Pages: 295Date Released: 01/03/2019Date Read: 09/06/2021 The whispered voices and unsettling dreams were puzzling enough, but when the visions began, Sarah Richards’ confusion turned to fear. Though mundane, Sarah’s life is routine and well ordered. But one autumn morning she sees a figure waving to her, the figure of a man more ghostly than real.Continue reading “Song of the Robin (#1) – R.V Biggs”
Category Archives: Mystery & Thrillers
Falling- T.J Newman
Published by: Simon & SchusterPages: 304Date released: 10/06/2021Date read: 08/06/2021 (pre-publication copy) You just boarded a flight to New York. There are one hundred and forty-three other passengers onboard. What you don’t know is that thirty minutes before the flight your pilot’s family was kidnapped. For his family to live, everyone on your plane mustContinue reading “Falling- T.J Newman”
The Confession – Jessie Burton
Published by: PicadorPages: 455Date released: 24/09/2019Date read: 10/01/2020 One winter’s afternoon on Hampstead Heath in 1980, Elise Morceau meets Constance Holden and quickly falls under her spell. Connie is bold and alluring, a successful writer whose novel is being turned into a major Hollywood film. Elise follows Connie to L.A, a city of strange dreamsContinue reading “The Confession – Jessie Burton”
Circus of Wonders – Elizabeth MacNeal
Published by: PicadorPages: 384Date released: 13/05/2021Date read: 23/05/2021 1866. in a coastal village in southern England, Nell picks violets for a living. Set apart by her community because of the birthmarks that speckle her skin, Nell’s world is her beloved brother and devotion to the sea. But when Jasper Jupiter’s Circus of Wonders arrives inContinue reading “Circus of Wonders – Elizabeth MacNeal”
Small Pleasures – Clare Chambers
Published by: Hodder & StoughtonPages: 368Date released: 29/04/2021Date read: 03/05/2021 1957, south-east suburbs of London. Jean Swinney is a feature writer on a local paper, disappointed in love and – on the brink of forty – living a limited existence with her truculent mother: a small life from which there is no likelihood of escape.Continue reading “Small Pleasures – Clare Chambers”
Sudden Onset – Tom Dardick and Chris Dardick
Published by: Immortal WorksPages: 454Date released: 08/06/2021Date read: 19/05/2021 (ARC) UC Berkeley Professor of Microbiology, Dr. Mira Wallace, searches for ancient life in the most extreme environments on Earth. While sampling an ancient subterranean lake, the US Army summons Mira to investigate a mysterious biological threat in a Southern Utah desert. SONA (Sudden Onset NecrosisContinue reading “Sudden Onset – Tom Dardick and Chris Dardick”
Consent – Annabel Lyons
Published by: Atlantic BooksPages: 224Date released: 28/01/2021Date read: 08/05/2021 Saskia and Jenny are twins alike in appearance only: Saskia is a grad student with a single-minded focus on her studies, while Jenny is glamorous, thrill-seeking, and capricious. Still, when Jenny is severely injured in an accident, Saskia puts her life on hold to be withContinue reading “Consent – Annabel Lyons”
The End of Men – Christina Sweeney-Baird
Published by: Borough PressPages: 416Date released: 29/04/2021Date read: 15/05/2021 Only men are affected by the virus; only women have the power to save us all. The year is 2025, and a mysterious virus has broken out in Scotland – a lethal illness that seems to affect only men. When Dr. Amanda MacLean reports this phenomenon,Continue reading “The End of Men – Christina Sweeney-Baird”
The Dictionary of Lost Words – Pip Williams
Published by: Chatto WindusPages: 336Date released: 08/04/2021Date read: 13/05/2021 In 1901, the word ‘bondmaid’ was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole it. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, Esme spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team ofContinue reading “The Dictionary of Lost Words – Pip Williams”
The Mystery of Henri Pick – David Foenkinos
Published by: Pushkin PressPages: 288Date released: 07/05/2020Date read: 02/08/2020 In the small town of Crozon in Brittany, a library houses manuscripts that were rejected for publication: the faded dreams of aspiring writers. Visiting while on holiday, young editor Delphine Despero is thrilled to discover a novel so powerful that she feels compelled to bring itContinue reading “The Mystery of Henri Pick – David Foenkinos”
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