Escaping reality one book at a time
Happy Easter! Or as I like to call it : stuff-your-face-full-of-chocolate-day! Whichever side of the fence you land on, I hope you have a lovely and peaceful day. Today, I am re-sharing my review for I Am Dust by Louise Beech as part of the blog tour. My thanks to Karen at Orenda Books for […]
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Author : Louise BeechTitle : I Am DustPages : 340Publisher : Orenda BooksPublication date : February 16, 2020 (ebook) The Dean Wilson Theatre is believed to be haunted by a long-dead actress, singing her last song, waiting for her final cue, looking for her killer… Now Dust, the iconic musical, is returning after twenty years. […]
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Author : Matt WesolowskiTitle : BeastSeries : Six Stories #4Pages : 242Publisher : Orenda BooksPublication date : February 6, 2020 In the wake of the “Beast from the East” cold snap that ravaged the UK in 2018, a grisly discovery was made in a ruin on the Northumbrian coast. Twenty-four-year-old vlogger Elizabeth Barton had been barricaded inside what locals […]
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One of my books of the summer (and of the year, but that’s a story for another day) will be published in paperback next week with a shiny, and quite bloody, new cover. Black Summer is the follow-up to The Puppet Show and I insist you read this series … or else 😉. Anyway, I’m […]
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Author : Sarah StovellTitle : The HomePages : 303Publisher : Orenda BooksPublication date : November 28, 2019 (ebook) When the body of pregnant, 15-year-old Hope Lacey is discovered in a churchyard on Christmas morning, the community is shocked, but unsurprised. For Hope lived in The Home, the residence of three young girls, whose violent and […]
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Author : M.W. CravenTitle : Black SummerSeries : Washington Poe #2Pages : 388Publisher : Constable / Little Brown UKPublication date : June 20, 2019 Jared Keaton, chef to the stars. Charming. Charismatic. Psychopath . . . He’s currently serving a life sentence for the brutal murder of his daughter, Elizabeth. Her body was never found […]
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Author : Karin SlaughterTitle : The Last WidowSeries : Will Trent #9Pages : 448Publisher : Harper CollinsPublication date : June 13, 2019 A mysterious kidnapping On a hot summer night, a scientist from the Centers for Disease Control is grabbed by unknown assailants in a shopping center parking lot. Vanished into thin air, the authorities […]
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Thrilled to bits to host a stop on the blog tour for The Whisper Man by Alex North today! My thanks to Jenny Platt at Michael Joseph for the opportunity to join and for the fab review copy! Author : Alex NorthTitle : The Whisper ManPages : 400Publisher : Michael JosephPublication date : June 13, […]
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Beyond thrilled to kick off the blog tour for Never Be Broken by Sarah Hilary alongside Anne Cater today! Huge thanks to Anne at Random Things Tours for the invitation to join and to the publisher for my fabulous review copy! Children are dying on London’s streets. Frankie Reece, stabbed through the heart, outside a […]
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Thrilled to bits to join the blog tour for No Way Out by Cara Hunter today! My thanks to Ellie at Viking for the invitation to join and for the fab review copy! The Christmas holidays, and two children have just been pulled from the wreckage of their burning home in North Oxford. The toddler […]
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