EXTRACT From THE INVISIBLE GUARDIAN by Dolores Redondo

THE INVISIBLE GUARDIAN Dolores Redondo (www.doloresredondomeira.com) Translated by Isabelle Kaufeler Harper (www.harpercollins.co.uk) £7.99 To celebrate the paperback release of Dolores Redondo’s The Invisible Guardian, the first book in The Baztán Trilogy, we here at Reader Dad are very happy to be part of the Blog Tour. Below, you’ll find a brief extract from the novel. […]

SAVAGE LANE by Jason Starr

SAVAGE LANE Jason Starr (www.jasonstarr.com) No Exit Press (www.noexit.co.uk) £6.99 Mark and Deb Berman’s marriage has hit a rough patch: she believes he’s having an affair with their next door neighbour, Karen. That may not be the case, but it doesn’t stop Mark constructing a rich fantasy life for Karen and himself, and the fact […]

PLEASE DON’T LEAVE ME HERE by Tania Chandler

PLEASE 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 […]

DRY BONES IN THE VALLEY by Tom Bouman

DRY BONES IN THE VALLEY Tom Bouman (www.drybonesinthevalley.com) Faber & Faber (www.faber.co.uk) £7.99 Henry Farrell is the law in the small northern Pennsylvania rural township of Wild Thyme. On a routine visit to Aub Dunigan, Henry finds a partially dismembered body on a remote part of the old man’s land. When the township’s bad boy, […]

THOSE WE LEFT BEHIND by Stuart Neville

THOSE WE LEFT BEHIND Stuart Neville (www.stuartneville.com) Harvill Secker (www.vintage-books.co.uk) £12.99 Released: June 2015 After seven years served for the murder of his foster father, Ciaran Devine is released from the young offenders’ centre where he and his brother Thomas spent their teenage years. Probation Officer Paula Cunningham is assigned his case – a high-profile […]

THE WIDOW’S CONFESSION by Sophia Tobin

THE WIDOW’S CONFESSION Sophia Tobin (sophiatobin.wordpress.com) Simon & Schuster (www.simonandschuster.co.uk) £12.99 In the summer of 1851, Edmund Steele leaves the stresses of London behind and, at the behest of his good friend, heads to the seaside resort of Broadstairs and takes up residence with the town’s parson, Theo Hallam. It isn’t long before Edmund and […]

THE BLOOD DIMMED TIDE by Anthony Quinn

THE BLOOD DIMMED TIDE Anthony Quinn (anthonyquinnwriter.com) No Exit Press (www.noexit.co.uk) £8.99 In the dying days of 1917, the body of young woman is washed ashore on the west coast of Ireland, near Sligo. She is in an old and decomposing coffin. Before her death, she sent a letter to London, to the poet William […]

HORNS by Joe Hill

HORNS Joe Hill (joehillfiction.com) Gollancz (www.gollancz.co.uk) £8.99 Ignatius Martin Perrish spent the night drunk and doing terrible things. He woke the next morning with a headache…when he was swaying above the toilet, he glanced at himself in the mirror over the sink and saw he had grown horns while he slept. Ig Perrish may not […]

GUEST POST: On Research by PHILIP KERR

Name: Philip Kerr Author of: FIELD GREY (2010) PRAGUE FATALE (2011) A MAN WITHOUT BREATH (2013) PRAYER (2013) RESEARCH (2014) On the web: http://www.philipkerr.org July saw the publication of Philip Kerr’s latest standalone novel, Research, a thriller that takes more than a passing poke at the British publishing industry (we’ll have […]

GUEST POST: Writing About Drugs in the 60s by WILLIAM SHAW

Name: WILLIAM SHAW Author of: A SONG FROM DEAD LIPS (2013) A HOUSE OF KNIVES (2014) On the web: williamshaw.com On Twitter: @william1shaw Photograph © Ellen Shaw When you write a book about recent history, what’s important is the difference between then and now. There are the blindingly obvious differences. Want to set […]