Book synopsis The best light-hearted mystery fiction you’ll read all year! New to the private investigator game, Edie Fox is delighted when a handsome American client with disconcertingly dazzling teeth asks her to find his missing cousin, Isabella. Especially when he leaves her a bundle of cash to get started. However, the case quickly gets… Continue reading The Missing American by Julie Highmore – Blog Tour
From Broken to Brave is the story of the many turning points in Sam Pearce’s life, both good and bad; and the valuable lessons she learned from each one. Sam’s life has not been particularly extraordinary, and at the tender age of 45, she can appreciate that it’s not been that long either. She is… Continue reading From Broken To Brave by Sam Pearce – Blog Tour
Book synopsis “Welcome to Ararat, the verdant, hostile home of the Elites.” The year is 242 Post Inundationem. Global flooding has submerged most of the Earth’s former landmass in water. The Masses struggle to survive on the low-lying plains, while the Elites party on the heights. When sixteen-year old Naya DeLora is recruited into Eden Academy,… Continue reading Blue Out by Miranda Storm
This weekend is a bank holiday in celebration of King Charles III Coronation. Such a perfect time to start a new book and I have some recommendations here for you. Samuel Pepys Diary has enthralled readers for centuries with its audacious wit, gripping detail, and indecent assignations. Pepys stopped writing at the age of 36. Or did… Continue reading Best Books to Celebrate the Coronation With
Book synopsis Two people trapped in their different worlds. One by wealth and one by poverty. Twenty years working for The Firm has given Marcus Barlow everything he wants but has taken his soul in return. Finding a way to leave has become an obsession. Claire Halford’s life hits rock bottom when she is caught… Continue reading Maybe It’s About Time by Neil Boss
Book Synopsis Two candles flaring at a Christmas crib. A nurse who steps inside a church to light them. A gunshot emptied in a man’s head in the creaking stillness before dawn, that the nurse says she didn’t hear. It’s 1947 in the snowbound, war-scarred City of London, where Pandora’s Box just got opened in… Continue reading Shamus Dust by Janet Roger
Book synopsis London 1642. The King has fled London with the drums of war ringing in his ears. Across the country, lines are being drawn and armies raised. Influential royalist Lady Carlisle switches sides and presses spice trader Thomas Tallant and his partner Elizabeth Seymour into Parliament’s service. Soon Thomas faces double-dealing in his hunt… Continue reading Drums of War (Thomas Tallant Mysteries) by Michael Ward
Locks of human hair arrive in Palmer’s Office. Forensic analysis says they come from dead people. But who is sending them and where are the dead people? Then something rather nasty turns up in a Camberwell flat that involves the Salvation Army and seven scalps. I have read the book previous to this one, although… Continue reading Underneath The Arches DCS Palmer and the Serial Murder Squad case 15 – By Barry Faulkner
Book Synopsis What comes next? (To be released March 2023) A middle-class family is murdered in a quiet affluent suburb, with the killer leaving a bizarre calling-card. Within days, more murders are discovered across the country with the same bizarre calling-card left behind. With no apparent link between the victims, Detective Sergeant Steve Denton and… Continue reading Hell Hath No Fury by Geoff Major
Book Synopsis “We’re out of time,” said Dad, with a resigned grimace.“Yep, it’s not just our Lancashire that’s gone. The whole country isanother place. Manufacturing, our religion, even what a man should be, andI do mean man this time, Amy,” Bob added.The northern grammar school pals, Bob Swarbrick and Richard Shackleton are now well into… Continue reading The Dove is Dead by John Uttley
