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…
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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…
101. The Diamond of Drury Lane by Julia Golding
Synopsis (as taken from Amazon) is as follows: ‘I am Cat Royal – Orphan, Adventurer, Actress… ‘Reader, you are set to embark on an adventure about one hidden treasure, two bare-knuckle boxers, three enemies and four hundred and thirty-eight rioters. I was brought up in Drury Lane, so I have become accustomed to a life…
August Book Haul
Technically, this book haul was not paid for with money I shouldn’t have spent! It was paid for with ‘celebratory I have read 100 books this year and I’m feeling a bit low’ money. So, technically, I broke no rules! The Diamond of Drury Lane by Julia Golding I am Cat Royal – Orphan, Adventurer,…
August Round Up
I always think of August as a funny month. A boring month. A long month. Nothing happens in August. At work, August is the month that most people have off. It is a long month to stretch a paycheck through. I have been lucky that this August has been quite warm, coming from the UK…
100. Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor
Please excuse the bad photo! The sun was causing a shadow every which way! Synopsis (as taken from the Amazon Kindle Store) is as follows: At St Mary’s Institute of Historical Research, the historians don’t just study the past, they revisit it. Behind the strait-laced facade of a conventional academic institution, the secret of time…
99. The Land of Roar by Jenny Mclachlan
Synopsis (as taken from Amazon) is as follows: Believing is just the beginning… When Arthur and Rose were little, they were heroes in the Land of Roar, an imaginary world that they found by climbing through the folding bed in their grandad’s attic. Roar was filled with things they loved – dragons, mermaids, ninja wizards…
Goal Completed: 100 Books in a Year
I’m as giddy as a school girl as I write this. Overwhelmed that I managed to complete this goal and still have months of reading left in the year. Makes me think I should set an even higher reading goal for 2020. Did I ever think I would complete this goal? At the beginning of…
98. The Monster Who Wasn’t by T C Shelley
Synopsis (as taken from Amazon) is as follows: It is a well-known fact that fairies are born from a baby’s first laugh. What is not as well documented is how monsters come into being. This is the story of a creature who is both strange and unique. When he hatches down in the vast underground…
At the End of the World is a Book 