#task 1: eva luna

[quintanamateo]

𝐭𝐚𝐬𝐤 𝐢 — 𝑒𝓋𝒶 𝓁𝓊𝓃𝒶

Mateo adentrou seu quarto na mansão de verão dos Quintana com a expressão mal humorada, como sempre ficava após discutir com os pais. Era raro que aquilo ocorresse simplesmente porque ele sempre se esforçava muito para agradá-los... mas naquele almoço em específico, não conseguiu conter a curiosidade e a língua. Pouco tempo após o jantar na casa dos Borbón, ao navegar pela internet, Mateo se deparou com uma manchete que o intrigou.

Ele não fazia ideia de quem era Eva Luna, mas o fato dela ter morrido em circunstâncias muitíssimo semelhantes às de Linnet fez nascer um pequeno calafrio em sua espinha. Não que ele atribuísse o acontecido a qualquer fenômeno sobrenatural, mas... Eva Luna, depois Linnet, e Angelina ter enfrentado uma situação potencialmente fatal há algumas noites naquela mesma mansão... Mateo começava a acreditar que esses fatos não eram apenas tristes coincidências.

Naquele almoço, então, decidiu perguntar sobre Eva para seus pais... apenas para encontrar decepção. As respostas do casal foram evasivas, claramente evitando falar do assunto sob o pretexto de "não mexer com a memória dos mortos." E ele até poderia acreditar que a relação entre os Quintana e Eva Luna não passasse da casualidade, se não soubesse do nível de proximidade do casal com os Borbón. Era óbvio que eles sabiam mais do que queriam revelar, mas quando Mateo os pressionou, o pai perdeu a paciência, rapidamente direcionando a conversa aos afazeres que ele esperava do filho na empresa... e o rapaz, para não se alterar, pediu licença para se retirar e se recolheu ao seu quarto.

Uma vez sozinho, começou a repassar a conversa com os pais em sua mente, na esperança de extrair qualquer fragmento de informação das frases evasivas dele. Estava convicto de que as mortes de Eva e Linnet estavam conectadas de alguma forma... quantas pessoas morriam no mesmo local, pela exata mesma causa? De repente, lembrou-se das câmeras de segurança instaladas pela propriedade dos Borbón... será que eles também desconfiavam de que havia algo errado? Acreditavam que mais alguém morreria ali? A coisa toda fazia nascer pergunta atrás de pergunta na cabeça de Mateo, e ele se frustrava por não obter todas as respostas. Por ora, deixaria o assunto para lá, mas tinha certeza absoluta de que, mais cedo ou mais tarde, ele voltaria à tona novamente.

[gloryandgorehq]

TASK #1 - EVA LUNA

No dia 26 de julho de 2024, quatro dias depois do jantar na casa dos de Borbón, você está dando uma olhada na internet, quando se depara com uma matéria que levanta suspeita... Quem é Eva Luna? E existe alguma relação dela com o que aconteceu com Linnet e, consequentemente, com o que aconteceu algumas noites atrás?

"Parece que o glamour da residência dos De Borbón não é suficiente para espantar a má sorte que assombra a propriedade! Após a misteriosa morte de Linnet de Borbón no ano passado, rumores de que a mansão é amaldiçoada se espalham como fogo na alta sociedade. E como se isso não fosse suficiente, há quem diga que a casa já tentou fazer mais uma vítima! Mas antes de Linnet, você se lembra de Eva Luna? A bela socialite desapareceu de forma igualmente enigmática há mais de uma década, também após uma festa na mesma residência. Coincidência? Aparentemente, o tempo não perdoa os segredos escondidos entre as paredes da mansão. Será que a família De Borbón está pagando o preço por algo que preferem manter enterrado? Ou estamos presenciando o trabalho de forças além da nossa compreensão? De uma coisa sabemos: onde há fumaça, há fogo. E a chama na mansão dos De Borbón parece estar longe de se apagar. Quem será o próximo?"

