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Yearly Archives: 2024

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#BookReview of #InHerPlace by Edel Coffey

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne28th March 2024Leave a comment

‘From the #1 bestselling author of Breaking Point and winner of Crime Novel of the Year at the An Post Irish Book Awards’– In Her Place [ About In Her Place ] Who is the other woman? That’s for you to decide. Ann devoted years to her mother’s care – and now she’s gone, Ann feels lost.…

#BookReview of #TheLighthouseSecret by Carmel Harrington | @HappyMrsH | @HCinIreland

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne27th March 2024Leave a comment

‘A young girl who longs for a bigger life.A wife who dreams of change.A vow that can never be broken.And a secret that comes back to haunt then decades later.’– The Lighthouse Secret [ About The Lighthouse Secret ] Family secrets never stay buried… 1951, Ireland On the windswept Cork coast, the lighthouse-keepers’ wives wait,…

#BookReview of #CloseToHome by Michael Magee | @dylanthomprize | @midascampaigns | #SUDTP24

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne19th March 2024Leave a comment

I am delighted to be joining in with the longlist celebrations for The Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize 2024. My focus today will be on Close to Home by Michael Magee, but first here is a quick overview of the Prize and the full list of titles. The Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize is the world’s…

#BookReview of #TheGoodGirl by Michelle Dunne | @NotDunneYet | @Bloodhoundbook

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne14th March 20241 Comment

‘Would you know a serial killer if you met one? What if she served you coffee every day?”– The Good Girl [ About The Good Girl ] Grace Murphy doesn’t seem like the type of woman who’d have a man cable-tied to a chair, slowly dying in her house. She keeps to herself and goes…

#BookReview of The Birthday Weekend by Zoë Miller

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne13th March 2024Leave a comment

It was a celebration to die for . . .The Birthday Weekend [ About The Birthday Weekend ] What happened on holiday was supposed to stay on holiday – but that was before a body was found . . . Socialite Lucinda Oliver planned a lavish celebration for her fortieth birthday – a weekend escape…

#BookReview of #PrimaFacie by Suzie Miller | @SuzieMillerWrtr

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne12th March 20242 Comments

‘Based on the award-winning play starring Jodie Comer‘– Prima Facie [ About Prima Facie ] This is not life. This is law. Tessa Ensler is a brilliant barrister who’s forged her career in criminal defence through sheer determination. Since her days at Cambridge, she’s carefully disguised her working class roots in a male-dominated world where…

#BookReview of #AStrangerInTheFamily by @JaneCaseyAuthor | @Hemlock_Press

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne6th March 20244 Comments

‘The gripping new thriller featuring DS Maeve Kerrigan and DI Josh Derwent from the Top Ten Sunday Times bestselling author‘– A Stranger in The Family [ About A Stranger in The Family ] Every mother’s worst nightmare . . . When nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall vanished from her bed one summer night, her disappearance tore her family apart.…

#BookReview of #WhispersOnMainstreet by Marie O’ Connor | @PoolbegBooks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne4th March 20244 Comments

‘A small town’s gossip turns deadly, unravelling a web of secrets in 1961 Ballantur‘– Whispers on Main Street [ About Whispers on Main Street ] Nate Wheatley runs a mobile grocery shop for the countryside around the town of Ballantur. He isn’t a mere purveyor of goods – his service is the lifeblood of communication…

#BookReview of #Want by Paula Guildea | @pegasuspublish

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne29th February 2024Leave a comment

‘Darcy thought about it and understood that each complication in her life had merged into one gargantuan mess. Her flawed judgement of character towered over other ramblings in her mind, but each self-inflicted complication had its own calling bell, ready to summon at will.’– Want [ About Want ] In the heat of a summer…

#BookReview of #HalfwayHouse by Helen Fitzgerald | @OrendaBooks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne28th February 2024Leave a comment

‘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…

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