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#BookReview | #TheWaitingRooms by Eve Smith | @evecsmith | @OrendaBooks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne9th June 20202 Comments

‘A powerful and terrifyingly relevant literary debut combining the speculative power of Station Eleven with a taut, shocking thriller’– The Waiting Rooms [ About the Book ] Decades of spiralling drug resistance have unleashed a global antibiotic crisis. Ordinary infections are untreatable: a scratch from a pet can kill. A sacrifice is required to keep…

#BookReview | #TheLiarsDaughter by @ClaireAllan | #Blogtour with @AvonBooksUK

Blog Tour, Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne20th February 20204 Comments

‘There’s a monster in this family…‘-The Liar’s Daughter [ About the Book ] No one deserves to be taken before their time. Do they? Joe McKee – pillar of the Derry community – is dead. As arrangements are made for the traditional Irish wake, friends and family are left reeling at how cancer could have…

#BookReview | #Beast by Matt Wesolowski | @OrendaBooks @ConcreteKraken

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne7th February 20204 Comments

A frozen girlA haunted townA deadly challengeSix StoriesWhich one is true?– Beast [ About the Book ] In the wake of the ‘Beast from the East’ cold snap that ravaged the UK in 2018, a grisly discovery was made in a ruin on the Northumbrian coast. Twenty-four-year-old vlogger, Elizabeth Barton, had been barricaded inside what…

#BookReview | #TellMeYourSecret by Dorothy Koomson

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne31st January 20205 Comments

Pieta has a secretJody has a secretWill telling their secrets save or sacrifice each other…– Tell Me Your Secret [ About the Book ] Pieta has a secret.Ten years ago, Pieta was kidnapped by a man calling himself The Blindfolder who said he wouldn’t kill her if she kept her eyes closed for 48 hours.…

#BookReview | #TheHome by Sarah Stovell @sarahlovescrime | @OrendaBooks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne29th January 20206 Comments

One more little secretOne more little lie….-The Home [ About the Book ] When the body of pregnant, 15-year-old Hope Lacey is discovered in a churchyard on Christmas morning, the community is shocked, but unsurprised. For Hope lived in The Home, the residence of three young girls, whose violent and disturbing pasts have seen them…

#BookReview | Keep Your Eyes On Me by @samblakebooks | #KeepYourEyesOnMe

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne16th December 20192 Comments

‘You won’t be able to look away‘–Keep Your Eyes On Me Keep Your Eyes On Me is the first standalone thriller by Sam Blake following on from the very successful crime fiction series, the Cat Connolly Trilogy. Due for publication with Corvus Books on January 2nd 2020, Keep Your Eyes On Me is described as…

#BookReview | A Death in Mayfair by @MarkEllis15 | @midaspr

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne11th December 2019Leave a comment

A DCI Frank Merlin Thriller – December 1941A Death in Mayfair A few weeks back I participated in the blog tour with Mark Ellis and Midas PR celebrating the recent publication of A Death in Mayfair with an extract, which you can read HERE. Today I am delighted to bring you all my review of…

#BookReview | #BlackSummer by @MWCravenUK | @TheCrimeVault | @bethwright26 | #TeamTilly

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne9th December 20192 Comments

‘An explosion of fat, guts, bones and blood filled his mouth. The sweet flesh and bitter entrails were sublime. The grease that coated the roof of his mouth was breathtaking. Sharp bones pierced his gums and his own blood seasoned the meat’– Black Summer Bet that got your attention? Black Summer by M.W. Craven is…

#BookReview | Nothing Important Happened Today by @will_carver | @OrendaBooks | #NothingImportantHappenedToday

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne4th November 2019Leave a comment

We are The People of ChoiceThe ones now with courageAnd we choose not to fearThis is one solutionIt is not the endNor is it the beginningThere are always more who choose to liveThere is but one certainty– Nothing Important Happened Today [ About the Book ] Nine people arrive one night on Chelsea Bridge. They’ve…

#BlogTour | #TheDark by @DerekFlynn03 | #GuestPost

Blog Tour, Guest PostBy Mairéad Hearne29th October 2019Leave a comment

A cityA blackoutA serial killer Today it is with great pleasure that I join Irish writer Derek Flynn on tour with his latest novel, The Dark. Just published on 10th October, The Dark is Derek Flynn’s fourth novel. Derek has written a guest post about self-publishing which you can read below, but first let me…

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