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The Cinnamon Bun Book Store (Dream Harbor, Book 2) by Laurie Gilmore – bytheletterbookreviews
Book Description: When a secret message turns up hidden in a book in the Cinnamon Bun Bookstore, Hazel can't understand it. As more secret codes appear between the pages, she decides to follow the trail of clues… she just need someone to help her out. Gorgeous and outgoing fisherman, Noah, is always up for an adventure. And a…
To Judge Them (DI Sam Cobbs Book 14) by M.A. Comley @ComleyMel – bytheletterbookreviews
Book Description: From NY Times bestselling author M A Comley, author of the Justice series, who has sold almost five million copies worldwide comes yet another page-turning thriller set in the stunning Lake District.Success is a double-edged sword, and DI Sam Cobbs is about to experience its deadly side. As she basks in the glow…
The Pumpkin Spice Café by Laurie Gilmore @0neMoreChapter_ – bytheletterbookreviews
Book Description: When Jeanie’s aunt gifts her the beloved Pumpkin Spice Café in the small town of Dream Harbor, Jeanie jumps at the chance for a fresh start away from her very dull desk job. Logan is a local farmer who avoids Dream Harbor’s gossip at all costs. But Jeanie’s arrival disrupts Logan’s routine and…
Someone in the Attic by Andrea Mara @AndreaMaraBooks @TransworldBooks – bytheletterbookreviews
Book Description: Home alone? Think again...Anya is enjoying a relaxing bath when she hears a noise in the roof. Through the open bathroom door, she sees the attic hatch swing open, and a masked figure drops to the floor. Thirty seconds later, Anya is dead.Across town, Anya's old school friend, Julia, sees an online video…
Swimming to Lundy by Amanda Prowse @MrsAmandaProwse @RandomTTours – bytheletterbookreviews
Book Description: A poignant and inspiring story from multi-million-copy bestselling author Amanda Prowse about how it’s never too late to follow your dreams and find your way back to happiness. Tawrie Gunn feels stuck. She’s spent her whole life in the same seaside town with her beloved Nana and grief-stricken mum, all of them still…
Deadly Animals by Marie Tierney @ZaffreBooks – bytheletterbookreviews
Book Description: Thirteen-year-old Ava Bonney is different.While her friends play, Ava searches for roadkill. She knows studying animal decomposition is an unusual hobby, but Ava doesn't care what other people think.Then, one night, when Ava sneaks out to find a fox, she instead stumbles upon the body of Mickey Grant.Despite his many years in the…
Up Close and Personal by Kathryn Freeman @0neMoreChapter_ @KathrynFreeman1 – bytheletterbookreviews
Book Description: She can’t let him out of her sight… Sizzling chemistry, a page-turning will they/won’t they romance and the hottest twist on one of your favourite movies… British actor Zac Edwards is the latest heartthrob to hit the red carpets. Hot, talented and rich, he sends women wild…all except one. Close protection officer Kat…
Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera @TransworldBooks @amytintera – bytheletterbookreviews
Book Description: Am I a murderer? You tell me . . .My name is Lucy Chase, but you already know that. Yes, I’m the woman who doesn’t remember murdering her best friend.You probably think I did it, too. I get it. Being found covered in her blood doesn’t exactly scream ‘innocent’.Look, I’m as frustrated as…
The Trial by Jo Spain @QuercusBooks – bytheletterbookreviews
Book Description: 2014, Dublin: at St Edmunds, an elite college on the outskirts of the city, twenty-year-old medical student Theo gets up one morning, leaving behind his sleeping girlfriend, Dani, and his studies - never to be seen again. With too many unanswered questions, Dani simply can't accept Theo's disappearance and reports him missing, even though…
Gone… But Where? (DI Sara Ramsey Book 24) by M.A. Comley @ComleyMel – bytheletterbookreviews
Book Description: From NY Times and USA Today Bestselling author M A Comley author of the award-winning Justice series who has sold over 5 million copies world wide.Could a parent’s murky past, be the key to a teenager’s disappearance?Teenager, Sophie Todd has been reported missing, but she’s no ordinary teenager, she happens to be the…
