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Author: Jenni Keer Published: March 2024 by Boldwood Books Category: Historical Fiction, Murder, Mystery, Supernatural ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ It’s 1923 and in a decade that promises excitement and liberation, Pearl Glenham and her father are invited to a mysterious country house party on the Dorset coast, by a total stranger. Her father claims not to have any…
Catching up with audiobook reviews, starting with these three... SIGNAL MOON A short time slip story spanning the divide between 1943 and 2023. The Honourable Lily Baines, petty officer in the WRNS is a Y station listener during WWll, intercepting enemy communications and sending them on to the code breakers at Bletchley Park. One night…
Author: Carol Hedges Published: Little G Books April 2024 Category: Historical Fiction, Crime ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ An horrific discovery on a Whitechapel construction site suddenly brings the prospect of death and disaster to the whole of 1870 London. In a race against time, the Scotland Yard detective division must stop the city from descending into chaos. It…
Terri's prompt this week is local or state parks. Hawkstone Park Follies is just a 20 minute drive away. Originally created by the Hill family and set in 100 acres of parkland, it consists of rugged sandstone hills which were developed into caves, bridges, gullies and many pathways to explore. There some pretty steep climbs…
Author: Charlie Laidlaw Published: June 2024 by Rampart Books Category: Contemporary Fiction, Relationships ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Theirs was the most important relationship of their life... It was a perfect relationship until time pulled them apart. A beautiful story sensitively told about how love and friendship can conquer everything, including time, to a point. “The Days of Our…
Author: Hazel Prior Published: September 2023 by Penguin Category: Contemporary Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Nineteen-year-old Phoebe and her widower father Al have recently moved to Devon, to a small cottage with a river at the end of the garden. Struggling with her own closely guarded issues, Phoebe doesn't go out much. Instead, she spends her time at…
Welcome to the Sunday Stills feature hosted by Terri Webster Schrandt. This week the prompt is landscapes. “Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own.” – Charles Dickens The Great Orme, a limestone headland on the North Wales coast. If you're feeling energetic it's a good walk to the top, otherwise…
Following on from my review of 1000 Libraries, I have news of another book by Vincent Phan launched today, June 28th, via Kickstarter. Vincent believes Protectors Of The Written Word is a much needed reminder of the goodness that still exists despite the bad news and economic uncertainty that affects us all. Protectors Of The…
Today I'm pleased to share the details of Humility and Tolerance for the blog tour organised by Rachel's Random Resources A sequel to Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice Seven years after Elizabeth Bennett married Fitzwilliam Darcy, they are still deeply in love, with two small children. But paradise is showing cracks now that Darcy’s aged…
Welcome to the Sunday Stills feature hosted by Terri. This week the subject is plant life. “May your life be like a wildflower, growing freely in the beauty and joy of each day.” – Native American Proverb My sister's been staying for a few days and we visited a couple of gardens including Cholmondeley Castle…
I'm delighted to join the blog tour for One of a Kind, organised by Rachel's Random Resources My Thoughts Cressida Tarbet was trying to sleep off a nasty cold when her phone rang. Her best friend, Ivo, needed wildlife rescuer, Cress at a possible crime scene on the Yorkshire moors. The victim had something unusual…
The focus of Terri's Sunday Stills this week is sunrises and sunsets. “Every sunset is an opportunity to reset. Every sunrise begins with new eyes.” Richie Norton If we're lucky we can see sunsets like these from the back of the house. Not last night though. Too many clouds, wind, rain and a hail storm!…
Today I'm sharing a spotlight/promo for the tour for Team Spirit, organised by Rachel's Random Resources Team Spirit: a humorous take on tennis club turmoil. Everything seems straightforward enough with agreement reached for the tennis club to hold social events at the nearby Dream Café while the clubhouse is being rebuilt. When Oliver Kilroy is…
Today I'm sharing an extract from a book of short stories set in Bulgaria. Rakiya – Stories of Bulgaria will be released on June 17th (published by GenZ Publishing) in digital format with a paperback to follow. A message from Ellis...'Allow me to introduce Bulgaria with a collection of short stories in which you'll hear…
It's my pleasure to post my review of Salad Days on the blog tour launch day. My thanks to Allie Cresswell for sending me a digital ARC. The book can be purchased on Amazon. “My earliest memory is of you, Arthur. We were children, running across the garden at Granny’s house. The sun on your…
Welcome to Sunday Stills hosted by Terri Webster Schrandt and this Sunday is the monthly colour challenge...all about pastels. Pink morning sky in Llandudno and a peachy sunset on Newborough beach, both in North Wales. Bees enjoy the soft pink hebe flowers This is a new addition to the garden, a beautiful shrub which didn't…
It's my pleasure to join the blog tour organised by Rachel's Random Resources and share my review for Under A Summer Skye. My Thoughts Under a Summer Skye is the first of a trilogy featuring sisters Thea, the youngest, Ezzie and Valentina. The sisters are all adopted and this thread plays out as the story…
Terri's prompt for Sunday Stills this week is the great outdoors to celebrate June, the Great Outdoors Month. "Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you." - Frank Lloyd Wright Out and about in Snowdonia... and by Lake Bala, the largest natural lake in Wales, also in Snowdonia. Views from…
