For the Love of Books
Title: ANXIOUS PEOPLE Author: FREDRIK BACKMAN Translator: Neil Smith ISBN: 9781982121600 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pages: 336 Source: Private Copy Viewing an apartment normally doesn’t turn into a life-or-death situation, but this particular open house becomes just that when a failed bank robber bursts in and takes everyone in the apartment hostage. As the pressure […]
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Title: THE DROWNING PLACE Author: SARAH HILARY ISBN: 9781787305397 Publisher: Vintage Pages: 320 Source: Review copy from Publisher Blog Tour Organised by Random Things Tours EVERY PLACE HAS ITS GHOSTS.Edenscar, a town in the Peak District, has more than most. 17 years ago, its inhabitants were hit by tragedy when a school bus veered off
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Title: A SERIAL KILLER’S GUIDE TO MARRIAGE Author: ASIA MACKAY ISBN: 9781035419678 Publisher: Headline Pages: 392 Source: Private Copy I wasn’t smashing the patriarchy; I was killing it. Literally.Hazel and Fox are an ordinary married couple with a baby. Except for one small thing: they’re murderers. Well, they used to be. They had it all.
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That’s a Wrap! Winter has certainly snuck up on us this month, and I have made it my mission to hide away from the cold whenever possible. If there is one good thing about winter, it is that I always seem to find more time to read. I suppose there really is a silver lining
Title: THE LAST TIME I LIED Author: RILEY SAGER ISBN: 9781524743086 Publisher: Penguin Randon House Pages: 402 Source: Private Copy Fifteen years ago, summer camper Emma Davis watched sleepily as her three cabin mates snuck out of their cabin in the dead of night. The last she–and anyone–saw of them was Vivian closing the cabin
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Title: HEARTBREAKER Author: JUDE O’REILLY ISBN: 9781807470029 Publisher: Pellerin Books Pages: 300 Source: Review copy from the Publisher Blog Tour Organised by Random Things Tours A mother on the run. It’s been three years since Daphne Monroe’s family were brutally murdered in a home invasion. Her once perfect life is in ruins: no husband, no
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Title: THIS MIGHT HURT Author: STEPHANIE WROBEL ISBN: 9781405943550 Publisher: Penguin Books Pages: 374 Source: Private Copy Welcome to Wisewood. We’ll keep your secrets if you keep ours.Natalie Collins hasn’t heard from her sister in more than half a year.The last time they spoke, Kit was slogging from mundane workdays to obligatory happy hours to
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Title: TOO OLD FOR THIS Author: SAMANTHA DOWNING ISBN: 9780241446935 Publisher: Penguin Random House Pages: 383 Source: Private Copy You’d never guess Lottie Jones had skeletons in her closet.She’s lived in town for decades now. She’s getting older. She lives for the simple pleasures of weekly bingo games at church, and gossiping with her
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Title: THE MAIDENS Author: ALEX MICHAELIDES ISBN: 9781409151682 Publisher: Orion Books Pages: 356 Source: Private Copy Edward Fosca is a murderer. Of this Mariana is certain. But Fosca is untouchable. A handsome and charismatic Greek Tragedy professor at Cambridge University, Fosca is adored by staff and students alike—particularly by the members of a secret society
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Title: LASTING DAMAGE Author: SOPHIE HANNAH ISBN: 9780340980668 Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Pages: 438 Source: Private Copy It’s 1.15 a.m. and Connie Bowskill should be asleep. Instead, she’s logging on to a property website in search of a particular house: 11 Bentley Grove, Cambridge. She knows it’s for sale – there’s an estate agent’s board
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