Category Archives: Suspense

Never Be Broken (DI Marnie Rome #6) by Sarah Hilary #PoliceProcedural #CrimeFiction @sarah_hilary #TuesdayBookBlog

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Author: Sarah Hilary

Publication Date ~ May 16th 2019 (Ebook & Hardback)

Category: Crime, Murder, Mystery, Suspense, Police Procedural, Book Review

Children are dying on London’s streets. Frankie Reece, stabbed through the heart, outside a corner shop. Others recruited from care homes, picked up and exploited; passed like gifts between gangs. They are London’s lost. 

DS Noah Jake is determined to handle Raphaela’s case and Frankie’s too. But he’s facing his own turmoil, and it’s becoming an obsession. DI Marnie Rome is worried, and she needs Noah on side. Because more children are disappearing, more are being killed by the day and the swelling tide of violence needs to be stemmed before it’s too late.

Never Be Broken is a tense and disturbing look at gang culture, manipulation and the exploitation and murder of children, very relevant and important issues in today’s world. 

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Providence by @CarolineKepnes ~ #AudiobookReview SciFi/Fantasy #Thriller

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Author: Caroline Kepnes

Performed by MacLeod Andrews, Emily Rankin, Paul Michael

Published by Simon & Schuster Audio UK in November 2018

Category: Suspense, Thriller, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, AudioBook, Review

Growing up as best friends in small-town New Hampshire, Jon and Chloe are the only ones who truly understand each other, though they can never find the words to tell one another the depth of their feelings. When Jon is finally ready to confess his feelings, he’s suddenly kidnapped by his substitute teacher who is obsessed with H.P. Lovecraft and has a plot to save humanity.

Mourning the disappearance of Jon and facing the reality he may never return, Chloe tries to navigate the rites of entering young adulthood and “fit in” with the popular crowd, but thoughts of Jon are never far away.

Providence explores the compulsive relationship between Jon and Chloe, who enjoy a special friendship growing up together in a small New Hampshire town.

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#ThrowbackThursday ~ Dead is Dead ~ Jack Bertolino #3 by @jelansing ~ Hard hitting #thriller

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My Throwback Thursday choice this week is Dead Is Dead, the third in the Jack Bertolino series, published in May 2016.

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The Scholar (Cormac Reilly #2) by @DervlaMcTiernan ~ Irish #CrimeFiction #TuesdayBookBlog @LittleBrownUK #NetGalley

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Author: Dervla McTiernan

Published: March 2019 by Sphere

Category: Irish Crime, Thriller, Suspense, Mystery, Book Review

When Detective Cormac Reilly’s girlfriend Emma stumbles across the victim of a hit and run, he is first on the scene of a murder that would otherwise never have been assigned to him. As Cormac investigates, evidence mounts that the death is linked to a Darcy laboratory and, increasingly, to Emma herself. Cormac is sure she couldn’t be involved, but how well does he really know her? After all, this isn’t the first time Emma’s been accused of murder…

Sergeant Callie O’Halloran is on the edge of exhaustion with working all hours since her promotion. Her home life is suffering and the Henderson case, one of several she’s working on, seems to be losing momentum despite giving it most of her attention.

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Freefall by Jessica Barry ~ Survival Suspense Thriller @jessbarryauthor #AudiobookReview

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Author: Jessica Barry

Performed by Karissa Vackers, Hillary Huber, MacLeod Andrews

Category: Psychological Thriller, Suspense, Mystery, Audiobook, Review

Published by Random House and released on Audible February 2019

Surviving the plane crash is only the beginning for Allison.

The life that she’s built for herself – her perfect fiancé, their world of luxury – has disappeared in the blink of an eye. Now she must run, not only to escape the dark secrets in her past, but to outwit the man who is stalking her every move.

The story opens with Allison Carpenter, injured and alone on a mountain. She survived the plane crash in the Rockies that killed her fiancé, but everyone assumes she also died.