The Sunshine Sisters: Blossom by Rosie Green @Rosie_Green88 @rararesources – bytheletterbookreviews
Book Description: Blossom Sunshine's life is anything but boring right now. She's determined to finally solve the mystery of who her biological father is – despite Mum Ada putting a spanner in the works. What is Ada trying to hide? Meanwhile, best friend Billy is doing his best to impress Jenna. This means cutting back…
The Lost Victim (Private Investigator Kate Marshall Series Book 5) by Robert Bryndza – bytheletterbookreviews
Book Description: When school girl Janey Macklin disappeared from the seedy side of London in 1988, her case went cold, with no body and no witnesses. Now, thirty years later, private detective Kate Marshall has been approached by a true crime podcast producer with an intriguing question they need her help answering: What if Janey was killed…
The New Guy by Kathryn Freeman @0neMoreChapter_ @KathrynFreeman1 – bytheletterbookreviews
Book Description: Sam Huxton doesn’t do one-night stands, especially not with men she’s just met! But the hot guy at the bar was hard to resist and one night is all they share – no names, no numbers, just some much needed fun… Until the same guy walks into Sam’s life the next day as…
Old Girls on Deck by Maddie Please @BoldwoodBooks @rararesources @MaddiePlease1 – bytheletterbookreviews
Book Description: It’s never too late to sail a new course... When retired Jill Parker wins an all-expenses paid mediterranean cruise for two she is thrilled! At 63 life in retirement has got a little bit bland for Jill and this might be just the holiday she and husband Eddy need to get the sparks…
Forget Me Not by M.J. Arlidge @mjarlidge @Tr4cyF3nt0n @orionbooks – bytheletterbookreviews
Book Description: A city on the brink.A mother on the edge.A nightmare that only DI Helen Grace can end.Sometimes, the darkest secrets hide in plain sight... GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN A gang war grips the city, and the police force is under fire from all sides. But Detective Inspector Helen Grace defies direct orders as…
A Good Place to Hide a Body by Laura Marshall @Laurajm8 @Tr4cyF3nt0n @HodderBooks – bytheletterbookreviews
Book Description: 'Can you come round?' Dad says tremulously.'Of course. Are you OK? Is it Mum?''No!' He almost shouts it. 'Just come quickly. The garden...the...body... we need you, Penny.'For women of Penny's generation, being on hand for elderly parents is just part of life. But for Penny, things have become a little more serious...When she receives a…
Vengeance is Mine by Michael Wood @MichaelHWood @0neMoreChapter_ – bytheletterbookreviews
Book Description: From the bestselling author of the DCI Matilda Darke series and Dr Olivia Winter series, comes a standalone thriller to keep you up all night! A GRUESOME MURDER Twenty years ago, a young girl vanished from a quiet street in Northumberland. When her body was found in an attic close to her home,…
For Once In My Life by Sian O’Gorman @msogorman @BoldwoodBooks @rararesources – bytheletterbookreviews
Book Description: A Tale of Love, Discovery, and Second Chances... In the bustling world of Dublin's advertising scene, Kitty O’Sullivan, a copywriter, feels an unexplainable void in her life that she can't quite pinpoint. Her five-year relationship with Dave is stagnant, her creative juices have dried up and she’s even entertaining thoughts of marriage as…
Redemption by Jack Jordan @JackJordanBooks @simonschusterUK @RandomTTours – bytheletterbookreviews
Book Description: THE LATEST PULSE-POUNDING THRILLER FROM THE MASTER OF THE MORAL DILEMMA AND SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, JACK JORDAN.Aaron Alexander has just been released from jail after serving eleven years for causing the death of Joshua Moore in a hit-and-run. Now a free man, all he wants to do is stay on the straight and narrow and leave his troubled past behind…
How to Age Disgracefully by Clare Pooley @TransworldBooks – bytheletterbookreviews
Book Description: When age makes you invisible, secrets are easier to hideDaphne knows that age is just a number. She also knows that society no longer pays her any attention – something she’s happy to exploit to help her hide a somewhat chequered past.But finding herself alone on her 70th birthday, with only her plants to…
