THE BOOK Finally free from his nightmare of a marriage, Toby Fleishman is ready for a life of online dating and weekend-only parental duties. But as he optimistically looks to a future that is wildly different from the one he imagined, his life turns upside-down as his ex-wife, Rachel, suddenly disappears. While Toby tries to… Continue reading Blog Tour – Fleishman Is In Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner – Book Review
THE BOOK Decades of spiralling drug resistance have unleashed a global antibiotic crisis. Ordinary infections are untreatable, and a scratch from a pet can kill. A sacrifice is required to keep the majority safe: no one over seventy is allowed new antibiotics. The elderly are sent to hospitals nicknamed ‘The Waiting Rooms’ … hospitals… Continue reading Blog Tour – ‘The Waiting Rooms’ by Eve Smith – Book Review.
THE BOOK When Jessie moves into a flat share at Maver Place, she’s finally found a decent place to live.And when she’s befriended by fellow tenants Lauren and Sofie, she’s got great flatmates to share it with. You think she’s safe. You think she can trust these people. You’re wrong. When you flat share,… Continue reading Blog Tour – ‘The Wrong Move’ by Jennifer Savin – Book Review
THE BOOK The Milton’s are a powerful old New York family – the kind of family that used to run the world. And in 1935, they still do. Kitty and Ogden Milton seem to have it all: an elegant apartment on the Upper East Side, two beautiful little boys, a love everyone envies. When… Continue reading Book Review – ‘The Guest Book’ by Sarah Blake
THE BOOK The pale-skinned, black-eyed baby is a bad omen. That’s one thing the people on the old plantation are sure of. The other is that Miss Rue – midwife, healer, crafter of curses – will know what to do. But for once Rue doesn’t know. Times have changed since her mother Miss May… Continue reading Book Review – ‘Conjure Women’ by Afia Atakora
THE BOOK In London’s Bloomsbury, Inspector Julian Rivers of Scotland Yard looks down at a dismal scene. Here is the victim, burnt to a crisp. Here are the clues – clues which point to a good climber and expert skier, and which lead Rivers to the piercing sunshine and sparkling snow of the Austrian… Continue reading Book Review – ‘Crossed Skis’ by Carol Carnac
THE BOOK On a summer’s day in 1596, a young girl in Stratford-upon-Avon takes to her bed with a fever. Her twin brother, Hamnet, searches everywhere for help. Why is nobody at home? Their mother, Agnes, is over a mile away, in the garden where she grows medicinal herbs. Their father is working in… Continue reading Blog Tour – ‘Hamnet’ by Maggie O’Farrell – Book Review
THE BOOK Working off the books for FBI Special Agent Alex Monroe, Florida bounty-hunter Lori Anderson and her partner, JT, head to Chicago. Their mission: to entrap the head of the Cabressa crime family. The bait: a priceless chess set that Cabressa is determined to add to his collection. An exclusive high-stakes poker game… Continue reading Blog Tour – Deep Dark Night by Steph Broadribb – Book Review
THE BOOK Night after night, cars are set alight across the German city of Hamburg, with no obvious pattern, no explanation and no suspect. Until, one night, on Mexico Street, a ghetto of high-rise blocks in the north of the city, a Fiat is torched. Only this car isnโt empty. The body of Nouri… Continue reading Blog Tour – ‘Mexico Street’ by Simone Buchholz – Book Review
THE BOOK Chaos reigns in the sleepy village of Aramoana on the New Zealand coast, when a series of shipping containers wash up on the beach and looting begins. Detective Constable Sam Shephard experiences the desperation of the scavengers first-hand, and ends up in an ambulance, nursing her wounds and puzzling over an assault… Continue reading Blog Tour – ‘Containment’ by Vanda Symon – Book Review
