Genre: Mystery

Review: Did You See Melody? by Sophie Hannah

Posted March 8, 2018 by Charlotte in Reviews / 0 Comments
Review: Did You See Melody? by Sophie Hannah

Did You See Melody? by Sophie Hannah Published by Hodder & Stoughton on August 24th 2017 Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller Pages: 400 Format: Arc, E-Arc Source: Netgalley, Publisher Buy on Amazon Goodreads Pushed to breaking point, Cara Burrows abandons her home and family and escapes to a five-star spa resort she can’t afford. Late at night, exhausted and desperate, she lets herself into her hotel room and is shocked to find it already occupied – by a man and a teenage girl. A simple mistake on the part of the hotel receptionist – but Cara’s fear intensifies when she works out that the girl she saw alive and well in the hotel room is someone she can’t possibly have seen: the most famous murder victim in the country, Melody Chapa, whose parents are serving life sentences for her murder. Cara doesn’t know what to trust: everything she’s read and heard about the case, or the evidence of her own eyes. Did she really see Melody? And is she prepared to ask herself that question and answer it honestly if it […]

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Blog Tour / Guest Post: “Writing Gwendolynn McBride (Or: A man writing a woman’s perspective” by Tyrell Johnson, author of Wolves of Winter

Posted January 6, 2018 by Charlotte in Blog Tour, Guest Post / 2 Comments
Blog Tour / Guest Post: “Writing Gwendolynn McBride (Or: A man writing a woman’s perspective” by Tyrell Johnson, author of Wolves of Winter

The Wolves of Winter by Tyrell Johnson Published by HQ Fiction on January 11th 2018 Genres: Dystopia, Fiction, Mystery, Science Fiction Pages: 384 Source: Publisher Buy on Amazon Goodreads A captivating tale of humanity pushed beyond its breaking point, of family and bonds of love forged when everything is lost, and of a heroic young woman who crosses a frozen landscape to find her destiny. This debut novel is written in a post-apocalyptic tradition that spans The Hunger Games and Station Eleven but blazes its own distinctive path. Forget the old days. Forget summer. Forget warmth. Forget anything that doesn’t help you survive in the endless white wilderness beyond the edges of a fallen world. Lynn McBride has learned much since society collapsed in the face of nuclear war and the relentless spread of disease. As the memories of her old life continue to haunt, she’s been forced to forge ahead in the snow-drifted Canadian Yukon, learning how to hunt and trap and slaughter. But her fragile existence is about to be shattered. Shadows of the world before have found […]

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Blog Tour / Review: The House by Simon Lelic

Posted September 19, 2017 by Charlotte in Blog Tour, Reviews / 2 Comments
Blog Tour / Review: The House by Simon Lelic

I received this book for free from Publisher in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.The House by Simon Lelic Published by Penguin UK on November 2nd 2017 Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller Pages: 340 Format: Arc Source: Publisher Buy on Amazon Goodreads What if your perfect home turned out to be the scene of the perfect crime? Londoners Jack and Syd moved into the house a year ago. It seemed like their dream home: tons of space, the perfect location, and a friendly owner who wanted a young couple to have it. So when they made a grisly discovery in the attic, Jack and Syd chose to ignore it. That was a mistake. Because someone has just been murdered. Right outside their back door. And now the police are watching them… The House is not my usual cup of tea and with good reason. It is dark, twisted and utterly terrifying. As a bit of a wimp there was several occasions when I had to put this […]

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Blog Tour / Review: Do Not Become Alarmed by Maile Meloy

Posted July 8, 2017 by Charlotte in Blog Tour, Reviews / 0 Comments
Blog Tour / Review: Do Not Become Alarmed by Maile Meloy

Do Not Become Alarmed by Maile Meloy Published by Penguin on July 6th 2017 Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller Pages: 304 Format: Arc, E-Arc Source: Netgalley, Publisher Buy on Amazon Goodreads When Liv and Nora decide to take their husbands and children on a holiday cruise, everyone is thrilled. The ship’s comforts and possibilities seem infinite. But when they all go ashore in beautiful Central America, a series of minor mishaps lead the families further from the ship’s safety. One minute the children are there, and the next they’re gone. What follows is a heart-racing story told from the perspectives of the adults and the children, as the distraught parents – now turning on one another and blaming themselves – try to recover their children and their shattered lives. In Do Not Become Alarmed this is a situation that I cannot possibly fathom. And a situation I definitely do not ever want to be in. What starts off as the perfect holiday ends up being a nightmare. One minor incident is the start of a terrifying few days as families become […]

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Review: Night Shift by Charlaine Harris

Posted May 3, 2017 by Charlotte in Reviews / 0 Comments
Review: Night Shift by Charlaine Harris

I received this book for free from Publisher in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Night Shift by Charlaine Harris Series: Midnight Texas #3 on May 3rd 2016 Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Paranormal Pages: 320 Format: Hardback Source: Publisher Buy on Amazon Goodreads From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse novels—“the Mark Twain of things that live under your bed”*—comes a new novel of Midnight, Texas, the town where some secrets will never see the light of day… At Midnight’s local pawnshop, weapons are flying off the shelves—only to be used in sudden and dramatic suicides right at the main crossroads in town.   Who better to figure out why blood is being spilled than the vampire Lemuel, who, while translating mysterious texts, discovers what makes Midnight the town it is. There’s a reason why witches and werewolves, killers and psychics, have been drawn to this place.   And now they must come together to stop the bloodshed in the heart of Midnight. […]

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