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The Vanishing Bookstore by Helen Phifer #BookReview #BookoutureAudio #ARCReview #MagicalRealism #Witchcraft

Historical fiction with dual timelines, books, and witches? Who wouldn't want to dive into The Vanishing Bookstore? This audiobook was a great start to 2025! #BookReview #BookSky #BookBlogger #TheVanishingBookstore #NetGalley #Bookouture #AudiobookReview

Historical fiction with dual timelines, books, and witches? Who wouldn’t want to dive into The Vanishing Bookstore? Most books mentioned in my reviews can be found at the affiliate links below. (Amazon US) (Kindle Unlimited) (Amazon CA) (Amazon UK)  (AbeBooks) (Booksamillion)  (Audible.com) (Audiobooks.com) (Biblio.com) Want to help some of my local indie bookstores? Try Bookshop.org–Book Stop…

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Murder at the Highland Castle By Helena Dixon (A Miss Underhay Mystery #14)

A majestic castle by a Scottish loch, a glass of whisky by a roaring fire, stockings hung by the chimney… and a body? It’s a midwinter murder for Kitty Underhay! Winter, 1935. Lightly dusted with snow and nestled on the edge of a sweeping Scottish loch, Finnglach Castle looks positively magical. Kitty Underhay, her husband Matt and their beloved dog Bertie are delighted to be celebrating the new year with a Hogmanay party, but just after midnight, a shot rings out across the grounds…

Their host, Lord Barlas, is dead, murdered in the snow. The killer’s footprints have vanished and the gun is missing. With the snow-covered castle completely cut off, and a killer in their midst, Kitty and Matt need to work fast to find the culprit before someone else ends up dead. As the weather worsens, the guests begin discussing dark Highland stories about evil spirits. But with an anxious daughter, a new wife set to inherit a fortune and a suspicious spiritual adviser, Kitty is sure the killer is close at hand. Can she, Matt and Bertie sniff out the treacherous culprit in time for haggis and whisky or will they find themselves skating on dangerously thin ice?

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My Review:

What’s not to love in a mystery novel set at Christmas time, in an manor in the Highland, with a cast of characters that would be perfect in a Golden Age Novel, and some gothic elements?

I can find no fault and I loved this novel. I was grabbed since they arrive in the Highland and couldn’t stop reading until I read the last page in the novel.

There are secrets, twists, surprises and a lot of entertaining moments in this novel. Kitty and Matt are a great couple and I love their stories.

This one is a very good one as it’s entertaining and a page turner.

Highly recommended. Many thanks to the publisher for this ARC, all opinions are mine

The Author:

Helena Dixon splits her time between the Black Country and Devon. Married to the same man for over thirty-five years she has three daughters, a cactus called Spike, and a crazy cockapoo. She is allergic to adhesives, apples, tinsel and housework. She was winner of The Romance Prize in 2007 and Love Story of the Year 2010 as Nell Dixon. She now writes historical 1930's set cozy crime. 

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My Daughter is Missing by JD Kirk #booksontour #bookreview #mydaughterismissing

Happy Friday! Today I’m joining the #BooksOnTour for JD Kirk’s first psychological thriller My Daughter Is Missing. Continue reading My Daughter is Missing by JD Kirk #booksontour #bookreview #mydaughterismissing

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Wir erfahren die Geschichte, abwechselnd von Sara und Guy erzählt. Sie machen sich Sorgen um ihren Sohn Jacob, da er seit ein paar Tagen sehr verschlossen ist und sich komplett zurückgezogen hat.

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2025 Update

Hello friends! I hope this holiday season is finding you well and warm. As we plummet at a breakneck speed toward 2025, I have made some decisions about my reading and review schedule starting January 1, 2025. As of January 1, 2025 I will only be reading for authors I’ve read for previously. I will not be accepting new projects with new authors. Between working full time and going to university…

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Her Secret Revenge

Title: Her Secret Revenge Author: Cole Baxter Publisher: Bookouture Original Publication Date: July 23rd, 2024 Source: NetGalley – Ebook Genre: Thriller Anna is at her wit’s end. Her useless husband, Paul, has just spent most of their savings in Las Vegas because he “needed a break”. A break from what exactly?: Doing nothing?!? She can’t take it anymore, but just when she decides their…

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The Antique Store Detective by Clare Chase -- A Book Review

Happy Tuesday!  The Antique Store Detective by Clare Chase will be out on August 7.  Pop by to read my frank review of the first A Bella Winter Mystery.  Happy Reading!

https://bibliophileandavidreader.blogspot.com/2024/08/the-antique-store-detective-by-clare.html

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Forbidden Girl

The details… Title ‏ : ‎ Forbidden Girl Author ‏ : ‎ Kristen Zimmer Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bookouture Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 2, 2024 Available formats ‏ : ‎ ebook, paperback, audiobook File size ‏ : ‎ 1460 KB Print length ‏ : ‎ 265 pages Audio length ‏ : ‎ 7 hours, 13 minutes; narrated by Stephanie Cannon, KellyBurke Genre ‏ : ‎ romantic thriller Themes: love, rebellion, self-discovery,…

