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October 29, 2016
Reblog: The Girls Next Door by Mel Sherratt – Reviewed by bytheletterbookreviews
Book Description:
One warm spring evening, five teenagers meet in a local park. Only four will come out alive.
Six months after the stabbing of sixteen-year-old Deanna Barker, someone is coming after the teenagers of Stockleigh, as a spate of vicious assaults rocks this small community. Revenge for Deanna? Or something more?
Detective Eden Berrisford is locked into a race against time to catch the twisted individual behind the attacks – but when her own niece, Jess Mou...
Reblog: My Sister’s Bones by Nuala Ellwood – Reviewed by mychestnutreadingtree
Kate Rafter is a high-flying war reporter. She’s the strong one. The one who escaped their father. Her younger sister Sally didn’t. Instead, she drinks.
But when their mother dies, Kate is forced to return home. And on her first night she is woken by a terrifying scream.
At first Kate tells herself it’s just a nightmare. But then she hears it again. And this time she knows she’s not imagining it.
What secret is lurking in the old family home?
And is she...
Reblog: *Blog Tour* The Secret by Katerina Diamond – Reviewed by Bibliophile Book Club
Hey everyone,
Super excited to take part in the blog tour for Katerina Diamond’s new book, The Secret. Avon Books have gone a bit mad with their concept for this one, in that the hosts are all kept secret so well done if you guessed that The Secret blog tour was stopping at Bibliophile Book Club today!
I read and thoroughly enjoyed Katerina’s previous book, The Teacher so I’m really looking forward to reading The Secret when I get chance. Click the link below to read my...
Reblog: The Art of Writing, a Guest Post by Meg Carter – Reviewed by Linda’s Book Bag
I’m thrilled to be part of the launch celebrations for The Day She Can’t Forget by Meg Carter. The Day She Can’t Forget was published by Canelo on 24th October 2016 and is available for purchase in e-book by following the publisher links here.
To celebrate publication of The Day She Can’t ForgetI have a fabulous guest post from Meg all about the art of writing and how experience isn’t always necessary.
The Day She Can’t Forget
It changed her life. But can she remember ever...
Reblog: Rather be the Devil by Ian Rankin – Reviewed by For winter nights
For winter nights - A bookish blog
Orion | 2016 (3 November) | 384p | Review copy | Buy the book
Rather be the Devil is the 21st Inspector Rebus novel and, I’m ashamed to admit, it’s the first one I’ve read for such a long time. I gave up reading crime fiction for one reason or another for about fifteen years but, now that I’m firmly back in the saddle, I can recover that joy I felt all those years ago when I would pounce on the latest Rebus as soon as it hit the shelves. It is indeed a redi...
October 28, 2016
Reblog: Deep Down Dead by Steph Broadribb – Reviewed by Bibliophile Book Club
*My thanks, as always, to the wonderful Karen Sullivan for my review copy*
About the book:
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 fug...
Reblog: Publication day review – A Mother’s Confession by Kelly Rimmer – Reviewed by The Writing Garnet
Blurb.
Olivia and David were the perfect couple with their whole lives in front of them. When beautiful baby daughter Zoe came along, their world seemed complete.
But now David is dead and Olivia’s world is in pieces. While she is consumed with grief, her mother-in-law Ivy is also mourning the loss of her son. Both women are hiding secrets about the man they loved. Secrets that have put the family in danger.
Something was very wrong in Olivia and David’s marriage. Can Ol...
October 27, 2016
Reblog: Author Newsletters & Author Crushes – via BlondeWriteMore
It is not easy when you have an author crush. You read a book and after screaming ‘OMG that book did things to me…who wrote this?‘ suddenly you want to know everything about the author, you retweet all their tweets, you bravely fight their corner when someone in the office is criticising their latest book and you daydream about them one day replying to one of your many comments on their Facebook page.
Trying to control yourself when fangirling an author is difficult – if y...
Reblog: Review: The Bird Tribunal – reviewed by The Suspense is Thrilling Me
Book Title: The Bird Tribunal
Author: Agnes Ravatn
Translator: Rosie Hedger
Series: None
Genres: Fiction, Psychological Suspense, Scandanavian
Goodreads
Date Read: 10/26/16
Pub Date: 07/30/16
5 STARS
TV presenter Allis Hagtorn leaves her partner and her job to take voluntary exile in remote house on an isolated fjord. But her new job as housekeeper and gardener is not all that it seems, and her silent, surly employer, 44-year-old Sigurd Bagge, is not the old man she expected. As they await the r...
Reblog: BLOOD TYPE: Christina Philippou – via Barbara Copperthwaite
“I love authors that drip-feed you information and peel back the layers one by one.”
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: CHRISTINA PHILIPPOU
Tell us about yourself…
My writing career has been a varied one, from populating the short-story notebook that lived under my desk at school to penning rep...
