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The Last Widow by Karin Slaughter | #BookReview

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne19th June 20198 Comments

KidnappedBrokenImprisoned She must unlock the truth…Before it is too late [ About the Book ] It begins with an abduction. The routine of a family shopping trip is shattered when Michelle Spivey is snatched as she leaves the mall with her young daughter. The police search for her, her partner pleads for her release, but in…

#BookReview | #TheOutsider by Emily Hourican |@EmilyH71 |@HachetteIre

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne14th June 20192 Comments

Two very different families…..One is loud, eccentric, rich and confident.The other is less sure of their place in life. [ About the Book ] On holidays in Portugal, a near-drowning brings the ten-year-old daughters, Jamie and Sarah, together and a friendship is formed.As the bond between the girls grows deeper, so too do the ties…

#WorstCaseScenario by Helen Fitzgerald | @FitzHelen |@OrendaBooks | #BookReview

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne24th May 20194 Comments

One alcoholic parole officerOne month to goOne last clientWhat could possibly go wrong?Worst Case Scenario…… [ About the Book ] Mary Shields is a moody, acerbic probation offer, dealing with some of Glasgow’s worst cases, and her job is on the line.Liam Macdowall was imprisoned for murdering his wife, and he’s published a series of…

#BookReview | The House on the Edge of the Cliff by Carol Drinkwater | @Carol4OliveFarm | @MichaelJBooks | #BlogTour

Blog Tour, Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne22nd May 20197 Comments

It’s the perfect hideaway.Until he finds her….. [ About the Book ] No one else knows what happened that summer. Or so she believes . . .  Grace first came to France a lifetime ago. Young and full of dreams of adventure, she met two very different men.She fell under the spell of one. The…

Anna of Kleve Queen of Secrets (#SixTudorQueens – Book 4) by Alison Weir

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne21st May 20192 Comments

Anna of Kleve – A German Princess with a guilty secret [ About the Book ] The King is in love with Anna’s portrait, but she has none of the accomplishments he seeks in a new bride. She prays she will please Henry, for the balance of power in Europe rests on this marriage alliance.…

The Lost Letters of William Woolf by Helen Cullen | @wordsofhelen |#Bookreview |#LostLetters

Blog Tour, Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne17th May 20191 Comment

‘Lost letters have only one hope for survival. If they are caught between two worlds, with an unclear destination and no address of sender, the lucky ones are redirected to the Dead Letters Depot in East London for a final chance of redemption…..’ [ About the Book ] Inside East London’s Dead Letters Depot, William…

#PerfectCrime by @Helen_Fields | #BookReview | #Extract |@AvonBooksUK | #BlogTour

Blog Tour, Book Review, ExtractBy Mairéad Hearne29th April 2019Leave a comment

Life or death.Fight or flight.Your darkest moment is your most vulnerable [ About the Book ] Stephen Berry is about to jump off a bridge until a suicide prevention counsellor stops him. A week later, Stephen is dead. Found at the bottom of a cliff, DI Luc Callanach and DCI Ava Turner are drafted in…

An Italian Affair by Caroline Montague | #BookReview | @CMontagueAuthor

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne23rd April 2019Leave a comment

A sweeping story of love, betrayal and war…. [ About the Book ] Love. War. Family. Betrayal. Italy, 1937. Alessandra Durante is grieving the loss of her husband when she discovers she has inherited her ancestral family seat, Villa Durante, deep in the Tuscan Hills. Longing for a new start, she moves from her home…

The Lives Before Us by Juliet Conlin | #BookReview | #Blogtour | @JulietConlin |@bwpublishing

Blog Tour, Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne17th April 20199 Comments

Two women.A world at war.Can they survive the Shanghai Ghetto? [ About the Book ] It is April 1939, and, in Berlin and Vienna, Esther and Kitty face a brutal choice. Flee Europe, or face the ghetto, incarceration, death. Shanghai … They’ve heard it whispered that Shanghai might offer refuge. And so, on a crowded…

#TheNarrowLand by Christine Dwyer Hickey

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne5th April 2019Leave a comment

‘He thinks he is on a different train as he begins to wake. A train in Germany just after the war….He reminds himself to keep his eyes shut. Because that’s what you do when you wake up among strangers in Germany….’ [ About the Book ] Cape Cod 1950. Michael, a ten-year-old boy, is spending…

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