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+ adventure, Arctic, art, childhood, family, fiction, friendship, Historical fiction, Inuit, journal, literature, loss, love, memoir, racism, review, Scottish Highlands, secrets, sisters
A Woman Made of Snow by Elisabeth Gifford
A gorgeous, haunting, and captivating novel of a century-long family mystery in the wild of Scotland, and one woman’s hunt for the truth. Scotland, 1949: Caroline Gillan and her new husband Alasdair have moved back to Kelly Castle, his dilapidated family estate in the middle of nowhere. Stuck caring for their tiny baby, and trying to find her way with an opinionated mother-in-law, Caroline … Read More A Woman Made of Snow by Elisabeth Gifford
+ adventure, crime fiction, dark humour, family, fiction, germany, haunting, Historical fiction, holocaust, horror, List, literature, loss, love, marriage, murder, mystery, nazi germany, political thriller, Psychological fiction, relationships, review, secrets, sisters, stalker, supernatural, thriller, World War Two
My Top 8 Books of 2021 – part three
Here are my favourite eight books of the third quarter of 2021. So far this has been a good year for books if for nothing else, so it was a really difficult decision. The Beresford by Will Carver Firstly let me just say one thing – don’t get too attached to the characters, they may not be around long enough. Apart from Mrs May that … Read More My Top 8 Books of 2021 – part three
+ childhood, dementia, family, family drama, fiction, forgiveness, Glasgow, literature, love, motherhood, relationships, review, Scottish literature, sisters
Be Guid Tae Yer Mammy by Emma Grae
Kate and her Granny Jean have nothing in common. Jean’s great claim to fame is raising her weans without two pennies to rub together, and Kate’s an aspiring scriptwriter whose anxiety has her stuck in bad thought after bad thought. #BeGuidTaeYerMammy @emmagraeauthor@annecater @RandomTTours #RandomThingsTours But what Jean’s Glaswegian family don’t know is that she dreamed of being a film star and came a hairsbreadth away from making … Read More Be Guid Tae Yer Mammy by Emma Grae
+ child abduction, crime fiction, fiction, memoir, murder, murder mystery, Psychological fiction, review, secrets, sisters, thriller
A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins
‘What is wrong with you?’ Laura has spent most of her life being judged. She’s seen as hot-tempered, troubled, a loner. Some even call her dangerous. Miriam knows that just because Laura is witnessed leaving the scene of a horrific murder with blood on her clothes, that doesn’t mean she’s a killer. Bitter experience has taught her how easy it is to get caught in the … Read More A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins
Stone The Dead Crows by Carrie Magillen
Three sisters. Two strangers. One secret. Maggie has an impossible choice. Stay and protect her family from the hooded stalker in the woods? Or return to Rose and help her fight the doctors who want to remove life support from their sister, Daisy? #STONETHEDEADCROWS @CarrieMagillen @annecater @RandomTTours #RandomThingsTours There’s a man at Daisy’s bedside. He says Rose can trust him. But he’s telling her disturbing things … Read More Stone The Dead Crows by Carrie Magillen
+ crime fiction, family, fiction, murder, murder mystery, psycopath, relationships, review, secrets, sisters, thriller
Not a Happy Family by Shari Lapena
In this family, everyone is keeping secrets – even the dead.In the quiet, wealthy enclave of Brecken Hill, an older couple is brutally murdered hours after a tense Easter dinner with their three adult children. Who, of course, are devastated. #NotAHappyFamily @sharilapena @annecater @RandomTTours #RandomThingsTours Or are they? They each stand to inherit millions. They were never a happy family, thanks to their vindictive father and … Read More Not a Happy Family by Shari Lapena
Pivotal by Nikki Vallance
When you pass through a door does your life change or do you have power over who you become by the choices you make? Dulcie Braybrooke is breaking through as a celebrated ceramicist.Elizabeth is a lonely City head-hunter.Annie is a teacher who’s lost her verve.Liza is a lap dancer with a strong will and a tough life. When a mysterious bequest throws each of … Read More Pivotal by Nikki Vallance
+ abuse, child abuse, childhood, family, family drama, fiction, journal, literature, loss, memoir, relationships, review, sisters
The Lost Girls by Heather Young
In the summer of 1935, six-year-old Emily Evans vanishes from her family’s vacation home on a remote Minnesota lake. Her disappearance destroys her mother, who spends the rest of her life at the lake house, hoping in vain that her favorite daughter will walk out of the woods. Emily’s two older sisters stay, too, each keeping her own private, decades-long vigil for the lost … Read More The Lost Girls by Heather Young
+ child abduction, child abuse, community, crime fiction, cult, female friendship, fiction, hostage, kidnapping, murder, rape, revenge, review, serial killer, sisters, thriller
Binding Lies (Finley Series#3) by Mariëtte Whitcomb
There is nothing a mother wouldn’t do to protect her children. They think they’ve won. Good. While I try my best not to kill Gabriel, Aidan is hunting down the person responsible for destroying our lives; the one we call the Puppet Master. Separate but, united, Aidan and I continue to fight our enemies, desperate to reclaim what they stole from us. #BindingLiesTheNovel #FinleySeries … Read More Binding Lies (Finley Series#3) by Mariëtte Whitcomb
+ crime fiction, fiction, kidnapping, murder, murder mystery, psycopath, rape, revenge, review, serial killer, sisters, thriller
Deception (Finley Series#2) by Mariëtte Witcomb
We should’ve stayed in Vietnam. Five men have vanished from their homes, and not a single piece of evidence has been left behind. The police are stumped – until the most recent victim is found, alive, and he asks to speak to me…Ari is back. #DeceptionTheNovel #FinleySeries #MarietteWhitcomb @damppebbles #damppebblesblogtours At Captain Taylor’s request, I join the investigation but this time I need to stay … Read More Deception (Finley Series#2) by Mariëtte Witcomb
+ adventure, brothers, cult, family, feminism, fiction, Greek mythology, literature, love, motherhood, mythology, review, sisterhood, sisters
Ariadne by Jennifer Saint
‘My story would not be one of death and suffering and sacrifice, I would take my place in the songs that would be sung about Theseus; the princess who saved him and ended the monstrosity that blighted Crete,’ As Princesses of Crete and daughters of the fearsome King Minos, Ariadne and her sister Phaedra grow up hearing the hoofbeats and bellows of the Minotaur … Read More Ariadne by Jennifer Saint
+ fiction, Malta, murder, mystery, obsession, Psychological fiction, review, secrets, sisters, thriller
Her Last Holiday by C L Taylor
You come to the retreat to be healed. You don’t expect to die. Two years ago, Fran’s sister Jenna disappeared on a wellness retreat in Gozo that went terribly wrong. Tom Wade, the now infamous man behind Soul Shrink Retreats, has just been released from prison after serving his sentence for the deaths of two people. But he has never let on what happened … Read More Her Last Holiday by C L Taylor
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