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#BookReview of #ThePush by Ashley Audrain @audrain @michaeljbooks #BlogTour

Blog Tour, Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne27th January 20219 Comments

‘The women in this family, we’re different . . .’– The Push [ About The Book ] “We expect to have good mothers, and to marry, and to be good mothers. The arrival of baby Violet was meant to be the happiest day of my life. I would be different. I would be like other…

#BookReview of #BlackIrishBlues by @andrewcotto | @brwpublisher

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne26th January 2021Leave a comment

A Caesar Stiles Mystery [ About the Book ] Black Irish Blues is the return-to-origin story of Caesar Stiles, an erstwhile runaway who returns to his hometown with plans to buy the town’s only tavern and end his family’s Sicilian curse. Caesar’s attempt for redemption is complicated by the spectral presence of his estranged father, reparation…

#BookReview of #Family by @OwenMullen6 @BoldwoodBooks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne22nd January 2021Leave a comment

Family – might be the death of you… [ About the Book ] The Glass family business is crime, and they’re good at what they do. Vengeance took Luke Glass behind bars – but now he’s free and he’s never going back. Luke wants out of the gangster life – all he has to do…

#BookReview of #AskNoQuestions by @ClaireAllan | @AvonBooksUK

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne20th January 20218 Comments

‘Not all secrets are meant to come out…’– Ask No Questions [ About the Book ] Twenty-five years ago, on Halloween night, eight-year-old Kelly Doherty went missing while out trick or treating with friends. Her body was found three days later, floating face down, on the banks of the Creggan Reservoir by two of her…

#BookReview of #TRUST by Chris Hammer | @hammerNow @Wildfirebks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne19th January 20212 Comments

‘The third Martin Scarsden novel from the author of the CWA John Creasy (NEW BLOOD) DAGGER award-winning SCRUBLANDS’– TRUST [ About the Book ] On a bright sunny day in Port Silver, ex-journalist Martin Scarsden misses a call from his girlfriend Mandy. Checking his voicemail later, all he hears is her terrified scream before the…

#BookReview of #GirlA by Abigail Dean | @abigailsdean @HarperCollinsUK

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne18th January 20214 Comments

‘Girl A,’ she said. ‘The girl who escaped. If anyone was going to make it, it was going to be you.’ [ About the Book ] Lex Gracie doesn’t want to think about her family. She doesn’t want to think about growing up in her parents’ House of Horrors. And she doesn’t want to think…

#BookReview of Once You Go This Far by Kristen Lepionka | @KMLwrites @FaberBooks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne15th January 2021Leave a comment

‘You know Reacher, Rebus and Grace. Now meet Roxane Weary…‘– Once You Go This Far [ About the Book ] After the death of her cop father, PI Roxane Weary did everything she could to lose herself in her work – but she’s getting tired of the hangovers, of fighting with her ex-girlfriend, and of…

#BookReview – The Island by Ben McPherson

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne14th January 20214 Comments

A shocking act of violenceA family torn apartA daughter gone missing– The Island [ About the Book ] A shocking act of violence… It should have been the safest place on earth. A summer camp for teens, on a beautiful island off the coast of Oslo. But what started out as a haven becomes hell…

#BookReview – The Last Thing to Burn by @willrdean @HodderBooks

Blog Tour, Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne13th January 20218 Comments

My photos of my parents (proof I was loved)My book (proof that I can still think)My ID card (proof of my real name)My sister’s letter (proof of why I’m here)– The Last Thing to Burn [ About the Book ] He is her husband. She is his captive. Her husband calls her Jane. That is…

#BookReview #APromisedLand by #BarackObama

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne11th January 20214 Comments

‘The story of one man’s bet with history, the faith of a community organizer tested on the world stage’– A Promised Land My first review of 2021 and it’s of a fascinating and very intense read, A Promised Land by Barack Obama. Published on November 17th 2020 with Viking/Penguin, it is described as a ‘beautifully…

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