September 2025

The IT Girl Book Review

Title: THE IT GIRL Author: Ruth Ware ISBN: 9781398508361  Publisher: Simon and Schuster Pages: 420 Source: Private Copy April Coutts-Cliveden was the first person Hannah Jones met at Oxford.Vivacious, bright, occasionally vicious, and the ultimate It girl, she quickly pulled Hannah into her dazzling orbit. Together, they developed a group of devoted and inseparable friends—Will,

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Marked Book Review

Title: MARKED – Callum Doyle #3 Author: David Jackson ISBN: 9780230760493  Publisher: Pan Macmillan Pages: 304 Source: Private Copy In New York’s East Village, a young girl is brutally raped, tortured and murdered. Detective Callum Doyle has seen the victim’s remains. He has visited the distraught family. Now he wants justice.Doyle is convinced he knows

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Run Time Book Review

Title: RUN TIME Author: Catherine Ryan Howard ISBN: 9781838951672  Publisher: Corvus Pages: 433 Source: Private Copy  Movie-making can be murder…The project:Final Draft, a psychological horror. Promising Young Thing Steve Dade will direct.The tagline:‘Based on a terrifying true story. That hasn’t happened – yet.’The location:A cottage deep in a forest, miles from anywhere in the wintry

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Conviction Book Review

Title: CONVICTION Author: Jack Jordan ISBN: 9781398505728 Publisher: Simon and Schuster Pages: 417 Source: Private Copy Wade Darling stands accused of killing his wife and teenage children as they slept before burning the family home to the ground. When the case lands on barrister Neve Harper’s desk, she knows it could be the career making

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Buried Alive Book Review

Title: BURIED ALIVE – Carson Ryder #07 Author: Jack Kerley ISBN: 9780007350018 Publisher: Harper Collins Pages: 400 Source: Library Books Soon after witnessing the escape of violent psychopath Bobby Crayline from prison, Alabama detective Carson Ryder takes a rare break in the mountains. But his vacation is interrupted when an anonymous phone call summons him

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The Liar Book Review

Title: THE LIAR – Eddie Flynn #3 Author: Steve Cavanagh ISBN: 9781035414963  Publisher: Headline Books Pages: 328 Source: Private Copy (Birthday Gift) A MISSING GIRL. A DESPERATE FATHER.A CASE WHICH WILL TEAR THEM APART.WHO IS DEADLIER …Leonard Howell’s worst nightmare has come his daughter, Caroline, has been kidnapped. He can’t rely on the cops, so

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Daughter of Mine Book Review

Title: DAUGHTER OF MINE Author: Megan Miranda ISBN: 9781668055717  Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pages: 368 Source: Private Copy When Hazel Sharp, daughter of Mirror Lake’s longtime local detective, unexpectedly inherits her childhood home, she’s warily drawn back to the town—and people—she left behind almost a decade earlier. But Hazel’s not the only relic of the

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