It's Throwback Thursday and I'm joining in with TLC's Link Party I’d been meaning to delve into the British Library Crime Classics for a while and the setting of this one appealed to me initially. The Cornish Coast Murder is Ernest Carpenter Elmore’s debut novel written, under his pen name of John Bude, in the…
Today I'm pleased to spotlight CHASE, a trilogy of short stories brought together in one volume, and share an extract. The Campbell house was in a quiet residential street on the western outskirts of Dumbarton, an affluent neighborhood. They parked the battered Focus in the driveway, and James opened the front door with his key.…
Welcome to a belated Sunday Stills, hosted by Terri Webster Schrandt. This week is all about water. “Water is the driving force of all nature.” - Leonardo da Vinci A wintery scene by the River Weaver in Nantwich. The walk to High Force waterfall in Northumberland. My much missed Finn having fun on the beach. There…
I'm delighted to share an extract from Natalie Jenner's new book, Every Time We Say Goodbye, published by St Martin's Press, for the book tour organised by AustenProsePR. Everything in life was a matter of pacing. Lassiter had noticed the woman, or thought he had noticed her (could he be slipping?), a couple of times…
Like hordes of others, best-selling author Dave Dawson has spent decades crisscrossing the country as a solo full-time professional musician. During his 30 years on the road, he has performed thousands of shows before tens of thousands of people, yet still remains one of the army of anonymous entertainers who literally sing for their supper,…
Author: Kristin Hannah Performed by Julia Whelan Published: February 2024 by Macmillan Audio Category: Historical Fiction based on Fact, War, Vietnam ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ An intimate portrait of coming of age in a dangerous time and an epic tale of a nation divided. Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these words,…
Today I'm pleased to share an extract from Crucial Black, for the blog tour organised by Rachel's Random Resources Extract Having carried out a bit of ‘work’ on behalf of Magnus Flood, carpet fitters and part-time villains the McClure brothers have a body to get rid of… Kessock Bridge, Inverness 1:05am They stop the van…
Welcome to this month's Sunday Stills Colour Challenge hosted by Terri Webster Schrandt...and it's Cobalt Blue. Sometimes you can't beat water and sky for beautiful blues. This is a view over Loch Lomond The sky and sea were also beautiful for this visit to the little chapel in the sea. Located on a very small…
I'm delighted to be joining the blog tour for One Long Weekend organised by Rachel's Random Resources. My Thoughts One Long Weekend is an engaging and moving story, not least because it was inspired by a very unfortunate incident experienced by the author, explained in the notes before and after the story. Four people with…
Welcome to this weeks Sunday Stills, hosted by Terri Webster Schrandt. This week's prompt is Groups. An impressive grouping of snowdrops at Chirk Castle and a bunch of saxifrage flowers in my garden. My sister and I visited the deer park while spending a week at a holiday cottage in the grounds of Bovey Castle…
It’s Throwback Thursday and I’m linking up again with TLC. I think The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter was the first book I read by Hazel Gaynor and I loved it. It was published in September 2018 by Harper Collins. Having visited Northumberland on several occasions and seen the memorial to Grace Darling in St Aidan's churchyard,…
Author: Chas Halpern Published by Guernica Editions, November 2023 Category: Contemporary Fiction Lexi is a sixty-year-old widow whose solitary life is thrown into turmoil when a desperate young woman moves in with her, soon followed by the unexpected arrival of her best friend, who has separated from her husband of forty years. The mix of…
Welcome to Sunday Stills hosted by Terri Webster Schrandt. This week it's in celebration of National Kids and Pets Day which was 26th April. This was my grandson's first Christmas. Very considerately, they both slept while the grownups had a peaceful Christmas dinner. We've had dogs since long before he was born so he's known…
Good Bad Girl by best selling author Alice Feeney...now out in paperback! The Queen of Twists, bestselling author of Daisy Darker and Rock Paper Scissors Alice Feeney, returns with another gripping mystery filled with drama and her trademark surprises in Good Bad Girl. Sometimes bad things happen to good people, so good people have to do bad things. Twenty years…
Author: Georgia Rose Published: March 2024 by Three Shires Publishing Category: Domestic Thriller, Psychological ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ A woman abandoned. Her ex now married. How long will she wait to exact her revenge? Betrayal, birth, and bereavement. Dora Smith had faced it all by the age of twenty. Alone, she tracks down her former lover planning to…
Author: Tana French Performed by Roger Clark Published on Audible by Penguin Audio in March 2024 Category: Audiobook Review, Mystery, Irish Fiction, Crime Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ It’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is coming home. Both of them are coming to get…
This week Terri's Sunday Stills prompt is Earth Day, 22nd April 2024 “We are on Earth to take care of life. We are on Earth to take care of each other.” — Xiye Bastida This time last week we were staying in a lodge on the edge of the Brecon Beacons with friends. These were the views…
I'm pleased to share an extract from Shadow of the Witch today for the blog tour organised by Rachel's Randon Resources. Extract Following the auction, and his purchase of the books, Cutler visits the offices of a lawyer he knows – one who might be interested in the contents of Doctor Winter’s journals… ‘I believe…
It's my pleasure today to share my review for Bloodshed on the Boards for the blog tour organised by Rachel's Random Resources. My Thoughts Bloodshed on the Boards is the second outing for Morwenna Mutton and the residents of Seal Bay. Morwenna is a lively, eccentric and determined lady in her early sixties. She has…