Hello! How was your weekend? I hope it was chock full of some fantastic books. It’s Monday which can mean only one thing – time for another fabulous #R3COMM3ND3D2018 post! Today I am delighted to welcome a brilliant author to the blog, the lovely Heleen Kist. Heleen’s debut novel, In Servitude, was published last year and if you would like to find out more then scroll on down to the bottom of this post.

#R3COMM3ND3D2018 is a chance for bookish types to share the book love. If you could pick any three of your favourite books to shout about, what would they be? Any author, publisher or genre. #R3COMM3ND3D2018 has one rule though. That rule being the books must have been published in 2018.

Here are Heleen’s three choices…

Corrupted (Charles Holborne Legal Thriller #4) by Simon Michael
Loved the 1960s setting, which opened my eyes to historical crime fiction, and the mix between the real-life Cray brothers and the fictional story worked extremely well.

Perfect Silence (A DI Callanach Thriller #4) by Helen Fields
It’s the fourth in a series of strong police procedural. This one is particularly gruesome but you still get a warm feeling from the will-they-or-won’t-they nature of the relationship between the two main characters.

Stoned Love (Sam Batford #2) by Ian Patrick
I loved the opening of this book – rats and drugs! – which set the scene for a hard-boiled tale of undercover corruption. This is the second in the Sam Batford series, but I read it as a stand-alone.

Brilliant choices, Heleen. Thank you. Both Perfect Silence and Stoned Love have been chosen before so they’re both going on the terrifying TBR!

If Heleen has managed to tempt you, or if you would like to find out more about the books she recommends, please see the following links:

| Corrupted by Simon Michael | Perfect Silence by Helen Fields | Stoned Love by Ian
Patrick |

About In Servitude:
When Grace’s beloved sister Glory dies in a car crash, her life spirals out of control. She discovers Glory was indebted to a local crime lord and laundering money through her café. What’s worse, Grace is now forced to take over.

Defying her anxiety, Grace will stop at nothing to save herself and those Glory left behind from the clutches of Glasgow’s underworld. But her plans unravel when more family secrets emerge and Grace is driven to question everything she believed about her sister – even her death.

IN SERVITUDE is a gripping roller coaster of family, crime and betrayal. Perfect for lovers of page-turning suspense.

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About Heleen:
Heleen Kist is a Dutch businesswoman who lived all over the world while growing up and for her career. Then she fell in love with a Scotsman and his country, and now writes about its (sometimes scary) people from her garden office in Glasgow.

Her debut psychological suspense novel ‘In Servitude’ won a silver medal for Best European Fiction at the Independent Publishers Book Awards 2019, was a finalist in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards 2019, and was shortlisted for The Selfies 2019, the UK publishing industry’s first award for self-published authors.

She was selected as an ‘up and coming new writer’ and awarded a Spotlight at Bloody Scotland 2018, the International crime writing festival.

Heleen’s Social Media Links:
| Twitter @hkist | Website | Facebook |

If you’re a book blogger, author or you work in publishing and have three books published this year that you want to shout about then please complete the following form (or click this link: https://forms.gle/PE483qCyrKEgV5Uq6)