Tag: murder
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Rough Justice by Biba Pearce (Shrap Nelson #1)
A HOMELESS VETERAN, MURDERED. When ex-military investigator ‘Shrap’ Nelson finds her fellow homeless veteran burned to death under a railway bridge, she knows there’s more to his murder than meets the eye. Doug was the friend who saved her life two years ago, and now she owes it to him to uncover the truth. #Rough Justice X (Twitter) #BibaPearce IG author_bibapearce #blogtour #shrapnelspon ON THE GRITTY STREETS … Read More Rough Justice by Biba Pearce (Shrap Nelson #1)
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My Top 10 Books of 2024 – Part Three
Here are my favourite ten books of 2024 Part Three, not counting audiobooks. Quite a disparate selection for a change. Audiobooks to follow. Gallows Wood by Louisa Scarr I read this in ten staves with the Pigeonhole online book club. It was almost unbearable waiting for the next instalment. The book was so exciting, the suspense nail-biting. While this is the first in a … Read More My Top 10 Books of 2024 – Part Three
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The Two Masks of Vendetta by Tony Lee Moral – Extract
Caught between love, lies, and the Italian mafia – Catriona Benedict’s life is about to take a deadly turn. Catriona, a struggling actress in New York City, finds herself trapped in a dangerous web of secrets. Approached by the wealthy and charismatic Miles Kingston, she’s offered an incredible sum of money to pose as his wife – an arrangement that will help Miles secure … Read More The Two Masks of Vendetta by Tony Lee Moral – Extract
The Passion of the Cross by Tony Lee Moral
When famed curator Giovanni Montefiore’s is shockingly murdered at the Italian Opera in Rome following his bold proclamation regarding the authenticity of the True Cross, there are many suspects, but suspicion falls heavily upon his nephew, Mario Montefiore. With his American girlfriend, actress Catriona Benedict, by his side, they embark on a perilous quest for truth and to uncover the real killer, leading them … Read More The Passion of the Cross by Tony Lee Moral
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Death Rites by Sarah Ward
Professor Carla James is an archaeologist with an interest in more than just bones and stones. She wants to understand the emotions behind the sites she investigates. Desperate for a change of scene following the death of her husband, Carla takes a job at Jericho, an elite New England college. On her first day, Carla is asked to represent the department at an unusual … Read More Death Rites by Sarah Ward
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
The Weekenders by David F. Ross Cover Reveal
Glasgow, 1966: Stevie ‘Minto’ Milloy, former star footballer-turned-rookie reporter, finds himself trailing the story of a young Eastern European student whose body has been found on remote moorland outside the city. How did she get there from her hostel at the Sovereign Grace Mission, and why does Stevie find obstacles at every turn? Italy, 1943: As the Allies fight Mussolini’s troops, a group of … Read More The Weekenders by David F. Ross Cover Reveal
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The Reunion by MJ Arlidge and Steph Broadribb
A skull looks up at Jennie from the trench, but it’s not the chalk-white bone and grimacing teeth that send her reeling. It’s the heart-shaped gold pendant, its delicate chain snapped in two. The necklace Hannah never took off. It can’t be Hannah. But it is. When Jennie Whitmore arrives at her school reunion, she immediately regrets her decision. Why would she choose to surround herself … Read More The Reunion by MJ Arlidge and Steph Broadribb
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 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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