THE INVISIBLE Peter Papathanasiou MacLehose Press (maclehosepress.com) £16.99 Buy a copy at your favourite independent bookshop Following the accidental death of a teenage boy during an arrest-gone-wrong, Detective Sergeant George Manolis decides he needs a break. Arriving at the Greek town from whence his parents came, Manolis discovers that Lefty – a friend of the […]
Read More THE INVISIBLE by Peter PapathanasiouTHE NEWCOMER Laura Elizabeth Woollett (lauraelizabethwoollett.com) Scribe (scribepublications.co.uk) £9.99 Paulina Novak is a “mainie”, a transplant from mainland Australia, trying to make a new life on small, idyllic Fairfolk Island. When Judy – Paulina’s mother – visits the island to celebrate her daughter’s 30th birthday, Paulina disappears. Judy isn’t particularly surprised, as their relationship has […]
Read More THE NEWCOMER by Laura Elizabeth WoollettTHE LOST MAN Jane Harper (janeharper.com.au) Little Brown (www.littlebrown.co.uk) £12.99 Nathan and Bub Bright meet at the local landmark known as the stockman’s grave, where the body of their middle brother, Cameron, lies roasting in the sun. Evidence suggests that Cameron spent his last few hours on earth chasing the headstone’s shadow around in […]
Read More THE LOST MAN by Jane HarperMINE Susi Fox Penguin (www.penguin.co.uk) £7.99 Sasha Moloney awakens from a general anaesthetic to discover that she has delivered a baby boy – not the girl she was convinced she was having – by caesarean section almost a month early. It takes a single glance at the child in the nursery to convince Sasha that […]
Read More MINE by Susi FoxName: CANDICE FOX Author of: CRIMSON LAKE (2016) On the web: candicefoxauthor.com On Twitter: candicefoxbooks There was a lot of crime in my childhood, so my interest in crime began there, even if I wasn’t writing it as a young’un. My mother fostered 150+ kids who generally came from abusive, neglectful and criminal backgrounds. My […]
Read More INFLUENCES: Why I Write Crime Fiction by CANDICE FOXLONG DARK DUSK (Book 2 of the Australia Trilogy) JP Smythe (james-smythe.com) Hodder & Stoughton (www.hodder.co.uk) £13.99 Months after the events that brought her and her companions to Earth, Chan Aitch is living in a shanty town built against the inner surface of the wall that now surrounds Washington, D.C. She has, so far, managed […]
Read More LONG DARK DUSK by JP SmythePLEASE DON’T LEAVE ME HERE Tania Chandler (chandlertania.wordpress.com) Scribe Publications (scribepublications.co.uk) £8.99 Today, the Please Don’t Leave Me Here blog tour stops at Reader Dad. My review of this excellent debut novel is below. Be sure to check out the other stops of the blog (details below). Brigitte is living a normal family life in […]
Read More PLEASE DON’T LEAVE ME HERE by Tania ChandlerWAY DOWN DARK (Book 1 of The Australia Trilogy) J. P. Smythe (james-smythe.com) Hodder & Stoughton (hodder.co.uk) £13.99 When Chan Aitch’s mother dies, she leaves a gaping hole in the so-called power structure aboard the Australia. Chan is left to pick up the pieces, and attempt to defend the part of the ship previously controlled […]
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