INFORMAÇÕES OOC

Essa task deve ser feita em modo de um POV obrigatório, o qual deve mostrar o seu personagem indo perguntar aos pais sobre quem era Eva Luna. As respostas deles vão ser dadas pela central, de modo que vocês devem planejar um POV com algumas perguntas para os pais e enviar para que a moderação responda com como eles reagiriam (por chat ou pelo discord, você quem decide);

Os personagens não lembram quase nada sobre Eva Luna, porque na época que ela morreu, eles eram crianças e os pais nunca mencionaram ela para ninguém;

Esse POV conversando com os pais é obrigatório, mas vocês também podem fazer interações sobre isso, outros POVs e até os personagens indo atrás de mais informações (sempre mandando para a central para que eu possa aprovar o que eles descobrem ou não), fica à seu critério, solte sua imaginação!;

Se vocês quiserem, podem fazer eles pesquisando mais sobre a Eva Luna na internet, e encontrando as reportagens que estão nesta página;

O dia que eles viram a reportam foi dia 26 de julho (dentro do plot), quatro dias depois do jantar, mas o POV pode ser no dia que você quiser, depois disso;

Vocês tem dez dias para entregar a task, que vai ser válida do dia 25/08/2024 (domingo) até dia 04/09/2024 (quarta-feira), até as 23h59;

Qualquer dúvida, podem perguntar via ask, chat ou discord.

[tasksweekly]

[TASK 043: PUERTO RICO]

There’s a masterlist below compiled of over 150+ Puerto Rican faceclaims categorised by gender with their occupation and ethnicity denoted if there was a reliable source. If you want want an extra challenge use random.org to pick a random number! Of course everything listed below are just suggestions and you can pick whichever character or whichever project you desire.

Any questions can be sent here and all tutorials have been linked below the cut for ease of access! REMEMBER to tag your resources with #TASKSWEEKLY and we will reblog them onto the main! This task can be tagged with whatever you want but if you want us to see it please be sure that our tag is the first five tags!

THE TASK - scroll down for FC’s!

STEP 1: Decide on a FC you wish to create resources for! You can always do more than one but who are you starting with? There are links to masterlists you can use in order to find them and if you want help, just send us a message and we can pick one for you at random!

STEP 2: Pick what you want to create! You can obviously do more than one thing, but what do you want to start off with? Screencaps, RP icons, GIF packs, masterlists, PNG’s, fancasts, alternative FC’s - LITERALLY anything you desire!

STEP 3: Look back on tasks that we have created previously for tutorials on the thing you are creating unless you have whatever it is you are doing mastered - then of course feel free to just get on and do it. :)

STEP 4: Upload and tag with #TASKSWEEKLY! If you didn’t use your own screencaps/images make sure to credit where you got them from as we will not reblog packs which do not credit caps or original gifs from the original maker.

THINGS YOU CAN MAKE FOR THIS TASK -  examples are linked!

Stumped for ideas? Maybe make a masterlist or graphic of your favourite Puerto Rican faceclaims. A masterlist of names. Plot ideas or screencaps from a music video preformed by a Puerto Rican artist. Masterlist of quotes and lyrics that can be used for starters, thread titles or tags. Guides on Turkish culture and customs.

Screencaps

RP icons [of all sizes]

Gif Pack [maybe gif icons if you wish]

PNG packs

Manips

Dash Icons

Character Aesthetics

PSD’s

XCF’s

Graphic Templates - can be chara header, promo, border or background PSD’s!

FC Masterlists - underused, with resources, without resources!

FC Help - could be related, family templates, alternatives.

Written Guides.

and whatever else you can think of / make!

MASTERLIST!

Note: If you’re using this masterlist for casting purposes please do further research before casting any of the following, it was difficult finding sources for most of these and don’t know if they’re ethnically or nationally Turkish. Many thanks.

Female:

Rita Moreno (85) Puerto Rican - actress and singer.

Chita Rivera (84) Puerto Rican, Scottish, Italian - actress, dancer, and singer.

Liz Torres (69) Puerto Rican - actress, singer, and comedian.

Saundra Santiago (60) Cuban, Puerto Rican - actress.

Vanna White (60) Puerto Rican, Spanish (including Catalan), likely some Croatian / Unknown - actress and television personality.

Irene Cara (58) Puerto Rican / Cuban - singer, songwriter, and actress.

Elizabeth Vargas (54) Puerto Rican (Spanish, Italian, possibly other) / Swedish, Irish, Germa - television journalist.

Rosie Perez (53) Puerto Rican - actress, activist, talk show host, writer, choreographer, and dancer.

Lauren Vélez (52) Puerto Rican - actress.

Lillian Garcia (50) Spanish, Puerto Rican - former ring announcer.

Trini Alvarado (50) Spanish, Puerto Rican - actress.

Talisa Soto (50) Puerto Rican - actress and model.

