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#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…

#BookReview of #EmmaDisappeared by Andrew Hughes | @And_Hughes

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne11th April 2024Leave a comment

‘Everyone is talking about the disappearance of Emma Harte‘– Emma Disappeared [ About Emma Disappeared ] A high-achieving university graduate and young entrepreneur, she was last seen in the early hours of the morning on grainy CCTV footage in Dublin’s city centre before vanishing into thin air. While a national debate about women’s safety rages,…

#BookReview of #TheGoodGirl by Michelle Dunne | @NotDunneYet | @Bloodhoundbook

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne14th March 20241 Comment

‘Would you know a serial killer if you met one? What if she served you coffee every day?”– The Good Girl [ About The Good Girl ] Grace Murphy doesn’t seem like the type of woman who’d have a man cable-tied to a chair, slowly dying in her house. She keeps to herself and goes…

#BookReview of #PrimaFacie by Suzie Miller | @SuzieMillerWrtr

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne12th March 20242 Comments

‘Based on the award-winning play starring Jodie Comer‘– Prima Facie [ About Prima Facie ] This is not life. This is law. Tessa Ensler is a brilliant barrister who’s forged her career in criminal defence through sheer determination. Since her days at Cambridge, she’s carefully disguised her working class roots in a male-dominated world where…

#BookReview of #AStrangerInTheFamily by @JaneCaseyAuthor | @Hemlock_Press

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne6th March 20244 Comments

‘The gripping new thriller featuring DS Maeve Kerrigan and DI Josh Derwent from the Top Ten Sunday Times bestselling author‘– A Stranger in The Family [ About A Stranger in The Family ] Every mother’s worst nightmare . . . When nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall vanished from her bed one summer night, her disappearance tore her family apart.…

#BookReview of #WhispersOnMainstreet by Marie O’ Connor | @PoolbegBooks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne4th March 20244 Comments

‘A small town’s gossip turns deadly, unravelling a web of secrets in 1961 Ballantur‘– Whispers on Main Street [ About Whispers on Main Street ] Nate Wheatley runs a mobile grocery shop for the countryside around the town of Ballantur. He isn’t a mere purveyor of goods – his service is the lifeblood of communication…

#BookReview of #MalignIntent by Robert Craven

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne12th February 2024Leave a comment

‘A Murder for Crowe’ [ About Malign Intent ] “Tag, bag and bury the bastard, Crowe…” An August bank holiday should be about relaxation, taking time out to see family and friends and enjoying a beer or two. But when former gonzo journalist, Aonghus Hanafin is found hanging along a desolate estuary, the nearest SIO…

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