One fateful night. One unthinkable family tragedy. One survivor. This is Alison’s story.Alison is as close to anonymous as she can get: with no ties, no home, a backroom job, hers is a life lived under the radar. She’s a nobody; she has no-one and that’s how she wants it. But once Alison was someone else: once she… Read More »
A year after one of their identical twin daughters, Lydia, dies in an accident, Angus and Sarah Moorcraft move to the tiny Scottish island Angus inherited from his grandmother, hoping to put together the pieces of their shattered lives.But when their surviving daughter, Kirstie, claims they have mistaken her identity – that she, in fact,… Read More »
When a young man washes up, naked, on the sands of St Piran in Cornwall, he is quickly rescued by the villagers. From the retired village doctor and the schoolteacher, to the beachcomber and the owner of the local bar, the priest’s wife and the romantic novelist, they take this lost soul into their midst.… Read More »
Luke is a true crime writer in search of a story. When he flees to Brighton after an explosive break-up, the perfect subject lands in his lap: reformed gangster Joss Grand. Now in his eighties, Grand once ruled the Brighton underworld with his sadistic sidekick Jacky Nye – until Jacky washed up by the West… Read More »
Can ‘second love’ be true love? It’s 1927 and Emma has returned to England from Canada with her teenage daughter, Fleur. After the tragedies of the past, Emma is ready to start again in Devon, the place she used to call home – despite the bittersweet memories it brings back. But memories are not the… Read More »
When it’s cold and snowy and miserable outside, it’s a wonderful time to catch up on all those outstanding reviews and get some reading done, get a bit of a headstart on that Goodreads challenge. I’m currently reading The Ties That Bind by Erin Kelly – it’s been on my Kindle for ages (thank you… Read More »
THE VICTIMSIn Boston, Detective Jane Rizzoli and Forensic Pathologist Maura Isles are investigating a bizarre murder. A man has been found gutted and hanging in his home. When the remains of another victim are found, it is clear that this murderer has been at work for years, and not just in Boston.THE KILLERSix years ago,… Read More »
Florida, 1935. Heron Key is a small town where the relationships are as tangled as the mangrove roots in the swamp. Everyone is preparing for the 4th of July barbecue, unaware that their world is about to change for ever. Missy, the Kincaid family’s maid and nanny, feels that she has wasted her life pining… Read More »
Here is a truth that can’t be escaped: for Mia ‘Rabbit’ Hayes, life is coming to an end…Rabbit Hayes loves her life, ordinary as it is, and the extraordinary people in it. She loves her spirited daughter, Juliet; her colourful, unruly family; the only man in her big heart, Johnny Faye. But it turns out… Read More »
Five years ago Melody Pieterson was attacked and left for dead.She coped by burying the person she was, locking away her memories and creating a new life for herself. Her attacker is behind bars. In four weeks’ time she will get married. She’s almost normal.Then the body of another woman is found, close to where… Read More »
It’s New Year’s Eve, and Gemma and Spencer Bailey are throwing a house party. There’s music, dancing, champagne and all their best friends under one roof. It’s going to be a night to remember.Also at the party is Caitlin, who has returned to the village to pack up her much-missed mum’s house and to figure… Read More »
In September of last year, I had the immense pleasure of reading and reviewing the latest book from Anna Jacobs, The Trader’s Reward: here’s a link to my review. I made no secret of the fact that I really, really enjoyed it, and it gave me one of the loveliest reading weekends I’d had in a long… Read More »
Hallie has a secret. She’s in love. He’s perfect for her in every way, but he’s seriously out of bounds. And her friends aren’t going to help her because what they do know is that Hallie doesn’t have long to live. Time is running out…Flo has a dilemma. She really likes Zander. But his scary sister won’t… Read More »
When Alice Eveleigh arrives at Fiercombe Manor during the long, languid summer of 1933, she finds a house steeped in mystery and brimming with secrets. Sadness permeates its empty rooms and the isolated valley seems crowded with ghosts, none more alluring than Elizabeth Stanton whose only traces remain in a few tantalisingly blurred photographs. Why… Read More »
It always feels a bit like cheating when I group some reads together – but I’ve seriously fallen behind on my reviews because of my personal issues last year, and I hope the authors and publishers will forgive me. Normal service will be resumed for all future reads, I promise!The first book I’d like to tell… Read More »