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Day: April 16, 2018

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Rewind, recap: Weekly update w/e 15/04/18

April 16, 2018April 17, 2018by Jen Lucas5 Comments on Rewind, recap: Weekly update w/e 15/04/18
Rewind, recap: Weekly update w/e 15/04/18

You have to admit - this is not a bad way to start a week huh? It was lush if somewhat sickly but highly recommended. I love Ole & Steen on Haymarket. Best Danish pastry I have tasted. If you are in London then you simply must go. Their sandwiches and coffees aren't bad either. [...]

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Today’s #Bookvent selection ups the ante on the high action thrills. Book thirteen in the #CharlieFox series, @authorzoesharp’s #BadTurn sees Charlie striking out in her own a personal protection gig for one of the countries top arms dealers. Featuring action, fast paced drama, thrills and some cracking characters (love Schade) this series is fabulous. . One bad turn…deserves another. Charlie Fox has quit her job in close protection, been turned out of her apartment, and is apparently out of options. House-sitting in rural New Jersey has to be the pits—TV and TV dinners. A far cry from Iraq... Bulgaria... Afghanistan. Unlucky or not, she happens to be around at the right time to foil a violent kidnap attempt on Helena, wife of billionaire arms dealer, Eric Kincaid. Kincaid offers her a job looking after Helena. The rumours about Kincaid’s business empire say he’s gone over to the dark side, but Charlie is in no position to be fussy. And protecting people against those who want to do them harm is what she’s good at. But when the threats against the Kincaids escalate, and then follow the couple over to Europe, Charlie’s really going to have to up her game. It’s time to take the fight to the enemy. Charlie’s at her best putting an end to trouble. Now she must learn to strike first. And hope that the Kincaids don’t discover the secret she’s been keeping from them, right from the start. . #bookvent2019 #booklove #lovebooks #books #bookworm #thriller #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #bookblogger #bookblog #bookblogging
Over on jenmedsbookreviews.com today I have a #publicationday review of @samcarringtonauthor’s #IDareYou. Happy publication day Sam. . Mapledon, 1989 Two little girls were out playing a game of dares. Only one returned home. The ten-year-old told police what she saw: village loner Bill ‘Creepy’ Cawley dragged her friend into his truck and disappeared. No body was found, but her testimony sent Cawley to prison for murder. An open and shut case, the right man behind bars. The village could sleep safe once again. Now… Anna thought she had left Mapledon and her nightmares behind but a distraught phone call brings her back to face her past. 30 years ago, someone lied. 30 years ago, the man convicted wasn’t the only guilty party. Now he’s out of prison and looking for revenge. The question is, who will he start with? . #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #bookblogger #bookblog #bookblogging #books #lovebooks #booklove #amreading #bookshelf #bookworm
Head to jenmedsbookreviews.com to see my #blogtour review of #DeathlyAffair by #LeighRussell, the latest Geraldine Steel thriller. . The new novel in the million-copy selling Detective Geraldine Steel series When a homeless man is found strangled to death, Detective Sergeant Geraldine Steel is caught off guard by the cold-blooded nature of the crime. A second murder suggests the existence of a killer whose motive is as elusive as he is dangerous. In an investigation plagued by police scepticism, only Geraldine is relentless in her pursuit of the truth. As she is forced down unexpected avenues into the lives of three people caught in a toxic triangle of love and deceit, she discovers there is more to this case than any of them could have imagined. . #booklove #books #lovebooks #amrrading #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #bookblogger #bookblog #bookblogging #bookshelf #bookworm
My second #Bookvent selection of the day is the authors first foray into the world of the psychological thriller. Full of family secrets, dark confessions and tense atmosphere, it is an award winning novel for@ a highly talented writer. @louisebeech13 is a beautiful writer but #CallMeStarGirl is the another step above. . Stirring up secrets can be deadly … especially if they’re yours… Pregnant Victoria Valbon was brutally murdered in an alley three weeks ago – and her killer hasn’t been caught. Tonight is Stella McKeever’s final radio show. The theme is secrets. You tell her yours, and she’ll share some of hers. Stella might tell you about Tom, a boyfriend who likes to play games, about the mother who abandoned her, now back after fourteen years. She might tell you about the perfume bottle with the star-shaped stopper, or about her father … What Stella really wants to know is more about the mysterious man calling the station … who says he knows who killed Victoria, and has proof. Tonight is the night for secrets, and Stella wants to know everything… With echoes of the Play Misty for Me, Call Me Star Girl is a taut, emotive and all-consuming psychological thriller that plays on our deepest fears, providing a stark reminder that stirring up dark secrets from the past can be deadly… . #bookvent2019 #booklove #lovebooks #books #bookblogger #bookblog #bookblogging #bookstagram #bookstagrammer @orendabooks
You have another #Bookvent double header today as I just couldn’t choose between themes first up is the third book in a series with seamlessly blends past and present, bringing to the fore a part of history that many readers will not be aware of. Dark, emotional and extraordinarily beautiful to read, @johanagustawsson’s #BloodSong is a must read for anyone who loves Roy and Castells. . Spain, 1938: The country is wracked by civil war, and as Valencia falls to Franco’s brutal dictatorship, Republican Therese witnesses the murders of her family. Captured and sent to the notorious Las Ventas women’s prison, Therese gives birth to a daughter who is forcibly taken from her. Falkenberg, Sweden, 2016: A wealthy family is found savagely murdered in their luxurious home. Discovering that her parents have been slaughtered, Aliénor Lindbergh, a new recruit to the UK’s Scotland Yard, rushes back to Sweden and finds her hometown rocked by the massacre. Profiler Emily Roy joins forces with Aliénor and soon finds herself on the trail of a monstrous and prolific killer. Little does she realise that this killer is about to change the life of her colleague, true-crime writer Alexis Castells. Joining forces once again, Roy and Castells’ investigation takes them from the Swedish fertility clinics of the present day back to the terror of Franco’s rule, and the horrifying events that took place in Spanish orphanages under its rule. Terrifying, vivid and recounted at breakneck speed, Blood Song is not only a riveting thriller and an examination of corruption in the fertility industry, but a shocking reminder of the atrocities of Spain’s dictatorship, in the latest, stunning instalment in the award-winning Roy & Castells series. . #bookvent2019 #booklove #lovebooks #books #bookblogging #bookblog #bookblogger #bookstagram #bookstagrammer @orendabooks
My day ten #Bookvent choice is the second in the Will Raven and Sarah Fisher series from #AmbroseParry, #TheArtOfDying. I live the blend of medical fact and medical fiction in this series, and with a gripping and tense plot, brilliant characters I love and a setting which is perfectly described, I cannot wait for the next in the series. . There's a fine line between kill and cure. Edinburgh, 1849. Despite Edinburgh being at the forefront of modern medicine, hordes of patients are dying all across the city, with doctors finding their remedies powerless. But it is not just the deaths that dismay the esteemed Dr James Simpson. A whispering campaign seeks to blame him for the death of a patient in suspicious circumstances. Simpson's protégé Will Raven and former housemaid Sarah Fisher are determined to clear their patron's name. But with Raven battling against the dark side of his own nature, and Sarah endeavouring to expand her own medical knowledge beyond what society deems acceptable for a woman, the pair struggle to understand the cause of the deaths. Will and Sarah must unite and plunge into Edinburgh's deadliest streets to clear Simpson's name. But soon they discover that the true cause of these deaths has evaded suspicion purely because it is so unthinkable. . #booklove #lovebooks #books #bookvent2019 #bookblog #bookblogger #bookblogging #bookstagram #bookstagrammer

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