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#DeadInside by Noelle Holten | @nholten40 | @KillerReads

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne7th May 2019Leave a comment

Behind closed doors you can get away with murder [ About the Book ] The killer is just getting started… When three wife beaters are themselves found beaten to death, DC Maggie Jamieson knows she is facing her toughest case yet. The police suspect that Probation Officer Lucy Sherwood – who is connected to all…

All in a Doctor’s Day by Dr Lucia Gannon | @LuciaGannon | @Gill_Books

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne1st May 20192 Comments

Medicine has limits.Human kindness does not. [ About the Book ] Arriving in the small village of Killenaule, Co. Tipperary – husband and children in tow – Dr Lucia Gannon was a blow-in determined to build a practice that would provide solace for the sick, worried and confused. Journey with her as she builds a…

#TheEvidenceAgainstYou by @GillianMAuthor | #BookReview | #BlogTour

Blog Tour, Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne30th April 20196 Comments

‘Seventeen years ago he was sent to prison.Now he’s out.And he is looking for you….’ [ About the Book ] It’s the day her father will be released from jail. Izzy English has every reason to feel conflicted – he’s the man who gave her a childhood filled with happy memories. But he has also…

#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…

My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh | @wellcomebkprize | @midaspr

Blog Tour, Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne26th April 20194 Comments

It’s the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong? [ About the Book ] ‘A shocking, hilarious and strangely tender novel about a young woman’s experiment in narcotic hibernation, aided and abetted by one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature. Our narrator has…

#Stasi77 by David Young | #BookReview | @djy_writer | @ZaffreBooks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne24th April 2019Leave a comment

A Secret StateA Dark ConspiracyA Terrible Crime [ About the Book ] Karin Müller of the German Democratic Republic’s People’s Police is called to a factory in the east of the country. A man has been murdered – bound and trapped as a fire burned nearby, slowly suffocating him. But who is he? Why was…

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…

#CallMeStarGirl by Louise Beech | #BookReview | @OrendaBooks | @LouiseWriter

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne19th April 20194 Comments

‘Before they found the girl in the alley, I found a book in the foyer at work. The girl would be found dead, her neck bloody, her body covered with a red coat, and with no obvious clues as to who had left her that way. The book was brand new, unopened, wrapped in brown…

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…

In Honour Bound by Christine Webber | @1chriswebber | #BookReview

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne16th April 2019Leave a comment

They met in cosmopolitan London in the 1980s – a decade of opportunity where everything seemed possible.But was it? [ About the Book ] Set in London in the mid-1980s – a decade of opportunity where everything seemed possible – Helen Bartlett, a popular news presenter and Sam Aziz, a glamorous middle-eastern cardiac surgeon, meet…

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