Liz Currently Loves….The Corpse Bridge by Stephen Booth.

Publication Date: Available Now from Little Brown/Sphere Thank you to the author and publisher for the review copy. The old Corpse Bridge is the route taken for centuries by mourners from villages on the western fringes of Derbyshire to a burial ground across the River Dove, now absorbed into the… Continue reading

Why we Write – Drop in Feature – Guest Post from Neil Bursnoll.

  http://www.bourbonicafro.co.uk/blog/   Many creative types appear to suffer for their art with low self esteem and depression. Some of the most famous writers come under this banner – F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sylvia Plath, Edgar Allan Poe, Stephen King. I haven’t done the appropriate research, but it seems that having… Continue reading

Liz Currently Loves…..Ostland by David Thomas

Available now from Quercus. Thank you to the author and publisher for the review copy. February 1941, wartime Berlin. Brilliant, idealistic young detective Georg Heuser joins the Murder Squad in the midst of the biggest manhunt the city has ever seen. A serial killer is slaughtering women on S-Bahn trains… Continue reading

Liz Currently Loves….The Bones Beneath by Mark Billingham.

Available now from Little Brown. Thank you to the author and publisher for the review copy Tom Thorne is back in charge – but there’s a terrifying price to pay. Stuart Nicklin, the most dangerous psychopath he has ever put behind bars, promises to reveal the whereabouts of a body… Continue reading

The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton. One to savour.

Publication Date: 3rd July 2014 from Picador. Thank you to the author and publisher for the review copy. On a brisk autumn day in 1686, eighteen-year-old Nella Oortman arrives in Amsterdam to begin a new life as the wife of illustrious merchant trader Johannes Brandt. But her new home, while… Continue reading

Liz Currently Loves….Artefacts of the Dead by Tony Black.

Publication Date: 14th July 2014 from Black and White Publishing. Thank you to the author and publisher for the review copy. It s a dead man . . . Can t you see someone s put a bloody great spike through him? The discovery of a dead banker sends shock… Continue reading

New Release: The Scar that Bleeds by Neil Bursnoll.

  Something is savaging Augustus Baltazar’s many wounds. Is the voice in his head the Shadow Lord, or is Solani tricking him with mind games? Can he stop the incessant rotting before it becomes too much, and consumes his very soul? DI Merrick encounters similar difficulties, after playing his hand… Continue reading

Liz Currently Loves….Station Eleven by Emily St.John Mandel.

Publication Date: September 10th 2014 from Picador. Thank you to Ruth Hunt, the author and publisher for the review copy. The Georgia Flu explodes over the surface of the earth like a neutron bomb. News reports put the mortality rate at over 99%. WEEK TWO Civilization has crumbled. YEAR TWENTY… Continue reading