"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
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#BookReview: Don’t Make a Sound by David Jackson (@Author_Dave) @BonnierZaffre #DSNathanCody #20BooksofSummer #DontMakeaSound
"You can't choose your family. Or can you? Meet the Bensons. They're an ordinary couple. They wash their car, mow their lawn and pass the time of day with their neighbours. And they have a beautiful little girl called Daisy. There's just one problem. SHE'S NOT THEIRS. D. S. Nathan Cody is about to face … Continue reading #BookReview: Don’t Make a Sound by David Jackson (@Author_Dave) @BonnierZaffre #DSNathanCody #20BooksofSummer #DontMakeaSound
#BlogTour | #BookReview: Blood Tears by Michael J. Malone (@michaelJmalone1) @grabthisbook #BloodTears #DIRayMcBain
"The first in a series of books with D.I. Ray McBain - a Glasgow detective who turns to his best friend, Kenny O'Neill when he goes on the run after he becomes the prime suspect in a grisly murder. An old man is found murdered in his Glasgow flat. DI Ray McBain is called to … Continue reading #BlogTour | #BookReview: Blood Tears by Michael J. Malone (@michaelJmalone1) @grabthisbook #BloodTears #DIRayMcBain
#BlogTour: CWA Anthology of Short Stories edited by @medwardsbooks @the_cwa @OrendaBooks
"Crime spreads across the globe in this new collection of short stories from the Crime Writer’s Association, as a conspiracy of prominent crime authors take you on a world mystery tour. Highlights of the trip include a treacherous cruise to French Polynesia, a horrifying trek in South Africa, a murderous train-ride across Ukraine and a … Continue reading #BlogTour: CWA Anthology of Short Stories edited by @medwardsbooks @the_cwa @OrendaBooks
#BookReview: The Murder Farm by Andrea Maria Schenkel (@AndreaSchenkel) @riverrunbooks
"A whole family has been murdered with a pickaxe. They were old Danner the farmer, an overbearing patriarch, his put-upon devoutly religious wife, and their daughter Barbara Spangler, whose husband Vincenz left her after fathering her daughter, Marianne. Also murdered was the Danners' new maidservant, Marie, who was regarded as slightly simple. Despite the brutal … Continue reading #BookReview: The Murder Farm by Andrea Maria Schenkel (@AndreaSchenkel) @riverrunbooks
#BlogTour #BookReview: A Death in the Family by Michael Stanley (@detectivekubu) @OrendaBooks
'There's no easy way to say this, Kubu. Your father's dead. I'm afraid he's been murdered.' "Faced with the violent death of his own father, even Assistant Superintendent David ‘Kubu’ Bengu, Botswana CID's keenest mind, is baffled. Who would kill such a frail old man? The picture becomes even murkier with the apparent suicide of … Continue reading #BlogTour #BookReview: A Death in the Family by Michael Stanley (@detectivekubu) @OrendaBooks
#BlogTour | #GuestPost: The Devil’s Daughters by Diana Bretherick (@DianaBretherick)
"1888. When young Scottish scientist James Murray receives a letter from Sofia Esposito, a woman he once loved and lost, he cannot refuse her cry for help. Sofia's fifteen-year-old cousin has vanished but, because of her lower-class status, the police are unwilling to investigate. Accompanied by his younger sister Lucy, Murray returns to the city … Continue reading #BlogTour | #GuestPost: The Devil’s Daughters by Diana Bretherick (@DianaBretherick)
Guest Post: Alison Baillie (author of Sewing The Shadows Together) #damppebbesTakeOver
Today it is my great pleasure to welcome the very talented Alison Baillie, author of Sewing The Shadows Together, to damppebbles. Alison has written a wonderful post explaining the inspiration behind the people and places in her debut novel. If you haven't come across Sewing The Shadows Together before, here is the blurb: "Can you ever get … Continue reading Guest Post: Alison Baillie (author of Sewing The Shadows Together) #damppebbesTakeOver
*Blog Tour: Review* Outside Looking In by Michael Wood
"When elderly George Rainsford goes to investigate a suspicious noise one night, the last thing he expects to find is a bloodbath. A man has been killed and a woman brutally beaten, left for dead. The victims are Lois Craven and Kevin Hardaker – both married, but not to each other. Their spouses swear they … Continue reading *Blog Tour: Review* Outside Looking In by Michael Wood
#Blogival: Devil’s Demise by Lee Cockburn (Extract, Guest Post & Review)
"A cruel and sinister killer is targeting Edinburgh's most powerful women, his twisted sense of superiority driving him to satisfy his depraved sexual appetite. He revels in the pain and suffering he inflicts on his unsuspecting victims but a twist of fate and an overwhelming will to survive by one victim ruins his plans for … Continue reading #Blogival: Devil’s Demise by Lee Cockburn (Extract, Guest Post & Review)
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