Happy publication day to ‘The Christmas Appeal’ – 26th October, 2023.
I absolutely loved Janice Hallett’s ‘The Appeal’ so it was a joy to be given access to ‘The Christmas Appeal’ – a chance to rejoin the Fairway Players as they grapple with a pantomime, plus an unexpected dead body!
Continue reading Book Review: ‘The Christmas Appeal’ by Janice HallettThis was my first introduction to DI Monica Kennedy – but I hope I’ll meet her again! Thanks to NetGalley for my copy in exchange for an honest review. This book is due to be published in July 2022.
The story opens with a notorious female serial killer asking to see DI Kennedy from her jail cell. The killer – Pauline Tosh – reveals the whereabouts of a body buried deep in the tidal marshes. Assuming this locates one of Tosh’s own victims, the police team rush to uncover the grave…and discover that things are far from as simple as they expect.
Continue reading Book Review: ‘Under the Marsh’ by G R HallidayI love historical fiction, am utterly intrigued by the Arctic as a setting for a novel and am totally sold on duel timeline stories. It was clear before I even opened this book that it would tick a lot of boxes for me.
I just didn’t appreciate quite how many.
I loved everything about this book – the setting, the time periods, the gorgeous descriptive language, the characters, the mystery. Everything!
Continue reading Book Review: ‘A Woman Made of Snow’ by Elisabeth Gifford
