My Review (4 stars out of 5) (Audiobook) This is an audiobook, but I also bought the eBook version which contains some interesting illustrations to go along with the narratives. Exploring the theme of losing the sense of ‘home’, this is a collection of twenty-four horror stories and begins with a warning that some tales…
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‘A Wordsmith’s Guide to Writing Authentic Dialogue’ by Elizabeth M Hurst
My Review (5 stars out of 5) Elizabeth M Hurst has written much about the craft of writing, as well as study guides, critical essays and novels, so it’s fair to say she knows what she’s talking about. This book is about dialogue – what it should do, what it shouldn’t do, and how to…
‘Deadly Truths’ by Paul Gitsham
My Review (4 stars out of 5) Detectives Foxe and Kennard feel like a couple of spare parts at Moat Lane Police Station, especially when they find themselves tasked with investigating a series of burglaries, rather than what they really want – a nice juicy murder. But the investigation takes an unexpected turn, throwing them…
‘The Crimean War’ by Paul Kerr
My Review (5 stars out of 5) Based largely on extracts from letters, diaries and newspaper articles, Paul Kerr’s book was originally a tie-in with a 1997 TV series on Channel 4, and is told through the eyes of the soldiers, sailors, doctors, nurses, artists and reporters who were there. As well as the British…
‘Shadow Hunt’ by Tom Bale
My Review (4 stars out of 5) Former cop Joe Clayton takes a job as a bodyguard for businessman Valentin Nasento and his wife Cassie. Living with the family in one of half a dozen houses on a little island called Terror’s Reach, Joe hopes to keep his head down until he can sort his…
‘Operation Berlin’ by Michael Ridpath
Welcome to my stop on the Blog Tour for Operation Berlin, via Rachel at Rachel’s Random Resources. Blurb In a city rebuilding from war, truth can be the most dangerous weapon of all. Berlin, 1930. Historian Archie Laverick, scarred mentally and physically by the Great War, travels to Berlin to research a famed Prussian general.…
‘Sacrilege’ by Keith Moray
Welcome to my stop on the blog tour for Sacrilege, via Rachel at Rachel’s Random Resources. A nun is found dead. A priest is horribly attacked. An evil older than sin is loose in Yorkshire… Marske, 1361. Sir Ralph de Mandeville with his assistants Peter and Merek have recently come from Reeth to hold a…
‘The Mysterious Mrs Hood’ by Kim Donovan
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…
‘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…
‘On Creating a Series…’
Creating a new series is a bit of a challenge for any author – not only must you come up with a bunch of brand-new characters, but you also need to know where they live, what work they do and any interesting pasts they’ve had before appearing fully-formed in a new adventure. I’m not a…
Colin Garrow 