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October 18, 2016
Reblog: Dark Water by Robert Bryndza – reviewed by mychestnutreadingtree
Beneath the water the body sank rapidly. Above her on dry land, the nightmare was just beginning.
When Detective Erika Foster receives a tip-off that key evidence for a major narcotics case was stashed in a disused quarry on the outskirts of London, she orders for it to be searched. From the thick sludge the drugs are recovered, but so is the skeleton of a young child.
The remains are quickly identified as seven-year-old Jessica Collins. The missing girl...
Reblog: *Blog Tour* PsychoAnalysis by V. R. Stone – review by Bibliophile Book Club
About the book:
A serial killer who wants to quit. A detective struggling to keep his personal life out of a murder hunt. And a celebrity psychiatrist facing an incredible challenge. Three damaged individuals, linked by their traumatic histories. They’ve chosen very different paths. Now those paths are about to cross.
Sarah Silver is a hedge fund manager – from Monday to Friday she makes a killing in the markets. At weekends, though, she hunts men, not profits. Martin W...
Reblog: Book Review: Summoning the Dead (DI Bob Valentine Book 3), by Tony Black – reviewed by Little Bookness Lane
Publisher: Black and White Publishing
Publication date: 6th October 2016
DI Bob Valentine stood outside the chief superintendent’s office, worrying the thick, brown, industrial carpet tiles so much that he guessed a static shock was imminent.
If anything conjures up a vision of DI Bob Valentine as he works, that quote does it for me. He seems like such ahumble bloke; dedicated, considerate, and also fighting a fascinatingbattle with a unique gift for connecting with the...
October 17, 2016
Reblog: The Killing Game by J. S Carol – Reviewed by The Book Review Café
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 have four hours to stay alive.
What would you do?
**A word of warning** you may want to clear your schedule before you start...
October 15, 2016
Reblog: Whoop! #DeepDownDead released as eBook today! – Crime Thriller Girl
Today is a little different.
Today my debut novel – DEEP DOWN DEAD – is published in eBook! So I hope you’ll indulge me a little, and allow me to tell you about my book …
Deep Down Dead is an action thriller, and the first in a series featuring bounty hunter Lori Anderson.
Here’s the blurb: “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 f...
Reblog: Ash and Bones – Northern Crime
Ash and Bones was published on 25th August 2016 by Zaffre and is availablehere
A cop killer on the loose in Cardiff – introducing a dark and gritty new voice in crime fiction, perfect for fans of Stuart MacBride and David Mark
At a squalid flat near the Cardiff docks, an early morning police raid goes catastrophically wrong when the police aren’t the only unexpected guests. A plain clothes officer is shot dead at point blank range, the original suspect is left in a coma. T...
September 18, 2016
Reblog: Matching The Evidence Blog Tour — CrimeBookJunkie
Congratulations to CrimeBookJunkie as she closes the first blog tour she has organised:
“…It is the FIRST Blog Tour I have organised all on my own for an author I just simply adore! I also wanted to give a HUGE shout out and THANKS to the most amazing bloggers and reviewers who are taking part!..”
I’m sure this won’t be her last!Read it here:
I am not sure I can even put into words how excited I am to be closing down this epic blog tour! A HUGE thanks to Graham Smith and Caffeine Night...
September 17, 2016
Reblog: Frank Bill – Crimes In Southern Indiana (2011)
This book is already one of my firm favourites (see here). Great to see another review of this fantastic collection of shorts in Col’s Criminal Library: Synopsis/blurb….A ferocious debut that puts Frank Bill’s southern Indiana on the literary map next to Cormac McCarthy’s eastern Tennessee and Daniel Woodrell’s Missouri OzarksCrimes in Southern Indiana is the most blistering, vivid, flat-out fearless debut to plow into American literature in recent years. Frank Bill delivers what is both...
Reblog: FRANK BILL – CRIMES IN SOUTHERN INDIANA (2011)
Synopsis/blurb….A ferocious debut that puts Frank Bill’s southern Indiana on the literary map next to Cormac McCarthy’s eastern Tennessee and Daniel Woodrell’s Missouri OzarksCrimes in Southern Indiana is the most blistering, vivid, flat-out fearless debut to plow into American literature in recent years. Frank Bill delivers what is both a...
September 5, 2016
The Ash and Bones Blog Tour
About Crime Thriller Girl: Crime Thriller Girl (aka Steph Broadribb) leads a double life …
By day I’m a corporate suit, but by night (and early morning) I’m a writer, avid reader, and book reviewer of all things crime thriller.
My debut novel – DEEP DOWN DEAD – will be published by Orenda Books in early 2017. And I’m repped by Oli Munson at AM Heath.
Iwas born in Birmingham and grew up in Buckinghamshire. Most of myworking life has been spent between the...
