Ali Land | Good Me, Bad Me | Nothing is black and white …
by Karen Byrom If like me, you like a good thriller, I can recommend this brilliant ones that kept me glued to my sun-lounger on my recent holiday. Good Me, Bad Me by Ali...
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E.V. Harte | The Prime Of Ms Dolly Greene | Murder & Mystery
Published by Constable in paperback, £8.99 Reviewed by Maggie Swinburne Fancy a stroll around the secret areas of London? Discovering canals and tow paths and little hidden streets where houses the size of matchboxes are...
Mindy Mejia | The Last Act Of Hattie Hoffman | A Gripping Read
Published by Quercus PB, £7.99 Reviewed by Karen Byrom Eighteen-year-old Hattie Hoffman lies dead in a boat shed, her face horribly mutilated, her legs dangling in the water, each swollen to the size of...
All The Wicked Girls | Chris Whitaker | Ventures into a dark place …
All The Wicked Girls by Chris Whitaker, Zaffre PB, £7.99 Reviewed by Sarah Proctor On one level, All The Wicked Girls is an oh-so familiar plot. Small-town girl goes missing; small-town cops struggle to...
Bella Osborne | Escape To Willow Cottage| Dramatic & Romantic
Escape to Willow Cottage by Bella Osborne (Avon PB, £7.99) Reviewed by Anita Bhadani A single mother with a dark past, Beth leaves her high-octane life for an escape to the countryside, son in...
Sophie Divry | Madame Bovary of the Suburbs | Every Woman’s Diary
Madame Bovary of the Suburbs by Sophie Divry (translated by Alison Anderson) MacLehose Press HB, £14.99 Reviewed by Hannah McLaren Madame Bovary of the Suburbs, reads like the diary every woman has contributed a...
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Shari Lapena | A Stranger In The House | Thrilling New Novel
Reviewed by Karen Byrom A Stranger In The House opens with a mystery when Tom Krupp comes home from work to find that his wife, Karen, is missing. The house is like the Marie...
Hilary Boyd |A Perfect Husband | Addictive Reading!
Reviewed by Maggie Swinburne A Perfect Husband by Hilary Boyd (£18.99 Quercus) is a warm-hearted story of how love can happen, at any age! Addicted to love – that’s Lily and Freddy’s relationship since...
The Woman In The Wood by Lesley Pearse: Review
Reviewed by Sally Rodger Twins Maisy and Duncan have not had the easiest of childhoods. Their mother’s bouts of illness and increasingly erratic behaviour mean they can’t have friends round to play and as...
Here And Gone – A review of Haylen Beck’s new thriller
A distraught mother, missing children, crooked policeman and an emotionally damaged hero – they’re all here in Here and Gone (published by Harvill Secker Vintage HB £12.99) brought together by Haylen Beck in one of...