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November 11, 2016
Reblog: Frailty – Betsy Reavley – Reviewed by chapterinmylife
chapterinmylife - Sharon Loves Books
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Synopsis
How far would you go to protect
your family?
Danny and Libby are about to face every
parent’s worst nightmare.
When eight-year-old Hope Bird disappears
without a trace, from the quiet village she
lives in, life for her family will never be the
same again. Her parents know she would
never have gone off alone and the police
have no idea where she is. Then a child’s
shoe is discovered and the case takes an
unexpected turn. Soon a suspect is identifie...
Reblog: Bucking the Trend and Q&A – Grant Nicol – Via fromfirstpagetolast
Today I’m pleased to welcome Grant Nicol to the blog. Grant is the author ofOn a Small Island and The Mistakeand his latest novel, A Place to Bury Strangerswas published by Fahrenheit Press on 8 November 2016.
Here Grant talks about the unusual collaboration between Fahrenheit Press and NumberThirteen Press to re-release all of his titles with new covers and he answers a few of my questions. (Be warned. There is the odd swear word dotted….)
Bucking the trend.
One of the m...
Bucking the Trend and Q&A – Grant Nicol
Today I’m pleased to welcome Grant Nicol to the blog. Grant is the author ofOn a Small Island and The Mistakeand his latest novel, A Place to Bury Strangerswas published by Fahrenheit Press on 8 November 2016.
Here Grant talks about the unusual collaboration between Fahrenheit Press and NumberThirteen Press to re-release all of his titles with new covers and he answers a few of my questions. (Be warned. There is the odd swear word dotted….)
Bucking the trend.
One of the m...
Reblog: LOVE YOU TO DEATH by CAROLINE MITCHELL – Reviewed by BOOKS FROM DUSK TILL DAWN
BOOK DESCRIPTION
Twenty years ago you were forced to give your daughter up. Now she’s back. Or is she?
Women who’ve had to give up children for adoption are being killed. A knock at their front door begins a nightmare from which they willneverwake up.
East London DetectiveRuby Prestonand her team must hunt down a disturbed individual before someone else is taken. But when bodies start turning up, staged in perfect, domestic scenes, it carries the echo of a memory in...
November 10, 2016
Reblog: BLOOD TYPE: Alison Baillie – Interviewed by Barbara Copperthwaite
“I always feel inspired when I can walk along a deserted beach and hear the waves and smell the sea air.”
CRIME AUTHORS SPILL THEIR GUTS ABOUT WRITING. Every Thursdaytop-notch authors of psychological thrillers and crimefiction sharetheir writing secrets – and the secrets to their success – withyou and me.
This week:ALISON BAILLIE
Tell us about yourself…
Hi,I’m thrilled to appear on Blood Type, where I’ve learnt a lot of interesting things about 
other writers.
I still...
Reblog: Gallows Drop by Mari Hannah – Reviewed by For winter nights
For winter nights - A bookish blog
Macmillan | 2016 (17 November) | 512p | Review copy | Buy the book
At long last DCI Kate Daniels is going to put herself first. She is just a day or two away from a long period of leave and she knows just how she’s going to spend it – repairing the relationships that matter the most. But little goes rarely to plan in this job, so why should Kate be surprised when the body of a young man is found hanging from an ancient gallows? There’s something especially...
November 9, 2016
Reblog: The Ice Lands by Steinar Bragi – Reviewed by Books and Reviews
I was contacted by MacMillan last month to get to know their latest translated author, Steinar Bragi whose novel The Icelands came out on the 25th October. Even though I do not read much Scandi crime fiction, I enjoy it a lot when I finally step out of my British/American comfort zone. So, after taking a look at the book I decided it was dark enough to make it to my Halloween reading list. But I did not know what I had in my hands…
The Icelands – Hálendið in the original I...
Reblog: Blood Lines by Angela Marsons – Reviewed by mychestnutreadingtree
I am over the moon to be on the blog tour today for Blood Lines by Angela Marsons one of the best crime series to have been published for years!
A victim killed with a single, precise stab to the heart appears at first glance to be a robbery gone wrong. A caring, upstanding social worker lost to a senseless act of violence. But for Detective Kim Stone, something doesn’t add up.
When a local drug addict is...
Blog Tour for Beneath the Ashes by Jane Isaac – Reviewed by joykluver
I’m thrilled to be a part of this blog tour for Jane Isaac’s new book – Beneath The Ashes. This is the second book in the DI Will Jackman series with the third one, The Lies Within, due out next year.
The floor felt hard beneath her face. Nancy opened her eyes. Blinked several times. A pain seared through her head. She could feel fluid. No. She was lying in fluid. When a body is discovered in a burnt-out barn in the Warwickshire countryside, DI Will Jackman is called to investigat...
Reblog: ‘Beneath The Ashes’ by Jane Isaac – Reviewed by gingerbookgeek
The floor felt hard beneath her face. Nancy opened her eyes. Blinked several times. A pain seared through her head. She could feel fluid. No. She was lying in fluid.
When a body is discovered in a burnt-out barn in the Warwickshire countryside, DI Will Jackman is called to investigate.
Nancy Faraday wakes up on the kitchen floor. The house has been broken into and her boyfriend is missing. As the case unravels, DI Jackman realises that nothing is quite as it appears and everyo...
