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9/7/2019 0 Comments

Review: About That Night

About That Night by Elaine Bedell
Page length: 384 pages
Genre: Crime Fiction, Women's Fiction  
Publication Date: 11 July 2019
Publisher: HQ
Source: ARC via NetGalley
 
Stars:  4.5 out of 5
 
Link: AMAZON (UK)
 
ABOUT ABOUT THAT NIGHT
 
Sometimes it only takes one night to change everything…
 
Elizabeth Place might have been jilted on her wedding day one year ago, but at least she’s still got her brilliant job producing one of the biggest shows on TV!
 
But when larger-than-life TV host, Ricky Clough, dies live on air, her life is sent spinning out of control. And with foul play suspected, the spotlight is turned firmly on his colleagues – especially Hutch, the man desperate for Ricky’s job and whom Elizabeth is secretly dating.
 
As her world comes crashing down around her, Elizabeth realises that perhaps the only person she can really trust, is herself…
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My Review

A brilliant read. Television becomes less glamour when you go behind the scenes. Elizabeth's job is to make Saturday must-see television, and Ricky – the star of the show – knows as the talent he can do what he wants. When he collapses on screen, an assumed heart attack turns out to be more suspicious and the police have some difficult questions to ask. I was double guessing who might have been involved in Ricky's death but wouldn't have got close to the ending. Bravo!
 
A very accomplished debut from Ms Bedell.
 
VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
 
Thank you so much the publisher and NetGalley for providing me with a complimentary electronic copy in return for an honest review. 
 
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20/6/2019 0 Comments

Review: I Looked Away

I Looked Away by Jane Corry
Page length: 512 pages
Genre: Crime Fiction, Thriller  
Publication Date: 27 June 2019
Publisher: Cornerstone Digital
Source: ARC via NetGalley
 
Stars:  5 out of 5
 
Link: AMAZON (UK)

 
ABOUT I LOOKED AWAY
 
Every Monday, 49-year-old Ellie looks after her grandson Josh. She loves him more than anyone else in the world. The only thing that can mar her happiness is her husband's affair. But he swears it's over now, and Ellie has decided to be thankful for what she's got.
 
Then one day, while she's looking after Josh, her husband gets a call from that woman. And just for a moment, Ellie takes her eyes off her grandson. What happens next will change her life forever.
 
Because Ellie is hiding something in her past.
 
And what looks like an accident could start to look like murder...
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My Review:

I really enjoyed Jane Corry's previous books – My Husband's Wife, The Dead Ex and Blood Sisters – she has a unique talent for presenting darker themes of society – prison and homelessness – in the case of I Looked Away, and exposing humanity's flaws.
 
I Looked Wway is told from two perspectives:
 
Ellie – then and now – then, when she was a young girl and her little brother was involved in an accident. And now – when her young grandson is also at risk.
 
Jo – a middle class woman who has found herself homeless and tries to navigate living on the streets.
 
Beautifully told, the heartache and heartbreak endured by Ellie throughout her life was foremost, woven with the grief was the foundation for this twisty thriller.
 
VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
 
Thank you so much the publisher and NetGalley for providing me with a complimentary electronic copy in return for an honest review. 
 
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14/6/2019 0 Comments

Review: The Last Widow

The Last Widow by Karin Slaughter
Genre: Crime/Thriller
Page Length: 464 Pages
Publication Date: 14 June 2019
Publisher: HarperCollins
Source: ARC via NetGalley
 
Stars:  5 out of 5
 
Link: AMAZON (UK)

 
ABOUT THE LAST WIDOW:
 
It begins with an abduction. The routine of a family shopping trip is shattered when Michelle Spivey is snatched as she leaves the mall with her young daughter. The police search for her, her partner pleads for her release, but in the end…they find nothing. It’s as if she disappeared into thin air.
 
A month later, on a sleepy Sunday afternoon, medical examiner Sara Linton is at lunch with her boyfriend Will Trent, an agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. But the serenity of the summer’s day is broken by the wail of sirens.
 
