The Vanished Bride – Bella Ellis #TheBronteMysteries

Taking as its premise the idea that the Brontë sisters embarked on brief careers as crime-fighting ‘detectors’ in 1845, the period between Charlotte and Emily returning home from Brussels and the three sisters becoming published authors a year later, this novel offers us a delicious new version of the famous siblings, superbly reimagined by Bella …

His Convenient Highland Wedding – Janice Preston #LochmoreLegacy

When I first heard about the new Mills and Boon continuity series, a set of four novels working their way back through time to tell the story of two warring Scottish clans, I was fascinated by the idea. Each written by a different author, the stories making up The Lochmore Legacy work back from the …

Jane Harper’s The Lost Man #BlogTour #Review

Dead men will give up their secrets eventually. A man has been found dead in the middle of the outback, miles from shade and water, at a point known locally as ‘the stockman’s grave’. What is unclear is why the man was out in the wild without provisions, particularly when his car is found miles …

Stuart Turton’s The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle #Review

Oh my goodness! This book! I genuinely feel as though my brain is about to explode with all the questions that reading Stuart Turton’s brilliant debut novel has produced. This book is unlike any other I’ve read. I know you've all read it - why did it take me so long to get to it?! …

The Way Past Winter by Kiran Millwood Hardgrave #review

‘It was a winter they would tell tales about. A winter that arrived so sudden and sharp it stuck birds to branches, and caught the rivers in such a frost their spray froze and scattered down like clouded crystals on the stilled water. A winter that came, and never left.’ When Mila’s snowy home is …

House of Glass by Susan Fletcher #BlogTour #Review

I loved this novel, from its opening lines detailing the impact our narrator’s fragile bones have on her early years, through to its moving conclusion. Even if it wasn’t set in the area near my home, I would have been able to visualise this pre-war world so clearly because of Fletcher’s beautiful prose, ‘A small …