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February 18, 2017
Reblog: Sealskin by Su Bristow – Reviewed by Linda’s Book Bag
There are insufficient words to thank Karen Sullivan at Orenda Books enough for a copy of Sealskin by Su Bristow in return for an honest review.
Sealskin was published by Orenda on 15th January 2017 and is available in ebook and paperback by following the publisher links here.
Sealskin
What happens when magic collides with reality?
Donald is a young fisherman, eking out a lonely living on the west coast of Scotland. One night he witnesses something miraculous … and makes a...
Reblog: Blink by K. L. Slater – Reviewed by Novel Gossip
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Release date: February 16, 2017
Publisher: Bookouture
Genre: Psychological Thriller
Blurb:
What if the person you love most in the world was in terrible danger … because of you?
Three years ago, Toni’s five-year-old daughter Evie disappeared after leaving school. The police have never been able to find her. There were no witnesses, no CCTV, no trace.
But Toni believes her daughter is alive. And as she begins to silently piece together her memorie...
Reblog: All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda – Reviewed by espresso coco
It’s been ten years since Nicolette Farrell left her rural hometown after her best friend, Corinne, disappeared without trace. Then a letter from her father arrives – ‘I need to talk to you. That girl. I saw that girl.’ Has her father’s dementia worsened, or has he really seen Corinne? Returning home, Nicolette must finally face what happened on that terrible night all those years ago.
Then, another young woman goes missing, almost to the day of the anniversary of when Corinne...
February 16, 2017
Which One Was Your Favourite This Week?
Hi all,
[image error]The copy edits have gone – along with the flu! The new novel is going great and the sun is shining. What more does a writer want?
Looks like it’s going to be a great week – I even got a mention in The Bookseller as one of the ‘Upcoming Books that Reflect Our Times’!
Right, back to the poll – another great winner this week!
Here’s the result of last week’s Poll:
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Angela Marsons”Evil Games’ stormed to the top of the pile and held top spot all week, earning 43.75% of the votes.
Ross Sa...
February 15, 2017
Reblog: Dare to Remember by Susanna Beard – Reviewed by mychestnutreadingtree
I’m absolutely delighted to be on the blog tour today for the debut novel by Susanna Beard “Dare to Remember”
Reeling from a brutal attack that leaves her best friend dead and her badly injured, Lisa Fulbrook flees to the countryside to recuperate. With only vague memories of the event, she isolates herself from her friends and family, content to spend her days wandering the hills with her dog, Riley.
However, Lisa is soon plagued, not only by vivid fl...
Reblog: Robbing the Dead by Tana Collins – Reviewed by BYTHELETTERBOOKREVIEWS
Book Description:
In a small Scottish university town, what links a spate of horrible murders, a targeted bomb explosion and a lecturer’s disappearance? Is a terror group involved? If so, who is pulling the strings? And what does something that happened over forty years ago have to do with it?
Having recently returned to Castletown in the hope of winning back his estranged wife, DCI Jim Carruthers finds himself up to his eyes in the investigation.
Struggling with a ve...
Reblog: The Damselfly by SJI Holliday – Reviewed by BYTHELETTERBOOKREVIEWS
Book Description:
Katie Taylor is the perfect student. She’s bright and funny, she has a boyfriend who adores her and there are only a few months left of school before she can swap Banktoun for the bright lights of London. Life gets even better when she has an unexpected win on a scratch card. But then Katie’s luck runs out.
Her tragic death instead becomes the latest in a series of dark mysteries blighting the small town. The new school counsellor Polly McAllister, wh...
February 13, 2017
Reblog: The Murder Farm by Andrea Maria Schenkel – Reviewed by damppebbles
“A whole family has been murdere)d with a pickaxe. They were old Danner the farmer, an overbearing patriarch, his put-upon devoutly religious wife, and their daughter Barbara Spangler, whose husband Vincenz left her after fathering her daughter, Marianne. Also murdered was the Danners’ new maidservant, Marie, who was regarded as slightly simple. Despite the brutal nature of the killings and the small village where it has taken place, the police have no leads. Officially the crime...
Reblog: Stasi Wolf by David Young – Reviewed by THE BOOK REVIEW CAFÉ
Today I’m on the blog tour for Stasi Wolf by David Young, this is the second book in the series and was published by Bonnier Zaffre on the 9th February 2017.
The series begins in 1975 with Stasi Child, David’s critically-acclaimed debut which was an official Top Twenty paperback bestseller in The Bookseller, won the CWA Endeavour Historical Dagger for best historical crime novel of 2016, and was longlisted for the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year.
I have...
February 12, 2017
Reblog: All The Missing Girls by Megan Miranda – Reviewed by BIBLIOPHILE BOOK CLUB
Hi everyone,
So today is my stop on the reverse blog tour for Megan Miranda’s All The Missing Girls. If you’ve been following the tour, you’ll notice that it is being done backwards to reflect the style in which the book is written. I’m lucky enough to have a Q&A with the author, as well as sharing my review with you guys too. Before all that though, here’s all of the important bookish info…
About the book:
It’s been ten years since Nicolette Farrell left her rural home...