Gina Ravera (50) Spanish-Puerto Rican / African-American - actress.

Danielia Cotton (49) Puerto Rican-Spanish/ African-American, possibly European and Native American - singer, songwriter and guitarist.

Jennifer Lopez (47) Puerto Rican (including Spanish, likely other) - actress and singer.

Ana Ortiz (46) Puerto Rican / Irish - actress and singer.

Lisa Marie Varon (46) Puerto Rican / Turkish - wrestler, fitness competitor, and bodybuilder.

Rosa Blasi (44) Irish, Italian, 1/4 Puerto Rican - actress.

Roselyn Sanchez (44) Puerto Rican - singer and actress.

Justina Machado (44) Puerto Rican, Cuban - actress.

Millie Corretjer (43) Puerto Rican (Spanish [including Andalusian, Asturian, Canarian, and Catalan], possibly other), some French - singer and actress,

Mayte Garcia (43) - belly dancer, actress, author, singer, and choreographer.

Sandra Gillette (42) Puerto Rican / Mexican - singer.

Dayanara Torres (42) Puerto Rican - actress, singer, model, and writer.

Evelyn Lozada (41) Puerto Rican - fashionista and television personality.

Alanna Ubach (41) Puerto Rican / Mexican - actress and singer.

Camille Guaty (40) Cuban, Puerto Rican, Spanish - actress.

Shar Jackson (40) Puerto Rican, Mexican / African-American, possibly Native American - actress, rapper, and singer.

Karen Olivo (40) Puerto Rican, Native American / Dominican, Chinese.- actress.

Jessica Mas (40) Mexican, Puerto Rican - actress.

Lana Parrilla (39) Puerto Rican / Sicilian Italian - actress.

Kiele Sanchez (39) Puerto Rican / French, Polish - actress.

Andrea Navedo (39) Puerto Rican - actress.

Lymari Nadal (39) Puerto Rican - actress, producer, and screenwriter.

Aimee Garcia (38) Mexican, Puerto Rican - actress.

Zoë Saldaña (38) Puerto Rican, Dominican Republic, evidently small amount of Lebanese and Haitian - actress and dancer.

Nadine Velazquez (38) Puerto Rican - actress and model.

Daniella Alonso (38) Native (Inca) Peruvian, Japanese / Puerto Rican - actress and fashion model.

Gloria Velez (38) Puerto Rican - model, dancer, and rapper.

April Lee Hernández (37) Puerto Rican - actress.

Kelis (37) African-American / Chinese, Puerto Rican - singer and songwriter.

La La Anthony (37) Puerto Rican (African, Spanish, possibly other) - television personality.

Susie Castillo (37) Dominican / Puerto Rican - actress and model.

Reagan Gomez-Preston (37) Puerto Rican / African American - actress.

Denise Quiñones (36) Puerto Rican (Spanish, possibly other) - actress, model and beauty queen.

Gaby Hoffmann (35) German, Irish, English, Puerto Rican, Spanish, 1/16th Italian (Sicilian) - actress.

Meagan Good (35) Afro-Barbadian, African-American, Puerto Rican / African-American, Louisiana Creole, possibly Cherokee Native American and Jewish - actress.

Carmella DeCesare (34) Italian and Puerto Rican - model.

Jessica Caban (34) Puerto Rican - fashion model and actress.

Denise Vasi (34) 50% Dominican 25% Greek 25% Puerto Rican - actress and model.

Melonie Diaz (33) Puerto Rican - actress.

Adrienne Bailon (33) Ecuadorian / Puerto Rican - singer, songwriter, actress, dancer, and television personality.

Briana Venskus (32) Puerto Rican, Lithuanian and Italian - actress.

Natalie Morales (32) Puerto Rican / Brazilian - journalist.

Eva Marcille (32) Puerto Rican / African-American - actress, television host, and model.

Gina Rodriguez (32) Puerto Rican (African, Spanish), possibly other - actress.

Natalie Nunn (32) African American, Puerto Rican, Brazilian - television personality.

Aubrey Plaza (32) Puerto Rican / German, English, Irish, Swiss-German - actress and comedian.

Desiree Casado (31) Puerto Rican - actress.

Naya Rivera (30) Puerto Rican, German / African-American, Puerto Rican - actress and singer.

Jaslene Gonzalez (30) Puerto Rican - model.

AJ Lee (30) Puerto Rican - author and professional wrestler.

