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Review Archive
Here you can find all of our past book reviews.


Review of Fair Play by Louise Hegarty
With a cast of characters including a butler, gardener and a housekeeper, suspicion begins to glow and the claustrophobic atmosphere begins to take it’s toll in this taut locked-room mystery...
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Review of The Gatsby Gambit by Claire Anderson-Wheeler
Agatha Christie meets F. Scott Fitzgerald in this utterly captivating tale, where not everything that sparkles is gold.
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Review of This Immaculate Body by Emma van Straaten
If you were obsessed with Baby Reindeer, then you’ll be obsessed with This Immaculate Body!
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Review of Murder for Two by Niyla Farook
Can the summer of amateur sleuthing bring two sisters closer together?
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Review of The Many Ghosts of Donahue Byrnes by Laura McLoughlin
If you’re looking for a brilliantly written and utterly captivating read for the Halloween season, you will not go wrong with picking up a c
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Review of Guilty By Definition by Susie Dent
a clever mystery novel which takes place within a dictionary publishing house with the majority of the cast being lexicographers
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Review of The Deadly Spark by Roxie Key
Roxie Key takes us to Brighton, where multiple cases of deadly fires are starting to occur and our protagonist DC Eve Starling is on high...
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Review of The Four by Ellie Keel
We were always The Four. From our very first day at High Realms.’ If you’re looking for a contemporary twist on a classical dark academia...
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Review of How to Solve Your Own Murder by Kristen Perrin
Frances always said that she’d be murdered. She was right! When a fortune teller warns seventeen-year-old Frances Adams that she will one...
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Review of The List of Suspicious Things by Jennie Godfrey
If you loved The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry then do we have the book for you! Jennie Godfrey’s heartwarming debut, The List of...
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Review of Bear Season by Gemma Fairclough
Well, this 176 page novella packed one hell of a literary punch and I adored every single page of it! PhD student Jade Hunter has gone...
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Review of Anna O by Matthew Blake
Resignation syndrome is a hypothesized condition that induces a state of reduced consciousness and may occur during and/or after a...
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Review of Voyage of the Damned by Frances White
Who doesn’t love a fantasy debut, entwined around a murder mystery on a cruise with wonderful characters? Voyage of the Damned is my...
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Review of Hard By a Great Forest by Leo Vardiashvili
This debut is set in Eastern Europe, crossing the diverse landscape of the country of Georgia from the bustling city of Tbilisi to the...
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Review of Before We Were Innocent by Ella Berman
Fans of We Were Liars will absolutely love Ella Berman's debut novel, Before We Were Innocent. It's a perfect-for-summer unputdownable...
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Review of Kala by Colin Walsh
The hottest mystery of the summer: who killed Kala? In the small Irish town of Kinlough, three friends Helen, Mush and Joe reunite after...
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Review of Speak of the Devil by Rose Wilding
We begin this story with seven women transfixed by a man's severed head. Each woman has a distinct link to this man, but the real...
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Review of No Life for a Lady by Hannah Dolby
28 and unmarried, Violet Hamilton is worrying her father. It is 1896 after all, and an independent woman is a dangerous thing to be. But...
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