Pages: 456Published: 24th June 2025Genre: ThrillerContent warnings: Sexual assault Restauranteur Paddy Swann was the life of the party until the day a man pushed him in the path of an oncoming train, leaving his twenty-something daughter Ash and wife Nina devastated. Shortly after Paddy’s funeral, the two women receive a surprise in the mail: a … Continue reading Book Review – Don’t Let Him In by Lisa Jewell
Pages: 337Published: 20th May 2025Genre: CrimeContent warnings: References to child abuse, injury detail, missing child storyline When Nick Vincent, producer of true-crime show Infamous, hears about an explosive new angle on a high-profile case—the 2016 murder of an eight-year-old girl in Oxford - he leaps at the chance to send a researcher to verify the … Continue reading Book Review – Making A Killing by Cara Hunter
Pages: 385Published: 13th July 2017Genre: MysteryContent warnings: Missing child storyline, injury detail When four sisters arrive at Applecote Manor to spend the summer, all is clearly not well. They find their aunt and uncle still reeling from the disappearance of their only daughter, five years before. No one seems any closer to finding out the … Continue reading Book Review – The Vanishing Of Audrey Wilde by Eve Chase
Hello everyone, I find that there are certain types of books that many of us associate with summer, autumn, and winter - but what about spring? I have rarely come across any references in blog posts or social media that talk about the ideal spring read, so my interpretation is that anything goes. After all, … Continue reading Best Books I Have Read In Spring
Pages: 388Published: 13th January 2022Genre: MysteryContent warnings: Missing person storyline Forty years ago, Steven Smith found a copy of a famous children's book, its margins full of strange markings and annotations. He took it to his remedial English teacher, Miss Isles, who became convinced it was the key to solving a puzzle. That a message … Continue reading Book Review – The Twyford Code by Janice Hallett
Pages: 389Published: 25th February 2025Genre: Domestic Thriller It is June 21st, the longest day of the year, and new mother Camilla’s life is about to change forever. After months of maternity leave, she will drop her infant daughter off at daycare for the first time and return to her job as a literary agent. Finally. But, when she … Continue reading Book Review – Famous Last Words by Gillian McAllister
My review of A Game Of Lies by Clare Mackintosh, the second in her DC Ffion Morgan crime series and a book that I found strangely irresistible!
My review of The Death Of Mrs Westaway, my fourth book by popular mystery author Ruth Ware. This one has some Gothic feels!
Pages: 383Published: 15th June 2021Genre: Young Adult MysteryContent warnings: Child death, drugs Amateur sleuth Stevie Bell needs a good murder. After catching a killer at her high school, she’s back at home for a normal (that means boring) summer. But then she gets a message from the owner of Sunny Pines, formerly known as Camp Wonder Falls - the … Continue reading Book Review – The Box In The Woods by Maureen Johnson
Pages: 328Published: 28th March 2024Genre: Science Fiction/MysteryContent warnings: Violence Outside the island, there is nothing: the world was destroyed by a fog that swept the planet, killing anyone it touched. On the island, it is idyllic. One hundred and twenty-two villagers and three scientists, living in peaceful harmony. The villagers are content to fish, farm, and feast, to obey … Continue reading Book Review – The Last Murder At The End Of The World by Stuart Turton
