Thriller | The Copycat | Jake Woodhouse
We’re delighted to be on tour today sharing Laura’s thoughts on The Copycat by Jake Woodhouse. The Copycat is the latest Inspector Rykel thriller. Jaap Rykel is on the brink, his dark past driving him to breaking point – and ending his police career. Visiting the station one last time, he stumbles across an investigation into a particularly violent murder. A murder where the details exactly match a case he solved years earlier. But that killer was caught – and is still in prison. Is there a copycat killer on the loose, playing games with Rykel’s fragile mind? Or did he get it wrong, and send an innocent man to…
Children’s Fiction | The Words That Fly Between Us | Sarah Carroll
The Words That Fly Between Us by Sarah Carroll is an uplifting story that I highly recommend for all age groups! From the outside, it looks like Lucy has the perfect life. She has everything. Everything that money can buy. But money can’t buy Lucy the words she needs to stand up to her bully of a father, the words to escape her suffocating family life, the words to become the person she wants to be. Then Lucy finds an escape route. Every attic on her street is connected, and as she starts to explore the secret lives of her neighbours, Lucy realizes that she is not the only one…
Women’s Fiction | The Things I Know | Amanda Prowse
We’re delighted to be sharing Alice-Jane’s thoughts on publication day for The Things I Know by Amanda Prowse. Thomasina ‘Hitch’ Waycott loves living and working on the remote family farm and B&B. But she also wants more. To see the world. To own her own home. To fall madly in love. But those are fairy tales, and if her life is a fairy tale, then she’s the ugly duckling. Her deformed lip, her crooked limbs and her weak heart have kept her from taking chances. But that’s about to change. When Grayson Potts comes to stay, he’s unlike anyone Thomasina has ever met. He’s aloof, eccentric and exceptionally kind. He’s…
YA Fantasy | Perfectly Preventable Deaths | Deidre Sullivan
I really enjoyed Perfectly Preventable Deaths by Deidre Sullivan. If you’re enjoying the new Sabrina on Netflix, you’ll love this! Sixteen-year-old twins Madeline and Catlin move to a new life in Ballyfrann, a strange isolated Irish town, a place where the earth is littered with small corpses and unspoken truths. A place where, for generations, teenage girls have gone missing in the surrounding mountains. As distance grows between the twins – as Catlin falls in love, and Madeline begins to understand her own nascent witchcraft – Madeline discovers that Ballyfrann is a place full of predators. And when Catlin falls into the gravest danger of all, Madeline must ask herself…
Ghost Story | Haverscroft review | S A Harris
A couple of weeks ago on tour I shared an extract from Haverscroft by S A Harris. Today we’re delighted to be sharing Laura’s thoughts with you. Kate Keeling leaves all she knows and moves to Haverscroft House in an attempt to salvage her marriage. Little does she realise, Haverscroft’s dark secrets will drive her to question her sanity, her husband and fatally engulf her family unless she can stop the past repeating itself. Can Kate keep her children safe and escape Haverscroft in time, even if it will end her marriage? Haverscroft is a gripping and chilling dark tale, a modern ghost story that will keep you turning its…
YA Steampunk | Alavonia Series | Nicholas Lovelock
We’re delighted to be on tour today sharing Laura’s thoughts for Discoucia by Nicholas Lovelock. Discousia is the first story in the Alavonia Series. The second, Gemenicia, is also also available now. Revolution, romance and technological wonders are all in a day’s work for the decorated hero of Alavonia, Sir Arthur Pageon. An acclaimed explorer and inventor, Sir Arthur Pageon takes his unofficial role as defender of the realm of Alavonia very seriously. A fantastical world, Alavonia is home to the Discoucian Monarchy, as well as monstrous creatures and secretive academies for the highly gifted. Upon returning from his most recent exploits aboard on his personal flying galleon The Nostradamus, Pageon is…
