"A detective story with no detective" says the tagline on this book, and it's a pretty good description. Set in Edinburgh in 2011, Margaret is a middle aged woman whose life has imploded in London, so she flees to her mothers in Scotland. It's one of the coldest Winters on record, and there are a …
Emily, a pretty and young film assistant, is missing. The police have turned up Mia's house to ask her husband Roy what he knows about this girl, since he was the last one to see her alive. The story that follows is Roy's recollection of events against Mia's, bit both of them might not be …
As someone who loves to read the odd True Crime book and listens to My Favorite Murder, I have of course read Truman Capote's In Cold Blood. Aware that he stated that his book was all true, and was explosive in it's time leading to a film adaptation as well, I was aware that Capote …
Whose Body? is the story of an unknown murdered man found naked in the bathtub of an architects home. None of the members of the household know him and are shocked and scandalised by the body found in their home. Who is the man? And is he connected in some way to a missing financier? Lord …
Sharp Objects is Gillian Flynn's first book, and has just been made into a TV series. It's the story of Camille, a journalist, who has made an uneasy peace for herself in her new life in the city. But her past in a small town comes back to haunt her when she's assigned to cover …
The Blackwell family have always lived in their beautiful home, a little apart and a little better than those around them. But since a family tragedy 6 years earlier, Merricat, her sister Constance and their aged and fragile Uncle Julian live there alone, avoiding contact with the hostile village around them. They live by a …
Continue reading We Have Always Lived In The Castle by Shirley Jackson
Lis London is starting a new life. Leaving behind a school where she's been bullied and unhappy, she's moving from Wales to Yorkshire to live with her sister. She's bought all new clothes, her sisters home is beautiful, and she soon finds herself taken under the wing of the most popular girl at school, Laura. …
Subtitled, "A tale of mystery, suspense and romance in the 16th century court of Suleyman the Magnificent", this book is the self-published work and long time dream of a brother and sister writing team. The story was an idea that the siblings thought of during their younger years, 40 years ago, and have nurtured til …
Continue reading The Jinn and The Sword by Robert Truss Peacock and Sara Lawrence Cook
Kate Youngblood outwardly has it all. She's a well respected professor, wrote a critically acclaimed first novel, and has a good home and friends. But underneath, she's reaching her late thirties and feels lost. Her husband has left her for a younger woman, she fears her first book might be the best writing she'll ever …
Penned by the author of the bestselling The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, this book is the story of another Victorian crime which was notorious in it's time, The Plaistow Tragedy of 1895. Two boys, 12 and 13 years old, told neighbors and friends that their mother had gone to Liverpool and proceeded to attend cricket …
Continue reading The Wicked Boy: An Infamous Murder in Victorian London by Kate Summerscale
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