‘I’m going to tell you everything. I’m gonna tell you the whole story.’– Jaq, A Top Boy Story [ About JAQ, A Top Boy Story ] Sometimes all it takes is a single message. Maybe it’s bad, like a rival top boy’s been switched off. Or maybe it’s good, like an opportunity you never thought…
‘SHE WAS THE NEXT BIG THING … UNTIL SHE DISAPPEARED‘ [ About Whatever Happened to Birdy Troy? ] In the early 1980s, The Diamonds – Ireland’s trailblazing all-woman rock band – were on the brink of international success. Their debut single ‘Too Much Not Enough’ was soaring in the British charts. Then, as suddenly as…
‘The Yacht is a twisty locked-room thriller perfect for fans of The White Lotus, The Hunting Party and The Castaways.‘ [ About The Yacht ] WHEN THE TRUTH SURFACES… New Year’s Eve, 2023. When Hannah and her friends rent a luxury yacht in an Italian marina, they party in style under the stars until they pass out. …WHO WILL SINK……
Some comebacks can be murder . . .– Relight My Fire [ About Relight My Fire ] Stella is enjoying life as an almost student, or at least she is until a man falls from the sky right in front of her, leaving a big old hole in the pavement for Manchester Council to fill.…
‘A young couple are entangled in an unrelenting spiral of lies when they pretend to be someone else …‘– The Guests [ About The Guests ] It started with a lie… Married couple Karin and Kai are looking for a pleasant escape from their busy lives, and reluctantly accept an offer to stay in a…
‘Mothers are not supposed to go on road trips’– Breakdown [ About Breakdown ] One winter morning on an ordinary day in contemporary Dublin, an ordinary middle-class woman wakes up in her ordinary suburban home. Her husband is next to her in bed, her teenage children sleeping nearby. Without thinking much about it, she walks…
‘The thrilling finale in the Anna Clarke series’In The Shadows [ About In The Shadows ] Tom has found you! You need to run! Kate Crowley has tried to put the past, and Cork city, behind her, but Tom Gallagher isn’t ready to absolve her of her sins. As she flees across Spain his henchmen…
One of the Good Guys by Araminta Hall and The Favourite by Rosemary Hennigan are two new releases with a very similar theme so I have decided to put them both into one post with my thoughts, and details, on both below. One of the Good Guys by Araminta Hall published January 4th with Macmillan…
‘When their lives briefly intertwine, something extraordinary happens…’– Last Chance in Paris [ About Last Chance in Paris ] When her husband suggests a romantic break, Claire feels obliged to say yes but immediately regrets it. After all that they’ve been through, how can one weekend in Paris save their marriage? Claire and Ronan aren’t…
Three Little Birds –‘Sam Blake at her masterful best’ – Andrea Mara [ About Three Little Birds ] Two decades of secrets. One shocking discovery… When a skull is found in Lough Coyne, facial reconstruction expert Dr Carla Steele is drawn into a fourteen-year-old case – but not all cases are cold, as Carla discovers…