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#BookReview of #TheWeekendBreak by Ruth O’Leary | @rutholearywrite | @PoolbegBooks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne20th February 20241 Comment

‘Four friends, four secrets, one explosive weekend break that tests their friendship‘– The Weekend Break [ About The Weekend Break ] VIVIENNE’S perfect life is a façade, and she at last wants out. She needs a divorce fast. HELEN’S nightly glass of wine has become a bottle or two, and her drinking is threatening her…

#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…

#BookReview of #ASignOfHerOwn by Sarah Marsh

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne8th February 2024Leave a comment

‘This is a book about connections. Not the connections that Alexander Bell hoped to forge with his telephone, but the connection that deaf people made before a widespread campaign to prevent & ban the use of sign language’ – Sarah Marsh, author of A Sign of Her Own [ About A Sign of Her Own…

#BookReview of Whatever Happened to Birdy Troy? by @EnglishRachael | @HachetteIre

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne1st February 20243 Comments

‘SHE WAS THE NEXT BIG THING … UNTIL SHE DISAPPEARED‘ [ About Whatever Happened to Birdy Troy? ] In the early 1980s, The Diamonds – Ireland’s trailblazing all-woman rock band – were on the brink of international success. Their debut single ‘Too Much Not Enough’ was soaring in the British charts. Then, as suddenly as…

#BookReview of #TheYacht by Sarah Goodwin

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne31st January 20242 Comments

‘The Yacht is a twisty locked-room thriller perfect for fans of The White Lotus, The Hunting Party and The Castaways.‘ [ About The Yacht ] WHEN THE TRUTH SURFACES… New Year’s Eve, 2023. When Hannah and her friends rent a luxury yacht in an Italian marina, they party in style under the stars until they pass out. …WHO WILL SINK……

#BookReview of #RelightMyFire by C.K. McDonnell | @Caimh

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne25th January 20242 Comments

Some comebacks can be murder . . .– Relight My Fire [ About Relight My Fire ] Stella is enjoying life as an almost student, or at least she is until a man falls from the sky right in front of her, leaving a big old hole in the pavement for Manchester Council to fill.…

#Spotlight on #TheGoodGirl by Michelle Dunne @NotDunneYet | @Bloodhoundbook

SpotlightBy Mairéad Hearne23rd January 2024Leave a comment

‘Would you know a serial killer if you met one? What if she served your coffee every day?‘– The Good Girl The Good Girl by Michelle Dunne will be released March 7th with Bloodhound Books and is described as ‘a totally absorbing psychological thriller, an utterly unmissable page-turner ‘. Michelle Dunne is the author of While…

#BookReview of #TheGuests by Agnes Ravatn | @OrendaBooks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne22nd January 20242 Comments

‘A young couple are entangled in an unrelenting spiral of lies when they pretend to be someone else …‘– The Guests [ About The Guests ] It started with a lie… Married couple Karin and Kai are looking for a pleasant escape from their busy lives, and reluctantly accept an offer to stay in a…

#BookReview of #Breakdown by Cathy Sweeney | @wnbooks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne18th January 20241 Comment

‘Mothers are not supposed to go on road trips’– Breakdown [ About Breakdown ] One winter morning on an ordinary day in contemporary Dublin, an ordinary middle-class woman wakes up in her ordinary suburban home. Her husband is next to her in bed, her teenage children sleeping nearby. Without thinking much about it, she walks…

#BookReview: One of the Good Guys by Araminta Hall & The Favourite by Rosemary Hennigan

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne11th January 20244 Comments

One of the Good Guys by Araminta Hall and The Favourite by Rosemary Hennigan are two new releases with a very similar theme so I have decided to put them both into one post with my thoughts, and details, on both below. One of the Good Guys by Araminta Hall published January 4th with Macmillan…

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