Source: Review copyPublication: 13 October 2022 from Orenda BooksPP: 276ISBN-13: 978-1914585326 My thanks to Orenda Books for an advance copy for review When entrepreneur Flosi arrives home for dinner one night, he discovers that his house has been ransacked, and his wife Gudrun missing. A letter on the kitchen table confirms that she has beenContinue reading “Red As Blood (Áróra Investigation #2) by Lilja Sigurðardóttir trs Quentin Bates @lilja1972 @graskeggur @OrendaBooks”
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Sometimes People Die by Simon Stephenson @TheSimonBot @BoroughPress @MidasPR
Source: Review copyPublication: 1st September from The Borough PressPP: 350ISBN-13: 978-0008547622 My thanks to The Borough Press and Midas PR for an advance copy for review The year is 1999. Returning to practice after a suspension for stealing opioids, a young Scottish doctor takes the only job he can find: a post as a seniorContinue reading “Sometimes People Die by Simon Stephenson @TheSimonBot @BoroughPress @MidasPR”
The Last Girl to Die by Helen Fields @Helen_Fields @AvonBooksUK @ElliePilcher95
Source: Review copyPublication: 1st September 2022 from Avon BooksPP: 384ISBN-13: 978-0008379360 My thanks to Avon Books for an advance copy for review In search of a new life, seventeen-year-old Adriana Clark’s family moves to the ancient, ocean-battered Isle of Mull, far off the coast of Scotland. Then she goes missing. Faced with hostile locals andContinue reading “The Last Girl to Die by Helen Fields @Helen_Fields @AvonBooksUK @ElliePilcher95”
CAPITAL CRIME LAUNCHES THE FINGERPRINT AWARDS CELEBRATING THE BEST IN INTERNATIONAL CRIME WRITING @CapitalCrime1 @FMcMAssociates
Capital Crime has launched the inaugural Fingerprint Awards, designed to champion the very best in crime writing from across the globe published in 2021, as voted for by readers. Authors both new and established are represented across the categories, which are Crime Novel of the Year, Thriller Novel of the Year, Historical Crime Novel ofContinue reading “CAPITAL CRIME LAUNCHES THE FINGERPRINT AWARDS CELEBRATING THE BEST IN INTERNATIONAL CRIME WRITING @CapitalCrime1 @FMcMAssociates”
The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell @TinderPress @PublicityBooks
Source: Review copyPublication: 30 August 2022 from Tinder PressPP: 448ISBN-13: 978-1472223845 My thanks to Tinder Press for an advance copy for review ‘Someone swore that, as a little girl, he once saw you touch a tiger. And that the tiger didn’t harm you, it let you stroke it. It was always said that you hadContinue reading “The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell @TinderPress @PublicityBooks”
The Skeleton Key by Erin Kelly @mserinkelly @HodderBooks
Source: Review copyPublication: 1st September 2022 from Hodder & StoughtonPP: 512ISBN-13: 978-1473680883 My thanks to Hodder & Stoughton for an advance copy for review THIS REUNION WILL TEAR A FAMILY APART … Summer, 2021. Nell has come home at her family’s insistence to celebrate an anniversary. Fifty years ago, her father wrote The Golden Bones.Continue reading “The Skeleton Key by Erin Kelly @mserinkelly @HodderBooks”
The Manhattan Girls by Gill Paul @GillPaulAUTHOR @WmMorrowBks @AvonBooksUK
Source: Competition prizePublication: 18 August 2022 from AvonPP: 400ISBN-13: 978-0008530945 My thanks to Gill Paul for the opportunity to read this book in advance of publication NEW YORK CITY, 1921 An impossible dream. The war is over, the twenties are roaring, but in the depths of the city that never sleeps, Dorothy Parker is strugglingContinue reading “The Manhattan Girls by Gill Paul @GillPaulAUTHOR @WmMorrowBks @AvonBooksUK”
The Lost Man of Bombay (Malabar House #3) by Vaseem Khan @VaseemKhanUK @HodderBooks @HodderPublicity
Source: Review copyPublication: 18 August 2022 from Hodder & StoughtonPP: 384ISBN-13: 978-1529341102 My thanks to Hodder & Stoughton for an advance copy for review Bombay, 1950 When the body of a white man is found frozen in the Himalayan foothills near Dehra Dun, he is christened the Ice Man by the national media. WhoContinue reading “The Lost Man of Bombay (Malabar House #3) by Vaseem Khan @VaseemKhanUK @HodderBooks @HodderPublicity”
Run Time by Catherine Ryan Howard @CorvusBooks
Source: Review copyPublication: 11 August 2022 from Corvus BooksPP: 448ISBN-13: 978-1838951665 My thanks to Corvus Books for an advance copy for review Movie-making can be murder. The project Final Draft, a psychological horror, being filmed at a house deep in a forest, miles from anywhere in the wintry wilds of West Cork. The lead FormerContinue reading “Run Time by Catherine Ryan Howard @CorvusBooks”
Whisper of the Seals (Detective Moralès # 3) by Roxanne Bouchard trs David Warriner @Rbouchard72 @givemeawave @OrendaBooks
Source: Review copyPublication: 18 August 2022 from Orenda BooksPP: 300ISBN-13: 978-1914585241 My thanks to Orenda Books for an advance copy for review There’s only one thing more deadly than the storm… Fisheries officer Simone Lord is transferred to Quebec’s remote Magdalen Islands for the winter, and at the last minute ordered to go aboardContinue reading “Whisper of the Seals (Detective Moralès # 3) by Roxanne Bouchard trs David Warriner @Rbouchard72 @givemeawave @OrendaBooks”
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