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Run Away By @HarlanCoben ~ Suspense/Thriller #BookReview Family Drama #TuesdayBookBlog #NetGalley #RunAway

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Author: Harlan Coben

Published: March 2019 by Cornerstone Digital

Category: Suspense, Thriller, Family Drama, Book Review

You’ve lost your daughter.

She’s addicted to drugs and to an abusive boyfriend. And she’s made it clear that she doesn’t want to be found. Then, by chance, you see her playing guitar in Central Park. But she’s not the girl you remember. This woman is living on the edge, frightened, and clearly in trouble. You don’t stop to think. You approach her, beg her to come home.

She runs. 

As Simon Greene sits the Strawberry Fields area of Central Park watching the ‘street musician’ give her rendition of Penny Lane, memories of happier times when his children were younger are running through his head.

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A Killer’s Alibi (Philadelphia Legal #3) by William L. Myers Jr ~ Legal Thriller #NetGalley @williammyersjr #AKillersAlibi

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Author: William L. Myers Jr

Published: February 2019 by Thomas & Mercer

Category: Legal Thriller, Crime, Fiction, Book Review

When crime lord Jimmy Nunzio is caught, knife in hand, over the body of his daughter’s lover and his own archenemy, he turns to Mick McFarland to take up his defense. Usually the courtroom puppeteer, McFarland quickly finds himself at the end of Nunzio’s strings. Struggling to find grounds for a not-guilty verdict on behalf of a well-known killer, Mick is hamstrung by Nunzio’s refusal to tell him what really happened.

The story opens with a shocking prologue as twelve year old Jimmy Nunzio is  initiated into the family ‘firm.’ Twenty some years later mob boss, Jimmy Nunzio is caught knife in hand and covered in blood, a body at his feet and his daughter weeping over her dead boyfriend.

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Come And Find Me (DI Marnie Rome #5) by @sarah_hilary ~ Police Procedural #CrimeFiction #TuesdayBookBlog

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Author: Sarah Hilary

Published: March 2018 by Headline

Category: Crime, Thriller, Suspense, Police Procedural, Book Review

On the surface, Lara Chorley and Ruth Hull have nothing in common, other than their infatuation with Michael Vokey. Each is writing to a sadistic inmate, sharing her secrets, whispering her worst fears, craving his attention.

Come And Find Me begins with Ted Elms, critically ill on life support, but expressing through thoughts his first hand experience of what provoked a prison riot at HMP Cloverton—how a dangerous prisoner, Mickey Vokey, escaped during the ensuing confusion and violence as a fire broke out.

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Longstone (DCI Ryan Mysteries #10) by LJ Ross ~ Viking Wrecks and Murder #FridayReads @ljross_author

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Author: LJ Ross

Kindle Edition

Category: Crime, Thriller, Mystery, Book Review

Viking treasure is discovered beneath the icy waters of the North Sea and local historian Doctor Anna Taylor is called in to help catalogue the most exciting hoard in living memory. But when a shipwreck diver washes up dead, she’s soon out of her depth. Luckily, she knows just the person to call…

Set in Seahouses on the Northumbrian coast, this latest mystery sees DCI Ryan involved with marine archaeology and the ruthless world of deep-sea diving for wrecks.

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Little Bones (Cathy Connolly #1) by Sam Blake #Irish #CrimeFiction @samblakebooks #TuesdayBookBlog

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Author: Sam Blake

Published: May 2016 by Twenty7

Category: Crime Fiction, Police Procedural, Audiobook Review

Twenty-four-year-old Garda Cathy Connolly might be a fearless kick-boxing champion but when she discovers a baby’s bones concealed in the hem of a wedding dress, the case becomes personal.

Garda Cathy (Cat) Connolly is investigating a break in at the house of artist, Zoë Grant, following on the heels of the report of a man lurking in the garden the previous night.

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