Reviews

  • Deep Blue Trouble by Steph Broadribb

    Deep Blue Trouble by Steph Broadribb

    Lori Anderson series #2 Single-mother Florida bounty hunter Lori Anderson’s got an ocean of trouble on her hands. Her daughter Dakota is safe, but her cancer is threatening a comeback, and Lori needs JT—Dakota’s daddy and the man who taught Lori everything—alive and kicking. Problem is, he’s behind bars, and heading for death row. Desperate to save him, Lori does a deal, taking on off-the-books job from shady FBI agent Alex Monroe. Bring back on-the-run…

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  • Deep Down Dead by Steph Broadribb

    Deep Down Dead by Steph Broadribb

    Lori Anderson series #1 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 from leukaemia. But when the hospital bills start to rack up, she has no choice but to take her daughter along on a job that will make her a fast buck. And that’s when things start to go wrong. The…

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  • One Way Ticket To Paris by Emma Robinson

    One Way Ticket To Paris by Emma Robinson

    Sometimes the only way to find yourself is to run away  When I was a kid and I’d lost something, my dad always said ‘Go back to the place you last had it’. The problem is that what I’ve lost is… me. Kate loves her family more than anything, but recently she has started to feel invisible. Lying awake at three a.m. as her husband snores, panicking about shopping lists, birthday parties, and the school bake…

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  • In Harms Way by Owen Mullen

    In Harms Way by Owen Mullen

    Happy Publication Day to Owen Mullen for the release of his latest book, In Harms Way I have read and reviewed this brilliant new release by Owen Mullen. In Harms Way is a riveting domestic thriller set in Glasgow. The story is a brilliant white knuckle read and if you have not read any of his other work I would urge you to go read the three books currently available in the Charlie Cameron series –…

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  • Police, Crime & 999 by John Donoghue

    Police, Crime & 999 by John Donoghue

    The True Story of a Front Line Officer Ever wondered what really happens behind the scenes in the police? What bizarre 999 calls are made to the emergency services? Why can wearing two pairs of socks make you a suspect? What is the link between police and vampires? Which Royal arrest never made news headlines? What covert sign do officers make when they no longer wish to talk to you? After successful careers in both…

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  • Do No Harm by Henry Marsh

    Do No Harm by Henry Marsh

    Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery What is it like to be a brain surgeon? How does it feel to hold someone’s life in your hands, to cut into the stuff that creates thought, feeling and reason? How do you live with the consequences of performing a potentially life-saving operation when it all goes wrong? In neurosurgery, more than in any other branch of medicine, the doctor’s oath to ‘do no harm’ holds a…

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  • Hush Hush by Mel Sherratt

    (Grace Allendale #1) Some secrets should stay in the family… A killer is on the loose, attacking people in places they feel most safe: their workplaces, their homes. It’s up to DS Grace Allendale to stop the murders, and prove herself to her new team. All clues lead to local crime family the Steeles, but that’s where things get complicated. Because the Steeles aren’t just any family, they’re Grace’s family. Two brothers and two sisters,…

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  • Yesterday by Felicia Yap

    Yesterday by Felicia Yap

    How do you solve a murder when you only remember yesterday? Imagine a world in which classes are divided not by wealth or religion but by how much each group can remember. Monos, the majority, have only one day’s worth of memory; elite Duos have two. In this stratified society, where Monos are excluded from holding high office and demanding jobs, Claire and Mark are a rare mixed marriage. Clare is a conscientious Mono housewife,…

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  • Our Little Lies by Sue Watson

    Our Little Lies by Sue Watson

    How far would you go to protect your perfect life? Marianne has a life others dream of. A beautiful townhouse on the best street in the neighbourhood. Three bright children who are her pride and joy. Sometimes her past still hurts: losing her mother early, growing up in foster care. But her husband, Simon, is always there. A successful surgeon, he’s the envy of every woman they’ve ever met. Flowers, gifts, trips to France: nothing is too…

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  • The Wife’s Secret by Kerry Wilkinson

    The Wife’s Secret by Kerry Wilkinson

    A gripping psychological thriller with a heart-stopping twist Synopsis Charley Willis was thirteen years old when her parents were killed in their family home and she was found hiding in a cupboard upstairs. Fifteen years later, Charley is marrying Seth Chambers. It should be the happiest day of their lives, a chance for Charley to put her past behind her, but just hours after the ceremony, she is missing. No one saw her leave. No…

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  • Borrowing Christmas by Kat Bellemore

