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Archive for December 2019

Why She Ran, by Geraldine Hogan

  Detective Iris Locke is still reeling from the outcome of her previous case in Silent Night and I would advise reading the first in the series to get the background story (plus it was really good!) In this case, a teenager goes missing and her support worker is found dead. Could Eleanor be a […]

He Knows Your Secrets, by Charlie Gallagher

  TRIGGER WARNING: VIOLENCE AND SEXUAL EXPLOITATION He Knows Your Secrets but you also know his! This book is action packed from the very first chapter when a girl attacks a taxi driver and forces the car over the cliff, killing them both. Her actions were to save her lover Kelly from a life of […]

Love Potions and Other Calamities, by Charlie Laidlaw

Set in Scotland, Love Potions and Other Calamities is a warm and rich farcical tale of herbal ‘witch’ Rosie. She is struggling to cope with the idea of turning 40 and feels decidedly unattractive. She hopes to uses her plant power to entice her husband’s lust but the plan goes awry, kicking off a string […]

The Argument, by Victoria Jenkins

Hannah and her eldest daughter Olivia have The Argument. Olivia wants more freedom and sneaks out to a party. She obviously gets into big trouble when she gets home and is determined not to speak to her mother again. Then the house is broken into and the word LIAR painted onto the kitchen cabinets. Hannah […]

The Girls in the Lake, by Helen Phifer

A new case for pathologist Beth Adams and her lover DS Josh Walters. Their relationship has developed significantly since the last book but now a case keeps them busy and a personal dilemma drives a wedge between them. Two women are pulled form Lake Windermere, both apparently accidental but Beth is convinced that identical paint […]