Extract: THE GIRL BEFORE by J. P. Delaney

THE GIRL BEFORE J.P. Delaney Quercus Books (www.quercusbooks.co.uk) £12.99 To celebrate the release of J.P. Delaney’s The Girl Before, I’m very pleased to host a brief extract from the book. Be sure to follow the full Blog Tour. Yesterday’s post can be found at http://www.heatherreviews.com and tomorrow’s will be available at off-the-shelfbooks.blogspot.co.uk. You can find […]

DEEP DOWN DEAD by Steph Broadribb

DEEP DOWN DEAD Steph Broadribb (crimethrillergirl.com) Orenda Books (orendabooks.co.uk) £8.99 Against her better judgement, bounty hunter Lori Anderson takes the only job Quinn can offer. Overdue rent and sky-high medical bills conspire to leave her with no choice. The fugitive? Robert “JT” Tate, Lori’s former lover and mentor, a man now involved in a child […]

GUEST POST: Inspiration for Devour by L.A. LARKIN

Name: L.A. LARKIN Author of: DEVOUR (2017) On the web: lalarkin.com On Twitter: @lalarkinauthor To celebrate the launch of L.A. Larkin’s latest novel, Devour, the first in a series featuring journalist Olivia Wolfe, I am very pleased to have the author at Reader Dad as part of the #DevourTheBook Blog Tour, to talk about her […]

GUEST POST: On Locations by CONRAD WILLIAMS

Name: CONRAD WILLIAMS Author of: DUST AND DESIRE (2015) SONATA OF THE DEAD (2016) HELL IS EMPTY (2016) On the web: conradwilliams.wordpress.com On Twitter: @salavaria When I teach creative writing at university (I’ve had a few gigs over the years at Manchester Metropolitan, Edge Hill and, in the new year, I’ll be at […]

NATCHEZ BURNING by Greg Iles

NATCHEZ BURNING Greg Iles (www.gregiles.com) Harper (www.harpercollins.co.uk) £7.99 April 2017 will see the release, in hardback, of the final volume of Greg Iles’ Unwritten Laws trilogy, Mississippi Blood. To help build excitement for the new book’s release, HarperCollins are running a global blog tour to get people interested in reading the first two books, Natchez […]

INFLUENCES: The Writer’s Bookshelf by ZYGMUNT MIŁOSZEWSKI

Name: ZYGMUNT MIŁOSZEWSKI Author of: ENTANGLEMENT (2010) A GRAIN OF TRUTH (2012) RAGE (2016) There are no schools or universities for writers. Well, there probably are some institutions out there that con people into believing they can be taught how to write, but the only school of writing worth mentioning is every writer’s […]

RAGE by Zygmunt Miłoszewski

RAGE Zygmunt Miłoszewski Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones AmazonCrossing (www.amazon.com) £8.99 The discovery of a skeleton in a construction site in the historic Polish city of Olsztyn brings Prosecutor Teodor Szacki into the spotlight when it is discovered that the bones are fresh, the rest of the body chemically dissolved. Identifying the remains proves relatively easy, […]

An Interview with ANGELA SLATTER

Name: ANGELA SLATTER Author of: VIGIL (2016) On the web: http://www.angelaslatter.com On Twitter: @AngelaSlatter Angela Slatter is an award-winning short story writer with the World Fantasy Award, the British Fantasy Award and five Aurealis Awards to her name. Vigil is her first novel, introducing the world to Verity Fassbinder and the weird (and, indeed, Weyrd) […]

VIGIL by Angela Slatter

VIGIL Angela Slatter (www.angelaslatter.com) Jo Fletcher Books (www.jofletcherbooks.com) £14.99 Verity Fassbinder’s background makes her the perfect peacekeeper in the Australian city of Brisbane. The product of a Normal mother and Weyrd father, Verity has access to both worlds despite her lack of Weyrd attributes. When a siren is murdered on the heels of Verity’s discovery […]

LYING IN WAIT by Liz Nugent

LYING IN WAIT Liz Nugent (liznugent.ie) Penguin Random House (www.penguinrandomhouse.com) £12.99 Andrew Fitzsimons is a respected judge in the Dublin Criminal Courts system. He and his reclusive wife have been forced to kill a young woman and her body is now buried in their back garden. While Lydia seems to be in control of the […]