From the author of Netflix's The Night Agent is another unrelenting espionage thriller featuring disillusioned Secret Service Agent Erik Hill battling against the odds to protect the President of the United States when The White House is attacked. With an unknown number of assailants from places no one was expecting, the tension is high and the shocks and attacks don’t let up throughout.
While figuring out who to trust we get to know more about Agent Hill and those close to him; in particular Agent Cody, who’s Dad worked beside Erik and had the unfortunate luck ... View Full Review
From the author of Netflix's The Night Agent is another unrelenting espionage thriller featuring disillusioned Secret Service Agent Erik Hill battling against the odds to protect the President of the United States when The White House is attacked. With an unknown number of assailants from places no one was expecting, the tension is high and the shocks and attacks don’t let up throughout.
While figuring out who to trust we get to know more about Agent Hill and those close to him; in particular Agent Cody, who’s Dad worked beside Erik and had the unfortunate luck ... View Full Review
An eerie location, a grisly murder scene, federal government interest and the unfathomable discovery of a very large footprint has the potential to create a media storm in this latest case for chief medical examiner Dr Kay Scarpetta. While still working to get her office in order, Scarpetta and her team are about to be let in on a few secrets in order to figure out who would commit these violent murders and why. But who else might be watching?
Long standing fans of Patricia Cornwell’s chief medical examiner will be thrilled for her return in this 27... View Full Review
We learnt from reading Fourth Wing that boy, oh boy Rebecca Yarros does not pull her punches. And Malek, Dunne or whatever gods you feel like praying to aren’t going to protect you in Iron Flame either.
Following the dramatic sheer cliff-face that was the ending of Fourth Wing, we were left on tenterhooks about what on earth could happen next. Iron Flame is one hell of a terrifying roller coaster ride. Violet knows the truth that’s been kept hidden for centuries, and now she has secrets to keep from friends and foes, gas lighting ... View Full Review
After her cheating ex left her heartbroken, school librarian Alexis Stone has decided it’s time to shake things up. After heading out to a bar with the intention of having her first one night stand, tall, dark and outspoken Logan swoops in and turns a potentially disappointing evening around. Then things get fiery, literally, as the hotel they’re in is struck by lightning and evacuated. At the sight of photographers, Logan runs then the news breaks that Alexis’ mystery man was none other than a democratic gubernatorial candidate, now fighting a scandal just weeks before ... View Full Review
I’m a contrary kind of reader, when I see book reviews full of hype and positivity I become wary. My socks have already been blown off before I’ve started reading and my expectations become unobtainably high. Will I still enjoy it? Sometimes, but it’s rare that I’ll match the energy of the other reviews and it will become a book that I will obsess over. Fourth Wing is one of these rare exceptions.
Violet has spent her whole life training to be a scribe, but as she enters Basgiath College, she does ... View Full Review
Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi has been on my to-be-read list for a while now, and after taking the plunge into this dystopian YA fantasy series I’m officially a fan. In this first book of the series we meet Juliette, locked away and isolated by The Reestablishment (the worldwide dictators of a crumbling world) because of her lethal touch. That is until she’s reunited with the only kind face from her past only to be brought to those in power and forged into a weapon. That the said face belongs to a completely gorgeous, tall, dark ... View Full Review
Following on from Heidi Amsinck’s debut novel My Name is Jensen, this sequel sees Jensen re-establishing roots in Copenhagen and starting out as a freelance journalist. Still experiencing the fallout from book one, DI Henrik Jungersen’s home life is on rocky ground. This fuels his determination to figure out who is behind three seemingly unrelated cases of violence towards the elderly. When ex-lovers Jensen and Henrik find themselves both investigating the same case, the pair struggle to keep a degree of separation and old feelings resurface.
The storytelling throughout The Girl in the Photo is ... View Full Review
Almost as soon as I started reading Christina O’Connor’s story of experiences at the hand of a child sexual exploitation gang in Huddersfield, my own hometown, I couldn’t help but do the maths. Christina is a mere three years older than me to the month, and at only 11 years old bullying at the start of high school led to truancy and put her within the grasp of a sinister world of cigarettes, alcohol, drugs and sexual exploitation - conducted in broad daylight, with little to nothing done by those who could. Obviously the timings ... View Full Review
Multiple chance meetings bring childhood friends then enemy Daniel Rosenberg back into the life of Liyah Cohen-Jackson, making them both face their past in order to rekindle their relationship and boost their careers. When Liyah and Daniel have a chance meeting on a plane 14 years after last seeing each other at a Jewish summer camp we’re clued in that something happened between them leaving Liyah angry and Daniel remorseful. What comes next is not only a story of romance and reconciliation but explores much deeper themes of gender bias, being jewish and multiracial, and recover from sexual assault. ... View Full Review
The loss of a loved one is one of the hardest experiences we go through. Having a bereavement due to suicide adds a whole additional layer of struggle - regardless of the circumstances it often feels sudden and there’s a sense of a potential that just vanishes. In The Confession, Maike Mullenders shares that life with her father was difficult, “he left me a complicated legacy which I spent years trying to wade through”, detailing two previous failed suicide attempts when she was a child and teenager before receiving the devastating news that her father had ... View Full Review
Bianka bursts into Charlotte’s life, a flash of colour in a red power suit against an ever precise and controlled backdrop and the “Scandi-Sloane” uniforms of “conservative white cotton dresses”. Their friendship quickly finds a foundation and sees Bianka invited on a small relaxing girls trip to Ibiza. In the heat and the holiday atmosphere, everything intensifies, until one fateful night that leaves the two characters bound together by a dark and terrifying secret.
A cracking holiday read, or terrific thriller for any time you want to escape into a riptide of a ... View Full Review
