Review: The Last Dance by Mark Billingham

Publication date 25 May 2023 Standalone or series Series (first in a new series) First time reading this author? No Why I picked this Watched the author’s Facebook live when the title was revealed and loved the sound of this book. Review copy or purchase Thank you to the author, publisher Sphere, and online book

Review: Bored Gay Werewolf by Tony Santorella

Publication date 1 June 2023 Standalone or series Standalone (for now hopefully) First time reading this author? Yes Why I picked this The title! Review copy or purchase Thank you to the author, publisher Atlantic Books, and online book club The Pigeonhole for the chance to read this. This is an honest and voluntary review.

Review: Love Will Tear Us Apart by C.K. McDonnell

Publication date 9 February 2023 Standalone or series Series (third in The Stranger Times series) First time reading this author? No Why I picked this I love this series. Review copy or purchase Thank you to the author, publishers Transworld and NetGalley UK for access to this as an advance reader’s ebook. This is an

Review: The Dead of Winter by Stuart MacBride

Publication date 16 February 2023 Standalone or series Standalone First time reading this author? No Why I picked this Because it’s by Stuart MacBride. Review copy or purchase Thank you to the author, publishers Transworld and NetGalley UK for access to this as an advance reader’s ebook. This is an honest and voluntary review. What

Review: Becoming Ted by Matt Cain

A wonderful story – funny, heart-warming and full of life.

Review: Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch

Book release date: 10 January 2011 Book blurb: My name is Peter Grant, and I used to be a probationary constable in that mighty army for justice known to all right-thinking people as the Metropolitan Police Service, and to everyone else as the Filth. My story really begins when I tried to take a witness

Review: Humour, Seriously by Jennifer Aaker and Naomi Bagdonas

Book release date: 8 October 2020 Book blurb: When was the last time you really laughed? When we laugh, our brains release a cocktail of hormones that make us feel happier (dopamine), more trusting (oxytocin), less stressed (lowered cortisol), and even slightly euphoric (endorphins). Laughter produces protective hormones, regulates blood pressure, reduces the effects of

Review: Last One at the Party by Bethany Clift

Book release date: 4 February 2021 Book blurb: December 2023. The human race has fought a deadly virus and lost. The only things left from the world before are burning cities and rotting corpses. But in London, one woman is still alive. Although she may be completely unprepared for her new existence, as someone who

Review: This Charming Man by CK McDonnell

Book release date: 17 February 2022 Book blurb: Vampires do not exist. Everyone knows this. So it’s particularly annoying when they start popping up around Manchester . . . Nobody is pleased about it. Not the Founders, the secret organisation for whom vampires were invented as an allegory, nor the Folk, the magical people hidden

Review: The Great Silence by Doug Johnstone

Book release date: 19 August 2021 Book blurb: Keeping on top of the family funeral directors’ and private-investigation businesses is no easy task for the Skelf women, and when matriarch Dorothy discovers a human foot while walking the dog, a perplexing case presents itself … with potentially deadly results. Daughter Jenny and grand-daughter Hannah have