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Title:- Homicide and Halo-Halo Author:- Mia P. Manansala Date published:- February 8th 2022 Publisher:- Berkley No. of pages:- 299 pages Genre:- Asian American Fiction Rating:- Plot:- 4/5 stars Writing:- 4/5 stars Overall rating:- 4 / 5 stars Death at a beauty pageant turns Tita Rosie’s Kitchen upside down in the latest entry of this witty andContinue reading “Homicide and Halo Halo – Book Review”

Title:- The Other Guest Author:- Helen Cooper Date published:- will be published on 16th June 2022 Publisher:- Hodder and Stoughton No. of pages:- 338 pages Genre:- Psychological Thriller Rating:- Plot:- 4.5/5 stars Writing:- 4/5 stars Overall rating:- 4.5/5 stars One year ago, Leah’s twenty-one-year-old niece, Amy, mysteriously drowned near her family-owned luxury resort on theContinue reading “The Other Guest – ARC Book Review”

In every person’s story, there is something to hide… The ornate reading room at the Boston Public Library is quiet, until the tranquility is shattered by a woman’s terrified scream. Security guards take charge immediately, instructing everyone inside to stay put until the threat is identified and contained. While they wait for the all-clear, fourContinue reading “The Woman in the Library – ARC Book Review”

Twenty years ago, Cyrus Haven’s family was murdered and only he and his brother survived. Cyrus because he hid. Elias because he was the killer. Now Elias is being released from a secure psychiatric hospital and Cyrus, a forensic psychologist, must decide if he can forgive the man who destroyed his childhood. As he preparesContinue reading “Lying Beside You – Cyrus Haven series Book 3 – ARC Book Review”

Title:- The Lost Ones (Detective Jackie Cook series Book 1) Author:- Marnie Riches Date published:- will be published on June 7th 2022 Publisher:- Bookouture No. of pages:- 338 pages Genre:- Thriller Plot rating:- 4.5/5 stars Writing rating:- 4/5 stars Character rating:- 4.5/5 stars Overall rating:- 4.5 /5 stars The girl is sitting upright, her darkContinue reading “The Lost Ones (Detective Jackie Cook series Book 1) – ARC Book Review”

Monster?                    Murderer? Child?                         Victim? Michelle Cameron’s name is associated with the most abhorrent of crimes. A child who lured a younger child away from her parents and to her death, she is known as the black girl who murdered a little white girl; evil incarnate according to the media. As the book opens, she has doneContinue reading “The Gosling Girl – Book Review”

Jonathan’s wife disappeared more than twenty years ago. Now he’s seeing her everywhere . . . New York in the 1990s – impoverished writer Jonathan Dainty takes his wife Maddie out to the beach for her birthday. Hours later he finds himself at the local police precinct trying to explain how on earth he letContinue reading “Birthday Girl – ARC Book Review”

It’s a typical teenage bedroom with posters covering the walls and clothes littering the floor. But the girl lying on her bed, wearing a delicate chain around her neck, is lifeless. A circle of red stains her white vest top. How had the girl’s mother looked down at her sleeping child and pulled the trigger?Continue reading “Six Graves (DI Kim Stone series Book 16) – ARC Book Review”