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October 27, 2016
Reblog: Coming Soon in 2017! Ragdoll by Daniel Cole – reviewed by mychestnutreadingtree
The nation is gripped by the infamous ‘Ragdoll Killer’
Your friends, your family and your neighbours are all talking about it.
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...
October 26, 2016
Reblog: A Suitable Lie by Michael J Malone – Reviewed by The Book Review Café
Great reviews for this novel just keep coming! Officially added to my TBR pile!
Some secrets should never be kept… Andy Boyd thinks he is the luckiest man alive. Widowed with a young child, after his wife dies in childbirth, he is certain that he will never again experience true love. Then he meets Anna. Feisty, fun and beautiful, she’s his perfect match … and she loves his son like he is her own.
When Andy ends up in the hospital on his wedding night, h...
Reblog: LOCAL GIRL MISSING by CLAIRE DOUGLAS – Reviewed by Books From Dusk To Dawn
BOOK DESCRIPTION
The old Victorian pier was once a thing of beauty. It’s also where twenty-one-year-old Sophie Collier vanished eighteen years ago.
Francesca has spent the last twenty years haunted by the disappearance of her best friend. But when she receives a phone call from Sophie’s brother saying that a body has been found, she knows she can’t keep hiding from what happened. With her own secrets to keep, Francesca doesn’t relish the idea of digging up the past...
Reblog: A Suitable Lie – Michael J. Malone – Reviewed by The Last Word – Book Review
Hearing nothing but great stuff about this novel!
The Last Word Review
When you pick up a book and within the first few pages you are instantly absorbed into a novel that stops you leaving the house on a Saturday and you don’t leave the book until you have read from cover to cover you know that you have just read one of THE books of the year. A Suitable Lie is that book. A story that is so incredibly powerful and one book that I u...
October 25, 2016
Reblog: “A Suitable Lie” Michael J Malone – Reviewed by chapterinmylife
chapterinmylife - Sharon Loves Books
Well what can I say, as a long-standing fan (some may say stalker!) of Michael J Malone, you can imagine my delight when he and Karen Sullivan of Orenda Books contacted me and asked me to host a spot on his upcoming Blog Tour for “A Suitable Lie”…oh how I pondered over that one…NOT! My reply was pinging its way into their inbox before they could even draw breath!
It was no hardship at all to read this book for review, I had already purchased my copy at Mi...
Reblog: Inside the Whispers (Dr Samantha Willerby [Chilling Thriller] Series Book 1) by A J Waines – Review by bytheletterbookreviews
I am delighted to be the next stop on the blog tour for the wonderful Inside The Whispers. Today you can see my thoughts on author A J Waines newest novel as well as a quick Q&A with the author herself.
Book Description:
Where the most dangerous place – is inside your own head…
Following a London Tube disaster, three traumatised survivors turn to clinical psychologist, Dr Samantha Willerby, for help – but she’s mystified when their stories don’t add up. Her confusion t...
Reblog: Guest Post: Caimh McDonnell author of debut novel, A Man With One Of Those Faces – Via readingwrites
Today I am delighted to have author, comedian and television writer, Caimh McDonnell on the blog, with an hilarious guest post about friendship, estate agents and the dangers inherent in being a serial killer. His debut novel A Man With One Of Those Faces is out now…Enjoy.
Picture the scene – it’s August 2002 in a stifling hot Shepherd’s Bush, London and I have a body to get rid of.
In many ways it was a simpler time …
A version of the band the Sugababes...
October 24, 2016
Reblog: Blood Lines – Angela Marsons – Reviewed by Cleopatra Loves Books
Crime Fiction
5*s
Oh it is so good to be back in the Black Country with the feisty DI Kim Stone as she battles for justice in this, her fifth outing.
When compassionate Deanna Brightman is found with a single stab wound to the chest Kim Stone and the team root through her life to find the motive for the killing without much success and then, a prostitute is killed using the identical method. The team are off chasing the connection between the two women before anyone el...
Reblog: TALISMAN by DAVID EVANS – Reviewed by Books From Dusk To Dawn
I just must thank Helen Claire and Bloodhound Books for inviting me not only to take part in this brilliant tour but to be first up too. I have read David Evan’s first novel Trophies, which I loved and I already have the second book Torment to read.
HERE IS THE BOOK DESCRIPTON
Following a fire in a terraced house, the body of a prominent lawyer, Charles Chamberlain, is found naked and shackled to a bed frame.
Six weeks earlier, DI Colin Strong is investigating the...
Reblog: Mason Cross – Q&A – via From First Page To Last
Today I’m pleased to welcome Mason Cross to the blog. Mason is the author of The Killing Season and The Samaritan and his latest novel to feature Carter Blake,The Time to Kill, was published by Orion on 30 June 2016.
Mason kindly answered a few of my questions.
1. Tell us a little about The Time to Kill
In the first two books (The Killing Season and The Samaritan), we found out that Carter Blake is a skilled freelance manhunter with a murky past in a classified special op...