Sara and Will are trained to help in an emergency. Their jobs – their vocations – mean that they run towards a crisis, not away from it. But on this one terrible day that instinct betrays them both. Within hours the situation has spiralled out of control; Sara is taken prisoner; Will is forced undercover. And the fallout will lead them into the Appalachian mountains, to the terrible truth about what really happened to Michelle, and to a remote compound where a radical group has murder in mind…
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My Review:

I love Karin Slaugter's writing. The Last Widow is a brilliant and compelling read from start to finish. I didn't realise that this was a Will Trent novel, so pleasantly surprised from the get go!
 
The prologue starts in a normal day in a department store, the interaction between mother and daughter. The end of which leaves everything to the imagination "Ashley had run off, just like they had taught her to do. Which was fine, because the man did not want Ashley. He wanted Michelle."
 
Ms Slaughter writes in such a way it's impossible not to feel there with the characters. To feel their pain, their anguish and the dialogue is sharp and the description at times visceral.
When Sara gets taken at gunpoint, Will is left injured and determined to find her. The time is ticking, but bureaucracy and competing law enforcement bodies competing for jurisdiction.
 
With Will chasing after a home-grown terrorist group, there are timely comparisons to Charlottesville.
 
VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
 
Thank you so much the publisher and NetGalley for providing me with a complimentary electronic copy in return for an honest review. 
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13/6/2019 0 Comments

Review: Our Stop

Our Stop by Laura Jane Williams
Page length: 400 pages
Genre: Romance, Romantic Comedy
Publication Date: 13 June 2019
Publisher: Avon
Source: ARC via NetGalley
 
Stars:  4.5 out of 5
 
Link: AMAZON (UK)

 
ABOUT OUR STOP
 
Nadia gets the 07.30 train every morning without fail. Well, except if she oversleeps or wakes up at her friend Emma’s after too much wine.
 
Daniel really does get the 07.30 train every morning, which is easy because he hasn’t been able to sleep properly since his Dad died.
 
One morning, Nadia’s eye catches sight of a post in the daily paper:
 
To the cute girl with the coffee stains on her dress. I’m the guy who’s always standing near the doors… Drink sometime?
 
So begins a not-quite-romance of near-misses, true love, and the power of the written word.
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My Review:

Such a lovely idea. I love reading the missed connections in the newspaper!
Nadia is recovering from and awful relationship with Awful Ben, when it seems someone on her train has the hots for her. A lovely web spun from nearly-meets, nearly-crashes and lots of nearly-at-the-wrong-times. As the book hurtled towards the end, I found myself wholly engaged in Nadia and Daniel's story, not to mention what was going on with best friend Emma.
 
VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
 
Thank you so much the publisher and NetGalley for providing me with a complimentary electronic copy in return for an honest review. 
 
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10/5/2019 0 Comments

Review: The Flatshare

The Flatshare by Beth O'Leary
Page length: 336 pages
Genre: Romance, Romantic Comedy
Publication Date: 10 April 2019
Publisher: Quercus
Source: ARC via NetGalley
 
Stars:  5 out of 5
 
Link: AMAZON (UK)

 
ABOUT THE FLATSHARE
 
Tiffy and Leon share a flat
Tiffy and Leon share a bed
Tiffy and Leon have never met...
 
Tiffy Moore needs a cheap flat, and fast. Leon Twomey works nights and needs cash. Their friends think they're crazy, but it's the perfect solution: Leon occupies the one-bed flat while Tiffy's at work in the day, and she has the run of the place the rest of the time.
 
But with obsessive ex-boyfriends, demanding clients at work, wrongly imprisoned brothers and, of course, the fact that they still haven't met yet, they're about to discover that if you want the perfect home you need to throw the rulebook out the window...

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My Review:

About to be homeless Tiffy is desperate for a cheap place. Is sharing a flat with Leon the answer to her prayers? It's an unorthodox idea – Tiffy has the flat evenings and weekends, Leon has it daytimes.
 
An absolutely brilliant book. I was expecting a will-they or won't-they storyline but there was so much more. Gerty the no-nonsense barrister and Tiffy's strange writers and colleagues. And Leon's brother. All the characters were so real and have stayed with me for days.
 
The ending nearly had me in tears.
 
VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
 
Thank you so much the publisher and NetGalley for providing me with a complimentary electronic copy in return for an honest review. 
 
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