#TBT Throwback Thursday – 26 April 2018: Brittle Shadows by Vicki Tyley #ThrowbackThursday

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Renee at It’s Book Talk began Throwback Thursday as a way to share some old favourites or books that you’re finally getting around to reading that were published months or years ago. This week, my Throwback Thursday ‘old favourite’ is another book that I had the pleasure of reading via Readers Favorite: Brittle Shadows by Australian mystery thriller writer Vicki… Continue reading #TBT Throwback Thursday – 26 April 2018: Brittle Shadows by Vicki Tyley #ThrowbackThursday

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Bitter Nothings by Vicki Tyley

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Bitter Nothings by Vicki Tyley My rating: 5 of 5 stars In Bitter Nothings, Vicki Tyley presents another complex and thrilling tale of dysfunctional families, determined women and mysterious deaths and disappearances. Graphic designer, Dervla Johns, and her brothers, Gabe and Emmett, are still missing their mother, following her suicide two years earlier. Several years… Continue reading Bitter Nothings by Vicki Tyley

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Brittle Shadows by Vicki Tyley

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Brittle Shadows by Vicki Tyley My rating: 5 of 5 stars Vicki Tyley continues her rise to be one of the best modern thriller writers around with Brittle Shadows, a disconcerting but compelling mystery about one woman’s belief that her recently deceased sister did not, as recorded, take her own life. Jemma Dalton flies into… Continue reading Brittle Shadows by Vicki Tyley

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Sleight Malice by Vicki Tyley

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Sleight Malice by Vicki Tyley My rating: 5 of 5 stars Sleight Malice is the second in Vicki Tyley’s series of stand-alone thrillers, set in Melbourne, Australia. Following her recent separation from cheating husband, Trent, website designer Desley James, has been leaning on best friend, Laura, for support. After waving Laura off home after a… Continue reading Sleight Malice by Vicki Tyley

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Thin Blood by Vicki Tyley

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Thin Blood by Vicki Tyley My rating: 4 of 5 stars Thin Blood is the first of Vicki Tyley’s exciting, Australia-set mystery thrillers. Jacinta Deller, is a tenacious, but recently out of work, investigative journalist looking around for a career-enhancing scoop. Set on the trail of a missing, presumed dead, local woman by her newly… Continue reading Thin Blood by Vicki Tyley

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#TopTenTuesday – 27 March 2018

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Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists and of books and a desire to bring bookish friends together. 27 March 2018’s #TopTenTuesday is “Books That Take Place In Another… Continue reading #TopTenTuesday – 27 March 2018

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Monthly wrap-up – April 2018

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During April, I read: Having hoped to read sixteen novels during April, I managed eleven (not all of which I had planned: #TBRfail), plus another two Agatha Christie audiobooks. Murder in Mesopotamia is one of my favourites and, although it took me a while to get used to it, I really enjoyed Anna Massey’s narration. After the… Continue reading Monthly wrap-up – April 2018