‘On her first shift at an Edinburgh halfway house for violent offenders, a young woman is taken hostage … and that’s just the beginning…’ – Halfway House [ About Halfway House ] They`re the housemates from Hell… When her disastrous Australian love affair ends, Lou O´Dowd heads to Edinburgh for a fresh start, moving in…
‘Cub reporter Jonny Murphy is in Buenos Aires interviewing families of victims of Argentina’s Dirty War, when a headless torso has washed up on a city beach, thrusting him into a shocking investigation…‘– Death Flight [ About Death Flight ] Argentina. 1998. Human remains are found on a beach on the outskirts of Buenos Aires…
‘Four friends, four secrets, one explosive weekend break that tests their friendship‘– The Weekend Break [ About The Weekend Break ] VIVIENNE’S perfect life is a façade, and she at last wants out. She needs a divorce fast. HELEN’S nightly glass of wine has become a bottle or two, and her drinking is threatening her…
‘Marina leant forward, her gaze moving between tall pillars, capped with carved stone dragons, the lodges either side. Weeds pushed their way through the gravel, and dust covered the windows in a grimy film’The Pieces of Us [ About The Pieces of Us ] Marina and Hugh were once madly in love. But after the…
‘It takes one moment to call for help, so why did he wait?’– Twenty-Seven Minutes [ About Twenty-Seven Minutes ] THE QUESTIONFor the last ten years, the small town of West Wilmer has been struggling to answer one question: on the night of the crash that killed his sister, why did it take Grant Dean…
‘A Murder for Crowe’ [ About Malign Intent ] “Tag, bag and bury the bastard, Crowe…” An August bank holiday should be about relaxation, taking time out to see family and friends and enjoying a beer or two. But when former gonzo journalist, Aonghus Hanafin is found hanging along a desolate estuary, the nearest SIO…
‘This is a book about connections. Not the connections that Alexander Bell hoped to forge with his telephone, but the connection that deaf people made before a widespread campaign to prevent & ban the use of sign language’ – Sarah Marsh, author of A Sign of Her Own [ About A Sign of Her Own…
‘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…