Review: The Curator by Owen King

Publication date 7 March 2023 Standalone or series Standalone First time reading this author? No Why I picked this While I’ve read Sleeping Beauties by the same author that was a joint project so I wanted to try a book where they were the sole writer. Review copy or purchase Purchased as ebook. What it’s

Review: End of Story by Louise Swanson

Publication date 23 March 2023 Standalone or series Standalone First time reading this author? Yes Why I picked this I liked the sound of it. Review copy or purchase Thank you to the author, publishers Hodder & Stoughton and NetGalley UK for access to this as an advance reader’s ebook. This is an honest and

Review: The Wilderness Retreat by Jennifer Moore

Publication date 22 February 2023 (ebook); 27 April 2023 (paperback) Standalone or series Standalone First time reading this author? Yes Why I picked this Book description looked interesting. Review copy or purchase Thank you to the author, publisher HQ Digital, and online book club The Pigeonhole for the chance to read this. This is an

Review: The Drift by C.J. Tudor

Publication date 19 January 2023 Standalone or series Standalone First time reading this author? No Why I picked this After being disappointed by this author’s first couple of novels, I’ve seen many people with similar book tastes to me rave about subsequent books, so I thought it was time to give them another chance. Review

Review: Becoming Ted by Matt Cain

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

Review: The Girl in the Red Coat by Kate Hamer

Book release date: 24 February 2015 Book blurb: She is the missing girl. But she doesn’t know she’s lost. Carmel Wakeford becomes separated from her mother at a local children’s festival, and is found by a man who claims to be her estranged grandfather. He tells her that her mother has had an accident and

Review: The Second Stranger by Martin Griffin

Book release date: 19 January 2023 Book blurb: Remie Yorke has one shift left at the Mackinnon Hotel in the remote Scottish Highlands before she leaves for good. Then Storm Ezra hits. As temperatures plummet and phone lines go down, an injured man stumbles inside. PC Don Gaines was in a terrible accident on the

Review: Final Girls by Riley Sager

Book release date: 13 July 2017 Book blurb: Three girls. Three tragedies. One unthinkable secret. The media calls them the Final Girls – Quincy, Sam, Lisa – the infamous group that no one wants to be part of. The sole survivors of three separate killing sprees, they are linked by their shared trauma. But when

Review: The Library Suicides by Fflur Dafydd

Book release date: 19 January 2023 Book blurb: You can get in. But you can’t get out. Welcome to the library… Twins Ana and Nan are lost after the death of their mother. Everyone knows who drove Elena, the renowned novelist, to suicide – her long-term literary critic, Eben. But the twins need proof if

Review: The Other Side of Night by Adam Hamby

Book release date: 15 September 2022 Book blurb: When disgraced former police officer Harriet Kealty discovers a plea for help in the margins of a second-hand book, she sets out to unravel a mystery that quickly leads her to confront some uncomfortable ties to her own life, including her ex-lover Ben. Following the deaths of