Completing the Trilogy: Dark Made Dawn J P Smythe

Publication Date: Available Now (Kindle) and 2017 (Paperback) from Hodder and Staughton Source: Bookbridgr There was one truth on Australia, the prison ship on which Chan was born and raised: you fight or you die. Usually both. But everything on Australia was a lie. Abandoned and alone, Chan was forced… Continue reading

Ones to Watch in 2017 – The Girl Before by J P Delaney

Publication Date: January 26th from Quercus Source: Review Copy Jane stumbles on the rental opportunity of a lifetime: the chance to live in a beautiful ultra-minimalist house designed by an enigmatic architect, on condition she abides by a long list of exacting rules. After moving in, she discovers that a… Continue reading

Ones to Watch in 2017 (YA) Frostblood by Elly Blake

Publication Date: 12th January 2017 from Hodder and Staughton Source: Review Copy In a land governed by the cruel Frostblood ruling class, seventeen-year-old Ruby is a Fireblood who has spent most of her life hiding her ability to manipulate heat and light – until the day the soldiers come to… Continue reading

2016 Spotlight: Gallows Drop by Mari Hannah.

Publication Date: 17th November from Pan Macmillan Source: Advanced reading copy At dawn on a lonely stretch of road, a body is found hanging from an ancient gallows the morning after a country show. Hours earlier, DCI Kate Daniels had seen the victim alive. With her leave period imminent, she’s… Continue reading

Ones to Watch in 2017: Hold Back the Stars Katie Khan.

Publication Date: January 26th From Doubleday Source: Review Copy ‘We’re going to be fine.’ He looks around, but there’s nothing out here: nothing but the bottomless black universe on their left, the Earth suspended in glorious technicolour to their right. Carys and Max have ninety minutes of air left. None… Continue reading

2016 Spotlight: Rather Be the Devil by Ian Rankin

Publication Date: Available Now from Orion Source: Review Copy John Rebus, now a couple of years into his retirement finds himself drawn into a cold case from the 1970s involving a female socialite, found dead in a bedroom in one of Edinburgh’s most luxurious hotels. It’s a crime over forty… Continue reading

2016 Spotlight: A Time To Die – Tom Wood.

Publication Date: 3rd November (Paperback) from Sphere Source: Purchased copy (kindle) If the assassin known only as Victor once had a moral compass, it is long since buried, along with his many victims. Yet some men are so evil even Victor accepts they must die for reasons other than just… Continue reading

Ones to Watch in 2017 – Rattle by Fiona Cummins

Publication Date: January 2017 from Macmillan Source: Review Copy He has planned well. He leads two lives. In one he’s just like anyone else. But in the other he is the caretaker of his family’s macabre museum. Now the time has come to add to his collection. He is ready… Continue reading

2016 Spotlight: Murderabilia Craig Robertson

Publication Date: Available Now from Simon and Schuster Source: Purchased copy/Review Copy The first commuter train of the morning slowlyrumbles away from platform seven of Queen St station. Everyone on board is sleepy, avoiding eye contact, reluctant to admit the day has begun. And then, as the train emerges from… Continue reading