One Love by Matt Cain @MattCainWriter – bytheletterbookreviews
Book Description: Two men. Twenty years of friendship. One love. 2002Danny arrives at Manchester University determined not to hide from the world any longer. This is the year his life will begin.He locks eyes with a handsome stranger across the hall at the Freshers' Fair. It starts with a wink and soon Danny and Guy…
Could It Be Him? (DI Sally Parker Book 13) by M.A. Comley @ComleyMel – bytheletterbookreviews
Book Description: From NY Times and USA Today Bestselling author M A Comley author of the award-winning Justice series who has sold over 5 million copies world wide.Can a serial killer strike again when he’s currently sitting behind bars, sentenced to life?DI Sally Parker delves into a baffling case of murder, when the remains of…
The Golden Gals’ French Adventure by Judy Leigh @JudyLeighWriter @BoldwoodBooks @rararesources – bytheletterbookreviews
Book Description: Sixty-nine-year-old Fliss has lived a life! A career running her own successful business, a beautiful home, a wardrobe full of designer clothes – Fliss has everything she ever wanted. So why does she feel so lonely? Sixty-six-year-old Shirl didn’t expect to be looking after a baby again, let alone a grown woman who…
Conviction by Jack Jordan @JackJordanBooks @simonschusterUK – bytheletterbookreviews
Book Description: TO STEAL A MAN'S FREEDOM ALL IT TAKES IS . . . CONVICTIONWade Darling stands accused of killing his wife and teenage children as they slept before burning the family home to the ground. When the case lands on barrister Neve Harper’s desk, she knows it could be the career making case she’s been…
Escape to Happy Ever After by S J Crabb – bytheletterbookreviews
Book Description: Escape to Happy Ever After where all your happy endings are guaranteed.When Susie Mahoney was gifted a break to Happy Ever After she couldn’t pack her bags quickly enough, she had to do something to break the run of bad luck she was experiencing.She was fast approaching the age where all her friends…
The Sunshine Sisters: Skye by Rosie Green @Rosie_Green88 @rararesources – bytheletterbookreviews
Book Description: The Sunshine Sisters: Skye's storyBOOK TWO of a TRILOGY in the popular Little Duck Pond Café series Skye Sunshine has a theory that workmen, when in your house, should be seen and not heard. But Saul, the annoyingly sexy handyman clearly hasn't received the memo! He's far too cheeky and irritating for her…
Thorn In My Side b C.J. Skuse – bytheletterbookreviews
Book Description: Sometimes, you can be your own worst enemy… Rhiannon Lewis thought she finally had it all: thanks to the pandemic she’s had to keep a much lower profile but has found happiness with her fiancé Rafael and his family. For once, she is surrounded by people who love her for who she is…
Frank & Red by Matt Coyne @mattcoyney @Wildfirebks – bytheletterbookreviews
Book Description: Sometimes, the friend you need is the one you never saw coming. Frank and Red are a mess. Frank is a grumpy old curmudgeon. A recluse whose only company is the 'ghost' of his dead wife, Marcie. He is estranged from his friends, his son, and the ever-changing world beyond his front gate.…
To Blame Them (DI Sam Cobbs Book 13) by M.A. Comley @ComleyMel – bytheletterbookreviews
Book Description: From NY Times bestselling author M A Comley, author of the Justice series, who has sold almost five million copies worldwide comes yet another page-turning thriller set in the stunning Lake District.When life becomes too much… what’s the answer? How much misfortune can one family take?When a tragic event leaves teenagers Josh and…
Was It Good For You? by Kathryn Freeman @KathrynFreeman1 @0neMoreChapter_ – bytheletterbookreviews
Book Description: If you’re not a ten on Sophie’s spreadsheet, you’re never getting her between the bedsheets… No aspect of Sophie’s life goes unrecorded in her Excel spreadsheets, so when she accidentally sends it to her entire contact list instead of just her best friend, Sophie has a lot of uncomfortable explaining to do. First…
The Intruders by Louise Jensen @Fab_fiction @HQstories – bytheletterbookreviews
