Tag Archives: Fiction

The Lost Letters by Sarah Mitchell ~ Dual Timeline #Family #Saga reviewed for #RBRT @SarahM_writer @Bookouture

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Author: Sarah Mitchell

Published: August 2018 by Bookouture

Category: Contemporary, Historical, Fiction, Dual Timeline, Book Review

Norfolk, 1940: Sylvia’s husband Howard has gone off to war, and she is struggling to raise her two children alone. Her only solace is her beach hut in Wells-Next-The-Sea, and her friendship with Connie, a woman she meets on the beach. The two women form a bond that will last a lifetime, and Sylvia tells Connie something that no-one else knows: about a secret lover… and a child.

Canada, present day: When Martha’s beloved father dies, he leaves her two things: a mysterious stash of letters to an English woman called ‘Catkins’ and directions to a beach hut in the English seaside town of Wells. Martha is at a painful crossroads in her own life, and seizes this chance for a trip to England – to discover more about her family’s past, and the identity of her father’s secret correspondent. Continue reading →

The Golden Orphans by Gary Raymond #TheGoldenOrphans @GaryRaymond_ @parthianbooks #FridayReads #damppebbles

Posted in Blog Tour, Book Review, Fiction, Psychological, Thriller by

I’m delighted to be joining the blog tour for The Golden Orphans, courtesy of Emma at damppebbles. Before my review, here’s the book info.

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Bitter Sun by Beth Lewis ~ Evocative & Dark 1970s #Fiction @bethklewis #FridayReads

Posted in 1970s, Audiobook, Book Review, Crime, Fiction, Murder, Mystery, Psychological by

Author: Beth Lewis

Performed by Christopher Ragland

Released: June 2018 on Audible, Published by HarperCollins

Category: Crime, Murder, Mystery, Psychological, 1970s Fiction, Audiobook Review

It all started when we found the body.
Then nothing was ever the same.

The Dry meets Stand by Me and True Detective in this stunningly written tale of the darkness at the heart of a small mid-Western town and the four kids who uncover it. 

In the heatwave summer of 1971, four kids find a body by a lake and set out to solve a murder. But they dig too deep and ask too many questions.

And John, Jenny, Gloria and Rudy are about to discover that sometimes secrets are best left uncovered…

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Lost On The Water by D.G. Driver #YA Suspense with a touch of Supernatural @DGDriverAuthor #BookReview

Posted in Book Review, Contemporary Fiction, Supernatural, Suspense, Young Adult Fiction by

Author: D.G. Driver

Published: July 2018 by Fire and Ice Young Adult Books

Category: Young Adult, Suspense, Supernatural, Contemporary, Book Review

Forced to leave the California beach behind to spend the summer with her grandma in rural Tennessee, Dannie is certain this will be the most boring summer of her life. Things start looking up when a group of local kids, mistaking her short hair and boyish figure, invite her on their ‘no girls allowed’ overnight kayaking trip. Obviously, her grandma refuses to let her go. But Dannie suspects the real reason is that the woman is afraid of the lake, only she won’t tell Dannie why.

The last place Dannie wants to spend a good portion of her summer holiday is in rural Tennessee with her grandmother, while her parents spend two weeks in Paris.

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A House Divided (Munro #2) by @margaretskea1 #BookReview for #RBRT Historical Fact/Fiction #FridayReads

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Author: Margaret Skea

Published: May 2017 by Corazon Books

Category: Historical, Saga, Fiction, Book Review

Eleven years on from the Massacre of Annock, the Cunninghame / Montgomerie truce is fragile.

For the Munro family, living in hiding under assumed names, these are dangerous times.

While Munro risks his life daily in the service of the French King, the spectre of discovery by William Cunninghame haunts his wife Kate. Her fears for their children and her absent husband realized as William’s desire for revenge tears their world apart.

Following on from Turn Of The Tide, A House Divided picks up the story of the Munro family several years after they were forced to fake their own deaths in a fire at their home, in order to escape the machinations of William Cunninghame, heir to the Earl of Glencairn.

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The Ghost In You: A First-Hand Account from Beyond the Grave by Katrina Mountfort #SupernaturalFiction @curlykats #YA

Posted in Book Review, Fiction, Romance, Supernatural, Young Adult Fiction by

Author: Katrina Mountfort

Published: February 2018 by Elsewhen Press

Category: Supernatural, Romance, Fiction, Book Review

What do you do if you’re dead but haven’t ‘moved on’? 

You keep finding yourself back where you died, with very little control over when; sometimes you can be away for days, weeks or even months, and then you’re back. Between times, when you’re ‘away’, where do you go, what do you do? You’ve seen some other ghosts asleep at their graves, but you don’t even know where your own grave is.

After an accident which left her with terrible facial scars, nineteen year old Rowena spends most of her spare time helping others. Two of her favourite people are her landlady, Marjorie, and her best friend, Kirsty, who is waiting for a bone marrow transplant.

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#ThrowbackThursday ~ All We Have Is Now by Lisa Schroeder #YoungAdult Fiction #Audiobook @lisa_schroeder

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Renee at It’s Book Talk began this meme as a way to share old favourites, as well as books that were published over a year ago. Not to mention those that are languishing on the to be read pile for whatever reason.

This week I’m showcasing another audiobook. All We Have Is Now is a young adult fiction book, narrated by Julia Whelan and released in 2015 by Scholastic Audio.

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The Distant Echo (Inspector Karen Pirie #1) by @valmcdermid #ScottishCrime #FridayReads

Posted in Book Review, Crime, Fiction, Scotland, Suspense by

Author: Val McDermid

Originally Published: October 2003 by St Martin’s Minotaur

Category: Scottish Crime Fiction, Suspense, Book Review

It was a winter morning in 1978, that the body of a young barmaid was discovered in the snow banks of a Scottish cemetery. The only suspects in her brutal murder were the four young men who found her: Alex Gilbey and his three best friends. With no evidence but her blood on their hands, no one was ever charged.

I can’t believe it’s taken me up until now to read a Van McDermid novel, but I could be on a roll now if this book is anything to go by.

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Book Spotlight #Extract & #Giveaway ~ Paradise Girl by Phil Featherstone #YA #Fiction @BrookCottage Bks @PhillFeathers

Posted in Blog Blitz, Books, Extract, Fiction, Giveaway, Spotlight, YA/NA by

Genre: Nominally YA/NA, general fiction

Release Date: 27 January 2017

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Tell No One by Harlan Coben #Crime #Suspense #BookReview

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  • Author: Harlan Coben
  • My copy was published in 2005 by Orion Books
  • Category: Thriller, Crime, Suspense, Fiction, Book Review, Books, Reading

For Dr. David Beck, the loss was shattering. And every day for the past eight years, he has relived the horror of what happened. The gleaming lake. The pale moonlight. The piercing screams. The night his wife was taken. The last night he saw her alive.

Eight years ago recently married David Beck and his wife, Elizabeth, were visiting the remote lakeside cabin that holds special memories for them both. Beck’s grandfather had bought the lake and surrounding land years ago and it was the site of Beck and Elizabeth’s first kiss. They visit on their anniversary each year and add a notch under the heart carved on a tree with their initials. During a moonlight swim a vicious and seemingly unprovoked attack leaves Beck fighting for his life. Elizabeth was taken and found dead days later.

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