Latest Reads: Grist Mill Road Christopher J Yates.

Publication Date: January 2018 (US – UK Date as yet unconfirmed) from Picador US Source: Netgalley Grist Mill Road is a dark, twisted, and expertly plotted Rashomon-style tale. The year is 1982; the setting, an Edenic hamlet some ninety miles north of New York City. There, among the craggy rock cliffs… Continue reading

Latest Reads: The Immortalists Chloe Benjamin.

Publication Date: March 2018 from Tinder Press Source: Review Copy It’s 1969, and holed up in a grimy tenement building in New York’s Lower East Side is a travelling psychic who claims to be able to tell anyone the date they will die. The four Gold children, too young for… Continue reading

Latest Reads: Know Me Now C J Carver

Publication Date: 14th December from Bonnier Zaffre Source : Netgalley A SUICIDE. A MURDER. A CONSPIRACY.  DIGGING UP THE PAST CAN BE DEADLY . . . A thirteen-year-old boy commits suicide. A sixty-five-year old man dies of a heart attack. Dan Forrester, ex-MI5 agent, is connected to them both.  And… Continue reading

Latest Reads: Into the Drowning Deep Mira Grant.

Publication Date: November 14th from Orbit Source: Review Copy Seven years ago, the Atargatis set off on a voyage to the Mariana Trench to film a “mockumentary” bringing to life ancient sea creatures of legend. It was lost at sea with all hands. Some have called it a hoax; others… Continue reading

Dead Lands Blog Tour: Contemporary or Historical Settings with Lloyd Otis

Today I am very happy to welcome Lloyd Otis to Liz Loves Books talking about Contemporary or Historical settings as part of the Dead Lands Blog tour. Information on the book follows.   Dead Lands: contemporary or historical settings? LLoyd Otis Does your story work better in a contemporary setting?… Continue reading

Latest Reads: The Girl in the Fog Donato Carrisi

Publication Date: 2nd Nov 2017 from Abacus Source: Review Copy Sixty-two days after the disappearance . . . A man is arrested after a road accident in the small town of Avechot. His shirt is covered in blood. Could this have anything to do with a missing girl called Anna… Continue reading

Latest Reads: Keep You Safe. Melissa Hill

Publication Date: Available Now from HQ Source: Review Copy Single mom Kate O’Donnell is living her worst nightmare. Her young daughter, Clara, who has a medical condition that doesn’t allow her to be vaccinated, becomes critically ill when one of her classmates, Lauren-whose family chose not to vaccinate-contracts and spreads… Continue reading

Latest Reads: Strange Weather Joe Hill

Publication Date: 7th November from Gollancz Source: Netgalley Four short novels from the author of THE FIREMAN and HORNS, ranging from creepy horror to powerful explorations of our modern society. A quite simply brilliant collection of stories here from the pen of Joe Hill – peripherally linked by the “Strange… Continue reading

Latest Reads: Shadow Man Margaret Kirk.

Publication Date: 2nd November from Orion Source: Review Copy Two brutal killings rock Inverness, and bring ex-Met Detective Inspector Lukas Mahler the biggest challenge of his career… The body of the queen of daytime TV, Morven Murray is discovered by her sister, Anna, on the morning of her wedding day…. Continue reading

Latest Reads: Anything You Do Say Gillian McAllister

Publication Date: Available Now from Penguin Source: Review Copy Joanna is an avoider. So far she has spent her adult life hiding bank statements and changing career aspirations weekly. But then one night Joanna hears footsteps on the way home. Is she being followed? She is sure it’s him; the… Continue reading