    Borrowing Christmas by Kat Bellemore

    (Borrowing Amor Book One) Love is a nuisance when all you want is to do is disappear. Two weeks before Christmas, Katie is kicked out of her apartment. Again. Rather than wander the streets and continue to work for a dirty cop, she decides to leave the city and disappear for good. But her car breaks down in a New Mexico town, and everything is threatened when she falls for the charming mayor. Sam Freedman…

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  • Diary of an Adorable Fat Girl by Bernice Bloom

    Diary of an Adorable Fat Girl by Bernice Bloom

    Adorable Fat Girl Synopsis Mary Brown is funny, gorgeous and bonkers. She’s also about six stone overweight. When she realises she can’t cross her legs, has trouble bending over to tie her shoelaces without wheezing like an elderly chain-smoker, and discovers that even her hands and feet look fat, it’s time to take action. But what action? She’s tried every diet under the sun. This series is the hysterical story of what happens when Mary…

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  • Lesson Plan for Murder by Lori Robbins

    Lesson Plan for Murder by Lori Robbins

    A Master Class Mystery (Master Class Mysteries Book 1) Synopsis No one sheds any tears when overbearing English teacher Marcia Deaver is found dead in her classroom. Some staff members speculate it was a heart attack, or perhaps a suicide, but Liz Hopewell knows that no self-respecting member of the Valerian Hills English Department would kill herself without leaving behind a perfectly penned suicide note, complete with detailed footnotes and obscure literary references. After the…

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  • The Rome Affair by Karen Swan

    The Rome Affair by Karen Swan

    A love that can’t be stopped. A secret that can’t be kept. Synopsis The glamorous capital city of Italy is brought to startling life in The Rome Affair, a compelling summer novel by Karen Swan. 1974 and Elena Damiani lives a gilded life. Born to wealth and a noted beauty, no door is closed to her, no man can resist her. At twenty-six, she is already onto her third husband when she meets her love…

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  • The Lake of Dreams by Kim Edwards

    The Lake of Dreams by Kim Edwards

    From the author of the bestselling and beloved novel The Memory Keeper’s Daughter Kim Edwards, comes a mesmerising story of startling family secrets and lies in the Sunday Times bestselling novel The Lake of Dreams. Synopsis The darkest secrets are the ones we hide from ourselves. Ten years ago, traumatized by her father’s death, Lucy left her home and her country. Now, she returns to her family’s rambling lakeside home to lay old ghosts to…

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  • Since We Were Friends by Zøe Haslie

    Since We Were Friends by Zøe Haslie

    Synopsis Sixteen-year-old Regan Clark only longs for the summer camp trip her dad takes her and her three brothers in each year. But everything changes when the unimaginable happens—her best friend, and acquired fourth brother, Harper, turns into a big cheat and she gets cast aside. So when school starts again, Regan finds herself friendless, struggling with soccer practice and on the verge of failing math. On top of that, Harper’s own issues lead him…

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  • In Harms Way by Owen Mullen

    In Harms Way by Owen Mullen

    The first thing to say is that whilst Owen Mullen’s latest release with Bloodhound Books – In Harms Way – is set in Glasgow, it is not part of the Charlie Cameron series.  He is making us wait a little longer for that!    Synopsis  What if someone you loved was in harm’s way?  What if you were being stalked and no one believed you? What if you were abducted in broad daylight? What if…

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  • 24 Hours of the Phoenix by Caroline Bertaud

    Can you start your life over again the day you learn you’re dying? Synopsis Until yesterday, twenty-one-year-old Phoenix Collins had it all figured out: she was going to live forever. Not literally of course; nobody lives forever—she knows that, she’s learned it the hard way—but bearing a mythical name had convinced her that someday she’d have a fresh start, her life back on track. Therefore, when she wakes up in a hospital bed to learn…

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  • The Coordinates of Loss by Amanda Prowse

    The Coordinates of Loss by Amanda Prowse

    From bestselling author Amanda Prowse comes a tale of a blissful life, a happy marriage, a beloved son…and a tragedy that destroys it all. Synopsis When Rachel Croft wakes up on her family’s boat in Bermuda, it’s to sunshine and yet another perfect day…until she goes to wake her seven-year-old son, Oscar. Because the worst thing imaginable has happened. He isn’t there. In the dark and desperate days that follow, Rachel struggles to navigate her…

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  • Google Your Husband Back by Julie Butterfield

    Google Your Husband Back by Julie Butterfield

    A wonderful tale of love, loss and how to get your husband back! Kate has the perfect marriage, a handsome husband and a beautiful new baby – so she is more than a little surprised when one Monday morning Alex announces that he’s leaving. Shocked and distressed at both his absence and his silence, Kate turns to Google for some answers. Why has her husband left and more to the point what can she do…

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