Book Description: They were told to leave. They should have listened. The perfect opportunity… A manor house available rent-free to house-sitters is an offer too good to miss for Cass and James, who have been saving for a deposit on their own home for so long. Although it had been abandoned for almost thirty years,…
Edge of the Land: The Merseyside Crime Series Book 3 by Malcolm Hollingdrake @MHollingdrake @HobeckBooks – bytheletterbookreviews
Book Description: Death stalks the docklands of Liverpool...Edge of the Land is the thrilling third novel in the gripping Merseyside crime series from Malcolm Hollingdrake, author of the best-selling Harrogate crime series.The waterways of the Liverpool docks contain many ghosts and shadows. It’s a place to disappear… a place to die.Detective Inspector April Decent and Detective…
The Italian Job by Kathryn Freeman @KathrynFreeman1 @0neMoreChapter_ – bytheletterbookreviews
Book Description: Dream job. Dream house. Fake fiancé. A year in a gorgeous Italian castle… When Anna Roberts’ life implodes, an online search leads her to an ad for the ultimate dream job – management of a gorgeous castle on the shores of Lake Como, accommodation included. The only catch? Anna can’t do it alone……
Second Skin by Dugald Bruce-Lockhart @DBrucelockhart @MuswellPress – bytheletterbookreviews
Book Description: 1994, five years after a murderous encounter on the island of Paros, Alastair Haston's world is upended by a startling discovery: a son he never knew existed. Desperate to learn more, he travels to Athens, but his pursuit is intercepted when MI6 intervenes, coercing him into a high-stakes espionage mission – to infiltrate…
The Sisters by Claire Douglas @Dougieclaire @HarperCollinsUK – bytheletterbookreviews
Book Description: One of them lied. One of them died. When one sister dies, the other must go to desperate lengths to survive … Haunted by her twin sister's death, Abi is making a fresh start in Bath. But when she meets siblings Bea and Ben, quickly moving into the townhouse they share with a…
The Other Tenant by Lesley Kara @LesleyKara @TransworldBooks @RandomTTours – bytheletterbookreviews
Book Description: ‘DON’T GET TOO COMFORTABLE’Marlow has always lived in unusual places. But when she accepts a position as a live-in property guardian, she finds herself moving somewhere she swore she’d never return to.Right from the start, she knows it’s a terrible mistake. The elegant Victorian school is due to be turned into luxury apartments,…
Seeking Retribution (DI Sara Ramsey Book 23) by M.A. Comley @ComleyMel – bytheletterbookreviews
Book Description: From NY Times and USA Today Bestselling author M A Comley author of the award-winning Justice series who has sold over 4.5 million copies world wide.One night of fun, leads to serious consequences.When Sara and her team investigate a missing person case, it soon becomes clear that things aren’t what they seemed at…
The Last Guest House by Caroline Mitchell @emblabooks @Caroline_writes – bytheletterbookreviews
Book Description: Guest House RulesNo smoking in the rooms.No loud music.No phonesNo leaving your room after 9pmDC Nicola McKenna is meant to be resting following her last case, so she lets her boyfriend to take her to the Isle of Skye for the weekend. But what's meant to be a getaway to see the aurora borealis…
Making Memories at the Cornish Cove by Kim Nash @KimTheBookworm @BoldwoodBooks @rararesources – bytheletterbookreviews
Book Description: The BRAND NEW instalment of the Cornish Cove series from Kim Nash It’s never too late… After five husbands and five broken hearts, Lydia feels like she’s always been chasing something. But now she’s found her purpose, and having moved to Driftwood Bay to spend more time with her daughter Meredith, she’s happier than…
Very Very Lucky by Amanda Prowse @MrsAmandaProwse – bytheletterbookreviews
Book Description: A life-affirming story from million-copy bestselling author Amanda Prowse about having it all, losing it all, and how new friends can show each other the way back to happiness. With kids to look after, an ailing mother and a neglected husband, life is full for Emma Fountain—too full, she realises, when she wakes up…