Pages: 464Published: 4th July 2024Genre: CrimeContent warnings: Missing child storyline Meet Jessica Jones: a private investigator and retired super hero based out of Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, who goes from job to job as a hard living, rough talking, loner. And then a wealthy Upper East Side woman pays her a visit. Amber Randall is concerned about her twin … Continue reading Book Review – Breaking The Dark by Lisa Jewell
Pages: 386Published: 20th July 2023Genre: Mystery/ThrillerContent warnings: Domestic violence/abuse, child grooming, alcoholism The paths of two women - Alix Summer and Josie Fair - cross when they are out celebrating their birthdays in the same restaurant. Big coincidence: they are birthday twins; not only this - they were born in the same hospital. Alix is a journalist and podcaster. … Continue reading Book Review – None Of This Is True by Lisa Jewell
Pages: 431Published: 26th July 2022Genre: MysteryContent warnings: Suicide, strong sexual references, rape, injury detail London. Early morning, June 2019: on the foreshore of the river Thames, a bag of bones is discovered. Human bones. DCI Samuel Owusu is called to the scene and quickly sends the bag for forensic examination. The bones are those of a young woman, … Continue reading Book Review – The Family Remains by Lisa Jewell
Pages: 465Published: 22nd July 2021Genre: MysteryContent warnings: Missing person storyline, strong sexual references, coercive control 2017: 19 year old Tallulah is going out on a date, leaving her baby with her mother, Kim. Kim watches her daughter leave and, as late evening turns into night, which turns into early morning, she waits for her return. And waits. The … Continue reading Book Review – The Night She Disappeared by Lisa Jewell
Pages: 446Published: 6th August 2019Genre: Mystery/ThrillerContent warnings: Drugs, rape/sexual abuse Soon after her twenty-fifth birthday, Libby Jones returns home from work to find the letter she’s been waiting for her entire life. She rips it open with one driving thought: I am finally going to know who I am. She soon learns not only the identity of her … Continue reading Book Review – The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell
Pages: 436Published: 9th March 2017Genre: MysteryContent warnings: Sexual assault, drug use In Surrey, Lily Monrose has only been married for three weeks. When her new husband fails to come home from work one night she is left stranded in a new country where she knows no one. Meanwhile, in East Yorkshire, Alice Lake finds a man on the beach … Continue reading Book Review – I Found You by Lisa Jewell
Pages: 404Published: 2nd July 2015Genre: Mystery You live on a picturesque communal garden square, an oasis in urban London where your children run free, in and out of other people’s houses. You’ve known your neighbours for years and you trust them. Implicitly. You think your children are safe. But are they really? Midsummer night: a thirteen-year-old girl … Continue reading Book Review – The Girls by Lisa Jewell
Pages: 422Published: 12th August 2014Genre: General Fiction Meet the Bird family. They live in a honey-colored house in a picture-perfect Cotswolds village, with rambling, unkempt gardens stretching beyond. Pragmatic Meg, dreamy Beth, and tow-headed twins Rory and Rhys all attend the village school and eat home-cooked meals together every night. Their father is a sweet gangly man … Continue reading Book Review – The House We Grew Up In by Lisa Jewell
Pages: 448Published: 27th July 2017Genre: Domestic Thriller This book was on my reading list almost from the moment it was released. There was a lot of anticipation surrounding it, and every review I read seemed to be really positive, so I thought it was definitely one for me, especially as it fell into my favourite … Continue reading Book Review – Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell
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