Book Review: Suicide Thursday by Will Carver

Synopsis If words could kill…Eli Hagin can’t finish anything.He hates his job, but can’t seem to quit. He doesn’t want tobe with his girlfriend, but doesn’t know how end things withher, either. Eli wants to write a novel, but he’s never taken astory beyond the first chapter.Eli also has trouble separating reality from fiction.When his …

Book Review: Wolf Pack by Will Dean

Synopsis When there’s a pack on the hunt, nobody’s safe…After the traumatic events of the past year, Tuva is back as deputy editor reporting for the Gavrik Posten, but her world will never be the same.A closed communityRose Farm is home to a group of survivalists, heavily armed and completely cut off from the outside …

Book Review: I Don’t Talk to Dead Bodies by Dr Rhona Morrison

Prepare to be intrigued, amazed and astonished as you join Dr Rhona Morrisonon an often funny, and at times downright bizarre, thought-provoking and eyeopening rollercoaster ride through some of the most curious encounters of her career as a leading forensic psychiatrist.Delve into the minds of real people, whose actions may shock and stun you, butwhose …

Book Review: The Real Prime Suspect by Jackie Malton

Jackie Malton was a no-nonsense girl from Leicestershire who joined the police force in the 1970s when women were kept apart from the men. Feisty and determined, Jackie worked in CID and the famous flying squad before rising to become one of only three female detective chief inspectors in the Metropolitan Police. In The Real Prime …

Book Review: The Last White Man by Mohsin Hamid

Synopsis One morning, Anders wakes to find that his skin has turned dark, his reflection a stranger to him. At first he tells only Oona, an old friend, newly a lover. Soon, reports of similar occurrences surface across the land. Some see in the transformations the long-dreaded overturning of an established order, to be resisted …

Book Review: Death Drop by Claire Macleary

Synopsis A disturbing hanging with a backstory of secrets andshaming highlights outdated attitudes within Aberdeen’sfinest.After past skirmishes with the police, PI Maggie Lairdis determined to steer clear, but her partner WilmaHarcus goes rogue, with leads up her sleeve and grandioseideas to expand their PI agency into the romancefraud and cybercrime. Then troubled schoolchild FrankieBain goes …

Blog Tour Review: Honor by Thrity Umrigar

Synopsis A story of two couples and the sometimes dangerous and heartbreaking challenges of love across a cultural divide. Indian American journalist Smita has returned to India to cover a story, but reluctantly: long ago she and her family left the country with no intention of ever coming back. As she follows the case of …

Book Review: London in Black by Jack Lutz

Synopsis LONDON 2027. Terrorists deploy London Black, a highly sophisticated nerve gas, at Waterloo Station. For ten percent of the population – the ‘Vulnerables’ – exposure means near-certain death. Only a lucky few survive. LONDON 2029. Copy-cat strikes plague the city, its Vulnerable inhabitants kept safe by regular Boost injections. As the anniversary of the …

Spotlight: The Mayfair Bookshop by Eliza Knight

Synopsis REAL WOMEN IN HISTORY: This novel focuses on Nancy Mitford, one of London's Bright Young Things, a group of artists and socialites that had the city talking. But she was more than a socialite: she was a celebrated novelist, biographist, journalist, and a bookseller. And during World War II, she was an active supporter …

Book Review: Tell Me An Ending by Jo Harkin

Synopsis Across the world, thousands of people are shocked to receive an email telling them that they once chose to have a traumatic memory removed. Now they are being given the chance to get that memory back. For Mei, William, Oscar and Finn there is a piece missing, but they're not sure what. And each …