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The Coffin Maker’s Garden by Stuart MacBride (Ash Henderson #3) @StuartMacBride @HarperCollinsUK @fictionpubteam

'Intense, dramatic, thrilling and sparking with the kind of antagonistic, pugilistic characters and black humour that MacBride excels in.' The Coffin Maker’s Garden by Stuart MacBride (Ash Henderson #3) @StuartMacBride @HarperCollinsUK @fictionpubteam

Source: Review copyPublication: 7th January 2021 from Harper CollinsPP: 496ISBN-13: 978-0008208318 A village on the edge… As a massive storm batters the Scottish coast, Gordon Smith’s home is falling into the North Sea. But the crumbling headland has revealed what he’s got buried in his garden: human remains. A house full of secrets… With the storm still raging, it’s too dangerous to retrieve…

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The Big Chill by Doug Johnstone (Skelfs #2) @doug_johnstone @OrendaBooks

Happy Publication Day! Shocking, chilling, raw, dark and funny, this is Johnstone riding high on the crest of a wave. The Big Chill by Doug Johnstone (Skelfs #2) @doug_johnstone @OrendaBooks

Source: Review copy Publication: 20 June 2020 from Orenda Books PP: 300 ISBN-13: ISBN-13: 978-1913193348

Haunted by their past, the Skelf women are hoping for a quieter life. But running both a funeral directors’ and a private investigation business means trouble is never far away, and when a car crashes into the open grave at a funeral that matriarch Dorothy is conducting, she can’t help looking…

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What Lies Buried by Margaret Kirk @HighlandWriter @Orion_Crime @laurasherlock21

Source: Review copy Publication: 13 June 2019 from Orion PP: 320 ISBN-13: 978-1409188650

A missing child. A seventy-year-old murder. And a killer who’s still on the loose.

Ten year-old Erin is missing; taken in broad daylight during a friend’s birthday party. With no witnesses and no leads, DI Lukas Mahler races against time to find her. But is it already too late for Erin – and will her…

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OUT OF THE ASHES by Vicky Newham (DI Maya Rahman #2) @VickyNewham @HQStories @bookbellereads @ClioCornish #bookreview

OUT OF THE ASHES by Vicky Newham (DI Maya Rahman #2) @VickyNewham @HQStories @bookbellereads @ClioCornish #bookreview

It’s publication day for the 2nd in the D.I. Maya Rahman series and I am delighted to welcome her back and to celebrate publication day with this review.

Source: Review copy Publication:  30TH May 2019 from HQ PP: 400 ISBN-13: 978-0008240714

When a flash mob on Brick Lane is interrupted by a sudden explosion, DI Maya Rahman dashes to the scene. A fire is raging through one of the…

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Run Away by Harlan Coben @HarlanCoben @#RunAway #Bookreview

Run Away by Harlan Coben @HarlanCoben @#RunAway #Bookreview

Source: Review copy, Netgalley Publication: 21st March 2019 from Cornerstone PP: 384 ISBN-13: 978-1780894256

She’s addicted to drugs and to an abusive boyfriend. You haven’t seen her in six months.

Then you find her busking in New York’s Central Park.

But she’s not the girl you remember. This woman is frail, filthy, terrified, and in more trouble than you ever imagined.

You don’t stop…

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The Ruin by Dervla McTiernan @DervlaMcTiernan @LittleBrown

  Source: Netgalley

Publication: 6 September 2018 from Sphere

Pp: 400

ISBN-13: 978-0751569315

  Cormac Reilly is about to re-open the case it took him twenty years to forget

On his first week on the job, Garda Cormac Reilly responds to a call at a decrepit country house to find two silent, neglected children waiting for him – fifteen-year-old Maude and five-year-old Jack. Their mother lies dead…