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Book, Contemporary Fiction, Crime, Genres, Reviews

Book Review: The Family Remains

When human bones are discovered in the Thames, questions are asked that lead detectives back to a house of mystery, where three adults apparently took their lives, leaving their baby daughter alone upstairs. Continue reading Book Review: The Family Remains

Mrs PJul 3, 2022Jul 4, 2022Leave a comment
Book, Crime, Genres, Locations, Reviews

Book Review: The It Girl

April Coutts-Cliveden was the first person Hannah Jones met at Oxford. By the end of the second term, April was dead. Continue reading Book Review: The It Girl

Mrs PJul 3, 2022Jul 3, 2022Leave a comment
Book, Crime, Genres, Historical Fiction, History, Locations, Reviews

Book Review: The Homes

A thousand unwanted children live in The Homes, a village of orphans on the outskirts of Glasgow. Lesley was six before she learned that most children live with their parents. Continue reading Book Review: The Homes

Mrs PMay 26, 2022May 26, 2022Leave a comment
Book, Crime, Genres, History, Locations, non-fiction

Book Review: Broadmoor Women

Broadmoor, Britain’s first asylum for criminal lunatics, was founded in 1863. In the first years of its existence, one in five patients was female. Continue reading Book Review: Broadmoor Women

Mrs PMay 19, 2022May 19, 2022Leave a comment
Book, Crime, Genres, Historical Fiction, History, Reviews

Book Review: A Taste for Killing

Godfrey Bowyer, the best but least likeable bow maker in Worcester, dies of poisoning, though his wife Blanche survives. Continue reading Book Review: A Taste for Killing

Mrs PMay 12, 2022Leave a comment
Crime, Genres, Thriller

Book Review: The Echo Man

The ultimate copycat killer working on his horrifying masterpiece.  Continue reading Book Review: The Echo Man

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Book, Crime, Genres, Reviews, Thriller

Book Review: Little Sister

Jonah Sheens is enjoying a moment of peace in a pub garden on his day off when a teenage girl wanders out of the woods. She’s striking, with flame-red hair and a pale complexion. She’s also covered in blood. Continue reading Book Review: Little Sister

Mrs PApr 7, 2022Apr 7, 20221 Comment
Book, Crime, Genres, Reviews, Thriller

Book Review: The Vatican Secret

x-MI5 operative Joe Mason is thrown into the hunt for the Vatican’s most treasured possession – a book of secrets, passed down from pope to pope… Continue reading Book Review: The Vatican Secret

Mrs PApr 4, 2022Apr 7, 2022Leave a comment
Book, Crime, Genres, Reviews, Thriller

Book Review: My Perfect Daughter

Zoe didn’t meet her daughter the way most mothers do. She finds five-year-old Maddie alone and dirty on a countryside road. Frightened for Maddie’s safety, she takes her back to her father. But Maddie wasn’t lost, she was there to lure her serial killer dad’s new victim. Continue reading Book Review: My Perfect Daughter

Mrs PMar 11, 20221 Comment
Book, Crime, Genres, Locations, Reviews

Book Review: One for Sorrow

Edinburgh is gripped by the greatest terror it has ever known. A lone bomber is targeting victims across the city and no one is safe. Continue reading Book Review: One for Sorrow

Mrs PMar 3, 2022Leave a comment

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