Synopsis (as taken from Amazon) is as follows: Here’s something you won’t believe: someone is doing TERRIBLE things to Mrs Martin, Cymbeline Igloo’s favourite teacher of all time. Cymbeline has to find the culprit (after he’s learned what ‘culprit’ means). He’s also got to help his friend Veronique, whose grandma is dangerously ill. It seems…
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What Books Have Made it Into My Suitcase?
So, by the time this is posted, I will have just boarded my flight from Gatwick to New York. My oldest and dearest friend is getting married in New York and I am excited to be a part of her wedding and to get to go back to New York again. I’ll be there for…
105. Hush Hush by Mel Sherratt
Synopsis (as taken from Amazon) is as follows: A killer is on the loose, attacking people in places they feel most safe: their workplaces, their homes. It’s up to DS Grace Allendale to stop the murders, and prove herself to her new team. All clues lead to local crime family the Steeles, but that’s where…
Wishlist – Waterstones
This list has been posted mostly because I’m currently having a bad day where my anxiety is high, I’m angry, I have an intense migraine and I’m running off fumes having had under five hours sleep. But, I soldier on. I love making lists. It is one of the things in life that calms me…
104. The Night Stalker by Robert Bryndza
Synopsis (as taken from the Amazon Kindle Store) is as follows: If the Night Stalker is watching, you’re already dead… In the dead of a swelteringly hot summer’s night, Detective Erika Foster is called to a murder scene. The victim, a doctor, is found suffocated in bed. His wrists are bound and his eyes bulging through a…
Goodreads – Agatha Christie Part 1
I have always loved watching Poirot and Miss Marple on the television. I knew of Agatha Christie and the books she wrote but I never entertained reading them when I was younger. The BBC’s production of the ‘ABC Murder’s’, offered me such a different view of Poirot that it gave me leave to want to…
A Growing Crime Obsession
My obsession with crime started when I was a teenager and first started watching CSI with my Mum. From those first CSI episodes, I then started watching all the spin-off series, moved to NCIS, watched all those spin-off series, discovered Bones and my television obsession was complete. My Mum has always loved crime fiction, but…
103. No One’s Home by D.M. Pulley
This was my Amazon’s First Read of August. I picked it because I love thrillers and because it had the tag line of ‘fans of The Haunting of Hill House’ will enjoy this. They were right, I did enjoy this. Synopsis (as taken from Amazon Kindle Store) is as follow: Margot and Myron Spielman move…
102. An Unlikely Spy by Terry Deary
Synopsis (as taken from Amazon) is as follows: World War II has begun. Brigit has been evacuated to Wales from her home near the aeroplane factories in Coventry. But when it’s revealed that her father is German, Brigit runs away to join her mother in a very special training cam, where Churchill is building a…