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Eleanor Swift's wedding day is almost here, but murder strikes in kitchens across the village! This Golden Age cozy mystery was excellent. Review--> #Bookthreads #Booksky #Bookblogger #ARecipeForMurder #VerityBright #Bookouture #ARCReview #CozyMystery #GoldenAgeMystery #BargainSleuth #EleanorSwift

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The Altar Girls by Patricia Gibney (Detective Lottie Parker #13)

The little girl looked like an angel in her thin white robe, her long black hair spread around her head like a dark halo on the snow. Her hands rested on her chest, fingers interlaced as if she had fallen asleep while praying. But she would never wake up again…

When Detective Lottie Parker receives news that a child’s body has been found in the frozen grounds of the cathedral, a shiver runs down her spine. She’s terrified it will be eight-year-old Willow Devine, reported missing that morning. But when she arrives at the cathedral, holding a photo of Willow with her blonde ponytail and gap-toothed smile, she gets a terrible shock. The body is a young girl, wrapped in a white shroud, a rosary clutched in her frozen fingers. But her hair is dark, not fair. This girl isn’t Willow but another eight-year-old, Naomi. Desperate to find a connection between the two girls and to find Willow before it is too late, Lottie speaks to the girls’ families and discovers that both girls were altar servers at the cathedral. The charismatic priest Father Maguire has a watertight alibi for the time the girls went missing, but Lottie suspects the confused old lady traumatised by the discovery of Naomi’s body is hiding something… A day later, Willow’s little body is found wrapped in a white robe in the snowy grounds of a church across town. Lottie is devastated, convinced now that she can’t trust anyone, least of all the girls’ parents. Why did Willow’s mother claim the girls didn’t know each other? And why are there no photos of Naomi in her mother’s shabby house? But when a little boy from the choir goes missing too, Lottie realises she must spread her net wider. Can she stop this twisted killer before another precious life is stolen?

Buy Link: Amazon: https://geni.us/B0CDC4V8W7social

My Review: This novel grabbed me at the first page and let me go when I reached the end. It moved, made me feel for all the victims root for Lottie, her family, and hope that Sergio could be back to a loving home. Sometimes I felt the cold, the chilly atmosphere and how the characters were damaged and hurt. It’s a tense and fast paced story, a story that moved me and I felt a lot of rage as there’s a lot of victims but some are more hurt by the adults’ choices The excellent storytelling and the short chapter made me turn pages and it was a bad case of just-another-chapter as there was a new surprising twist any time I wanted to stop reading Patricia Gibney delivers another story that keeps hooked. Moving, heartbreaking and entertaining. Highly recommended. Many thanks to the publisher for this ARC, all opinions are mine

The Author Patricia is the million-copy bestselling author of the DI Lottie Parker series. She yearned to be a writer after reading Enid Blyton and Carolyn Keene and even wanted to be Nancy Drew when she grew up. She has now grown up (she thinks) but the closest she’s come to Nancy Drew is writing crime! In 2009, after her husband died, she retired from her job and started writing seriously. Fascinated by people and their quirky characteristics, she always carries a notebook to scribble down observations. Patricia also loves to paint in watercolour and lives in the Irish midlands with her children.

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The Husband Before You by AJ McDine #booksontour #bookreview #thehusbandbeforeyou

Happy Sunday everyone! Today I’ve got not one psych-thriller for you, I’ve got two!!! First up I’m reviewing A J McDine’s The Husband Before You. Continue reading The Husband Before You by AJ McDine #booksontour #bookreview #thehusbandbeforeyou

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Wir begleiten Rachel. Sie packt in Manchester die Sachen und verkauft die Wohnung, um dann mit ihrem Sohn Sam zu ihrem Mann Tom zu fahren, der ein Haus an der Küste für sie renoviert. Dort angekommen, läuft nicht alles so gut, wie sie gehofft hatte.

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2025 Update

Hello friends! I hope this holiday season is finding you well and warm. As we plummet at a breakneck speed toward 2025, I have made some decisions about my reading and review schedule starting January 1, 2025. As of January 1, 2025 I will only be reading for authors I’ve read for previously. I will not be accepting new projects with new authors. Between working full time and going to university…

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Gone Before

Author: Sam Hepburn Publisher: Bookouture Original Publication Date: October 12th, 2020 Source: NetGalley – Ebook Genre: Thriller It has been fifteen years since Maya Duncan went missing, and it remains one of the most famous missing person cases in British history. Yet, Phoebe Locklear knocks on Kay Duncan’s door with shocking information: The woman who claimed to be her mother has passed…

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Sue Watson | The New Wife

The Book:  The New Wife by Sue WatsonPublished November 19, 2021 by BookoutureDate read: November 7, 2023 The Characters:  Georgie and her son SamTim and Helen and their daughters, Lauren and KateSam and Lauren are married, Lauren is dead ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 4 out of 5. Buy it on Bookshop.org | Amazon This page contains affiliate links. I may earn a small commission from qualifying purchases made…

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#Blogtour Don't Let Her Go by Willow Rose

It’s my turn on the Blogtour Don’t Let Her Go by Willow Rose – book 1 in the Detective Billie Ann Wilde series. About the Author Willow Rose is a multi-million-copy bestselling author of more than 90 novels. Several of her books have reached the top 10 of all books in the Amazon store in the US, UK, and Canada. She has sold more than seven million books, which have been translated into many…