Reviews & Book News
The idea is simple, vain, exciting. Tap the app, upload a picture of yourself, find your lookalike. Set up a meeting to see whether you have anything else in common. When Ella and Jem meet, the physical resemblance is uncanny, Continue reading Can either hide in her double’s skin? #DeadRinger #Review @nholten40 @nmartinwriter @SarabandBooks
Six friends have been trapped by one dark secret. It was supposed to be our last weekend away as friends, before marriage and respectability beckoned. But what happened that Saturday changed everything. In the middle of the night, someone died. Continue reading WE DO EVERYTHING TOGETHER . . . EVEN MURDER. #TheSix #Review @nholten40 @LucaVeste
The winners of the UK Book Blog Awards 2020, recognising the importance of social media influencers to the book world are as below: Book Podcaster of the Year: Sentimental Garbage With The Comma Press Podcast being highly commended by the Continue reading London Book Fair 2020 Award Winners Announced #PressRelease @nholten40 @LondonBookFair
Delighted to be hosting a Guest Post today for Claude Saayman‘s A Serpent’s Conscience blog tour! Huge thanks to Sarah Hardy of Book on the Bright Side Publicity for the invite. First a bit about the author and this book! Continue reading What makes a man risk his life, over and over again, for a few moments of pleasure? #ASerpentsConscience #GuestPost @nholten40 @CSaayman @BOTBSPublicity
Eeeeeek!!! I’m always excited by this announcement as it means I can start my countdown to Harrogate – Theakstons Crime Festival! Hurrah! This year I am incredibly excited by the line up as there are so many of my FAVOURITE Continue reading FIRST NAMES REVEALED! #TheakstonsCrime #HIF2020 #PressRelease @nholten40 @HarrogateFest
Well guess what I have to share with you all today! You may have already seen some heavy tweet activity but I thought I give y’all just a bit more to feast your eyes on! The absolutely awesome Katerina Diamond Continue reading One summer. One stranger. One killer… #TheHeatwave #CoverReveal @nholten40 @TheVenomousPen @AvonBooksUK
OMG! OMG! OH MY GOD!! I’m HUGELY excited to have the pleasure of an EXCLUSIVE cover reveal for one of the most highly anticipated novels of 2020! That’s right, peeps! Washington Poe is back in THE CURATOR! Massive thanks to Continue reading Nothing will ever be the same again . . . #TheCurator #CoverReveal #Exclusive @nholten40 @MWCravenUK @TheCrimeVault @LittleBrownUK @DHHlitagency
Anna Symons. Famous. Talented. Dead. The body of a famous actress is found mutilated on an ice rink in Manchester, recreating a scene from a blockbuster film she starred in years ago. DI Erika Piper, having only recently returned to Continue reading IT’S NOT LIFE THAT IMITATES ART. IT’S DEATH. #AWashOfBlack #Review @nholen40 @cmacwritescrime @RedDogTweets
Belfast’s NOIRELAND International Crime Festival is returning on 28 March 2020. This year’s one-day festival showcases some of Ireland’s greatest crime novelists, lends a helping hand to aspiring writers, and highlights Belfast significant impact on the world of crime fiction, Continue reading NOIRELAND Returns in 2020 with a One-Day Festival ?? @nholten40 @NOIRELANDfest @angelaontour
Today I’m taking part in Caroline James’ Hattie Goes To Hollywood blog tour with a guest post from the author! My thanks to Rachel Gilbey of Rachel’s Random Resources for the invite! Let’s find out a bit about this book Continue reading A Cumbrian Village… Three suicides… A red-hot summer… #HattieGoesToHollywood #AuthorGuestPost @nholten40 @CarolineJames12 @rararesources
Well what do we have here?! An exciting cover reveal from an author you may know…but a name that you may not recognise – YET! I’m thrilled to bits to share with you all the cover and blurb for Morgan Continue reading It can be dangerous out in the sun… #ThirtyOneBones #MorganCry #CoverReveal @nholten40 @MorganCryAuthor @GoJaBrown @PolygonBooks
Over the moon to be sharing my review of H.A. Linskey’s Alice Teale is Missing as part of the blog tour today. I pre ordered this #badboy the minute I saw it – but a huge thanks to Penguin Random Continue reading YOU HAD A SECRET. ALICE FOUND OUT. #AliceTealeIsMissing #Review #HALinskey @nholten40 @HowardLinskey @PenguinUKBooks
Lynda La Plante, Laura Lippman and Robert Goddard to headline 2020 CrimeFest. – HURRAH! Headline authors for CrimeFest – one of Europe’s biggest crime fiction conventions – have been announced. The 2020 convention sponsored by Specsavers is hosted from 4 Continue reading News from @CrimeFest! #PressRelease @nholten40
Absolutely thrilled to be taking part in Sophie Hannah’s Haven’t They Grown blog tour! ?? My thanks to Jenny Platt for the invite and Hodder & Stoughton publishers for the ARC. First a little bit about the author and this Continue reading There’s something terribly wrong… #HaventTheyGrown #Review @nholten40 @sophiehannahCB1 @jennyplatt90
Today on my blog I have something a little different. A guest post from author Luke Melia and a brief look at his latest novel GIVE UP THE WHITE ROOM. Let’s find out a bit about the book first! About Continue reading Life is a puzzle just waiting to be solved… #GiveUpTheWhiteRoom #MentalHeath #AuthorGuestPost @nholten40 #LukeMelia @PublishingPush