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#BookReview of #HotelCartagena by Simone Buchholz

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne31st March 20212 Comments

‘The German #1 bestseller from the ‘Queen of Krimi’– Hotel Cartagena [ About the Book ] Twenty floors above the shimmering lights of the Hamburg docks, Public Prosecutor Chastity Riley is celebrating a birthday with friends in a hotel bar when twelve heavily armed men pull out guns, and take everyone hostage. Among the hostages…

#BookReview of #TheDrownedCity by K.J. Maitland | @headlinepg

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne30th March 20216 Comments

Gunpowder and treason changed England foreverBut the tides are turning and revenge runs deep…– The Drowned City [ About the Book ] 1606. A year to the day that men were executed for conspiring to blow up Parliament, a towering wave devastates the Bristol Channel. Some proclaim God’s vengeance. Others seek to take advantage. In…

#BookReview of #WhileNobodyIsWatching by Michelle Dunne | @NotDunneYet

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne26th March 20211 Comment

Blue helmets and blurred lines While Nobody is Watching delves into the dark world of PTSD and a battle scarred soldier struggling to find a place in her new world. [ About the Book ] A semi-inflated football and a curious little girl. They called it peacekeeping. For Corporal Lindsey Ryan it was anything but.…

#BookReview of #TheSource by Sarah Sultoon

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne24th March 2021Leave a comment

‘A young TV journalist is forced to revisit her harrowing past when she’s thrust into a sex-trafficking investigation in her hometown’– The Source [ About the Book ] 1996. Essex. Thirteen-year-old schoolgirl Carly lives in a disenfranchised town dominated by a military base, struggling to care for her baby sister while her mum sleeps off another…

#BookReview of #Panenka by Rónán Hession | @MumblinDeafRo | @Ofmooseandmen

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne23rd March 20212 Comments

“His name was Joseph, but for years they had called him Panenka, a name that was his sadness and his story” [ About the Book ] Panenka has spent 25 years living with the disastrous mistakes of his past, which have made him an exile in his home town and cost him his dearest relationships.…

#BookReview of #TheNightGate by @authorpetermay | @riverrunbooks | @midaspr | @SophMidas | #BlogTour

Blog Tour, Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne22nd March 20212 Comments

THE BRAND-NEW THRILLER FROM THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER– The Night Gate Welcome to my stop on tour with Peter May and my review of his latest novel, The Night Gate, Book 7 in The Enzo Files. Just published with riverrun March 18th, The Night Gate is a book born out of the Covid-19 pandemic.…

#BookReview of #TheRoseCode by Kate Quinn @KateQuinnAuthor

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne16th March 202112 Comments

‘Bletchley Park, 1940 : a betrayal, a secret and a code she must break at any cost‘– The Rose Code [ About the Book ] 1940. As England prepares to fight the Nazis, three very different women answer the call to mysterious country estate Bletchley Park, where the best minds in Britain train to break…

#BookReview of #BlackIrishBlues by @andrewcotto | @brwpublisher

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne26th January 2021Leave a comment

A Caesar Stiles Mystery [ About the Book ] Black Irish Blues is the return-to-origin story of Caesar Stiles, an erstwhile runaway who returns to his hometown with plans to buy the town’s only tavern and end his family’s Sicilian curse. Caesar’s attempt for redemption is complicated by the spectral presence of his estranged father, reparation…

#BookReview of #Family by @OwenMullen6 @BoldwoodBooks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne22nd January 2021Leave a comment

Family – might be the death of you… [ About the Book ] The Glass family business is crime, and they’re good at what they do. Vengeance took Luke Glass behind bars – but now he’s free and he’s never going back. Luke wants out of the gangster life – all he has to do…

#BookReview – The Island by Ben McPherson

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne14th January 20214 Comments

A shocking act of violenceA family torn apartA daughter gone missing– The Island [ About the Book ] A shocking act of violence… It should have been the safest place on earth. A summer camp for teens, on a beautiful island off the coast of Oslo. But what started out as a haven becomes hell…

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