Nighthawking is a brilliantly complex crime thriller, packed with twists, powerful visual imagery, and an invigoratingly diverse urban authenticity. The plot and structure make for a compelling, don’t-look-away-now novel, and as for the cliffhanger … well!
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With influences including Stephen King, Daphne Du Maurier, Ruth Ware, and Alexandre Dumas, I was really looking forward to reading this debut novel. *shivers* Mirrorland is all goosebumps, sharp edges, gothic disquietude, and a refusal by the author to allow her readers to get comfortable …
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Backstories is a unique, easy-reading, non conformist book of short stories. The fourteen stories contained in the book are cleverly written puzzles … it’s up to you, the reader, to identify whose backstory you’ve just read.
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Anybody who’s read my other book reviews will know I’m a sucker for a historical fiction novel with a very strong, clear basis in real life events, so when I won a copy of Dangerous Women I was over the moon. The promise of a fact-based novel over-laid with an entirely fictional whodunnit murder mystery enticed me.
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Daughters Of Night has to be one of the most talked-about new releases of 2021, and it’s certainly one of my most excitedly anticipated books. Reading this highly acclaimed novel is an experience I’m going to savour. In this short feature I try to do justice to exactly why I’m looking forward to this so much.
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Have you ever held a shell to your ear and listened for the relentless roar of a distant ocean? Your romantic side can’t help but be will be captivated by this simple moment of impossible magic … The Lamplighters is that shell.
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This independently-published debut novel is a fast paced adrenaline-rush story that’s spookily relevant to the events of 2020-21.
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If you like your crime-fiction thrillers to be on the grisly side, then The Jigsaw Man is undoubtedly the book for you. This is exhilarating murder mystery is all the more remarkable for being the author’s debut novel, and I promise you’ll be absolutely hooked.
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Nobody warned me quite how engrossing I was going to find The Holdout. It’s utterly addictive! And it’s the reason I’ve got absolutely nothing done since I picked it up for a “quick chapter” yesterday afternoon.
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I can’t quite begin to do justice to how excited I was to get my mitts on this latest instalment in the superbly caustic Jackson Lamb spy-thriller series. Its timely arrival has played merry-hell with my TBR though … but it was too good to wait in line.
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