Sometimes a debut novel comes along that leaves you just a little bit in awe that it's the author's debut! The Grapevine by Kate Kemp is one of those. It has such a perfect sense of place and time, and the moodiness of it just jumped right off the page (well, ok, off the Kindle!),... Continue Reading →
Happy Publication Day! Congratulations to Katie Gayle - Kate Sidley and Gail Schimmel - on this, number seven in the Julia Bird Mystery series. Once again, we return to the Cotswold village of Berrywick, where Julia Bird thought she would retire peacefully and live a quiet country life, away from the bright lights and stresses... Continue Reading →
Once again, Shari Low brings together familiar characters whose lives intercept and take dramatic, unforeseen turns over a 24-hour time-frame. Blurb: As dawn breaks, four people are planning journeys that could change their lives forever… Kara McIntyre is supposed to be jetting off to her destination wedding in Hawaii. However, a last-minute hitch appears to... Continue Reading →
Congratulations and Mazal Tov to Aviva Gat ... it's PUBLICATION DAY for WE WILL DANCE AGAIN! From the very first pages, this story explodes from the pages, just as events did on that shocking day: 7 October, 2023. Aviva Gat, an Israeli-American living in Israel has taken the trauma experienced by the entire Jewish world... Continue Reading →
Kristen Bailey returns with a 5-star holiday read. Full of warmth, charm, quirky characters, a touch of the spice that we expect from this author (although she's dialed it down a notch in this one), and an overall sense of having been wrapped up in a comforting, fleecy blanket when you're done. I loved it!... Continue Reading →
Wow! I'm going to leave this disclaimer here ... I'm not going to say a lot in this review about Redemption, because this really is a book that you need to read for yourself. You can read as many reviews as you like, but no review (no matter how insightful or detailed) will allow you... Continue Reading →
I'm so excited to be part of the Compulsive Readers Jack Jordan Blogathon. For the next few months, we'll be doing a series of blog features of seven of this bestselling author's books! Today we're starting with Do No Harm, which was first published in 2022. When this came out it was EVERYWHERE - my... Continue Reading →
If you like your stories to be spooky and atmospheric, then this one's for you. Elisa Lodato knows how to create enough of an atmosphere that you can literally imagine the mist hovering over a dark, rugged landscape. Blurb: She came to write, but the island has its own story . . . Off the windswept coast... Continue Reading →
I was thrilled to return to the charming village of Berrywick in the English Cotswolds with this, the 6th in the Julia Bird series of cosy mysteries. Once again, Julia and her beloved chocolate lab, Jake are on the trail of a murderer after they discover not one, but two bodies at the bottom of... Continue Reading →
I'm thrilled to be doing another blog tour for Shari Low! This time it's for her new book, One Midnight With You. I thoroughly enjoy Shari's 'One' series of books. It's not really a series in the strict sense of the word, as the books don't follow on from each other, but there are various... Continue Reading →
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