⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ [responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] A “miasma” of espionage, bio-terrorism, murder, and intrigue, this book is a wild, somewhat wacky, and deeply chilling (and I fear, only mildly fictional) journey into modern day socio-politics. The third by this author in the Karen Andersen series, this novel easily stands alone ( I read…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ [responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] Ever since I read my first novel by Rosamund Pilcher, decades ago now, I have been in love with books based in Cornwall. This book is no exception. Introducing Tilly Barwise, one of the most endearingly original “battle maidens” of WWII, and our first protagonist. Tilly’s story…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ [responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] Right to Kill is an intense, intelligent, and totally absorbing British police procedural - one of the very best I’ve read in a long while. From the first pages of this book we are dropped into a situation that quickly unleashes a horrifying and deeply chilling homicide,…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ [responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] Charlotte is the perfect wife. She bakes, she scrubs hard water stains from the sink, she cooks gourmet meals for her family and never, ever says any of the resentful things that she can’t help but think, more frequently, now, as she feels her relationship with her…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ [responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] My stop today on the #RandomThingsTours blog tour for #AstralTravel by @ElizabethBaines Stories. Within Stories. Within other stories. This brilliant book is about the stories we tell ourselves, how we learn to handle the realities we cannot escape from, and exactly how much of our truest selves…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ [responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] Prepare to greet “Jane Austen meets Agatha Christie” in the delightful novel “Murder at Rosings”, by Annette Purdey Pugh, which was published by Honno on 17 June 2021. Taking off where Pride and Prejudice left off, it doesn’t take long for us to be drawn right back…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ [responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] What a fabulous read. I just love finding new and addictive detective series, particularly those with a strong female protagonist. And the icing on the cake, - the dual setting of this book, with the story - alternating between Long Island, NY and in and around County…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ [responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] My stop today on the @RandomThingsTour #BlogTour for #TheMaidens Just, wow! Another home run from the Master of the crazy-twist-ending-out-of-nowhere, I admit I did not see this one coming (although I did get part of the way there…) A wonderful mixture of character-driven psychology, gruesome Greek mythology,…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Easily one of the best books I’ve read this year. Katharina is a sprawling, immersive and meticulously researched account of the early years of Katharina Von Bora, the fascinating and little-known woman who became the wife of Martin Luther, the German priest who triggered the Protestant Reformation, in 1525.…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ How do you bounce back from a failed romance, a brief love affair with your very best friend, that ended suddenly, without warnings or goodbyes, leaving you to realize it really couldn’t have been love after all, - for both of you. Makiya (Ki) is living that dilemma every…