2016 Spotlight: Watching Edie – Camilla Way.

Publication date: 28th July 2016 from Harper Collins (Killer Reads) Source: Review copy Beautiful, creative, a little wild… Edie was the kind of girl who immediately caused a stir when she walked into your life. And she had dreams back then—but it didn’t take long for her to learn that… Continue reading

2016 Spotlight: The Fireman Joe Hill.

Publication Date: Available Now from Gollancz Source: Netgalley/review copy Nobody knew where the virus came from. FOX News said it had been set loose by ISIS, using spores that had been invented by the Russians in the 1980s. MSNBC said sources indicated it might’ve been created by engineers at Halliburton… Continue reading

The Killing Files blog tour. Interview and Review.

Today I am REALLY happy to welcome Nikki Owen to the blog – author of the Project trilogy of which, book two, The Killing Files was recently released. Thanks Nikki! For those readers who are yet to start Maria’s story could you talk a little about the background and inspiration… Continue reading

2016 Spotlight: The City of Mirrors Justin Cronin. Its Time….

Publication Date 16th June 2016 from Orion Source: Netgalley. Also I have the hardback on order ready to complete the collection. One of my most anticipated novels ever. “The world we knew is gone. What world will rise in its place?” The Twelve have been destroyed and the hundred-year reign… Continue reading

2016 Spotlight: The Beauty of the End by Debbie Howells

Publication Date: 14th July from Pan Macmillan Source: Review Copy “I was fourteen when I fell in love with a goddess. . .” So begins the testimony of Noah Calaway, an ex-lawyer with a sideline in armchair criminal psychology. Now living an aimless life in an inherited cottage in the… Continue reading

2016 Spotlight: Then She Was Gone by Luca Veste

Publication Date: July 2016 (TBC) from Simon and Schuster. Source: Netgalley Sam Bryne is on course to be elected as one of the youngest MPs in Westminster. He’s tipped for the very top … until he vanishes. Detectives Murphy and Rossi are tasked with discovering what has happened to the… Continue reading

2016 Spotlight: You Will Know Me by Megan Abbott

Publication Date: 26th July 2016 from Little Brown Source: Review Copy Katie and Eric Knox have dedicated their lives to their fifteen-year-old daughter Devon, a gymnastics prodigy and Olympic hopeful. But when a violent death rocks their close-knit gymnastics community just weeks before an all-important competition, everything the Knoxes have… Continue reading

2016 Spotlight: Why Did You Lie by Yrsa Sigurdardottir

Publication Date: 11th August 2016 from Hodder and Staughton (Translated from the Icelandic by Victoria Cribb) Source: Review copy A journalist on the track of an old case attempts suicide. An ordinary couple return from a house swap in the states to find their home in disarray and their guests… Continue reading

2016 Spotlight: Die of Shame Mark Billingham

Publication Date: Available Now (UK) from Little Brown 7th June (US) from Grove Atlantic. Sources: Netgalley (Grove) Purchased copy (Hardback) Every Monday evening, six people gather in a smart North London house to talk about addiction. There they share their deepest secrets: stories of lies, regret, and above all, shame…. Continue reading

2016 Spotlight: The Girls by Emma Cline

Publication Date: 2nd June from Randomhouse Uk, Vintage publishing. Source: Netgalley Evie Boyd is desperate to be noticed. In the summer of 1969, empty days stretch out under the California sun. The smell of honeysuckle thickens the air and the sidewalks radiate heat. Until she sees them. The snatch of… Continue reading