Welcome to my stop on the blog tour for Dark Chronicles, via Rachel at Rachel’s Random Resources Blurb Careful what you wish for. In Dark Chronicles, wishes have teeth. Ten speculative tales brimming with twisted humour and delicious menace: a pepper that lets you in on other people’s thoughts, a radio show that predicts your…
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‘Contempt of Court’ by Jake Needham
My Review (5 stars out of 5) Having left his job as a Virginia divorce lawyer, Charlie Trust now drives a cherry red 1969 Mustang and spends his time watching the ocean from a borrowed house on Carbon Beach. But the owner of the house interrupts Charlie’s peace when he suggests the former lawyer might…
‘The Locked Room’ by Holly Hepburn
Purchase Link My Review (4 stars out of 5) In her basement office within the Baker Street Building Society, Harriet (Harry) White responds to letters addressed to Sherlock Holmes. Spotting something in The Times that challenges her fictional hero to prove his worth, propels Harry on a mission to locate the mystery writer, who titles…
‘Penshaw’ by LJ Ross
My Review (5 stars out of 5) (Audiobook) A suspicious death in a former mining village, sets Detective Chief Inspector Ryan on a complex trail of decades-old betrayal as links to the past reveal that someone wants long-held secrets to stay hidden. At Northumbria CID, rumours of a rat in the ranks make Ryan’s life…
‘Poole of Light’ by RJ Verity
My Review (4 stars out of 5) This is book 1 in the Poole Legacy, with book 2 due out in 2026, and Bright Light, an already-published short story prequel also available. Beginning in Spennymoor in the North of England during the first half of the 20th century, we follow Jeremiah Poole from his poverty-stricken…
‘Reacher – The Stories Behind the Stories’ by Lee Child
My Review (4 stars out of 5) (Audiobook) Originally written as a series of new introductions to special editions of his books, Lee Child expounds on the ideas and inspirations behind the Jack Reacher novels from Killing Floor to Blue Moon. Like Stephen King, Child is a pantser (an author who doesn’t plot their novels),…
‘Embouchure’ by Archibald Fitz
My Review (4 stars out of 5) An American artist, jazz buff and sci-fi writer lives with his Italian muse in Quebec’s Bohemian enclave of De Lorimier. When his business partner is killed by a bomb, he finds himself in the spotlight as a suspect in the investigation. But hints of French terrorism, the Mafia,…
‘End of Watch’ by Stephen King
My Review (5 stars out of 5) Now running a detective agency along with his side-kick Holly Gibney, ex-detective Bill Hodges is intrigued to learn that the letter Z has been written at the scene of the crime. Hodges discovers the evidence suggests the culprit to be Brady Hartsfield, the notorious ‘Mercedes Killer’. But with…
‘No Oil Painting’ by Genevieve Marenghi
My Review (4 stars out of 5) This is the first book I’ve read by this author and it’s an entertaining and light-hearted read. Set in the real 17th-century National Trust property of Ham House, we meet a team of mature volunteers who, in some cases, feel somewhat invisible to the public in general. However,…
‘Elm Brook Manor’ by Iwan Ross
My Review (4 stars out of 5) Author Coby McTavish, also known as Mister Jones, hopes to reinvigorate his life by moving into historic Elm Brook Manor. But the house harbours secrets from the past, including the restless spirit of a murdered woman. Digging into the house’s history, Coby becomes entwined with a scorned mother…
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