Zuleyka Rivera (29) Puerto Rican - actress, television host, dancer, model, and beauty queen.

Melanie Iglesias (29) Puerto Rican, Italian, smaller percentage of Filipino - model and actress.

Asia Nitollano (29) Filipino, African-American and Puerto Rican - singer.

Brianna Taylor (29) African American, German, Puerto Rican - singer and songwriter.

Aimee Carrero (28) Puerto Rican / Dominican Republic - actress,

Chelsea Kane (28) German, Italian, Puerto Rican - actress and singer.

Keshia Chanté (28) Trinidadian / Puerto Rican, Portuguese - singer, songwriter and television personality.

Keshia Chante (28) Afro-Trinidadian, Puerto Rican, Portuguese-Canadian - singer, songwriter, and actress.

Andrea Brooks (28) Swedish, Puerto Rican, Ethiopian - actress.

Kristin Herrera (28) Mexican, Puerto Rican - former actress.

Joan Smalls (28) African, Irish (father) *Puerto Rican [Spanish, Taino, Indian] - fashion model.

Adria Arjona (25) Guatemalan / Puerto Rican - actress.

Rocky Santiago (25) Puerto Rican.

Luna Lozada (25) Spanish, Taino and Afro-Puerto Rican - model and actress.

Alexis Jordan (25) African-American / Puerto Rican - singer and actress.

Victoria Justice (24) Puerto Rican / Irish, English, German, French - actress, singer, songwriter.

Paige Hurd (24) African American / Puerto Rican - actress.

Tori Kelly (24) Puerto Rican, Afro-Jamaican / Irish, German - singer, songwriter, actress, and record producer.

Monica Puig (23) Puerto Rican / Cuban (Catalan) - tennis player.

Priscilla Diaz (22) Puerto Rican / Cuban - rapper, dancer, model, singer, actress, director and disc jockey.

Eva Gutowski (22) African-American, Puerto Rican, Polish, Irish - YouTuber.

Melanie Martinez (22) Dominican, Puerto Rican - singer, songwriter, music video director, and photographer.

Raquel Castro (22) Puerto Rican / Ashkenazi Jewish, Italian - actress, singer and songwriter.

Arzaylea Rodriguez (22) Puerto Rican.

Jamila Velazquez (21) Dominican, Puerto Rican - singer.

Stephanie del Valle (20) Puerto Rican (Spanish, possibly other) - musician, model, and beauty queen.

Paola Andino (19) Puerto Rican / of Puerto Rican decent - actress.

Laurie Hernandez (16) Puerto Rican - gymnast.

Auli'i Cravalho (16) Native Hawaiian, Portuguese, Puerto Rican, Irish, Chinese - actress and singer.

Jenna Ortega (14) 75% Mexican 25% Puerto Rican - actress.

Valenzia Algarin (?) Puerto Rican / Dominican - actress. 

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Walter Mercado (85) Puerto Rican / Spanish/Catalan - astrologer.

Antonio Fargas (70) Puerto Rican / Afro-Trinidadian - actor.

Carmen Carrera (31) of Puerto Rican-Peruvian ancestry - television personality, model, burlesque performer, and actress.

Kenya Michaels (26) ‎Puerto Rican.

Harmony Santana (?) of mixed Puerto Rican and Dominican heritage - actress.

Monica Beverly Hillz (?) of Puerto Rican-Peruvian descent.

Nomi Ruiz (?) Puerto Rican - singer-songwriter.

Males:

Tony Orlando (73) Greek, Puerto Rican - singer.

Jimmy Smits (61) Dutch / Puerto Rican - actor.

Ruben Santiago-Hudson (60) Puerto Rican / African-American - actor, playwright, and director.

Luis Guzmán (60) Puerto Rican - actor.

Michael DeLorenzo (57) Italian / Puerto Rican - actor, singer, and dancer.

Vincent Irizarry (57) Basque, Puerto Rican, Italian, Ukrainian - actor.

Ian Gomez (52) Puerto Rican / Ashkenazi Jewish - actor.

Gary Valenciano (52) Filipino [Bicolano] / Puerto Rican [including Spanish and some either African or Taino], Italian, Portuguese - musician.

John Melendez (51) Puerto Rican / Danish - television writer, radio personality, and actor.

Benicio del Toro (50) Puerto Rican (including Spanish, Catalan, Basque, Italian, Indigenous, possibly other) - actor and film producer.

John Ortiz (48) Puerto Rican - actor.

