"RUNNING FROM HER PAST Leaving behind Sheffield, her friends and her job, a grieving DCI Matilda Darke finds solace in the wild, untamed beauty of the Lake District. But she can’t outrun her reputation. A COLD CASE PC Alison Pemberton is living in the shadow of her twin sisters, who were abducted thirty years ago. … Continue reading #BookReview: Worse Than Murder by Michael Wood @0neMoreChapter_ #WorseThanMurder #BookTwitter #booktwt #BookSky #damppebbles
"FIVE PERFECT MURDERS DCI Matilda Darke receives an anonymous email from someone claiming to have committed the perfect murder. Experience tells her this isn’t possible, but as she investigates, she discovers a killer questioning everything she’s ever known. HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT Now, Matilda is on the trail of a murderer who targets the most … Continue reading #BookReview: Last One Left Alive by Michael Wood @0neMoreChapter_ #LastOneLeftAlive #BookTwitter #booktwt #BookSky #damppebbles
"HE’LL BREAK YOUR HEART. LITERALLY. Franklin B Goodman wants to spread love wherever he goes. But love is an emotion he doesn’t understand. In Franklin’s dangerously warped mind, a damaged relationship is like a sick animal. He is willing to take extreme measures to nurse it back to health. And if that doesn’t work… …the … Continue reading #BookReview: Love Kills by David Jackson #LoveKills #20BooksofSummer2025 #BookTwitter #booktwt #BookSky #damppebbles
"The woman is dark-haired and young, judging by the short red dress. Any other signs of her identity have been erased during her long wait to be found, but it’s clear she was strangled: this was a passionate and personal murder. D.I. Bernadette Noel knows that every second counts if she is to catch this killer, … Continue reading #BookReview: Broken Girls by Joy Kluver @bookouture.bsky.social #BrokenGirls #20BooksofSummer2025 #BookTwitter #booktwt #BookSky #damppebbles
"You can't hide from the past… Fifteen years ago, five vulnerable teenagers took part in a life-changing study of OCD. Now, their psychologist has been brutally stabbed and left for dead. DCI Liz Field and her team have barely started their investigation when there is another frenzied attack. This time, the victim is one of … Continue reading #BookReview: No Safe Place by Hannah Brennan @AvonBooksUK #NoSafePlace #BookTwitter #booktwt #BookSky #damppebbles
"An invisible killer with a 100% success rate. No one is safe. Not even those closest to Washington Poe . . . A shooting at Gretna Green. A bride is murdered on her wedding day, seconds after she slips on her new ring. It's brutal and bloody but she isn't the first victim and she … Continue reading #BookReview: The Final Vow by M.W. Craven @TheCrimeVault @LittleBrownUK #TheFinalVow #20BooksofSummer2025 #BookTwitter #booktwt #BookX #BookSky #damppebbles
"ONCE UPON A TIME LIKE YOU'VE NEVER READ IT BEFORE . . . DI Lyla Rondell is on the case of a lifetime. Tasked with investigating a series of perplexing deaths, the only lead she has is that each appears to be based on a different classic fairy tale. Far from the stuff of bedtime … Continue reading #BlogTour | #BookReview: Little Red Death by A.K. Benedict @simonschusterUK @RandomTTours #LittleRedDeath #BookTwitter #booktwt #BookX #BookSky #damppebbles
"He watches your every move We’ve all experienced it. That creeping sensation of eyes on your back, the faint echo of footsteps following yours. He controls you Across the country, a madman is carefully choosing his victims. Once he has you in his sights, he won’t let go. He will make you pay You think … Continue reading #BookReview: The Puppet Master by Sam Holland @Hemlock_Press @HarperFiction #ThePuppetMaster #BookTwitter #booktwt #BookX #damppebbles
"BURIED GOLD, OLD BONES. WHAT SECRETS LURK IN THE DEPTHS? A body has been discovered on the riverbanks of The Valley, a remote community in the hills of New South Wales. The gold mine at the heart of The Valley was once the lifeblood of this region, but it has been flooded for decades. Over … Continue reading #BookReview: The Broken River by Chris Hammer @Wildfirebks @headlinepg #TheBrokenRiver #BookTwitter #booktwt #BookX #BookSky #damppebbles
"A skull looks up at Jennie from the trench, but it's not the chalk-white bone and grimacing teeth that send her reeling. It's the heart-shaped gold pendant, its delicate chain snapped in two. The necklace Hannah never took off. It can't be Hannah. But it is. When Jennie Whitmore arrives at her school reunion, she immediately regrets … Continue reading #BlogTour | #BookReview: The Reunion by M.J. Arlidge & Steph Broadribb @orionbooks @Tr4cyF3nt0n #TheReunion #20booksofsummer24 #BookTwitter #booktwt #BookX #damppebbles
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