Tag: fiction
The Mole People by Kevin Landt
In the glittering city of Las Vegas, where fortunes are won and lost on a single roll of the dice, there exists a world unseen by the pleasure-seekers above. There, a community of outcasts can be found. They dwell in the shadows, beneath the thin veneer of glamour, far from the twinkling lights and towering casinos. Plagued by schizophrenia and alienated from her loved … Read More The Mole People by Kevin Landt
One Night Only by G.P. Ritchie
Life is precious. That’s why they take it. As a boy, Andy Lorimar loved puzzles, but one he didn’t solve destroyed his childhood. It would have taken his future too, if he hadn’t found stability within the police service. Now a long-serving Edinburgh detective, he’s built a solitary existence following evidence to find the truth. Genre: Crime / Horror / Speculative After the horrific … Read More One Night Only by G.P. Ritchie
Bright Midnights Ltd Edition by Lexy Delorme
Amelie has always been different. Most high school students find life challenging, but 17-year old Amelie has a lot more to contend with than typical teenage angst. Ever since she turned 11, others have been irresistibly drawn to her—with tragic consequences. Her only escape is at night when she flies to different times and places through her “dreams”. Her life begins to change when, … Read More Bright Midnights Ltd Edition by Lexy Delorme
Deadly Choice by S Lee Manning
After her daughter bleeds out from a miscarriage in Texas, Patricia Scott kills the doctor who had failed to perform a medically necessary abortion. Her next target is the attorney who’d advised against the abortion out of personal ambition. Lizzie Vaughn, an investigator with her own dark past, is hired by the doctor’s widow after police label her husband’s death a suicide. #DeadlyChoice X/Twitter … Read More Deadly Choice by S Lee Manning
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Missy by Raghav Rao
Madras, India: The orphaned girls of St Ursula’s convent are destined to be nuns or servants but seventeen-year-old Savi dreams of escape. Responsible and good with languages, she’s taken on as governess for the wealthy Nandiyar family at their country estate. The horrific events of a single night force Savi and her love, Ananda, into a dangerous journey, re-emerging in America under new identities, … Read More Missy by Raghav Rao
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The Story Collector by Evie Gaughan
In a quiet village in Ireland, a mysterious local myth is about to change everything… One hundred years ago, Anna, a young farm girl, volunteers to help an intriguing American visitor translate fairy stories from Irish to English. But all is not as it seems and Anna soon finds herself at the heart of a mystery that threatens her very way of life. In … Read More The Story Collector by Evie Gaughan
Deadly Protocol by Roger Corke
Dr Ronnie Ackerman wakes up in bed alone. Her boss, Nobel Prize- winner Professor Hasely Stone, and the man she got drunk with the night before, is downstairs in the sauna, brutally murdered. Who did this, and why? #DeadlyProtocol Twitter/X @rogercorke @HeatherJFitt #BookX #BookTwitter Instagram @roger.corke @heatherjfitt #bookstagram #blogtour Stone had been working with total dedication on the ultimate cure for all cancers. Was he … Read More Deadly Protocol by Roger Corke
The Rescue Sisters by Elaine Whiteford
Stirling and Quebec, 1900 A tale of blackmail, kidnap and terrible secrets. Of children being sent abroad, and of women trying to do the right thing at a time when they were second class citizens. How far will Jane Knight and Eliza Frew go to protect the ones they love … and save themselves? Child rescue and migration are the backdrops to this historical … Read More The Rescue Sisters by Elaine Whiteford
Unsolved (Cal Lovett Files #1) by Heather Critchlow
He won’t rest until he finds out the truth… Cal Lovett is obsessed with finding justice for the families of missing people. His true crime podcast is his way of helping others, even if he can’t help himself. His sister, Margot, disappeared when he was a child. Only one man seems to know something. But he’s behind bars and can’t be trusted. So when … Read More Unsolved (Cal Lovett Files #1) by Heather Critchlow
The Grandmother by Jane E. James
I might be a grandmother. But I’m not some sweet, harmless old lady who people can push around. Two little girls stand with their heads bowed in my living room. I’m told they’re my granddaughters. This is the first time I’ve met them since my daughter and I fell out after she married that waste of space, Vince. Daisy is nine, and Alice seven. … Read More The Grandmother by Jane E. James
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I Died At Fallow Hall by Bonnie Burke-Patel
Anna Deerin moves to a remote Cotswold cottage to become a gardener, trying to strip away everything she’s spent all her life as a woman striving for, craving the anonymity and privacy her new off-grid life provides. But when she clears the last vegetable bed and digs up not twigs but bones, the outside world is readmitted. With it comes Detective Inspector Hitesh Mistry, … Read More I Died At Fallow Hall by Bonnie Burke-Patel
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The Murmurs by Michael J Malone (Annie Jackson Mysteries #1) revisited
Book two, The Torments, in the Annie Jackson Mysteries is out soon, so I’m reposting my original review. 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 … Read More The Murmurs by Michael J Malone (Annie Jackson Mysteries #1) revisited
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