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#BookReview of #BadSweetThings by Maria Hoey

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne21st February 2022Leave a comment

[ About the Book ] Six women hunted one by one Each receives a copy of an old school group photo, in which their own face has been savagely scratched out.Within three weeks, two of them are dead. A Detective in a race against time Known to her colleagues as the Hound, DS Tina Bassett…

#BookReview of #AllThatLives by James Oswald @SirBenfro

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne15th February 20223 Comments

Two victims. Nothing connects them, except that someone buried them in the exact same way.Seven hundred years apart.– All That Lives [ About the Book ] An archaeological dig at the old South Leith parish kirkyard has turned up a mysterious body dating from around seven hundred years ago. Some suspect that this gruesome discovery…

#BookReview of #BitterFlowers by #GunnarStaalesen | @OrendaBooks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne11th February 2022Leave a comment

‘A vintage classic from the award-winning, multi-million bestselling Norwegian author Gunnar Staalesen, available in English for the first time’– Bitter Flowers [ About the Book ] Fresh from rehab, Norwegian PI Varg Veum faces his most complex investigation yet, when a man is found drowned, a young woman disappears, and the case of a missing…

#BookReview of #TheVillage by Caroline Mitchell

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne7th February 20222 Comments

‘A thriller about a shocking disappearance – and a community that conspires to keep the truth buried’– The Village [ About the Book ] Ten years ago, the Harper family disappeared. Their deserted cottage was left with the water running, the television playing cartoons, the oven ready for baking. The doors were locked from the…

#BookReview of #CruelDeeds by @catherinekirwan | @HachetteIre

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne5th February 2022Leave a comment

‘A SUCCESSFUL LAWYER IS FOUND MURDERED’– Cruel Deeds [ About the Book ] Finn Fitzpatrick barely knows Mandy Breslin from the firm where they both work. Mandy moves in the privileged world of the senior partners’ clique. Finn keeps to herself. But Mandy has secrets and, as Finn is drawn deeper into her dead colleague’s…

#BookReview of #BuriedAngels by Patricia Gibney @trisha460 @BooksSphere

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne31st January 2022Leave a comment

A family built on lies.Someone knows the truth…– Buried Angels [ About the Book ] Bubbles of cold sweat trickled down Faye’s spine. The hole wasn’t empty. Before she could turn and run, she caught the two sightless eyes staring up at her. Only then did she scream. When Faye Baker discovers a fragile child’s skull behind…

#BookReview of #Violeta by Isabel Allende

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne31st January 20226 Comments

One extraordinary woman.One hundred years of history.One unforgettable story.– Violeta [ About the Book ] Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first daughter in a family of five boisterous sons. From the start, her life is marked by extraordinary events, for the ripples of the Great War are still…

#BookReview of #ThePaperPalace by Miranda Cowley Heller

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne27th January 20228 Comments

‘And I thought: now there is no turning back.No more regrets for what I haven’t done.Now only regrets for what I have done.’– The Paper Palace [ About the Book ] On a perfect August morning, Elle Bishop heads out for a swim in the pond below ‘The Paper Palace’ – her family’s holiday home…

#BookReview of #TheWinterGuest by W.C. Ryan |@WilliamRyan_ | @ZaffreBooks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne25th January 20224 Comments

‘The drive leads on through the trees towards the big house, visible through the winter-stripped branches. Its familiar windows stare down at Harkin, mirroring the sea and the shore . . .’The Winter Guest [ About the Book ] January 1921. Though the Great War is over, in Ireland a new, civil war is raging.…

#BookReview of #TheHappinessFactory by Jo McMillan

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne24th January 2022Leave a comment

‘Where the skin of the earth shudders into the foothills of the Shunhua mountains, in a clearing above the mist and fringed with frangipani, Mo Moore set up a factory which, to this day, makes happiness’– The Happiness Factory [ About the Book ] Mo Moore, estranged daughter of a sex-aid entrepreneur, regards her father…

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