When nine-year-old Charlotte Standish goes missing from her street, it sparks a media frenzy in her small Lake District town. Her distraught parents are desperate to have their little blonde darling back, and Detective Morgan Brookes leads a frantic hunt for the girl. But Charlotte seems to have vanished into thin air. Chasing up a lead at…
📚19📚 The Killer’s Girl by Helen Phifer
When the body of a young woman is found, tied to her bed and the victim of a brutal attack in her own home, Detective Morgan Brookes is sickened by what she finds as she searches the house. And unprepared for the nightmares it inspires about her childhood. When the DNA collected gives a positive ID, Morgan…
📚18📚 A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
But having grown up in the same small town that was consumed by the crime, Pippa Fitz-Amobi isn’t so sure. When she chooses the case as the topic for her final project, she starts to uncover secrets that someone in town desperately wants to stay hidden. And if the real killer is still out there,…
Audible Plus Library & The Other Titles in my Library
For those of you that don’t know, Audible has recently added the ‘plus library’ which is available to all members. It holds a great deal of podcasts, audible originals and books both fiction and non-fiction. It is included in Audibles monthly payment. It’s pretty amazing to be honest. As someone who is dyslexic and who…
The 1970s – A Decade of Crime
I originally imagined this article to be quite short. I got the idea after a run of watching and listening to true crime documentaries. However, the more I dug into things, the more I realised that the decade of the 70s crime list was much bigger than I anticipated. Originally, I was just going to…
📚17📚 The House at the End of Magic by Amy Sparks
Sometimes you are a whisper away from magic without even realising it. Nine is an orphan pickpocket determined to escape her life in the Nest of a Thousand Treasures. When she steals a house-shaped ornament from a mysterious woman’s purse, she knocks on its tiny door and watches it grow into a huge higgledy-piggeldy house….
📚16📚 Hush Little Girl by Lisa Regan
Dressed in pyjamas covered with stars, the little girl’s body is perfectly still, her arms folded neatly over her chest. The wildflowers decorating her hair scatter across the grass in the sharp breeze. Her lips are parted slightly, as if to whisper goodnight for the very last time… When twelve-year-old Holly Mitchell’s fragile little body…
📚15📚One Left Alive by Helen Phifer (Kindle)
A gentle breeze blew her blonde hair across her face, her glazed eyes staring blankly into the sunset. Her small frame looked lost hanging from the large oak tree. On the branch next to her was a worn child’s rope swing. She looked too young and beautiful to be dead. When the body of a…
📚14📚 A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
Feyre is a huntress. And when she sees a deer in the forest being pursued by a wolf, she kills the predator and takes its prey to feed herself and her family. But the wolf was not what it seemed, and Feyre cannot predict the high price she will have to pay for its death…
📚13📚 The Wizards of Once: Never and Forever by Cressida Cowell
Xar and Wish have found the ingredients for the Spell-to-get-rid-of-Witches. Now the Kingwitch is calling them to the lake of the lost. But first they must mix the potion in the Cup of Second Chances … Can they defeat the hungry Tatzelwerm monster and escape with the cup? And will the spell be strong enough…
