REVIEW: Nightwatching by Tracy Sierra

Title: Nightwatching by Tracy Sierra
Published by: Viking
Publication date: 8th February 2024
Genre: Thriller
Format: Paperback
Amazon UK

Synopsis

There was someone in the house.

Home alone with her young children during a blizzard, a mother tucks her son back into bed in the middle of the night. Then she hears a noise – old houses are always making some kind of noise. But this sound is disturbingly familiar: it’s the tread of footsteps, unusually heavy and slow, coming up the stairs…

In that split second, she has three choices.

Should she hide? Should she run? Or should she fight?

REVIEW: Broken Shadows by Sorrel Pitts

Title: Broken Shadows by Sorrel Pitts
Published by: Bloodhound Books
Publication date: 6th February 2024
Genre: Thriller
Format: eBook
Amazon UK

Synopsis

Twenty-seven ago, eleven-year-old Callum was abducted. His body was found six months later by his older brother, Tom, near a Neolithic henge called the Shadowing Stones. It was the first in a series of events that would tear Tom’s family apart. Convinced his father was responsible for his brother’s death, Tom fled to Australia to start a new life.

Now, decades later, Tom learns that his father is dying of cancer. Knowing this may be his last chance to learn the truth, Tom returns to England. But when he crosses paths with childhood acquaintance Anna, the pair are drawn together. As Tom grows closer to both Anna and his father, he is confronted with a series of shocking twists and revelations that will change his life forever…

REVIEW: The Fury by Alex Michaelides

Title: The Fury by Alex Michaelides
Published by: Michael Joseph
Publication date: 2nd February 2024
Genre: Thriller
Format: Paperback
Amazon UK

Synopsis:

‘There were seven of us in all, trapped on the island. One of us was a murderer . . .’

On a small private Greek island, former movie star Lana Farrar – an old friend – invites a select group of us to stay.

It’ll be hot, sunny, perfect. A chance to relax and reconnect – and maybe for a few hidden truths to come out.

Because nothing on this island is quite what it seems.

Not Lana. Not her guests.

Certainly not the murderer – furiously plotting their crime . . .

But who am I?

My name is Elliot Chase, and I’m going to tell you a story unlike any you’ve ever heard.

REVIEW: Loot by Tania James

Title: Loot by Tania James
Published by: Harvill Secker
Publication date: 25th January 2024
Genre: Historical Fiction
Format: Paperback
Amazon UK

Synopsis:

An epic tale of plundered treasure, savage empire, lasting love and a young man’s dream to make his mark on the world.

Meet Abbas. Woodcarver, toy maker, dreamer. Abbas is seventeen when he is whisked away to Tipu Sultan’s glorious palace in Mysore. Apprenticed to the clockmaker Monsieur Du Leze, he is ordered to create an ingenious musical tiger to delight Tipu’s sons.

In the eccentric Du Leze, Abbas finds an unexpected friend who encourages his skill and hunger for learning, and through whom he also meets the unforgettable Jehanne, who has questions and ambitions of her own.

But when British soldiers attack and loot Mysore, Abbas’s world is turned upside down and his prized tiger is shipped off to a country estate in England. In order to carve out his place in the world, he must follow.

REVIEW: I’m Not Done With You Yet by Jesse Sutanto

Title: I’m Not Done With You Yet by Jesse Sutanto
Published by: HQ
Publication date: 17th August 2023
Genre: Thriller
Format: Paperback
Amazon UK

Synopsis:

Jane is unhappy. She’s a struggling writer trapped in an underwhelming marriage with husband Ted, scraping by to pay for a mortgage for a house and a life that she’s never really wanted.

There’s only ever been one person she cared about, one person who truly understood her: Thalia. Jane’s best and only friend nearly a decade ago during their time together at Oxford. But then the night of the formal which should have bound them together for good, drove them apart. Until now.

Because after years of searching, Thalia is everywhere as she tops the New York Times bestseller list. And now Jane has found Thalia after all these years, she won’t let her go…

REVIEW: 12 Months to Live by James Patterson & Mike Lupica

Title: 12 Months to Live by James Patterson & Mike Lupica
Published by: Century
Publication date: 28th September 2023
Genre: Thriller
Format: Paperback
Amazon UK

Synopsis:

Her name is Jane Smith. But to friends and foes, she’s Jane Effing Smith.

Why? Because she’s the best criminal defence attorney in the Hamptons – the elite world of New York’s rich and infamous. Because she’s as good an investigator as she is a lawyer. Because she’s tough. She’s strong.

As Jane is preparing to defend a high-profile client accused of a triple homicide, she’s also hired to revive a cold case – a cluster of unsolved murders.

Then another bombshell lands. A devastating medical diagnosis. Terminal. She’s got a year to live.

But for now, she has a trial to win. Unless one of her many enemies kills her first.

BLOG TOUR: Artificial Wisdom by Thomas R. Weaver

Title: Artificial Wisdom by Thomas R. Weaver
Published by: Chainmaker Press
Publication date: 5th October 2023
Genre: Techno-thriller
Format: Hardback
Amazon UK

Synopsis:

It’s 2050, a decade after a heatwave that killed four hundred million across the Persian Gulf, including journalist Marcus Tully’s wife. Now he must uncover the truth: was the disaster natural? Or is the weather now a weapon of genocide?

A whistleblower pulls Tully into a murder investigation at the centre of an election battle for a global dictator, with a mandate to prevent a climate apocalypse. A former US President campaigns against the first AI politician of the position, but someone is trying to sway the outcome.

Tully must convince the world to face the truth and make hard choices about the future of the species. But will humanity ultimately choose salvation over freedom, whatever the cost?

BLOG TOUR: The Push Over by Daney Parker

Title: The Push Over by Daney Parker
Published by: Independently published
Publication date: 19th April 2023
Genre: Thriller
Format: Paperback
Amazon UK

Synopsis:

As reporter Grace investigates the killing of a cyclist, memories of another murder begin to possess her – the murder she committed…

Trying to comes to terms with the crime she believes she has got away with, Grace starts writing her confession. In this twisty-turny domestic thriller, we find out the reasons for the crime of passion that took place on Grace’s wedding day. How each one of four possible victims pushed Grace to her limits, before she pushes one of them to his (or is it “her”?) death from the luxury cruiser where the wedding reception is being held.

Meanwhile, in the peaceful Surrey town where Grace works as a newspaper reporter, there are some strange goings on. Cats go missing, a cyclist dies, and it looks like these events could be connected to an old lady who befriends Grace, called Iris. Could there be two murderesses living within a few streets of each other?

REVIEW: Dead Man Telling Tales by David Brierley

Title: Dead Man Telling Tales by David Brierley
Published by: Safe House Books
Publication date: 12th December 2022
Genre: Spy/Thriller
Format: Paperback
Amazon UK

Synopsis:

England, 2001. Matt Clough is an ordinary English wine-merchant, approaching middle age with no family and no great ambition. An orphan. An ex-spy.

Latvia, 2001. Krisjanis Kulbergs is far from ordinary. Ex-spy. Double agent. Master of the triple-cross. Guilty of just about every crime or sin the twentieth century had to offer. He is the unknown father of English wine-merchant Matt Clough. He is also dead.

When Clough learns of the death of a father he never knew, he travels to Latvia to uncover the secrets of his father’s life and his own inheritance. The Cold War has been over for a decade, but some men still keep secrets so great that old spies from both sides of the divide will go to any lengths to get hold of them.

Including murder.