Marc Anthony (48) Puerto Rican - singer, songwriter, record producer, actor, and television producer.

Jon Seda (46) Puerto Rican - actor.

Kirk Acevedo (45) Puerto Rican - actor.

Elvis Crespo (45) Puerto Rican (Taino, possibly other) - singer.

Tego Calderón (45) Puerto Rican - singer, songwriter, and actor.

Ricky Martin (45) Puerto Rican (Basque, Spanish, Corsican, possibly other) - singer, actor and author.

David Blaine (44) Puerto Rican, Italian / Ashkenazi Jewish - magician, illusionist, and endurance artist.

Ed Bassmaster (44) Puerto Rican / Russian Jewish, Italian - YouTuber.

Howie Dorough (43) Irish, English / Puerto Rican - singer, songwriter, musician, dancer, actor, and businessperson.

Maxwell (43) Puerto Rican / Haitian - singer and songwriter.

Freddy Rodríguez (42) Puerto Rican - actor.

Adam Rodriguez (42) Puerto Rican, Cuban - actor, screenwriter, and director.

Freddie Prinze, Jr. (41) Puerto Rican (paternal grandmother), German, as well as Irish, English, Scottish, Austrian, Swiss-German - actor.

Javier Colon (40) Dominican Republic, Puerto Rican - singer.

Jorma Taccone (40) Italian, Puerto Rican / Swedish, as well as Scottish, German, English, Irish, distant Dutch - actor.

Jon Huertas (40) Puerto Rican - actor.

Victor Santiago, Jr. (39) African-American / Puerto Rican - recording artist

Luis Fonsi (39) Puerto Rican - singer, songwriter, and actor.

A. J. McLean (39) 50% mix of English, Scottish, and Irish 25% Puerto Rican 25% German - musician, singer, dancer, actor, and entertainer.

Ricardo Medina, Jr. (38) Puerto Rican - actor.

Bernie Williams (38) Afro-Puerto Rican - former professional baseball player and musician.

Swizz Beatz (38) African-American, Puerto Rican - recording artist

Lin-Manuel Miranda (37) Puerto Rican, as well as small amounts of Mexican, African-American, and English - actor, playwright, composer, rapper, and writer.

Erik-Michael Estrada (37) Puerto Rican, Italian - musical artist.

Rick Gonzalez (37) Dominican, Puerto Rican - actor.

Nicky Jam (36) Puerto Rican / Dominican Republic - singer and songwriter.

Romeo Santos (35) Afro-Dominican, Puerto Rican - singer, songwriter, record producer, actor, and featured composer.

Lloyd Banks (34) Puerto Rican / African-American - recording artist.

Eddie Alvarez (33) Puerto Rican / Irish - martial artist.

Donnie Klang (32) German, Italian, Puerto Rican - singer, songwriter, producer and model.

Carmelo Anthony (32) Puerto Rican / African-American - professional basketball player.

Frankie Muniz (31) Puerto Rican / Italian, Irish - actor, musician, writer, producer, and race car driver.

Bruno Mars (31) 25% Puerto Rican 25% Ashkenazi Jewish 50% Filipino (including Cebuano, Tagalog, and Spanish) - singer and songwriter.

Ronnie Ortiz-Magro (31) Italian / Puerto Rican - television personality and actor.

Josh Segarra (30) Puerto Rican - actor.

Colby O’Donis (28) Puerto Rican, Italian - R&B singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor.

Carlito Olivero (27) Puerto Rican / Mexican - singer and actor.

Diego Boneta (26) Mexican, Puerto Rican, Spanish - actor and singer.

Anthony Ramos (25) Puerto Rican - actor.

David Lambert (23) Puerto Rican / Irish, English, German, French - actor.

Scotty McCreery (23) Puerto Rican (paternal grandmother), English, Irish, Scottish - singer.

Mark Indelicato (22) 75% Italian 25% Puerto Rican - actor, singer, fashion blogger, and photographer.

Jake T. Austin (22) Polish, English, Irish / Spanish, Puerto Rican, Argentinian - actor.

Brandon Perea (21) Filipino, Puerto Rican - actor.

Brandon Larracuente (20) Puerto Rican - actor.

Ricky Garcia (18) Mexican, German - singer.

Use at your own discretion:

Michelle Rodriguez (38) played trans man and tried to excuse it.

Rosario Dawson (38) expressed desire to play Donna Hylton.

