SNAP DECISIONS CAN BE DANGEROUS . . . On a stifling summer's day, eleven-year-old Jack and his two sisters sit in their broken-down car, waiting for their mother to come back and rescue them. Jack's in charge, she said. I won't be long. But she doesn't come back. She never comes back. And life as the children know it… Continue reading #BookReview SNAP by Belinda Bauer #Snap @BelindaBauer @TransworldBooks #NetGalley
Tag: Police procedural
Putting a Face to the Name #4 – Kick-Ass Female Leads: Part 2!
Putting a Face to the Name is an occasional series in which I discuss how I visualise the characters from some of my favourite reads. Further to Part 1, I'm taking a look at some more of the best female leads of recent crime fiction. The Roy & Castells series by Johana Gustawsson Behaviour Investigative Advisor… Continue reading Putting a Face to the Name #4 – Kick-Ass Female Leads: Part 2!
Looking Ahead – May 2018’s TBR list!
Looking Ahead is a monthly meme hosted by Tina at Reading Between the Pages, where you can share your reading plans for the upcoming month. I am currently reading Murder at the Grand Raj Palace by Vaseem Khan, the latest in the Baby Ganesh Agency series. The Mysterious Affair at Styles, another Agatha Christie audiobook, in fact… Continue reading Looking Ahead – May 2018’s TBR list!
Monthly wrap-up – April 2018
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
#BookReview THE CRAFTSMAN by Sharon Bolton #TheCraftsman @AuthorSJBolton @orion_crime @orionbooks @TrapezeBooks #hewillcomeforyou #NetGalley
Devoted father or merciless killer? His secrets are buried with him. Florence Lovelady's career was made when she convicted coffin-maker Larry Glassbrook of a series of child murders 30 years ago. Like something from our worst nightmares the victims were buried...ALIVE. Larry confessed to the crimes; it was an open and shut case. But now he's dead,… Continue reading #BookReview THE CRAFTSMAN by Sharon Bolton #TheCraftsman @AuthorSJBolton @orion_crime @orionbooks @TrapezeBooks #hewillcomeforyou #NetGalley
#BlogTour This Dark Place by Claire Kittridge #ThisDarkPlace @CPkittridge @DelicatePreyPub @annecater #RandomThingsTours #BookReview
Hello, this Sunday I’m delighted to welcome you to JuliaPalooza for my stop on the Blog Tour for This Dark Place by Claire Kittridge, available to buy now! About the book Priscilla’s body lay motionless on the couch in front of her. They were blood sisters, but Avery never thought it would end like… Continue reading #BlogTour This Dark Place by Claire Kittridge #ThisDarkPlace @CPkittridge @DelicatePreyPub @annecater #RandomThingsTours #BookReview
#TWIB This Week in Books – 25 April 2018
Hosted by Lipsy Lost & Found, This Week In Books is a weekly Wednesday post covering what you have read recently, what you are currently reading and what you will be reading next. In the last couple of weeks, I have read: Murder in Mesopotamia by Agatha Christie on audiobook. A new narrator for me this… Continue reading #TWIB This Week in Books – 25 April 2018
#TopTenTuesday – 24 April 2018
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. 24 April 2018's #TopTenTuesday is "Frequently Used Words In Crime Fiction… Continue reading #TopTenTuesday – 24 April 2018
#BookReview Keeper (Roy & Castells #2) by Johana Gustawsson (Maxim Jakubowski, Translator) #Keeper @JoGustawsson @OrendaBooks
Whitechapel, 1888: London is bowed under Jack the Ripper’s reign of terror. London, 2015: actress Julianne Bell is abducted in a case similar to the terrible Tower Hamlets murders of some ten years earlier, and harking back to the Ripper killings of a century before. Falkenberg, Sweden, 2015: a woman’s body is found mutilated in… Continue reading #BookReview Keeper (Roy & Castells #2) by Johana Gustawsson (Maxim Jakubowski, Translator) #Keeper @JoGustawsson @OrendaBooks
#TopTenTuesday – 17 April 2018: Recommendations please!
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. 17 April 2018's #TopTenTuesday is...a Freebie! (Create your own topic) As… Continue reading #TopTenTuesday – 17 April 2018: Recommendations please!
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