56 Days by Catherine Ryan Howard

Goodreads Synopsis No one knew they'd moved in together. Now one of them is dead. Could this be the perfect murder? 56 DAYS AGO Ciara and Oliver meet in a supermarket queue in Dublin the same week Covid-19 reaches Irish shores. 35 DAYS AGO When lockdown threatens to keep them apart, Oliver suggests that Ciara …

First Lines Fridays – 03.07.2020

First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines? Pick a book off your shelf  and open to the first page Copy the first few lines, but don’t give anything …

Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz

Goodreads Synopsis When editor Susan Ryeland is given the manuscript of Alan Conway’s latest novel, she has no reason to think it will be much different from any of his others. After working with the bestselling crime writer for years, she's intimately familiar with his detective, Atticus Pünd, who solves mysteries disturbing sleepy English villages. …

A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder

Goodreads synopsis The case is closed. Five years ago, schoolgirl Andie Bell was murdered by Sal Singh. The police know he did it. Everyone in town knows he did it. But having grown up in the same small town that was consumed by the murder, Pippa Fitz-Amobi isn't so sure. When she chooses the case …

Blog Tour: A Wash of Black by Chris McDonald

Synopsis IT'S NOT LIFE THAT IMITATES ART. IT'S DEATH. Anna Symons. Famous. Talented. Dead. When the body of a famous actress is found mutilated on an ice rink in Manchester, recreating a scene from a blockbuster film she starred in years ago, DI Erika Piper must find the culprit; the media-dubbed ‘Blood Ice Killer.’ Having recently returned to …

133 Hours by Zach Abrams

Synopsis Arriving at work to find she’s lost more than five-and-a-half days (133 hours), Briony Chaplin, has no recollection of where she’d been or what had happened to her. She is distraught. Has she been ill, or had a breakdown, or could she have been drugged and abducted? Doubting her own sanity, Briony is fearful …

The Christmas Tree Thief by Phillipa Nefri Clark

First in a cosy mystery series by the name "Charlotte Dean Mysteries" is a new series by Phillipa Nefri Clark. Goodreads synopsis She’s looking forward to a quiet Christmas, but this small town is anything but quiet . . . Former psychiatrist Charlotte Dean has had enough trouble to last a lifetime. When the opportunity to …

Secret Baby, Second Chance by Jane Godman

Goodreads synopsis A terrorized young mother and her secret child return home, where a killer awaits...She's alive! Vincente Delaney has finally found his girlfriend, Beth Wade, who disappeared a year and a half ago, alive. But he's shocked to discover someone with her: their child, a little girl he never knew about! Once upon a …