April 2021

Dolores Claiborne

Author: Stephen King Date Read: 14 May 2011 Official Summary Suspected of killing Vera Donovan, her wealthy employer, Dolores Claiborne tells police the story of her life, harkening back to her disintegrating marriage and the suspicious death of her violent husband, Joe St. George, thirty years earlier. Dolores also tells of Vera’s physical and mental decline […]

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Tall Bones Book Review

Title: Tall Bones (Published in the US as Where The Truth Lies) Author: Anna Bailey ISBN: 9780857527394 Publisher: Transworld Publishers / Penguin Random House Pages: 340 Source: Review copy from Penguin Random House South Africa When seventeen-year-old Emma leaves her best friend Abi at a party in the woods, she believes, like most girls her

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Deception

Author: Jonathan Kellerman Date read: 15 March 2011 Official Summary Her name is Elise Freeman, and her chilling cry for help comes too late to save her. On a DVD found near her lifeless body, the emotionally and physically battered woman chronicles a long ordeal of abuse at the hands of three sadistic tormentors. But even

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Carrie

Author: Stephen King Date read: 19 July 2011 (The second time) Official Summary A modern classic, Carrie introduced a distinctive new voice in American fiction — Stephen King. The story of misunderstood high school girl Carrie White, her extraordinary telekinetic powers, and her violent rampage of revenge, remains one of the most barrier-breaking and shocking novels

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Bad Day in Minsk Book Review

Title: Bad Day in Minsk Author: Jonathan Pinnock ISBN:  9781788423038 Publisher: Farrago / Duckworth Books Pages: 304 Source: ARC from Publisher for Blog Tour Blog Tour: Organised by Anne Cater from Random Things Tours Tom Winscombe is having a bad day. Trapped at the top of the tallest building in Minsk while a lethal battle

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Hive Book Review

By Jeremiah Ukponrefe The Collective military has spent its years destroying the last remnants of The Hive, an alien force that devastated the old world. bringing forth the apocalypse, and ushering a new age of warring factions. Alexander King is a Collective soldier who during a mission monitoring the outskirts of Zone 6, discovers evidence that

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The Imposter Book Review

Title: The Imposter Author: Anna Wharton ISBN: 9781529037395 Publisher: Mantle / Pan MacMillan Pages: 416 Source: ARC from Publisher for Blog Tour Blog Tour: Organised by Anne Cater from Random Things Tours  A girl who went missing. A family who never gave up. A lonely young woman who only wanted to help . . .

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Facets of Death Book Review

Title: Facets of Death Author: Michael Stanley ISBN: 9781464211270 Publisher: Orenda Books Pages: 338 Source: ARC from Publisher for Blog Tour Blog Tour: Organised by Anne Cater from Random Things Tours Recruited straight from university to Botswana’s CID, David ‘Kubu’ Bengu has raised his colleagues’ suspicions with his meteoric rise within the department, and he

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Quiet in Her Bones Book Review

  Title: Quiet in Her Bones Author: Nalini Singh ISBN: 9781473229570 Publisher: Orion Publishing / Jonathan Ball Publishers Pages: 374 Source: Review copy from Jonathan Ball Publisher In this gripping thriller set in New Zealand, New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh takes you into the twisted world of an exclusive cul-de-sac located on the edge of

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