"'TIS THE SEASON TO BE WARY When Ashley Smith - a bright-eyed but lonely American studying in London - is invited to spend Christmas with her classmate's family at their Cotswolds manor house, it seems like a perfect country idyll. And for Ashley - who records it all in her diary - there's the added … Continue reading #BookReview: The Christmas Guest by Peter Swanson @FaberBooks #TheChristmasGuest #BookTwitter #booktwt #damppebbles
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#BookReview: The Last Goodbye by Tim Weaver @MichaelJBooks #TheLastGoodbye #BookTwitter #booktwt #damppebbles
"ONE DAY AGO. On the night Tom Brenner and his nine-year-old son Leo visit the Seven Peaks theme park, they head straight for the ghost house. They go in. But they don't come out. FORTY YEARS AGO. When Rebekah Murphy was three, her mother walked out and never returned. Nearly four decades on, Fiona Murphy … Continue reading #BookReview: The Last Goodbye by Tim Weaver @MichaelJBooks #TheLastGoodbye #BookTwitter #booktwt #damppebbles
#BookReview: The Contest by Karen Hamilton @Wildfirebks #TheContest #20booksofsummer23 #BookTwitter #booktwt #damppebbles
"We call it the Great Escape. The annual trip where my boss asks us expert travel guides to escort a group of privileged, uber-wealthy clientele on some far-flung expedition, a cut-throat contest for riches and glory. The stakes have never been higher, nor the challenge harder: I must summit Mount Kilimanjaro before my rival guide to … Continue reading #BookReview: The Contest by Karen Hamilton @Wildfirebks #TheContest #20booksofsummer23 #BookTwitter #booktwt #damppebbles
#BookReview: The Pit by Peter Papathanasiou @maclehosepress #ThePit #20booksofsummer23 #BookTwitter #booktwt #damppebbles
"With DS Manolis on leave in Greece, Senior Constable Sparrow receives a phone call from a man who wants to turn himself in. Bob is sixty-five years old, confined to a Perth nursing home. But thirty years ago, he killed a man in the remote northern Kimberley mining region. He offers to show Sparrow where … Continue reading #BookReview: The Pit by Peter Papathanasiou @maclehosepress #ThePit #20booksofsummer23 #BookTwitter #booktwt #damppebbles
#BookReview: The Seventh Victim by Michael Wood @0neMoreChapter_ #TheSeventhVictim #BookTwitter #damppebbles
"On a cold February afternoon in 1990, seven-year-old Danny Redpath disappeared from his home. Four months later, his body was found in the nearby forest, wrapped in a sheet and washed clean of all evidence. Apprehended while attempting to abduct another child, Jonathan Egan-Walsh was charged with the murders of more than a dozen boys. … Continue reading #BookReview: The Seventh Victim by Michael Wood @0neMoreChapter_ #TheSeventhVictim #BookTwitter #damppebbles
#BookReview: Eleven Liars by Robert Gold @BooksSphere #ElevenLiars #BookTwitter #damppebbles
"Journalist Ben Harper is on his way home when he sees the flames in the churchyard. The derelict community centre is on fire. And somebody is trapped inside. With Ben's help the person escapes, only to flee the scene before they can be identified. Now the small town of Haddley is abuzz with rumours. Was … Continue reading #BookReview: Eleven Liars by Robert Gold @BooksSphere #ElevenLiars #BookTwitter #damppebbles
#BookReview: Fyneshade by Kate Griffin @ViperBooks #Fyneshade #BookTwitter #damppebbles
"Many would find much to fear in Fyneshade's dark and crumbling corridors, its unseen master and silent servants. But not I. For they have far more to fear from me... On the day of her beloved grandmother's funeral, Marta discovers that she is to become governess to the young daughter of Sir William Pritchard. Separated … Continue reading #BookReview: Fyneshade by Kate Griffin @ViperBooks #Fyneshade #BookTwitter #damppebbles
#BookReview: Paradise by Patricia Wolf @emblabooks #Paradise #BookTwitter #damppebbles
"In a beach paradise, an unspeakable crime is committed. The only witness lies in a coma, fighting for her life... Australia's Gold Coast: On a stunningly beautiful stretch of coastline, a young mother is brutally murdered and her daughter, Gabby, is left in a coma, with her life hanging in the balance. DS Lucas Walker has just arrived … Continue reading #BookReview: Paradise by Patricia Wolf @emblabooks #Paradise #BookTwitter #damppebbles
#BlogTour | #BookReview: Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird by Agustina Bazterrica (translated by Sarah Moses) @PushkinPress #NineteenClawsandaBlackBird #19ClawsandaBlackBird #BookTwitter #damppebbles
"Fiercely powerful short fiction about the darkest aspects of human nature, from the acclaimed author of Tender is the Flesh In these tense, macabre stories, bodies fall from the sky, perfect nails conceal grisly secrets and violence pulses behind gleaming façades. From hellish visions to obsessive relationships, acclaimed author Agustina Bazterrica takes us to the dark … Continue reading #BlogTour | #BookReview: Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird by Agustina Bazterrica (translated by Sarah Moses) @PushkinPress #NineteenClawsandaBlackBird #19ClawsandaBlackBird #BookTwitter #damppebbles
#BookReview: Daphne by Josh Malerman @orionbooks #Daphne #BookTwitter #damppebbles
"Horror has a new name: Daphne. A brutal, enigmatic woman stalks a girls high school basketball team in a reimagining of the slasher genre by the New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box. It's the last summer for Kit Lamb: the last summer before college. The last summer with her high school basketball team, and with Dana, … Continue reading #BookReview: Daphne by Josh Malerman @orionbooks #Daphne #BookTwitter #damppebbles
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