David Castro (21) allegedly supports Trump.

[jenmedsbookreviews]

So. You will all be delighted to learn that I survived my two day meeting. So did my management team so that’s nice. For them. For now … Other momentous achievements in the week, as there have been few I have to be brutally honest, I achieved the ‘Approved’ badge on Netgalley where in one day I doubled my auto approval status from two to four publishers. Go me. exciting times ahead.

Or something.

In more exciting news, for the first time since around Christmas, I received book post. Not one book. Not even two books. Four books! Yes folks, four lovely jubbly books. I am beside myself with excitement. Well I am beside the cat who is lying across my feet as I work on my laptop, but if I rename her ‘Myself with Excitement’ then I am strictly not lying. It is harder to remember than Luna and in all honesty she doesn’t look exactly impressed, but I’m sure with time we’ll both get used to it. It’s more polite than the names I usually call her when she bounces off my head at three in the morning.

But you probably aren’t interested in my domestic arrangements so I’ll tell you about the books instead. First up was a double header from Orenda, two books I am very excited about reading. One was We Were The Salt Of The Sea by Roxanne Bouchard, the second, and this induced a small amount of bounciness to be fair, was Keeper by Johana Gustawsson. I know right? Super happy book blogger over here then. I also received two more books, no less exciting than the first two, in the shape of Evidence of Death by Peter Ritchie and Kate Riordan’s The Stranger, although technically that one is for Mandie who is taking part in the blog tour on behalf of Jen Med’s.

Aren’t they pretty? I’ve concluded that book post is like buses. You wait for weeks then loads come along at once. I am going to assume the bus/bookpost union is going to declare a strike agin now for a few weeks but it was fun while it lasted. Not to be deterred, and because it would be a shame not to use my new found auto-approved statuses, I may have downloaded a few books from the old Netgalley. Purely for blog tours – lets not go mad now.

I found it absolutely necessary to pick up the following treats: Found Drowned by BK Duncan; The Craftsman by Sharon Bolton; The Pact by SE Lynes and The Little Cottage On The Hill by Emma Davies. Blog tours books. Each and every one, I swear.

Depending on your point of view (i.e. whather or not you own Amazon) I’ve been pretty good purchase wise this week. Sort of. Just a few new preorders and books I realised I hadn’t preordered that i should have. You know? The essentials. First up was Blue Night by Simone Buchholz; a Quick Reads title – Clean Break by Tammy Cohen; Killer On The Run and Hidden Agenda by MA Comley; Finders Keepers by KT Finch and White Lies by Lucy Dawson.

A couple of audible purchase may have fell into my shopping basket too. This Is How It Ends by Eva Dolan; The Wicked Cometh by Laura Carlin; The Silent Wife by Kerry Fisher.

Lots of road trips coming up. I need the company. As I was quite bogged down with meetings this week, I’ve been struggling with the reading. Still managed to clear a few, and fluffing good reads they were too. One confused the fluff out of me mind as the central family’s name was Lucas, the character had and Aunt Jenny (Lucas) and her father was Patrick (Pat). Pat happens to have been my mother’s name. Talk about yer deja vu moments …

Books I Have Read

Perfect Death – Helen Fields

There’s no easy way to die…

Unknown to DI Luc Callanach and the newly promoted DCI Ava Turner, a serial killer has Edinburgh firmly in his grip. The killer is taking his victims in the coldest, most calculating way possible – engineering slow and painful deaths by poison, with his victims entirely unaware of the drugs flooding their bloodstream until it’s too late.

But how do you catch a killer who hides in the shadows? A killer whose pleasure comes from watching pain from afar? Faced with their most difficult case yet, Callanach and Turner soon realise they face a seemingly impossible task…

The third book in the Luc Callanach series, I’ll be reviewing this as part of the blog tour this time next week. perhaps slightly slower in pace than the others, or maybe that was just me, it was no less tense nad the risks for Luc and Eva as high as ever. You can order your own copy right here.

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The Reunion – Samantha Hayes

They were all there the day your sister went missing. Who is lying? Who is next?

THEN – In charge of her little sister at the beach, Claire allowed Eleanor to walk to the shop alone to buy an ice cream. Placing a coin into her hand, Claire told her to be quick, knowing how much she wanted the freedom.

Eleanor never came back.

NOW – The time has finally come to sell the family farm and Claire is organising a reunion of her dearest friends, the same friends who were present the day her sister went missing.

