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Mark West
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Don't Go Back
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2022
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Still Waters Run
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2022
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Only Watching You
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To See Too Much: Suspenseful Psychological Thriller Fiction
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A Killer Amongst Us
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The Hunter's Quarry
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SEASIDE PSYCHOLOGICAL: A box set of thriller reads for the beach
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We Were Seen: A psychological thriller with a great twist
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The Mill
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Drive
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Secrets of the Italian Guesthouse, by Sue Moorcroft
As regular readers of the blog will know, I've been friends with Sue Moorcroft since we first met at the Kettering Writers Group in 1999 (we genre writers were consigned to the back of the room, where we had a great laugh). Since then she's gone from strength to strength, hitting number one in the Kindle Bestseller charts (with The Christmas Promise) on her way to becoming a Sunday Times Best Sel
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"I hated this. I listened to the audiobook version of this. Zero idea on the fuss. I found it tedious and boring. The characters are flat and unexciting and the plots overall very bland. I don’t think the book would of held me any more than the audiob"
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| The second in the Three Sisters trilogy, this follows on directly from “Secrets Of The Italian Guesthouse” and tells the story of Erin, sister number two, raised by her single mum Lisa in Scotland. After a break-up, losing her job and enduring a birt ...more | |
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I liked his first few books then gave up after "All The Beautiful Lies" (which has no suspense, no drive and kind of glosses over sexual abuse). Which
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"This is much poorer than some of his earlier work, as was the last Christmas one. Novellas can work in the crime genre, but Swanson definitely works better in the longer form. Disappointing."
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Short and terrifyingly brilliant! Being woken in the middle of the night is always disorientating and gets your heart thumping, especially when its your child. Mark actually made me feel this whilst sat on the sofa. Think i'll be locking thos" Read more of this review » |
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| Industrial Lancashire, 1974. Kids in the coal-mining town of Ashburn are looking forward to fancy dress and scary stories for Halloween, fireworks and treacle toffee on Guy Fawkes Night and then, a month after that, snow and the approach of Christmas ...more | |
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“Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.”
― I Capture the Castle
― I Capture the Castle
“I began writing late; my first articles and stories were published after I was thirty, and I was motivated by money. Money is not a bad motivation. The need to eat keeps us from laziness, and the fact that someone is willing to pay to read what we write assures us that we have indeed written.”
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