#BookReview: The Appeal by Janice Hallett @ViperBooks #TheAppeal #damppebbles

"IN A TOWN FULL OF SECRETS SOMEONE WAS MURDERED. SOMEONE WENT TO PRISON. AND EVERYONE'S A SUSPECT. CAN YOU UNCOVER THE TRUTH? Dear Reader - enclosed are all the documents you need to solve a case. It starts with the arrival of two mysterious newcomers to the small town of Lockwood, and ends with a … Continue reading #BookReview: The Appeal by Janice Hallett @ViperBooks #TheAppeal #damppebbles

#BookReview: Q by Christina Dalcher #QBook #damppebbles

"It begins as a way to make things fairer. An education system that will benefit everyone. It’s all in the name of progress. This is what Elena Fairchild believes. As a teacher in one of the government’s elite schools for children with high ‘Q’ scores, she witnesses the advantages first-hand. But when Elena’s own daughter … Continue reading #BookReview: Q by Christina Dalcher #QBook #damppebbles

The damppebbles Top Ten (sort of!) of 2020 #amreading #amreviewing #amblogging #Bestof2020 #TopReadsof2020 #BookRecommendations #bookblogger #damppebbles

Hello bookish friends and welcome to my final post in a year many of us would rather forget. What a stinker, eh? I've said it before and I'll say it again, the year may have been a big pile of crud but the books have been outstanding, There have been some real beauties published this … Continue reading The damppebbles Top Ten (sort of!) of 2020 #amreading #amreviewing #amblogging #Bestof2020 #TopReadsof2020 #BookRecommendations #bookblogger #damppebbles

#BookReview: Bitter Sun by Beth Lewis @BoroughPress #BitterSun #damppebbles

"It all started when we found the body. Then nothing was ever the same. The Dry meets Stand by Me and True Detective in this stunningly written tale of the darkness at the heart of a small mid-Western town and the four kids who uncover it. In the heatwave summer of 1971, four kids find … Continue reading #BookReview: Bitter Sun by Beth Lewis @BoroughPress #BitterSun #damppebbles

Three Days and a Life by Pierre Lemaitre translated by Frank Wynne @maclehosepress #ThreeDaysandaLife #damppebbles

"Antoine is twelve years old. His parents are divorced and he lives with his mother in Beauval, a small, backwater town surrounded by forests, where everyone knows everyone's business, and nothing much ever happens. But in the last days of 1999, a series of events unfolds, culminating in the shocking vanishing without trace of a … Continue reading Three Days and a Life by Pierre Lemaitre translated by Frank Wynne @maclehosepress #ThreeDaysandaLife #damppebbles

#BookReview: Thirteen Storeys by Jonathan Sims @gollancz #ThirteenStoreys #damppebbles

"You're cordially invited to dinner. Penthouse access is available via the broken freight elevator. Black tie optional. A dinner party is held in the penthouse of a multimillion-pound development. All the guests are strangers - even to their host, the billionaire owner of the building. None of them know why they were selected to receive … Continue reading #BookReview: Thirteen Storeys by Jonathan Sims @gollancz #ThirteenStoreys #damppebbles

#BookReview: Cold Blood by Robert Bryndza @bookouture #ColdBlood #damppebbles

"The suitcase was badly rusted, and took Erika several attempts, but it yielded and sagged open as she unzipped it. Nothing could prepare her for what she would find inside… When a battered suitcase containing the dismembered body of a young man washes up on the shore of the river Thames, Detective Erika Foster is … Continue reading #BookReview: Cold Blood by Robert Bryndza @bookouture #ColdBlood #damppebbles

#BookReview: Casino Chiseler (Alex Cohen #4) by Leopold Borstinski (@borstinski) #CasinoChiseler #AlexCohenSeries #damppebbles

"Would you gamble everything you possess to win more than you can imagine? Jewish gangster, Alex Cohen leaves jail to find salvation from the 1940s mob in the hotels of Las Vegas. When Bugsy Siegel invites him to take over sports betting in Nevada, Alex must figure out how to get back to the top … Continue reading #BookReview: Casino Chiseler (Alex Cohen #4) by Leopold Borstinski (@borstinski) #CasinoChiseler #AlexCohenSeries #damppebbles

#BookReview: The Embalmer by Alison Belsham @TrapezeBooks #TheEmbalmer #damppebbles

"Has the ancient Egyptian cult of immortality resurfaced in Brighton? When a freshly-mummified body is discovered at the Brighton Museum of Natural History, Detective Francis Sullivan is at a loss to identify the desiccated woman. But as Egyptian burial jars of body parts with cryptic messages attached start appearing, he realises he has a serial … Continue reading #BookReview: The Embalmer by Alison Belsham @TrapezeBooks #TheEmbalmer #damppebbles