Hi and welcome to the seventh edition of What I’ve learnt from reading fiction, the series the hubby unwittingly instigated by daring to ask me what I had learnt from reading fiction. Well, the answer is: more than I ever realised I could! Here' ...
Gumption, consumption and karma: Always the Dead by Stephen J. Golds #bookreview #AlwaysTheDead
Los Angeles, California. 1949. Scott Kelly is a World War Two Marine veteran and mob hitman confined to a Tuberculosis sanatorium suffering from consumption, flashbacks and nightmares from his experiences of The Battle of Okinawa and a botched hit fo ...
The Gathering Storm by Alan Jones #bookreview #TheGatheringStorm @alanjonesbooks
Kiel, Northern Germany, 1933. A naval city, the base for the German Baltic fleet, and the centre for German sailing, the venue for the upcoming Olympic regatta in 1936.The Kästners, a prominent Military family, are part of the fabric of the city, and ...
Faceless by Vanda Symon #bookreview #Faceless
Worn down by a job he hates, and a stressful family life, middle-aged, middle-class Bradley picks up a teenage escort and commits an unspeakable crime. Now she’s tied up in his warehouse, and he doesn’t know what to do.Max is homeless, eating from ru ...
It’s time to solve the murder of the century: The Twyford Code by Janice Hallett #bookreview #TheTwyfordCode #NetGalley
It's time to solve the murder of the century…Forty years ago, Steven Smith found a copy of a famous children's book, its margins full of strange markings and annotations. He took it to his remedial English teacher, Miss Isles, who became convinced it ...
An unspeakable crime, a cursed village: Demon by Matt Wesolowski #bookreview #Demon #SixStories #Possession #ChillingWinterReads #RandomThingsTours
Scott King’s podcast investigates the 1995 cold case of a demon possession in a rural Yorkshire village, where a 12-year-old boy was murdered in cold blood by two children. Book six in the chilling, award-winning Six Stories series.In 1995, the pictu ...