2016 Spotlight: A Time of Torment by John Connolly.

Publication Date: 7th April from Hodder and Staughton Source: Review copy Jerome Burnel was once a hero. He intervened to prevent multiple killings and in doing so damned himself. His life was torn apart. He was imprisoned, brutalized. But in his final days, with the hunters circling, he tells his… Continue reading

2016 Spotlight: Hex – Thomas Olde Heuvelt. Break the Hex.

Publication Date: 28th April from Hodder  and Staughton Source: Review copy Translated by Nancy Forest-Flier Whoever is born here, is doomed to stay until death. Whoever comes to stay, never leaves. Welcome to Black Spring, the seemingly picturesque Hudson Valley town haunted by the Black Rock Witch, a seventeenth-century woman… Continue reading

Ordeal – Blog tour review.

Publication Date: Available Now from Sandstone Translated by Anne Bruce Source: Review Copy Frank Mandt died after a fall down his basement steps, the same basement that holds a locked safe bolted to the floor. His granddaughter, Sofie Lund, inherits the house but wants nothing to do with his money…. Continue reading

2016 Spotlight: When She Was Bad by Tammy Cohen

Publication Date: 21st April 2016 from Transworld Source: Netgalley YOU SEE THE PEOPLE YOU WORK WITH EVERY DAY. BUT WHAT CAN’T YOU SEE? Amira, Sarah, Paula, Ewan and Charlie have worked together for years – they know how each one likes their coffee, whose love life is a mess, whose… Continue reading

New Release Spotlight: What She Never Told Me by Kate McQuaile

Publication Date: Available Now from Quercus Source: Review Copy Louise Redmond left Ireland for London before she was twenty. Now, more than two decades later, her heart already breaking from a failing marriage, she is summoned home. Her mother is on her deathbed, and it is Louise’s last chance to… Continue reading

Independent Bookshops – the ones we love. With Nikki Owen.

Today’s Independent Bookshop is Stroud bookshop – Nikki Owen’s local, so she had a chat to the owner and tells us all about it. My local bookshop: Stroud Book Shop, Stroud, Gloucestershire Why I love it: I love our local bookstore because it reminds me why local bookshops are so… Continue reading

Spotlight 2016: The Missing Hours by Emma Kavanagh.

Publication Date: 21st April 2016 from Randomhouse (Century) Source: Netgalley A woman disappears One moment, Selena Cole is in the playground with her children and the next, she has vanished without a trace. A woman returns Twenty hours later, Selena is found safe and well, but with no memory of… Continue reading

New Release Spotlight: Maestra by L S Hilton

Publication Date: Available Now from Zaffre. Source: Review Copy Judith Rashleigh works as an assistant in a prestigious London auction house, but her dreams of breaking into the art world have been gradually dulled by the blunt forces of snobbery and corruption. To make ends meet she moonlights as a… Continue reading

Eleanor by Jason Gurley. Blog tour review.

Publication Date: Available Now from Harper Voyager Source: Review Copy 1985 Agnes’s daughter Eleanor is six years old. She shares her name with the grandmother she never knew and everything else with her identical twin, Esmerelda. But to Agnes, only Eleanor is a constant reminder of the past. 1993 After… Continue reading