few hours a week sitting with and talking to elderly patients in hospitals and hospices. He has one of those faces, unremarkable yet familiar, so that the patients believe him to be their husband, brother or son. Now this all sounds very dodgy but he’s not doing it to con the patients. He’s not exactly doing it out the goodness of his heart either though but to comply with the terms of a great-aunt’s legacy. To keep his house and the small monthl...

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Published on December 14, 2016 09:20

Reblog: Stalked by Elizabeth Heiter – Reviewed by NOVELGOSSIP

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Release date: December 27, 2016

Publisher: MIRA

Genre: Mystery/Thriller

Blurb:

If you’re reading this, I’m already dead…


That’s the note seventeen-year-old Haley Cooke leaves behind when she disappears from inside her high school. FBI profiler Evelyn Baine is called in to figure out who had reason to hurt her. On the surface, the popular cheerleader has no enemies, but as Evelyn digs deeper, she discovers that everyone close to Haley has something...

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Published on December 14, 2016 08:48

December 13, 2016

Which One Was Your Favourite This Week?

Another week has flown by! There has beensuch a great mix of reviews over the last seven days, but these novels are the ones that really caught my eye. Which one of these is your favourite this week?

If you can’t remember what this is all about, here’s a quick reminder:

Every week I am hoping to extract all the novel titles from my ‘Round Up Blog‘ and enter them intoa poll. If a novel isnot on the list it is because itdidn’t appear in my blog during the week stated at the top of the poll. I’d...

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Published on December 13, 2016 09:36

Reblog: Witness by Caroline Mitchell – Reviewed by StefLoz Book Reviews

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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: for ea...

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Published on December 13, 2016 04:49

Reblog: Deep Down Dead by Steph Broadribb – Reviewed by The Book Review Café

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Lori Anderson is as tough as they come, managing to keep her career as a fearless Florida bounty hunter separate from her role as single mother to nine-year-old Dakota, who suffers from leukaemia. But when the hospital bills start to rack up, she has no choice but to take her daughter along on a job that will make her a fast buck. And that’s when things start to go wrong.

The fugitive she’s assigned to haul back to court is none other than JT, Lori’s f...

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Published on December 13, 2016 04:38

Deep Down Dead by Steph Broadribb #Review @crimethrillgirl @OrendaBooks #2017MustReads

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Lori Anderson is as tough as they come, managing to keep her career as a fearless Florida bounty hunter separate from her role as single mother to nine-year-old Dakota, who suffers from leukaemia. But when the hospital bills start to rack up, she has no choice but to take her daughter along on a job that will make her a fast buck. And that’s when things start to go wrong.

The fugitive she’s assigned to haul back to court is none other than JT, Lori’s f...

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Published on December 13, 2016 04:38

Reblog: Saving Sophie by Sam Carrington – Reviewed by mychestnutreadingtree

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Today I am absolutely thrilled to be kicking off the blog tour for Saving Sophie to celebrate the release on 15th December of the paperback. Thank you to Kaisha Holloway of The Writing Garnet for organising and inviting me to be involved.

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About this book…

A teenage girl is missing. Is your daughter involved, or is she next?

Your daughter is in danger. But can you trust her?

When Karen Finch’s seventeen-year-old daughter Sophie arrives home after a night out, drunk and...

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Published on December 13, 2016 04:34

December 11, 2016

Reblog: Hidden Killers by Lynda La Plante – Reviewed by #northern #crime

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51dispit6tlHidden Killers was published on 20 October 2016 by Simon and Schuster and is available to buyhere

From BAFTA award-winning creator of Prime Suspect, starring Helen Mirren, comes the blistering follow-up to the bestselling Tennison. Jane Tennison, a young, inexperienced WPC, learns the hard way never to take anyone, or anything, at face value, whether in her dealings with her police colleagues or when confronted by seemingly innocent suspects.
Hidden Killers sees Jane acting...

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Published on December 11, 2016 10:41

Reblog: The Twilight Wife by A. J. Banner – Reviewed by NOVELGOSSIP

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Release date: December 27, 2016

Publisher:Touchstone Books

Genre: Mystery/Thriller

Blurb:

From bestselling author A.J. Banner comes a dazzling new novel of psychological suspense in the vein of S.J. Watson’s Before I Go to Sleep and Mary Kubica’s The Good Girl that questions just how much we can trust the people around us.


Thirty-four-year-old marine biologist Kyra Winthrop remembers nothing about the diving accident that left her with a complex f...

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Published on December 11, 2016 10:34