New Release Spotlight: Long Time Lost – Chris Ewan

Publication Date: 5th May 2016 from Faber Source: Review Copy Nick Miller and his team provide a unique and highly illegal service, relocating at-risk individuals across Europe with new identities and new lives. Nick excels at what he does for a reason: he’s spent years living in the shadows under… Continue reading

The Long Count – J M Gulvin. Blog Tour Review

Publication Date: Available Now from Faber Source: Review Copy In The Long Count, the first book of JM Gulvin’s masterful new crime series, we meet Ranger John Quarrie as he is called to the scene of an apparent suicide by a fellow war veteran. Although the local police want the… Continue reading

While my Eyes were Closed – Linda Green. Blog Tour Review

Publication Date: 5th May from Quercus Source: Netgalley One, two, three . . . Lisa Dale shuts her eyes and counts to one hundred during a game of hide-and-seek. When she opens them, her four-year-old daughter Ella is gone. Disappeared without a trace. The police, the media and Lisa’s family… Continue reading

Sunset City – Melissa Ginsburg. Blog tour review.

Publication Date: Available Now from Faber. Source: Review Copy Twenty-two-year-old Charlotte Ford reconnects with Danielle, her best friend from high school, a few days before Danielle is found bludgeoned to death in a motel room. In the wake of the murder, Charlotte’s life unravels and she descends into the city’s… Continue reading

New Release Spotlight (May) The Swimming Pool – Louise Candlish

Publication Date: 5th May 2016 from Penguin (Michael Joseph) Source: Netgalley It’s summer, and for teachers Ed and Natalie Steele this means six weeks off work with their young daughter Molly. Their lives are predictable and uncomplicated — or at least they were until they meet the Channings. Suddenly, glamorous… Continue reading

New Release Spotlight (May) The Map of Bones by Francesca Haig

Publication Date: 3rd May 2016 from Gallery Threshold Source: Netgalley Four hundred years in the future, the Earth has turned primitive following a nuclear fire that has laid waste to civilization and nature. Though the radiation fallout has ended, for some unknowable reason every person is born with a twin…. Continue reading

2016 Spotlight: Black Night Falling – Rod Reynolds.

Publication Date: August 2016 from Faber Source: Review Copy And now I stood here, on a desolate airfield in the Arkansas wilderness, a stone’s throw from Texarkana. Darkness drawing in on me. Cross country to see a man I never imagined seeing again. On the strength of one desperate telephone… Continue reading

2016 Spotlight: Death do us Part by Steven Dunne

Publication Date: 5th May 2016 from Headline Source: Netgalley DI Damen Brook is on a rare period of leave and determined to make the most of it by re-connecting with his daughter Terri. But with her heavy drinking proving a challenge, Brook takes the opportunity to visit a local murder… Continue reading

2016 Spotlight: Sockpuppet by Matthew Blakstad

Publication Date: 19th May from Hodder and Staughton Source: Review copy Twitter. Facebook. Whatsapp. Google Maps. Every day you share everything about yourself – where you go, what you eat, what you buy, what you think – online. Sometimes you do it on purpose. Usually you do it without even… Continue reading

Breaking Dead with Corrie Jackson. Blog tour. Guest post/review.

Today I’m really happy to welcome Corrie Jackson to the blog – she’s telling us about 5 things that are guaranteed to happen to a crime writer – brilliant! Following that a little review from me plus details on the blog tour currently running for Corrie, wherein you can find… Continue reading