Category: thriller
+ crime fiction, family, fiction, grief, kidnapping, loss, mental health, mental illness, mystery, obsession, police drama, review, thriller
Gone by TJ Brearton
How can an entire family disappear into thin air? An empty house on the edge of a small town . . . a teddy bear abandoned . . . a half drunk glass of wine . . . the TV left on and all the computer equipment missing. Where have Hutchinson Kemp and his wife and two children gone? Detective Rondeau doesn’t think they left … Read More Gone by TJ Brearton
+ crime fiction, family, fiction, grief, lies, loss, love, marriage, mental health, motherhood, murder, obsession, postpartum psychosis, relationships, review, thriller
The Babysitter by Emma Curtis
Three women. Three secrets.Claudia’s life imploded ten years ago when she was convicted of the murder of her child. Now she has done the unthinkable and confessed to manslaughter in order to be granted parole – her only hope of finding out what really happened to Tilly. Sara is married to Joe, Claudia’s ex-husband, and they have a young child together. She finally has … Read More The Babysitter by Emma Curtis
+ abuse, alcoholism, child abduction, child abuse, childhood, crime fiction, eighties, fiction, friendship, grief, kidnapping, love, murder, murder mystery, review, romance, secrets, supernatural, thriller
Lost Girls of Kato by Quinn Avery
Fans of Hidden Pictures and The Lovely Bones will enjoy this unconventional love story with a harrowing mystery and a bond that transcends time… In the year 1986, 12-year-old Jackie Tanner leads a desolate existence alongside a flighty older sister and an absent mother. It isn’t until Jackie meets an older boy on the banks of the river that she understands the value of love and the bonds … Read More Lost Girls of Kato by Quinn Avery
Eyes of Glass by Gemma Metcalfe & Joe Cawley
Who will read my words?Who will know my truth? When Lyra Thomas finds a bottle on a Galway beach containing a poem from America, she’s elated. As an author living by the sea, she always dreamt of finding a message from a distant prince or a swashbuckling saviour. But this is NO fairy tale. #EyesOfGlass @gemmakmetcalfe @theWorldofJoe @SpellBoundBks @Tr4cyF3nt0n #CompulsiveReaders #blogtour Lyra learns in a phone … Read More Eyes of Glass by Gemma Metcalfe & Joe Cawley
+ fiction, gothic, Gothic mystery, grief, loss, love, marriage, mystery, review, secrets, supernatural, superstition, thriller
Jump Cut by Helen Grant
The Simulacrum is the most famous lost movie in film history – would you tell someone your darkest secrets, just to lay hands on a copy? 104-year-old Mary Arden is the last surviving cast member of a notorious lost film. Holed up in Garthside, an Art Deco mansion reputed to be haunted, she has always refused interviews. Twitter #JumpCut @helengrantsays @Fledglingpress @KellyALacey @lovebookstours #JumpCutTour #Ad #LBTCrew #BookTwitter Instagram @helengrantsays Now … Read More Jump Cut by Helen Grant
The Book Club Murders by Alan Gorevan
When Izzy O’Brien flees the city centre apartment she shared with her controlling partner, she relocates to the seaside town of Dun Laoghaire, and the house she inherited from her aunt. Isolated and insecure, Izzy is relieved to be embraced by a tight knit group of female neighbours, who invite her to join their book club. #TheBookClubMurders @AlanGorevan @Zooloo’s Book Tours @zooloo2008 #ZooloosBookTours #blogtour However, the town … Read More The Book Club Murders by Alan Gorevan
Her No1 Fan by Abby Davies
Rachel Brown plays Doctor Elouise Sparks in the popular TV series ‘Emergency’. Though successful in her career, Rachel has just learned that her chance of conception is small, and she is devastated by the information. That’s when Mikey Bell takes Rachel from her home to a remote mountain cottage. But Mikey’s motive isn’t ‘normal’. He has a strange request. The good news is that … Read More Her No1 Fan by Abby Davies
+ fiction, gothic, gothic horror, Gothic mystery, review, Scotland, Scottish Highlands, superstition, thriller, twins, witchcraft, witches
The Murmurs (Annie Jackson Mysteries #1) by Michael J Malone
On the first morning of her new job at Heartfield House, a care home for the elderly, Annie Jackson wakens from a terrifying dream. And when she arrives at the home, she knows that the first old man she meets is going to die. How she knows this is a terrifying mystery, but it is the start of horrifying premonitions … a rekindling of … Read More The Murmurs (Annie Jackson Mysteries #1) by Michael J Malone
The Crash by Robert Preston
As the world falls apart, a deadly conspiracy comes together . . . London, 2007. It’s summer in the the economy is booming, profits are up and the stock market sits near record highs. But journalist Gil Peck is a lone voice worrying it can’t last. Deep in the plumbing of the financial system, he has noticed strange things happening which could threaten the … Read More The Crash by Robert Preston
+ child abduction, childhood, crime fiction, family, fiction, grief, kidnapping, lies, loss, love, marriage, mental health, motherhood, murder, obsession, revenge, review, secrets, thriller
Missing by KL Slater
I’ve known him all my life. I know he has taken my daughter. His mother says she can help me. But she’s the last person I can trust… Samuel lived next door when we were children. We were inseparable. But he didn’t like sharing me with my adored little brother. And one terrible night, he got rid of my brother forever… Now, years later, … Read More Missing by KL Slater
+ crime fiction, family, fiction, friendship, grief, hostage, kidnapping, love, murder, obsession, psychopath, review, serial killer, stalker, thriller
Death Isn’t Enough by Mariëtte Whitcomb Death Trilogy #1
Noa Morgan worked hard to put the past and Emily behind her. Not that she remembers much about the forty days she spent in captivity. When Noa realises she is being stalked, she knows it’s him. Despite everything she’s done, he’s found her. And now he’s killing innocent women, leaving an item at each crime scene still vivid in her memory. With the body … Read More Death Isn’t Enough by Mariëtte Whitcomb Death Trilogy #1
+ adventure, China, dark humour, female friendship, fiction, friendship, humour fiction, India, review, Russia, sisterhood, thriller, trafficking
Sinister Sisterhood by Jane Badrock
Elle’s dreams of married bliss are shattered by David’s dalliances. She needs a new life-plan and it’s thrust upon her by her tiger-loving aunt in India. Converted to the cause, she’s now committed to combating cruel animal exploitation whether it’s trading in endangered animal parts or trophy hunting. But she can’t do it on her own. What she needs is money and a terrific … Read More Sinister Sisterhood by Jane Badrock
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