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#BookReview of #CaptainJesus by @colette_snowden | @Ofmooseandmen

Book ReviewBy magsmin21st December 20204 Comments

“I was the eldest, I should have stopped it. It wasn’t my idea but I still feel like it was my fault. There’s a difference and the difference is guilt”– Captain Jesus Well folks we are almost to the end of a year that has been like no other in recent times, a year when…

#BookReview of #SmokeScreen by Thomas Enger & Jørn Lier Horst | @OrendaBooks

Book ReviewBy magsmin17th December 2020Leave a comment

Two-year-old Patricia was kidnapped ten years ago and never seen again….Or was she?– Smoke Screen [ About the Book ] When the mother of a missing two-year-old girl is seriously injured in a suspected terrorist attack in Oslo, crime-fighting duo Blix and Ramm join forces to investigate the case, and things aren’t adding up Oslo,…

#BookReview of #Deity by Matt Wesolowski | @ConcreteKraken @OrendaBooks

Book ReviewBy magsmin15th December 20204 Comments

An Episode of Six StoriesA shamed pop starA devastating fireSix witnessesSix storiesWhich one is true?– Deity [ About the Book ] When pop megastar Zach Crystal dies in a fire at his remote mansion, his mysterious demise rips open the bitter divide between those who adored his music and his endless charity work, and those…

#BookReview of #TheStrangerTimes by C.K. McDonnell @Caimh | @ThomasssHill

Book ReviewBy magsmin11th December 2020Leave a comment

‘First in a new series of supernatural thrillers centred around a struggling Manchester-based weekly newspaper dedicated to investigating the weird, the unexplained and the inexplicable’– The Stranger Times [ About the Book ] There are Dark Forces at work in our world (and in Manchester in particular) and so thank God The Stranger Times is on hand…

#BookReview | There’s Only One Danny Garvey by David F. Ross @dfr10 | #OneDannyGarvey

Book ReviewBy magsmin10th December 2020Leave a comment

‘A touching and unforgettable novel about dreams, redemption and the the beautiful game from one of Scotland’s most exciting contemporary novelists’– There’s Only One Danny Garvey [ About the Book ] A promising young football player returns home to his tiny village, his dreams in tatters and a dark secret haunting his conscience, in a…

#BookReview of #Winterkill by Ragnar Jónasson

Book ReviewBy magsmin8th December 2020Leave a comment

‘Marks the startling conclusion to the million-copy bestselling Dark Iceland series’– WINTERKILL [ About the Book ] When the body of a nineteen-year-old girl is found on the main street of Siglufjörður, Police Inspector Ari Thór battles a violent Icelandic storm in an increasingly dangerous hunt for her killer … The chilling, claustrophobic finale to the international…

#BookReview of #TheSapphireChild by Janet MacLeod Trotter @MacLeodTrotter

Book ReviewBy magsmin4th December 20204 Comments

‘In the dying days of the Raj, can paths divided by time and circumstance ever find each other again?‘– The Sapphire Child [ About the Book ] In 1930s Northern India, childhood friends Stella and Andrew have grown up together in the orbit of the majestic Raj Hotel. Spirited Stella has always had a soft…

#BookReview of #SavingLucia by Anna Vaught @BookwormVaught | @Ofmooseandmen

Book ReviewBy magsmin3rd December 20202 Comments

‘Those who are confined have the very best imaginations’– Saving Lucia [ About the Book ] How would it be if four silenced women went on a tremendous adventure, reshaping their pasts and futures as they went? What if one of those people were a fascinating, forgotten aristocratic assassin and another a fellow patient of…

#BookReview of #TheBlueWashingBag by Mary Clancy (@MaryBAClancy1)

Book ReviewBy magsmin1st December 2020Leave a comment

‘Denied her real identity,she will find the truth…’ – The Blue Washing Bag [ About the Book ] 1940The Payton twins, born to an unmarried mother in a small town in rural Ireland, are brought to the children’s home by the Parish Priest. Constantly reminded of their mother’s unforgivable fall from grace, they suffer the…

#BookReview | #TheSmallestMan by Frances Quinn | @franquinn | @simonschusterUK | #Blogtour with @RandomTTours

Book ReviewBy magsmin27th November 20202 Comments

‘The smallest man. The biggest heart. The mightiest story.‘– The Smallest Man [ About the Book ] Nat Davy longs to grow tall and strong and be like other boys, but at the age of ten, he’s confronted with the truth; he’s different, and the day when the stares and whispers stop is never going…

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