Reviews & Book News
What a day for announcements! So excited to share the #longlist for Bloody Scotland’s 2021 McIlvanney Prize. I was lucky enough to be involved as a Bloody Scotland reader and it’s my honour to share these fantastic authors with you Continue reading 🗞 Press Release 🗞 LONGLIST ANNOUNCED FOR THE McILVANNEY PRIZE 2021 | @nholten40 @BloodyScotland
As all crime fiction fans and readers gear up for #Harrogate2021, I’m delighted to share the #shortlist announcement and what a list it is! Congratulations and good luck to you all! ?? ELLY GRIFFITHS | ROSAMUND LUPTON | BRIAN MCGILLOWAY Continue reading ?Press Release? | CRÈME DE LA CRIME SHORTLIST REVEALED FOR THEAKSTON OLD PECULIER CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2021 | #TheakstonAward | @HarrogateFest | @nholten40
When you hear her story, will you believe her? Rose Marlowe is a hard-working nurse, a loving wife, and a merciless killer. Or so she says. Despite her confession, it is hard to believe that this beautiful, kind woman could Continue reading When you hear her story, will you believe her? #TheNurse #Review @nholten40 @juliannwriter @canelo_co
Woohoo! It’s been just over a month since the DEAD SECRET ebook launch (April 23rd) and it has been getting some amazing reviews! More great news for UK readers is that for the whole month of May, it’s been just 99p Continue reading ?Don’t miss this ?#Giveaway #LastChance #DCMaggieJamieson #ebookbundle #subscribe
Wish You Were Dead is a Quick Read short story from bestselling author Peter James. Roy Grace and his family have left Sussex behind for a week’s holiday in France. The website promised a grand house, but when they arrive Continue reading Wherever you go, they will find you… #WishYouWereDead #QuickReads #Review @nholten40 @readingagency @peterjamesuk @midaspr
CALL ME MUMMY. IT’LL BE BETTER IF YOU DO. Glamorous, beautiful Mummy has everything a woman could want. Except for a daughter of her very own. So when she sees Kim – heavily pregnant, glued to her phone and ignoring Continue reading #CallMeMummy. It’ll be better if you do. #review @nholten40 @TinaBakerBooks @ViperBooks
Exciting news and I am thrilled to be a part of sharing it with the #bookworld! It’s the LONGLIST reveal – woohoo! MARK BILLINGHAM | LOUISE CANDLISH | JANE CASEY | STEVE CAVANAGH | WILL DEAN EVA DOLAN | LUCY FOLEY | ELLY GRIFFITHS | DOUG JOHNSTONE | ROSAMUND LUPTON VAL MCDERMID | BRIAN MCGILLOWAY | ABIR MUKHERJEE | LIZ NUGENT | IAN RANKIN Continue reading LONGLIST REVEALED|THEAKSTON OLD PECULIER CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2021 | #TheakstonAward | @HarrogateFest @nholten40
Film star Amelie Hart is the darling of the silver screen, appearing on the front pages of every newspaper. But at the peak of her fame she throws it all away for a regular guy with an ordinary job. The Continue reading Guilty or innocent… #ASongOfIsolation #Review @nholten40 @michaelJmalone1 @OrendaBooks
Delighted to have Leigh Russell on the blog today to tell us a bit about her latest literary venture: Rachel’s Story! First a little about this book and the author. About the Book In a world where food is scarce, Continue reading Rachel’s world will never be the same again… #RachelsStory #GuestPost @nholten40 @LeighRussell
Not many non-crime books make it to my blog, but I always make an exception for Kim Nash! Delighted to be a part of the Moonlight Over Muddleford Cove blog tour today and my thanks to Rachel’s Random Resources for Continue reading There’s nothing for her in Muddleford… is there? #MoonlightOverMuddlefordCove #Review @nholten40 @KimTheBookworm @rararesources
WHAT WOULD YOU DO TO SAVE YOUR LOVED ONE? AND DO YOU KNOW WHO SHE REALLY IS? They took your fiancée. They framed you for murder. You’re given one chance to save her. To clear your name. You must kill Continue reading They took your fiancée. They framed you for murder… #KillAStranger #Review @nholten40 @simonkernick @headlinepg
When sixteen-year-old Erin Ellis is attacked, she dies in the arms of her best friend Molly, just metres from her home. Molly is the surviving girl but says she easily could have been the victim – it was a random Continue reading Erin was a good girl. But someone wanted her dead… #GoodGirl #Review @nholten40 @writermels @AvonBooksUK
A new cop. A fresh start. A dark secret. It’s the blisteringly hot summer of 1976, and WPC Samantha Barrie is Wyre Hall police station’s newest recruit. When young girls start to go missing, Sam finds herself at the centre Continue reading #RecommendedReads & #Reviews ? #BlueBird @trish4912 @Burning_Chair #ATimeToLie @simonberthon @HQstories #ThreeHours @Rosamundlupton @PenguinUKBooks #IfSheDies @ErikTherme @nholten40
If you’re signed up to my newsletter, some of this is stuff you’ll have already read – but what wasn’t included, is what I’m curently doing in terms of my writing. So I guess this is an exclusive? ? Before Continue reading What’s been happening? #MidMarchUpdate #RecommendedReads @nholten40
Emma’s the one that got away. The only survivor of a killer known in the tabloids as ‘the hairdresser’ – because of the trophies he takes from his victims. Or she thinks she was. The police aren’t convinced. Nor is Continue reading Emma’s the one that got away… #ThePackage #Review @nholten40 #SebastianFitzek @HoZ_Books