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#BookReview The Darkness by Ragnar Jónasson #TheDarkness @ragnarjo @MichaelJBooks #NetGalley

Before Detective Inspector Hulda Hermannsdóttir of the Reykjavik Police is forced into early retirement she is told to investigate a cold case of her choice, and she knows just the one. A young woman found dead on remote seaweed-covered rocks. A woman who was looking for asylum and found only a watery grave. Her death… Continue reading #BookReview The Darkness by Ragnar Jónasson #TheDarkness @ragnarjo @MichaelJBooks #NetGalley

Book musings · Putting a Face to the Name

Putting a Face to the Name #3 – Kick-Ass Female Leads

Putting a Face to the Name is an occasional series discussing how I visualise the characters from some of my favourite reads. Following the fab news yesterday that the next book from Angela Marsons is coming in May, plus with Robert Bryndza's new book due in April and the long-awaited next M.J. Arlidge book in the… Continue reading Putting a Face to the Name #3 – Kick-Ass Female Leads

Book musings · Putting a Face to the Name

Putting a Face to the Name #2 – Hangman by Daniel Cole

Putting a Face to the Name is an occasional series discussing how I visualise the characters from some of my favourite reads. To celebrate publication day of the marvellous Hangman, I've written a Putting a Face to the Name post about how I imagined some of the wonderful characters from the Ragdoll/Hangman universe. Detective Sergeant William Fawkes:… Continue reading Putting a Face to the Name #2 – Hangman by Daniel Cole

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#imwayr It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? – 19 March 2018

It's Monday! What Are You Reading? (#IMWAYR) is a weekly place to share some extra #booklove in the form of what you have read over the last week, what you are currently reading and what's coming next, hosted by Kathryn at Book Date. In the last couple of weeks, I have finished reading: The excellent The Sandman… Continue reading #imwayr It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? – 19 March 2018

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#BookReview Hangman by Daniel Cole #HangmanBook @Daniel_P_Cole @orionbooks @orion_crime @TrapezeBooks #NetGalley

A detective with no one to trust A killer with nothing to lose 18 months after the 'Ragdoll' murders, a body is found hanging from Brooklyn Bridge, the word 'BAIT' carved into the chest. In London a copycat killer strikes, branded with the word 'PUPPET', forcing DCI Emily Baxter into an uneasy partnership with the detectives on the… Continue reading #BookReview Hangman by Daniel Cole #HangmanBook @Daniel_P_Cole @orionbooks @orion_crime @TrapezeBooks #NetGalley

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#BookReview Doll Face (DI Tudor Manx 2) by Dylan H. Jones #DollFace @tudormanx @Bloodhoundbook #NetGalley

Three months after solving his last case, DI Tudor Manx leads a harrowing investigation to catch a killer terrorizing the Isle of Anglesey. After the body of the first victim, Sian Conway is found, the suspicion quickly falls on her boss, Kimble McLain, and her volatile ex-husband, Liam Fowler. The autopsy soon reveals Sian was eighteen weeks… Continue reading #BookReview Doll Face (DI Tudor Manx 2) by Dylan H. Jones #DollFace @tudormanx @Bloodhoundbook #NetGalley

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#BookReview The Bone Keeper by Luca Veste #TheBoneKeeper @LucaVeste @simonschusterUK #AreYouBraveEnough? #NetGalley

What if the figure that haunted your nightmares as child, the myth of the man in the woods, was real? He'll slice your flesh. Your bones he'll keep. Twenty years ago, four teenagers went exploring in the local woods, trying to find to the supposed home of The Bone Keeper. Only three returned. Now, a woman is found wandering… Continue reading #BookReview The Bone Keeper by Luca Veste #TheBoneKeeper @LucaVeste @simonschusterUK #AreYouBraveEnough? #NetGalley

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#BookReview Where the Missing Go by Emma Rowley #WhereTheMissingGo @emma_rowley @orionbooks #NetGalley

MY NAME IS KATE. I volunteer at a missing persons helpline - young people who have run away from home call me and I pass on messages to their loved ones, no questions asked. I don't get many phone calls, and those I do are usually short and vague, or pranks. But today a girl named Sophie called. I'm supposed to… Continue reading #BookReview Where the Missing Go by Emma Rowley #WhereTheMissingGo @emma_rowley @orionbooks #NetGalley

Book musings · Putting a Face to the Name

New series: Putting a Face to the Name #1 – The Sandman by Lars Kepler

Following some discussions over the last couple of years on #TBConFB, and particularly inspired by my latest read, the Scandi Noir thriller, The Sandman, I am starting an occasional series, Putting a Face to the Name, discussing how I visualise the characters from some of my favourite reads. Obviously, most of the time, it is the… Continue reading New series: Putting a Face to the Name #1 – The Sandman by Lars Kepler