Source: Review copy Publication; 14th June 2018 from Doubleday Pp: 320 ISBN13: 978-0857523624 What do you do next, after you’ve changed the world? It is 1928. Matilda Simpkin, rooting through a cupboard, comes across a small wooden club – an old possession of hers, unseen for more than a decade. Mattie is a womanContinue reading “Old Baggage by Lissa Evans @LissaKEvans @AlisonBarrow @AnneCater @DoubledayUK”
Monthly Archives: July 2018
#NEWSFLASH Ashley Jensen star of the Agatha Raisin TV series – to appear at this year’s Bloody Scotland Festival
Last year one of the sell-out events at Bloody Scotland was Douglas Henshall, star of Shetland with Ann Cleeves, the author of the books which inspired the TV series. This year Bloody Scotland has revealed that success will be emulated with a similar celebrity TV / book pairing featuring Ashley Jensen, star of the TV series AgathaContinue reading “#NEWSFLASH Ashley Jensen star of the Agatha Raisin TV series – to appear at this year’s Bloody Scotland Festival”
Playing With Death by Simon Scarrow and Lee Francis @AnneCater @JessFarrugiaPR #LikeShareKill
Source: Review Copy Publication: 26 July from Headline Pp: 400 ISBN-13: 978-1472213440 FBI Special Agent Rose Blake has faced evil and survived. Haunted by a failed undercover mission, Rose is finding it hard to shake the memories of her close encounter with a ruthless serial killer – one who is still free, and couldContinue reading “Playing With Death by Simon Scarrow and Lee Francis @AnneCater @JessFarrugiaPR #LikeShareKill”
In the Dark by Cara Hunter (D.I. Adam Fawley #2) @jane54321 @CaraHunterBooks @PenguinBooksUK #InTheDark #blogtour
Source: Review copy Publication: 12 July 2017 from Viking Press Pp: 448 ISBN13: 978-0241283202 A woman and child are found locked in a basement room, barely alive. No one knows who they are – the woman can’t speak, and there are no missing persons reports that match their profile. The elderly man who owns theContinue reading “In the Dark by Cara Hunter (D.I. Adam Fawley #2) @jane54321 @CaraHunterBooks @PenguinBooksUK #InTheDark #blogtour”
A Cold Flame by Aidan Conway (Detective Michael Rossi # 2) @ConwayRome @KillerReads @CottonFinn
Source: Review copy Publication: 20 July 2018 in e-book from Killer Reads Pp:400 ISBN-13: 978-0008281199 Play with fire and you get burned… Five men burnt alive. In the crippling heat of August in Rome, a flat goes up in flames, the doors sealed from the outside. Five illegal immigrants are trapped and burntContinue reading “A Cold Flame by Aidan Conway (Detective Michael Rossi # 2) @ConwayRome @KillerReads @CottonFinn”
The Emperor of Shoes by Spencer Wise @SpencerWise10 @noexitpress #EmperorofShoes
Source: Netgalley Publication: 26th July 2018 from No Exit Press PP: 320 ISBN-13: 978-0857302199 Alex Cohen, a twenty-six-year-old Jewish Bostonian, is living in southern China, where his father runs their family-owned shoe factory. Alex reluctantly assumes the helm of the company, but as he explores the plant’s vast floors and assembly lines, he comes toContinue reading “The Emperor of Shoes by Spencer Wise @SpencerWise10 @noexitpress #EmperorofShoes”
Dead of Night by Michael Stanley @detectivekubu @orendabooks @annecater
Source: Review copy* Publication: 15 July 2018 from Orenda Books Pp: 320 ISBN-13: 978-1912374250 When freelance journalist, Crystal Nguyen, heads to South Africa, she thinks she’ll be researching an article on rhino-horn smuggling for National Geographic, while searching for her missing colleague. But, within a week, she’s been hunting poachers, hunted by their bosses, andContinue reading “Dead of Night by Michael Stanley @detectivekubu @orendabooks @annecater”
Putney by Sofka Zinovieff @SofkaZinovieff @PhilippaCotton @BloomsburyBooks #Putney #bookreview
Source: Review copy Publication: 12 July 2018 from Bloomsbury Publishing Pp: 384 ISBN-13: 978-1408895764 It is the 1970s and Ralph, an up-and-coming composer, is visiting Edmund Greenslay at his riverside home in Putney to discuss a collaboration. Through the house’s colourful rooms and unruly garden flits nine-year-old Daphne – dark, teasing, slippery asContinue reading “Putney by Sofka Zinovieff @SofkaZinovieff @PhilippaCotton @BloomsburyBooks #Putney #bookreview”
The Lost Letters of William Woolf by Helen Cullen @wordsofhelen @MichaelJBooks #Netgalley #LostLetters
Source: Netgalley Publication: 12 July 2018 from Michael Joseph Pp: 336 ISBN-13: 978-0718189143 Lost letters have only one hope for survival . . . Inside the Dead Letters Depot in East London, William Woolf is one of thirty letter detectives who spend their days solving mysteries. Missing postcodes, illegible handwriting, rain-smudged ink, lostContinue reading “The Lost Letters of William Woolf by Helen Cullen @wordsofhelen @MichaelJBooks #Netgalley #LostLetters”
*COVER REVEAL KLAXON* BROTHERS IN BLOOD by Amer Anwar @AmerAnwar @dialoguebooks
This is the first cover reveal I have ever done. I have chosen to do this one because there are so many great reasons to put this book on your must read list. First of all, it is a truly cracking read. Multi-layered and intense, it brilliantly evokes contemporary Asian life in West London.Continue reading “*COVER REVEAL KLAXON* BROTHERS IN BLOOD by Amer Anwar @AmerAnwar @dialoguebooks”
Live and Deadly 