Reviews and ramblings from my pages…
Hosted by Lipsy Lost and Found, my Wednesday post gives you a taste of what I’m reading this week. A similar meme is run by Taking on a World of Words. A Good Enough Mother by Bev Thomas The most dangerous lies are the ones we tell ourselves. Dr Ruth Hartland rises to difficult tasks. She is … Continue reading This Week in Books (10/04/19)
Welcome to my stop on the blog tour for the second book in the Mayfair 100 series, I’m delighted to be sharing my review with you today. Set against the backdrop of WW1, Mayfair 100 is the telephone number for a small, specially-formed crime fighting team based in a house in Mayfair. A call comes … Continue reading Blog Tour | Book Review: A Death in Chelsea by Lynn Brittney (Mayfair 100 #2)
In my 2018 bid to #ReadTheWorld, I stopped in 1950’s Ireland. Book Description: Peggy Bowden has not had an easy life. As a teenager, her mother was committed to an asylum and then a local priest forced her into an abusive marriage. But when her husband dies in an accident Peggy sees an opportunity to … Continue reading Book Review: The Abandoned by Sharon Thompson
Abandon was Criminally Good Book Club’s December pick; my only read by Crouch prior to this was Dark Matter, which I loved, so I was excited to read another of his books. Book Description: On Christmas Day in 1893, every man, woman, and child in a remote gold-mining town disappeared, belongings forsaken, meals left to … Continue reading Book Review: Abandon by Blake Crouch
“Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother forty wacks. When she saw what she had done. She gave her father forty-one.” Book Description: When her father and step-mother are found brutally murdered on a summer morning in 1892, Lizzie Borden – thirty two years old and still living at home – immediately becomes … Continue reading Book Review: See What I Have Done by Sarah Schmidt
I’ve been wanting to read a book by Lesley Pearse for ages, she’s penned so many books and a few have caught my attention (namely, Dead to Me); when I read the synopsis for The Woman in the Wood, I knew it would finally be my first Lesley Pearse book! Book Description: Fifteen-year-old Maisy Mitcham … Continue reading Book Review: The Woman in the Wood by Lesley Pearse
It’s time to re-enter the world of historical fiction with a murder mystery set in 1799. Book Description: York, 1799. In August, an artist is found murdered in his home - stabbed with a pair of scissors. Matthew Harvey's death is much discussed in the city. The scissors are among the tools of his trade … Continue reading Book Review: Soot by Andrew Martin
