Gritty, grimey and a sign of the times. How easy it is to cross that line, and when old loyalties are in conflict, who do you choose?
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The Diary of a BooksellerBy Shaun BythellSnappy ReviewYes! For those who have ever worked in a bookstore, or even retail, here comes a commentary on every customer you’ve ever served. Thoughtless, self -entitled, careless and passionate. Diary entries around a business that blows the cobwebs from the dream and entrenches it firmly in reality…. sigh.SynopsisShaun[Read more]
Dr. KnoxBy Peter SpiegelmanSnappy ReviewA doctor in the less salubrious suburbs takes on the world in an action thriller that blazes the images right into the back of your brain.SynopsisA gripping new thriller about a doctor with a potent humanitarian impulse, an unhealthy appetite for risk, and a knack for finding himself between a rock[Read more]
King of Ashes – The Firemane Saga Vol1By Raymond E. FiestSnappy ReviewA brilliant and fascinating world, a coming of age, a grand betrayal…. What more could you possibly wish for?SynopsisOnce the world of Garn once boasted five great kingdoms, until the King of Ithrace was defeated and every member of his family executed by Lodavico,[Read more]
The installation of a street library started a small war in Three Corners.Quite unintentionally.Declarations were made, lines drawn, friendships that had spent a lifetime in solidarity split asunder, and one marriage ended in divorce.A little cream box, with a blue metal roof that perched precariously on top of a stone garden pillar near the crossroads[Read more]
The Girl in the WoodsBy Camilla LackbergSnappy ReviewThree stories, two historical, all tied in to each other over secrets, death and terrible loss.SynopsisA missing child When a four-year-old girl disappears in the woods just outside Fjällbacka, the community is horror-struck. Thirty years ago, a young girl went missing from the exact same spot, and was[Read more]
Sneaking past the blue bike in the laundry was the hardest. Everything was crammed in so tight it was hard to manoeuvre. Or so he thought. But squeezing in between the two cars in the garage was harder, trying to minimise space taken, not to touch either of the cars: A silver Falcon sedan on[Read more]
The Year that Changed EverythingBy Cathy KellySnappy ReviewA lovely light read, with a bit of grit. 3 women overcoming self-doubt with the help and support of family. Would love to read more of Aunt Grace and Esmeralda! SynopsisThree women celebrate their birthdays . . . 30. 40. 50. But their milestone birthdays mark the start[Read more]
She is his dirty little secret. A voice, a memory, a yearning from the past. He loves his wife. Adores his children. Which was why his memory of her felt so wrong at the beginning. Something he would never share, something he couldn’t. Everyone else dismissed her out of mind years ago, when she’d gone. Forever. And because she[Read more]
Zen and the Art of MurderOliver BottiniSnappy ReviewIt’s hard to describe this one – it lingered longer than the others after I put it down… Definitely different. Interesting yet unsettling.Synopsis A case for Louise Boni – the first of the Black Forest Investigations. Louise Boni, chief inspector with the Black Forest crime squad, is struggling[Read more]