Best Murder in Show by Debbie Young

Publisher: Hawkesbury Press Publication date: 1 April 2017 Page count: 147 pages Publisher Synopsis When Sophie Sayers inherits a cottage in a sleepy English Cotswold village, she’s hoping for a quieter life than the one she’s running away from. What she gets instead is a dead body on a carnival float, and an extraordinary assortment

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The Palace Job by Patrick Weekes

(Rogues of the Republic Book 1 of 3) Publisher: 47North Publication date: 8 October 2013 Page count: 438 pages Publisher Synopsis: Loch is seeking revenge. It would help if she wasn’t in jail. The plan: to steal a priceless elven manuscript that once belonged to her family, but now is in the hands of the

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Elementary, She Read by Vicki Delany

Publisher: Crooked Lane Books Publication date: 14 March 2017 Page count: 320 pages I received a review copy from the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my review and all opinions are my own. Publisher Synopsis: Gemma Doyle, a transplanted Englishwoman, has returned to the quaint town of

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Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor

The Chronicles of St Mary Book 1 of 7 Publisher: Accent Press Publication date: 21 November 2013 Page Count: 334 pages Publisher’s synopsis: Time travel meets history in this explosive, bestselling adventure series. At St Mary’s Institute of Historical Research, the historians don’t just study the past, they revisit it. Behind the strait-laced façade of

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Olmec Obituary by L.J.M Owen

Publisher: Echo Publishing / Bonnier Publishing Australia Publication date: 1 August 2016 Page count: 247 pages I received a review copy from the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my review and all opinions are my own. Publisher Synopsis: Archaeologist Dr Elizabeth Pimms thoroughly enjoys digging up old

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Inaugural Reading Compendium

November and December 2016 Firstly, I want to wish you all good health and happiness in 2017! It has occurred to me that I read more books than I am able to review and that it would be nice to produce a compendium of all the books I read as they all deserve a mention.

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Inspector Hobbes and the Blood by Wilkie Martin

Publisher: The Witcherley Book Company Publication date: 1 July 2013 Publisher’s synopsis: When the hapless Andy Caplet, then an inept local reporter, is first assigned to Inspector Hobbes he has no idea what horrors his future holds. Besides coming to terms with Hobbes’s weirdness and with the bizarre eccentricities of Mrs Goodfellow, he soon realises

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Tuppenny Hat Detective by Brian Sellars

My Chronicle Book Box Review: I was first attracted to this book by the local interest of it being set in Sheffield, a city in the north of England known as the steel city because of it’s history of steel production.  Its author Brian Sellars grew up in the area the story is set and

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