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#BookReview of #ThisIsWhyWeLied by Karin Slaughter

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne13th August 2024Leave a comment

Investigator Will Trent and medical examiner Sara Linton are back!!– This is Why We Lied [ About This is Why We Lied ] One toxic family. Eight suspicious guests. Everyone is guilty. But who is a killer? Welcome to the McAlpine Lodge: a secluded mountain getaway, it’s the height of escapist luxury living. Except that…

#BookReview of #SomeoneInTheAttic by Andrea Mara

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne12th August 2024Leave a comment

‘No secret is safe in this brand new twisty thriller from Andrea Mara‘– Someone in the Attic (Publisher Quote) [ About Someone in the Attic ] Home alone? Think again… Anya is enjoying a relaxing bath when she hears a noise in the roof. Through the open bathroom door, she sees the attic hatch swing…

#BookReview of #TheHotelMaid by Michelle Dunne |@NotDunneYet | @Stormbooks_co

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne1st August 2024Leave a comment

‘I straighten the apron wrapped around my waist and swipe the key card in the guest room door. As I place the cleaning bucket by my feet, I see the woman lying unmoving on the plush carpet, her eyes frozen.‘– The Hotel Maid [ About The Hotel Maid ] Each morning, I arrive at the…

#BookReview of #TheDeadCity by Michael Russell | @forgottencities

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne29th July 20242 Comments

‘The Second World War may well be drawing to a close, but there is still espionage work for Stefan to do amid the chaos…’– The Dead City [ About The Dead City ] In this dead city, the vultures are circling… Berlin 1944. The beginning of the end for Nazi Germany. And the beginning of…

#BookReview of #KnockKnock by Michelle Teahan

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne26th July 2024Leave a comment

‘From the author of GO SEEK comes a dark, high-octane thriller about a tight-knit suburban community in Cork and what happens when one fearlessly protective mother is threatened by her next-door neighbour.‘– Knock Knock (Publisher Quote) [ About Knock Knock ] CAN YOU EVER REALLY KNOW THE PEOPLE NEXT DOOR? Cowerworth is the picture perfect…

#BookReview of #SomebodyKnows by Michelle McDonagh | @michellemcd | @HachetteIre

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne5th June 2024Leave a comment

‘Home truths come at a heavy price …’– Somebody Knows [ About Somebody Knows ] As her adoptive mother lays dying, journalist Cara Joyce overhears a shocking piece of information about her origins. It connects her to a tragic death – that of Lucia Casey, a young woman whose body was found buried in a Connemara…

#BookReview of #TheBedlamCadaver by Robert J. Lloyd | @robjlloyd | @melvillehouse

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne4th June 2024Leave a comment

‘In late 17th Century London rich young women are being kidnapped, then murdered. Harry Hunt, formerly of the Royal Society but now a rich gentleman, is falsely accused. To clear his name, he must rely on his abandoned scientific expertise and battle the full force of the British aristocracy’– The Bedlam Cadaver [ About Bedlam…

#BookReview of #TheGratefulWater by Juliana Adelman | @NewIslandBooks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne30th May 2024Leave a comment

‘A detective story that swelters and smells of the oppressively hot Dublin summer 1866, by a debut fiction author steeped in the history of the city’– The Grateful Water (Publisher Quote) [ About The Grateful Water ] When a young butcher spots a strange shape on the banks of the River Liffey in the hot…

#BookReview of #TheTrial by Jo Spain | @QuercusBooks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne8th May 2024Leave a comment

‘He vanished ten years ago. Only they know the truth.’– The Trial [ About The Trial ] 2014, Dublin: at St Edmunds, an elite college on the outskirts of the city, twenty-year-old medical student Theo gets up one morning, leaving behind his sleeping girlfriend, Dani, and his studies – never to be seen again. With…

#BookReview & #GuestPost – #TheMidnightMan by Julie Anderson | @jjulieanderson | @HobeckBooks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne7th May 20241 Comment

‘Capturing the spirit of the place and the challenges and threats it faced, some from the predominantly male establishment of the time, was very important to me. It was a unique and special place. I wanted it to live again, even if only in a crime fiction book.’– Julie Anderson, author of The Midnight Man…

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