Tag: childhood
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To The River by Vikki Wakefield
How long can you hide the truth? The Kelly family has always been trouble. When a fire in a remote caravan community kills nine people, including 17-year- old Sabine Kelly’s mother and sister, Sabine confesses to the murders. Shortly after, she escapes custody and disappears. #ToTheRiver @VikkiWakefield @noexitpress #RandomThingsTours @annecater @RandomTTours #blogtour Recently made redundant from marriage, motherhood and her career, journalist Rachel Weidermann has long suspected … Read More To The River by Vikki Wakefield
+ brothers, childhood, crime fiction, family, fiction, forgiveness, grief, lies, loss, love, marriage, murder, relationships, revenge, review, secrets, thriller
Broken Shadows by Sorrel Pitts
‘Looking back, Dad just didn’t act like a man who had killed his son. Every time I come back to it, I remember his face that day we came home and Mum had asked where Callum was, and there was nothing there but true concern, you know, at that moment…’ In 1994, eleven-year-old Callum was abducted from his Wiltshire village. His body was found … Read More Broken Shadows by Sorrel Pitts
Happy is the One by Katie Allen Cover Reveal
Imagine you knew exactly when you were going to die…Robin Edmund Blake is halfway through his life. Born in 1986, when Halley’s Comet crossed the sky, he is destined to go out with it, when it returns in 2061. Until that day, he can’t die. He has proof. With his future mapped out in minute detail, a lucrative but increasingly dull job in the … Read More Happy is the One by Katie Allen Cover Reveal
My Top 5 Books of 2023
As we slip quietly into 2024 it’s time to reflect on my absolute favourite books of 2023. I used to pick three but I’ve had to up that to five as I just couldn’t narrow it down. It’s always hard. There were instant standouts again – about 10 of them but I had to cut it down to five. I have tried to include a mix … Read More My Top 5 Books of 2023
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The Shadow Friend by Alex North
If it had happened to you, you would have run away too.Twenty-five years ago, Paul’s friend Charlie Crabtree brutally killed their classmate – and then vanished without a trace. Paul’s never forgiven himself for his part in what happened. He’s never gone back home. Until his elderly mother has a fall. It’s finally time to stop running. It’s not long before things start to … Read More The Shadow Friend by Alex North
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Her Mother’s Daughter by Brian R O’Rourke
Amanda writes dark fiction. Now one fan is bringing her work to life. Amanda is enjoying her life – she’s a successful author who has finally managed to give up her day job. But then an ex-colleague is murdered in an exact reenactment of a killing from one of Amanda’s books. Even worse, Amanda had publicly quarreled with the dead woman and now finds … Read More Her Mother’s Daughter by Brian R O’Rourke
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Making Sacrifices by BC Harris
To the world she is Vida. To Isaac Saddler she epitomises only fear, the stuff of his nightmares, willed into existence through art and writing. Transformed from victim to warrior, she became Vida, Queen of the Vidian Empire. But Vida doesn’t just exist between the pages of a book. #MakingSacrifices X(Twitter) @BCHarris64 @ZooloosBT @zooloo2008 #ZooloosBookTours #blogtour Instagram @beverleycharrisauthor @zooloosbooktours #bookstagram High on Exmoor archaeologists think they’ve found ancient … Read More Making Sacrifices by BC Harris
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The Leftover Woman by Jean Kwok
An evocative family drama and a riveting mystery about the ferocious pull of motherhood for two very different women–from the New York Times bestselling author of Searching for Sylvie Lee and Girl in Translation. Jasmine Yang arrives in New York City from her rural Chinese village without money or family support, fleeing a controlling husband, on a desperate search for the daughter who was taken from her at birth–another … Read More The Leftover Woman by Jean Kwok
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Surviving Him by Jo Johnson
When Daisy reaches eighteen, she enters a highly selective club. In this club, you get a test that decides if you live or die. To the casual observer Daisy is a vile bully with a drug habit. She’s been expelled from school and frightens her family. Realising the disease that devoured her father is after her, Daisy has given up. Her one remaining cheerleader … Read More Surviving Him by Jo Johnson
Crow Face, Doll Face by Carly Holmes
Unhappily married mother of four, Annie is drowning in domestic servitude. She often wonders what her life could have been had she not had children, but when her youngest daughters perform a seemingly impossible act of levitation, her life is touched with magic and she realises that her girls are truly special and that she must protect them. Eventually Annie musters the courage to … Read More Crow Face, Doll Face by Carly Holmes
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His Favourite Graves by Paul Cleave
To catch a killer… Maybe you’ve got to be one… Acacia Pines, USA. Sheriff Cohen’s life is falling apart – his father accidently burned down the retirement home, his wife has moved out, and his son is bullying other kids at school. When high-school student, Lucas Connor, is abducted, Cohen sees a chance to get his life back on track – to win back … Read More His Favourite Graves by Paul Cleave
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The Girls Left Behind by Emily Gunnis
1985. Separated from her little sister at the children’s home where they are taken as orphans, Holly Moore is a troubled teenager in need of love. When she meets a man who promises to take care of her, she hopes her luck has finally changed. 2015. The clock is ticking for Superintendent Jo Hamilton when the discovery of a young woman’s remains takes her back to an unsolved case from … Read More The Girls Left Behind by Emily Gunnis
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