Latest Reads: Truthwitch Susan Dennard.

In a continent on the edge of war, two witches hold its fate in their hands. Young witches Safiya and Iseult have a habit of finding trouble. After clashing with a powerful Guildmaster and his ruthless Bloodwitch bodyguard, the friends are forced to flee their home. Safi must avoid capture… Continue reading

Latest Reads: The Woman in the Dark Vanessa Savage.

For Sarah and Patrick, family life has always been easy. But when Sarah’s mother dies, it sends Sarah into a downwards spiral. Knowing they need a fresh start, Patrick moves the family to the beachside house he grew up in. But there is a catch: while their new home carries… Continue reading

Five Ingredients that make up Rosewater with Tade Thomson: Aliens.

Today I’m kicking off “Five Ingredients that Make up Rosewater with Tade Thompson – starting with Aliens, Tade tells us a little about all the elements making up the novel. Visit Vicky at Off The Shelf Books tomorrow to find out a little more… Rosewater is a town on the… Continue reading

Latest Reads: The Long Shadow Celia Fremlin.

Jolted from sleep by the ringing of the telephone, Imogen fumbles through the dark, empty house to answer it. At first, she can’t quite understand the man on the other end of the line. Surely he can’t honestly be accusing her of killing her husband. Ivor died in a car… Continue reading

Latest Reads: The Boneless Mercies April Genevieve Tucholke.

Frey, Ovie, Juniper, and Runa are the Boneless Mercies—girls hired to kill quickly, quietly, and mercifully. But Frey is weary of the death trade and, having been raised on the heroic sagas of her people, dreams of a bigger life. When she hears of an unstoppable monster ravaging a nearby… Continue reading

Latest Reads: The Listeners Anthony J Quinn.

Not long out of the fast-track training course at Edinburgh’s police college, Detective Sergeant Carla Herron is about to be tested to breaking point. She’s been called to Deepwell psychiatric hospital in the Scottish borders to interview a patient who has confessed to the murder of one of the hospital’s… Continue reading

Latest Reads: The Disappeared Ali Harper.

A distraught mother… When Susan Wilkins walks into No Stone Unturned, Leeds’s newest private detective agency, owners Lee and Jo are thrilled. Their first client is the kind of person they always hoped to help—a kind woman desperately worried about her son, Jack. A missing son… The case seems simple—kid… Continue reading

Latest Reads: Vanish in an Instant Margaret Millar

Virginia Barkeley is a nice, well brought-up girl. So what is she doing wandering through a snow storm in the middle of the night, blind drunk and covered in someone else’s blood?  When Claude Margolis’ body is found a quarter of a mile away with half-a-dozen stab wounds to the… Continue reading

Latest Reads: The Plotters Un-Su Kim.(Ones to watch in 2019)

The important thing is not who pulls the trigger but who’s behind the person who pulls the trigger—the plotters, the masterminds working in the shadows. Raised by Old Raccoon in The Library of Dogs, Reseng has always been surrounded by plots to kill—and by books that no one ever reads…. Continue reading