Month: November 2022
+ dark humour, fiction, friends, friendship, grief, literature, obsession, relationships, review, secrets, therapy, writing
Suicide Thursday by Will Carver
If words could kill…Eli Hagin can’t finish anything. He hates his job, but can’t seem to quit. He doesn’t want to be with his girlfriend, but doesn’t know how to end things with her, either. Eli wants to write a novel, but he’s never taken a story beyond the first chapter. #SuicideThursday @Will_Carver @OrendaBooks#RandomThingsTours @annecater @RandomTTours #blogtour #CarverCult Eli also has trouble separating reality from fiction. When his … Read More Suicide Thursday by Will Carver
+ crime fiction, Detective novel, family, fiction, murder, murder mystery, police drama, police procedural, review, thriller
The Politician by Tim Sullivan The DS Cross Mysteries #4
A smashed window. A ransacked room. A dead body. At first glance, it’s a burglary gone wrong. First impressions of a crime scene are crucial… but they aren’t always correct. When DS George Cross – Bristol Crime Unit’s most eccentric, dogged and successful detective – starts investigating the death of former mayor Peggy Frampton, he’s convinced that what looks like a bungled burglary is … Read More The Politician by Tim Sullivan The DS Cross Mysteries #4
The Bookstore Sisters by Alice Hoffman Once Upon a Time Bookshop Stories #1
Isabel Gibson has all but perfected the art of forgetting. She’s a New Yorker now, with nothing left to tie her to Brinkley’s Island, Maine. Her parents are gone, the family bookstore is all but bankrupt, and her sister, Sophie, will probably never speak to her again. But when a mysterious letter arrives in her mailbox, Isabel feels herself drawn to the past. After … Read More The Bookstore Sisters by Alice Hoffman Once Upon a Time Bookshop Stories #1
+ brothers, family, fiction, Ghost story, gothic horror, Gothic mystery, grief, haunting, loss, love, paranormal, review, supernatural, superstition, USA
The Haunting of Noyo Bay by L.B. Stimson narrated by Jennifer March
When sixteen-year-old Charlotte Goolsby first encounters the mysterious little boy playing in the cemetery, she assumes he belongs to the minister’s family. However, as sightings of the little boy continue and seemingly go unnoticed by the rest of Keesbury’s residents, Charlotte is forced to confront everything she once believed about life and death. Charlotte finds herself confiding her fears to her father’s shipwright apprentice, … Read More The Haunting of Noyo Bay by L.B. Stimson narrated by Jennifer March
+ crime fiction, Detective novel, fiction, MI5, motherhood, murder, police drama, police procedural, rape, review, serial killer, thriller
The Soho Killer by B.L. Pearce Detective Rob Miller #6
The body of a middle-aged man is discovered in Soho. DCI Rob Miller, who’d thought he’d seen it all, is shocked by the violent death. The victim, dressed in a leather bondage outfit, has whip marks on his back and a ball-gag in his mouth. It looks like he’s been raped and strangled, but whether it was autoerotic or murder, that remains to be … Read More The Soho Killer by B.L. Pearce Detective Rob Miller #6
+ fiction, Ghost story, haunting, murder, murder mystery, mystery, psychiatric hospital, review, supernatural, thriller
Blind House by Jamie-Lee Brooke
Fame is about to get deadly in this terrifying, fresh take on a haunted house thriller. Set in an idyllic Cotswolds village, rookie paranormal investigator, Megan Forrest, is roped into investigating the strange goings-on at the home of Hollywood actor, Ross Huston. Ross and his wife Deborah are convinced that their Victorian mansion is being haunted by the mentally ill patients who resided there … Read More Blind House by Jamie-Lee Brooke
Ouija by Zoé-Lee O’Farrell
The only thing for certain is the deaths were no accident. Rayner High School – once a prestigious school – stands in ruins after such a terrible event. #Ouija #Zoe-Lee O’Farrell @Zooloo’s Book Tours @zooloo2008 #ZooloosBookTours #blogtour A year later, a group of friends return to the abandoned school and their nightmare begins. Something wants to get out and won’t take NO for an answer… My Review … Read More Ouija by Zoé-Lee O’Farrell
+ abuse, alcoholism, child abuse, childhood, domestic noir, eighties, family, female friendship, fiction, grief, loss, love, mental health, mental illness, obsession, relationships, review
Surviving Her by Jo Johnson
Nicky is the child with the hurting eyes and desperate ways. Rescue him.Claus is the man with the empty eyes and controlling ways. Rescue her. Broken by the death of her sister, Keziah can’t believe her luck when Claus, a beautiful psychologist saves her from a disciplinary disaster. Desperate to heal herself and restore her parents, she marries in haste. But her husband’s idiosyncrasies … Read More Surviving Her by Jo Johnson
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