Catch-Up Quickies 11

First a quick explanation! Due to some severe health issues over the last few years, and a lingering chronic condition, my planned review schedule went right out of the window and I have been scrabbling ever since to get it back on track. In my latest attempt to try to regain some lost ground, I …

Blog Tour: Murder in an Irish Bookshop – Carlene O’Connor

*I received a free copy of this book with thanks to the author, Canelo Crime and Kelly Lacey of Love Books Tours.  The decision to review and my opinions are my own.* Blurb: The opening of a new bookstore becomes the closing chapter in an author’s life... Kilbane’s new bookshop is hosting an event featuring up-and-coming Irish writers …

Blog Tour: Let Sleeping Murder Lie – Carmen Radtke

*I received a free copy of this book with thanks to the author and to Zoé of Zooloo’s Book Tours.  The decision to review and my opinions are my own.* Blurb: American Eve Holdsworth is living her quintessential English dream in a picturesque village in the countryside. Meeting an attractive stranger adds to the appeal. But …

Blind Secrets (Whispering Pines #12) – Shawn McGuire

*I received a free ARC of this book with thanks to the author.  The decision to review and my opinions are my own.* Blurb: Sometimes what’s need most is hiding in plain sight. It’s been almost a year since Sheriff Jayne O’Shea arrived in Whispering Pines. Deciding to stay was the best decision she ever …

Burning Secrets (Whispering Pines #11) – Shawn McGuire

*I received a free ARC of this book with thanks to the author.  The decision to review and my opinions are my own.* Blurb: Things are heating up in Whispering Pines, and it’s not just the weather. Sheriff Jayne O’Shea is on edge. Hopeful applicants have taken over the commons area, all of them begging to …

The Myrtle Hardcastle Mystery Series – Elizabeth C. Bunce

I am lucky enough to be on the Algonquin Young Readers blog tour for this series, starting on 4th October, but thought you might like a little sneak peak at the books prior to my review on 10th October! Twelve-year-old Myrtle Hardcastle has a passion for justice and a Highly Unconventional obsession with criminal science. …

Publication Day Push: The Merry Month of Murder – Nicola Slade

*I received a free copy of this book with thanks to the author and Rachel Gilbey at Rachel’s Random Resources blog tours. The decision to review and my opinions are my own.* Blurb: It was teatime on Tuesday, and nobody had died yet…May 1918In a world where the men are at war and the women keep the home fires burning, …

Blog Tour: The Quality of Mercy – Malia Zaidi

  *I received a free copy of this book with thanks to the author and to Emma Welton of damppebbles blog tours.  The decision to review and my opinions are my own.*   Blurb:  After years spent away, Lady Evelyn is at long last back in her home city of London and she has returned with …

The Smart Woman’s Guide to Murder – Victoria Dowd

  *I received a free ARC of this novel, with thanks to the author, Joffe Books and NetGalley.  The decision to review and my opinions are my own.*   Blurb:  A faded country house in the middle of nowhere. The guests are snowed in. The murders begin. Withering and waspish, Ursula Smart (not her real name) gate-crashes her mother’s …

Protected Secrets (Whispering Pines #10) – Shawn McGuire

  *I received a free ARC of this book with thanks to the author.  The decision to review and my opinions are my own.* Blurb:  Springtime in the village means colored eggs, hot crossed buns, and a corpse. As the vernal equinox brings welcome warmth and the promise of the coming tourist season to Wisconsin's …