Last Survivor... About the Book: Greed. Joanne Flack is on the run - suspected of stealing a rare African plant thought to be extinct and worth millions of dollars. Danger. Sonja Kurtz is hired by the CIA to hunt down Joanne and find the link between the missing plant and a terrorist group hiding out … Continue reading Book Review: Last Survivor by Tony Park
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Author Talks: Sonya Bates on the transition from Children’s Fiction to Crime Thriller
On first glance, children’s fiction doesn’t seem to have much in common with crime thrillers – in this case, a murder mystery with a dual timeline. And yet, that is the leap in genre that I made when I set out to write Inheritance of Secrets. I’d been writing children’s fiction for a few years … Continue reading Author Talks: Sonya Bates on the transition from Children’s Fiction to Crime Thriller
Book Review: Cry of the Firebird by T.M. Clark
Cry of the Firebird... About the Book: In the badlands of Africa, a resourceful doctor fights to save her patients' lives. Australian thriller writer T.M. Clark returns with a vivid, action-packed adventure in the tradition of Wilbur Smith. South African-born Doctor Lily Winters, a consultant with the World Health Organization, has been in the thick … Continue reading Book Review: Cry of the Firebird by T.M. Clark
Book Review: Snake Island by Ben Hobson
Snake Island... About the Book: Vernon and Penelope Moore never want to see their son Caleb again. Not after he hit his wife and ended up in gaol. A lifetime of careful parental love wiped out in a moment. But when retired teacher Vernon hears that Caleb is being regularly visited and savagely bashed by … Continue reading Book Review: Snake Island by Ben Hobson
New Release Book Review: The Promised Land by Barry Maitland
The Promised Land... About the Book: Brock and Kolla return in an enthralling new mystery from a master of the genre. Newly promoted Detective Chief Inspector Kathy Kolla investigates a series of brutal murders on Hampstead Heath. Under intense pressure to find answers, she arrests the unlikely figure of John Pettigrew, a failing London publisher … Continue reading New Release Book Review: The Promised Land by Barry Maitland
New Release Book Review: Find You in the Dark by Nathan Ripley
Find You In The Dark... About the Book: In this chilling and disquieting debut thriller perfect for fans of Caroline Kepnes’s Hidden Bodies and Jeff Lindsay’s Dexter series, a family man with a habit of digging up the past catches the attention of a serial killer who wants anything but his secrets uncovered. For years, … Continue reading New Release Book Review: Find You in the Dark by Nathan Ripley
New Release Book Review: This Is How It Ends by Eva Dolan
This Is How It Ends... About the Book: This is how it begins. With a near-empty building, the inhabitants forced out of their homes by property developers. With two women: idealistic, impassioned blogger Ella and seasoned campaigner, Molly. With a body hidden in a lift shaft. But how will it end? My Thoughts: … Continue reading New Release Book Review: This Is How It Ends by Eva Dolan
Book Review: Offshore by Andrea Jones
Offshore… Book Description: Kate Maddison 'Leaned In' and now she's Burned Out. Lost and disillusioned, she volunteers in a Channel Island detention centre and meets Abra, a displaced Syrian detained after he's caught trying to enter the UK in the post-Brexit age. Two damaged souls meet and mend – or at least begin to. Because … Continue reading Book Review: Offshore by Andrea Jones
Reading On Repeat: July 7th 2013 to 2017
I've been doing a bit of a tidy up of my Goodreads shelves recently, creating new ones mainly, but along the way I've been distracted by what I was reading two years ago, six months ago, back when I first joined Goodreads, you get my drift. My reading tastes have changed in some ways, I … Continue reading Reading On Repeat: July 7th 2013 to 2017
New Release Book Review: The Woman in the Wood by Lesley Pearse
The Woman in the Wood... Book Description: Fifteen-year-old twins Maisy and Duncan have always had each other. Until that fateful day in the wood... 1960: Maisy and Duncan Mitcham are woken one night to find their mother is being committed to an insane asylum. Soon after, their father packs them off to ‘Nightingales’, their grandmother’s … Continue reading New Release Book Review: The Woman in the Wood by Lesley Pearse
