"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
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#BookReview: The Last by Hanna Jameson #TheLast #damppebbles
"THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT HAS ENDED You and nineteen other survivors hole up in an isolated Swiss hotel. You wait, you survive. Then you find the body. One of your number has blood on their hands. The race is on to find the killer...BEFORE THE KILLER FINDS YOU." Hello and a very warm … Continue reading #BookReview: The Last by Hanna Jameson #TheLast #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
#BookReview: Clown in a Cornfield by Adam Cesare @harperteen #ClownInACornfield #damppebbles 🤡
"In Adam Cesare’s terrifying young adult debut, Quinn Maybrook finds herself caught in a battle between old and new, tradition and progress—that just may cost her life. Quinn Maybrook and her father have moved to tiny, boring Kettle Springs, to find a fresh start. But what they don’t know is that ever since the Baypen … Continue reading #BookReview: Clown in a Cornfield by Adam Cesare @harperteen #ClownInACornfield #damppebbles 🤡
#BookReview: Home Before Dark by Riley Sager @DuttonBooks #HomeBeforeDark #damppebbles
"Maggie Holt is used to such questions. Twenty-five years ago, she and her parents, Ewan and Jess, moved into Baneberry Hall, a rambling Victorian estate in the Vermont woods. They spent three weeks there before fleeing in the dead of night, an ordeal Ewan later recounted in a nonfiction book called House of Horrors. His … Continue reading #BookReview: Home Before Dark by Riley Sager @DuttonBooks #HomeBeforeDark #damppebbles
#BookReview: The Disciple by Stephen Lloyd Jones @headlinepg #TheDisciple #damppebbles
"They are coming... On a storm-battered road at the edge of the Devil's Kitchen, a woman survives a fatal accident and gives birth to a girl who should never have lived. The child's protection lies in the hands of Edward Schwinn - a loner who must draw himself out of darkness to keep her safe … Continue reading #BookReview: The Disciple by Stephen Lloyd Jones @headlinepg #TheDisciple #damppebbles
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