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Guest Post: Inspiration behind The Last Honeytrap by Louise Lee, author of The Last Honeytrap

Posted June 24, 2015 by Charlotte in Blog Tour, Guest Post / 0 Comments

Today I am delighted to be part of the Blog Tour for The Last Honeytrap by Louise Lee. I loved the measures that were taken to ensure that the entrapment was a success and absolutely adored Florence and Michael (see my review). This is undoubtedly a book for everyone, no matter what genre is your favourite! Don’t forget to visit other blog stops along the tour for other great content. Below Louise shares her Inspiration behind The Last Honeytrap. Inspiration behind The Last Honeytrap: Without realising it, I’ve been writing about Florence Love for years – she just had different names and back stories. But she was never a PI, which is odd given I was one. In retrospect the genre frightened me a lot. PI books tend to be serious and edgy and super-cool. Or serious and edgy and bleak. Or just serious. Trouble is, I’m incorrigibly silly, so my writing didn’t seem to sit in a niche presided over by hard-boiled legends, such as Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler and Ross MacDonald. Then I did an MA in Creative Writing. One of my assignments […]

Review: The Last Honeytrap by Louise Lee

Posted June 22, 2015 by Charlotte in Reviews / 1 Comment

I received this book for free from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.The Last Honeytrap by Louise Lee Series: Florence Love #1 Published by Headline on June 4, 2015 Genres: Fiction, Mystery Pages: 368 Format: E-Arc Source: Netgalley Buy on Amazon Goodreads Scot ‘Scat’ Delaney is a world famous jazz singer. He has ample opportunity to stray and his girlfriend, Alice, needs to know she can trust him. Introducing Florence Love, private investigator. Florence has just ten days to entrap an A-lister. Whilst sticking to her cardinal rule: ONE KISS, WITH TONGUES, FIVE SECONDS – CASE CLOSED. A master of body language, evolutionary science and nifty disguises, her approach is unconventional, her success rate excellent. But targets are rarely as beautiful as Scat. Never fall for the target. THAT IS VERY BAD FORM INDEED. So The Last Honeytrap started off like a James Bond movie, a little dalliance, some entrapment before the main event and it sure left me craving more. I loved that it […]

Introducing: Paperback Summer Challenge!

Posted June 20, 2015 by Charlotte in Challenges, Paperback Summer / 2 Comments

So I’m starting the Paperback Summer Challenge twenty days late, this is a challenge run by Sophie and Suze. Their challenge is for us to read as many paperbacks as we can in June, July and August. This is a brilliant challenge for those of us who may have until recently neglected their TBR pile… So having just counted the number of books that are dotted around my room I have come up with a vast number of 48. These are not even rereads! They are only the books that I have received from the publishers or won in a giveaway. I’ve split the books into three categories and my aim is to read a minimum of 30 books over the summer. The Recent Additions: These books are my priority as they have been sent to me over the last couple of months. I’ve been shamefully ignoring the book pile because of exams, but now exams are over, I’m going to have to dive straight in! I am really excited to read all the books in the picture below, my main issue […]

Review: The Storm by Virginia Bergin

Posted June 19, 2015 by Charlotte in Reviews / 0 Comments

I received this book for free from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.The Storm by Virginia Bergin Series: The Rain #2 Published by Pan Macmillan on February 1, 2015 Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Young Adult Pages: 371 Format: E-Arc Source: Netgalley Buy on Amazon Goodreads “I’ll tell you a weird thing about apocalypses – a thing I didn’t even know until I was in one: they seem pretty bad, don’t they? Well, take it from me: they can always get worse.” Three months after the killer rain first fell, Ruby is beginning to realise her father might be dead . . . and that she cannot survive alone. When a chance encounter lands her back in the army camp, Ruby thinks she is safe – at a price. Being forced to live with Darius Spratt is bad enough, but if Ruby wants to stay she must keep her eyes – and her mouth – shut. It’s not going to happen. When she realizes what […]

Review: Letters to my Husband by Stephanie Butland

Posted June 15, 2015 by Charlotte in Reviews / 0 Comments

I received this book for free from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Letters To My Husband by Stephanie Butland Published by Black Swan on April 9, 2015 Genres: Contemporary, Fiction Pages: 416 Format: E-Arc Source: Netgalley Buy on Amazon Goodreads Dear Mike, I can’t believe that it’s true. You wouldn’t do this to me. You promised. Elizabeth knows that her husband is kind and good and that he loves her unconditionally. She knows she hasn’t been herself lately but that, even so, they are happy. But Elizabeth’s world is turned upside down when Mike dies in a tragic drowning accident. Suddenly everything Elizabeth knows about her husband is thrown into doubt. Why would he sacrifice his own life, knowing he’d never see his wife again? And what exactly was he doing at the lake that night? Elizabeth knows that writing to Mike won’t bring him back, but she needs to talk to him now more than ever . . . How much can you […]

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