Small towns and secrets ... is there a better combination than this? Nope, definitely not! Amanda Jennings has always known she was adopted. But she's always been told that her adoptive parents had no information whatsoever about her birth parents. It therefore comes as a shock when she discovers that she's been left a house... Continue Reading →
Happy publication day to Diana Wilkinson for 4 Riverside Close, a slow-burner that builds in tension, unease and discomfort right from the start - the start being a rather gruesome murder. Riverside Close is a small, intimate enclave of just 6 exclusive homes. Susan and Roger Harper together with the two children, are well established here,... Continue Reading →
It's at quite an opportune time in Sophie's life that she gets an invitation from her old friend Caroline urging her to come and stay with her at her family's beach house. Sophie's father has just passed away and she's at a loss as to what to do with her life now. She's lonely, as... Continue Reading →
Trevor Moore has decided to take a three-month break from his life and has rented a rambling farmhouse in Fuerteventura, in the Canary Islands. He arrives there, miserable and partially depressed after the breakdown of his marriage, his wife having left him for another woman. His work as a ghost-writer, although generally plentiful enough has... Continue Reading →
What a perfect way to describe the way Doris feels after her husband John (she calls him something else!) leaves her for her best friend Lisa (she too, is re-named!). Her entire world shifts on its axis and it's as if her view of life, in general, is blurred, hazy ... distorted. This state of... Continue Reading →
I do love an unreliable narrator! And that's exactly what Elizabeth Huxley is. Living in the lap of luxury, it looks like she has everything her heart desires: a gorgeous, attentive husband, Lucas, two adorable, perfect children, a magnificent home, with enough help to ensure that she barely needs to lift a finger to do... Continue Reading →
Many of us tend to assume that we know quite a bit of history when it comes to World War II, its aftermath, and the facts surrounding what happened: who was on which side; who attacked who, when and why; how many died in The Holocaust, the labour camps, the gas chambers and the death... Continue Reading →
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