My Review (5 stars out of 5) (Audiobook) In the fishing port of Great Yarmouth in September 1900, a young woman known only as Mrs Hood had been staying in a local lodging house. When she was found dead on the beach, strangled with a bootlace, police struggled to learn her identity, and that of…
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‘My Devil and I’ by Rae Devine
Welcome to my Stop on the Blog Tour for My Devil and I, via Rachel, at Rachel’s Random Resources These stories are sins – brief, potent, and cumulative. Each volume is intentionally designed to be read in a single sitting, delivering a complete, self-contained arc within a larger descent. Dark. Seductive. Punishingly divine. When pleasure…
‘Grace’ by AM Shine
My Review (4 stars out of 5) This is the first book I’ve read by this author, and it gets off to a great start. Finding she’s been left a house in her birth-mother’s will, bookshop owner Grace sets off for a mysterious island. Before she even arrives, the creepiness sets in, establishing a sinister…
‘Dark Chronicles’ by Karmen Spiljak
My Review (5 stars out of 5) This is the first book I’ve read by this author and like all collections of short stories, it gives an excellent introduction to her writing talents. The ten stories are all very different with dark and chilling themes and a touch of the macabre. Examples include, ‘A Celebration’,…
‘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…
‘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…
‘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,…
‘Broken Bones’ by John Carson
Welcome to my stop on the blog tour for Broken Bones, via Rachel at Rachel’s Random Resources Blurb Some bodies just won’t stay buried… After putting a stop to one of Edinburgh’s most notorious serial killers 3 years ago, DCI Liam Brodie is known as a man who can handle – and solve – the…
‘The Great Train Robbery’ by Nick Russell-Pavier and Stewart Richards
My Review (5 stars out of 5) Shortly after 3am on the 8th of August 1963 near Cheddington in Buckinghamshire, a gang of villains stole £2.6 million from the Glasgow to London mail train in a daring robbery. The names of some members of the gang have become synonymous with the legend that has grown…
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