#BookReview: Black Mouth by Ronald Malfi @TitanBooks #BlackMouth #damppebbles #20booksofsummer22

"A group of friends return to their hometown to confront a nightmare they first stumbled on as teenagers in this mesmerising odyssey of terror. An atmospheric, haunting page-turner from the bestselling author of Come with Me For nearly two decades, Jamie Warren has been running from darkness. He's haunted by a traumatic childhood and the … Continue reading #BookReview: Black Mouth by Ronald Malfi @TitanBooks #BlackMouth #damppebbles #20booksofsummer22

#BookReview: More Than You’ll Ever Know by Katie Gutierrez @MichaelJBooks #MoreThanYoullEverKnow #damppebbles

"Lore Rivera was married to two men at once, until on a baking hot day in 1986, one of them found out and shot the other. That's the story the world knows. It's not the story that fascinates Cassie Bowman. Determined to know more about the mysterious Lore, true-crime writer Cassie is surprised to find … Continue reading #BookReview: More Than You’ll Ever Know by Katie Gutierrez @MichaelJBooks #MoreThanYoullEverKnow #damppebbles

#BookReview: No Secrets by David Jackson @ViperBooks #NoSecrets #damppebbles

"THEY BELIEVE HIS LIES. SHE KNOWS THE TRUTH. You can't lie to Izzy Lambert. Her highly developed empathic abilities allow her to read people's emotions with terrifying accuracy - and consequences. As a child her insights sparked her parents' divorce. As an adult she avoids getting too close to people for fear of what she might … Continue reading #BookReview: No Secrets by David Jackson @ViperBooks #NoSecrets #damppebbles

#BookReview: Dirt Town by Hayley Scrivenor @panmacmillan #DirtTown #damppebbles

"Durton. Dirt town. Dirt and hurt – that’s what others would remember about our town . . . When twelve-year-old Esther Bianchi disappears on her way home from school in the small town of Durton in rural Australia, the local community is thrown into a state of grief and suspicion. THE DETECTIVE As Detective Sergeant … Continue reading #BookReview: Dirt Town by Hayley Scrivenor @panmacmillan #DirtTown #damppebbles

#BookReview: The Botanist by M.W. Craven @TheCrimeVault @LittleBrownUK #TheBotanist #TeamPoe #TeamTilly #damppebbles

"This is going to be the longest week of Washington Poe's life... Detective Sergeant Washington Poe can count on one hand the number of friends he has. And he'd still have his thumb left. There's the guilelessly innocent civilian analyst, Tilly Bradshaw of course. Insanely brilliant, she's a bit of a social hand grenade. He's … Continue reading #BookReview: The Botanist by M.W. Craven @TheCrimeVault @LittleBrownUK #TheBotanist #TeamPoe #TeamTilly #damppebbles

#BookReview: WAKE by Shelley Burr @HodderBooks #WAKEBook #damppebbles

"EVERYBODY THINKS THEY KNOW MINA McCREERY. EVERYONE HAS A THEORY ON WHAT HAPPENED TO HER SISTER. NOW IT'S TIME TO FIND OUT THE TRUTH... Mina McCreery's sister Evelyn disappeared nineteen years ago. Her life has been defined by the intense public interest in the case. Now an anxious and reclusive adult, she lives alone on … Continue reading #BookReview: WAKE by Shelley Burr @HodderBooks #WAKEBook #damppebbles

#BookReview: One of the Girls by Lucy Clarke @HarperCollinsUK #OneoftheGirls #damppebbles

"ONE IS A LIAR. ONE IS A STRANGER. ONE IS A CHEATER. WHO IS A KILLER? We were dying for a holiday . . . The six of us arrived on that beautiful Greek island dreaming of sun-drenched beaches and blood orange sunsets, ready to lose ourselves in the wild freedom of a weekend away … Continue reading #BookReview: One of the Girls by Lucy Clarke @HarperCollinsUK #OneoftheGirls #damppebbles

#BlogTour | #BookReview: The Homes by J.B. Mylet @ViperBooks #TheHomes #damppebbles

"There were good people in The Homes. But there were also some very, very bad ones... A thousand unwanted children live in The Homes, a village of orphans in the Scottish Lowlands on the outskirts of Glasgow. Lesley was six before she learned that most children live with their parents. Now Lesley is twelve, and … Continue reading #BlogTour | #BookReview: The Homes by J.B. Mylet @ViperBooks #TheHomes #damppebbles

#GuestReview: Don’t Play Dead with Vultures by Jack Leavers (@jackleavers) #TheBookGuild @cobaltdinosaur #DontPlayDeadWithVultures #damppebbles

"Summer 2008 sees former Royal Marine John Pierce lured from running convoys in Iraq to a lucrative contract in the steamy jungles of French West Africa. He soon discovers this new theatre is even more dangerous than the war zone he left behind. Corrupt officials, drug cartels, and competing military factions rub shoulder-to-shoulder in a … Continue reading #GuestReview: Don’t Play Dead with Vultures by Jack Leavers (@jackleavers) #TheBookGuild @cobaltdinosaur #DontPlayDeadWithVultures #damppebbles

#BookReview: When I Was Ten by Fiona Cummins @panmacmillan #WhenIWasTen #damppebbles

"Twenty-one years ago, Dr Richard Carter and his wife Pamela were killed in what has become the most infamous double murder of the modern age. Their ten year-old daughter – nicknamed the Angel of Death – spent eight years in a children’s secure unit and is living quietly under an assumed name with a family … Continue reading #BookReview: When I Was Ten by Fiona Cummins @panmacmillan #WhenIWasTen #damppebbles