When another girl disappears, long-buried secrets begin to surface. One of the group hides the darkest secret of them all…

This is it. The book that confused me. Doesn’t take much. Tense and littered with secrets, this book gripped me from the off, taking only a few hours to devour. My review will be published soon but you can preorder your own copy here.

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The Collector – Fiona Cummins

Jakey escaped with his life and moved to a new town. His rescue was a miracle but his parents know that the Collector is still out there, watching, waiting . . .

Clara, the girl he left behind, dreams of being found. Her mother is falling apart but she will not give up hope.

The Collector has found an apprentice to take over his family’s legacy.  But he can’t forget the one who got away and the detective who destroyed his dreams.

DS Etta Fitzroy must hunt him down before his obsession destroys them all.

I have been sitting on this book (not literally) since the summer, promising myself I would read it, but thinking I should wait a little closer to publication. I loved Rattle. Could The Collector leave me with the same feeling? Well, you’ll find out very soon when I publish my review but you can order your own copy for Kindle right now. Hardback is out in a couple of weeks and can be ordered here.

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Quick Reads: Inspector Chopra and the Million Dollar Motor Car – Vaseem Khan

An enchanting Baby Ganesh Agency short story: a million-dollar car is missing. Chopra has two days to find it, or the gangster who bought it will not be happy.

The Premier No.1 Garage is the place to go in Mumbai if you want a luxury car. Even Mumbai’s biggest gangster shops there – he’s just ordered a classic race car worth millions.

But now the car is gone. Stolen from a locked room, in the middle of the night.

Who stole it? The mechanic who is addicted to gambling? The angry ex-worker? The car thief pulling off one last job?

And how on earth did they make it vanish from the locked garage?

Inspector Chopra has just days to find the culprit – and the missing car – before its gangster owner finds out … and takes violent revenge.

Does exactly what it says on the tin. About an hours worth of a very fun Chopra and Ganesha adventure here which had me chuckling and smiling. If you love the series as I do, you won’t want to miss out so you can orders your own copy here. If you haven’t read any Chopra books, it’s a really goo taster of what you are missing.

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Quick Reads: Cut Off – Mark Billingham

Step into a thrilling Quick Read from number one bestselling crime fiction author Mark Billingham. It’s the moment we all fear: losing our phone, leaving us cut off from family and friends. But, for Louise, losing hers in a local café takes her somewhere much darker.

After many hours of panic, Louise is relieved when someone gets in touch offering to return the phone. From then on she is impatient to get back to normal life.

But when they meet on the beach, Louise realises you should be careful what you wish for…

Another quick read title but one which will certainly make you stop and think about how over connected we are to our phones and technology and what happens when you lose it. Do you also lose sight of the danger right in front of your eyes if only viewing the world through the sight on your camera phone? You can order your own copy here.

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That was it. Not too much, not too shabby. Probably just right all things considered. I had a pretty full on week on the blog as well, sticking to my resolution of cutting back and posting every day …

Bloody Scotland: Stars of Scottish crime writing to get bloody in Kolkata

Guest Review: Dancing Over The Hill by Cathy Hopkinsths

Review: The Legacy by Yrsa Sigurdardottir

#BlogTour: Little Liar by Clare Boyd

#BlogTour: We Own The Sky by Luke Allnutt

#BlogTour: Black Heart by Anna-Lou Weatherley

#BlogTour: Dark Angel by Helen Durrant

Cover Reveal: Rachel Amphlett – Kay Hunter is back … soon

No so busy week coming up but still managed to shoe-horn in a couple of blog tours with Killed by Thomas Enger on Wednesday, Blue Night by Simone Buchholz on Friday and The Lying Kind by Alison James on Saturday.

This week is a bit mixed. Health and Safety meeting tomorrow morning (boo hiss) followed by the afternoon off and a trip down to London for First Monday Crime (yay!!!!!!). Back to Londinium on Wednesday as I am visiting a unit but otherwise I will be desk bound, no doubt messing with something in excel. I usually am and as month end has been and gone while I was in other meetings, I have quite a bit to catch up on. My life is so glam. Not. Did manage to book tickets for the Orenda Roadshow in Warwick in a couple of weeks though, so not all bad.

Have a fabulous week all. See you on the other side.

Jen

  Rewind, recap: Weekly update w/e 04/02/18 So. You will all be delighted to learn that I survived my two day meeting. So did my management team so that's nice.