Mike Thomas's Blog, page 31
November 1, 2016
Reblog: Ragdoll by Daniel Cole – Reviewed by The Book Review Café
A body is discovered with the dismembered parts of six victims stitched together like a puppet, nicknamed by the press as the ‘ragdoll’.
Assigned to the shocking case are Detective William ‘Wolf’ Fawkes, recently reinstated to the London Met, and his former partner Detective Emily Baxter.
The ‘RagDoll Killer’ taunts the police by releasing a list of names to the media, and the dates on which he intends to murder them.
With six people to save, can Fawkes...
Reblog: BEFORE I LET YOU IN JENNY BLACKHURST BLOG TOUR – Reviewed by ireadnovels
I am very happy to host the blog tour for Before I let You In as Jenny Blackhurst is one my favourite authors.
Before I Let You In published in paperback 3rd November by Headline
BEFORE I LET YOU INis the brand new novel fromJenny Blackhurst, the#1 Kindle best selling author of HOW I LOST YOU, whichClare Mackintoshcalled‘utterly gripping’. Perfect for fans of Louise Jensen’s THE SISTER and Tracy Buchanan’s NO TURNING BACK, Linda Green and B. A. Paris. If you don’t know who is...Reblog: First Monday Crime: Spotlight on… Adam Hamdy – Via Bibliophile Book Club
Hey everyone,
Next Monday (November 7th), Goldsboro Books First Monday Crime is taking place in Library Club from 6.30 to 7.30 in the evening. The line up includes Belinda Bauer, Cathi Unsworth, Jenny Blackhurst, Adam Hamdy and event chair, Barry Forshaw.
The event is a steal at 5! Honestly, if I lived nearer I would be at all of these! You can get your tickets atNovember First Monday Crime. Sponsored by Headline, it promises to be a brilliant event!
Anyway, seeing as h...
October 31, 2016
Reblog: Dark Fragments by Rob Sinclair – Reviewed by Chat About Books
Publisher: Bloodhound Books (8th November 2016)
Wow, what an ending! I genuinely did not see that coming.
I have been a fan of Rob Sinclair since reading The Enemy series, so I was over the moon when Rob offered me an early copy of Dark Fragments!
Dark Fragments is completely different to The Enemy series, but equally gripping.
Ben Stephens seems like your average bloke. He is married to Gemma, with two children he adores, but I felt he was still grieving for his first wife...
Reblog: BookReview: The Killing Game by J.S. Carol – Reviewed by The Quiet Knitter
Published: 13 October 2016Reviewed: 31 October 2016 5 out of 5 stars Copy supplied by Bookouture in return for an honest review
Description:
Imagine you are having lunch at an exclusive restaurant, filled with Hollywood’s hottest stars.
And a masked gunman walks in and takes everyone hostage.
You must bargain for your life against a twisted individual who knows everything about you.
He also has a bomb set to detonate if his heart rate changes.
If he dies. You die.
You ha...
Reblog: BlogTour | BookReview: Beneath the Ashes by Jane Isaac – Reviewed by damppebbles
“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 everyon...
October 30, 2016
Reblog: Those That Remain – Rob Ashman – Reviewed by ChapterInMyLife
chapterinmylife - Sharon Loves Books
As a blogger you get lots of requests to review books, some are just links sent out en masse, some don’t even look to see your preferred genre and some don’t even mention your blog. So the requests that have a personal touch and those who have taken the time to look at your blog are always warmly welcome! When I opened up the email from Rob I couldn’t resist accepting his request! Seriously it was the funniest email I have ever received in relation to my...
Reblog: A Deadly Trio- Domenic Stansberry- The White Devil, Carl-Johan Vallgren- The Tunnel, Steinar Bragi-The Ice Lands – Reviewed by Raven Crime Reads
The chilling story of a young American woman in Rome, an aspiring actress, who- together with her brother- is implicated in a series of murders dating back to her childhood. She plays a deadly game, alternately intimate and distant, a cipher of unwholesome impulse, and erotic intrigue…
My, my, my, what a dark and sordid tale of jealousy, desire, and cold-blooded murder this proved to be… and I absolutely loved it. With a down-to-the-bone, spare prose style, so resonant of t...
Reblog: The Devil You Know by Terry Tyler – Reviewed by bytheletterbookreviews
Book Description:
Every serial killer is someone’s friend, spouse, lover or child….
Young women are being murdered in the Lincolnshire town of Lyndford, where five people fear someone close to them might be the monster the police are searching for.
One of them is right.
Juliet sees an expert’s profile of the average serial killer and realises that her abusive husband, Paul, ticks all the boxes.
Maisie thinks her mum’s new boyfriend seems too good to be true. Is she the...
Reblog: The Mountain in My Shoe – Louise Beech – Reviewed by The Last Word – Book Review
From the author of the highly acclaimed How to be Brave, Louise Beech is back with her second novel The Mountain in My Shoe. Anyone who has read Louise’s first novel are going to really enjoy this one just as much.
Louise Beech is one of the new writing talents that are writing some of the most exquisite novels of recent times. How she writes her characters into her stories that make them so real and lif...
