Reviews
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Lewis Sinclair & The Gentlemen Cowboys – D.M.S Fick
Entertaining listen, with gentle humour, and a lot of hats… This is not your average country music festival. Lewis Sinclair gets dumped right before taking the stage at a top music festival. The man she dumped him for? His manager, who later turns up dead, with Lew being the primary suspect. Read more
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The Patient – Teri Terry
Yanks your heartstrings and ties them up in knots you can’t easily unravel. Loved it. I feel the steady thump of my new heart beating inside me. The surgeon said everything went well. But I can’t stop thinking about my donor: the girl who was killed. Her death saved my life. But now whoever took Read more
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A Death In Diamonds – S.J. Bennett
Instalment four moves back in time, introduces fun new characters and is all the better for it. 1957 – Young Queen Elizabeth II is finding her way in a challenging world as the United Kingdom must adjust to having neither an empire nor a set place in post-war Europe. As she travels the world to Read more
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Knife Skills for Beginners – Orlando Murrin
What happens when Murder, She Wrote and Celebrity Come Dine With Me, spend a drunken night together. A recipe for disaster.When chef Paul Delamare takes a job teaching at an exclusive residential cookery school in Belgravia, the only thing he expects his students to murder is his taste buds. But on the first night, the Read more
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Twenty-Seven Minutes – Ashley Tate
A claustrophobic small town, the indelible impression of tragedy and the legacy of unanswered questions, you’ll be consumed with finding out what happened. The question For the last ten years, the small, claustrophobic town of West Wilmer has been struggling to understand one thing: Why did it take young Grant Dean twenty-seven minutes to call Read more
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The Girl On The News – Elisabeth Carpenter
This one genuinely caught me unaware with its reveal. My heart pounds as I take in the headline: ‘Missing girl believed kidnapped’. Underneath is a photo of my beautiful daughter Mia, her gap-toothed grin unmistakable. But Mia is safe beside me, snuggled up on the sofa. Why would someone pretend my child has been taken? Read more
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Helle and Death – Oskar Jensen
Not one wasted opportunity to de-rail the reader and a denouement to die for! Puzzling escapism at its best A snowstorm. A country house. Old friends reunited. It’s going to be murder… Torben Helle – art historian, Danish ex-pat and owner of several excellent Scandinavian jumpers – finds himself dragged to a remote snowbound Northumbrian Read more
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Lost and Never Found – Simon Mason
DI Wilkins and DI Wilkins, Ryan and Ray – no relation. Polar opposites, perfectly paired. Oxford, city of rich and poor, where the homeless camp out in the shadows of the gorgeous buildings and monuments. A city of lost things – and buried crimes. At three o’clock in the morning, Emergency Services receives a call. Read more
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One Last Breath – P.S. Cunliffe
Cracking opening, but requirement of explanatory closing chapters means it sadly missed its mark. A deadly trap. A ticking clock. How long until she has only one last breath? Jessie wakes to darkness, cold, and the rain beating down on her. She reaches out, and her hands meet hard stone. Suddenly she knows where she is. Read more
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First Lie Wins – Ashley Elston
Woot, what a ride! First Lie Wins is not just a rollercoaster of a read, it’s a rollercoaster in the dark because you never see the twists coming. Buckle up for this one. Read more
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