Reviews & Book News
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
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
When a body is found stabbed to death in a notorious Newcastle upon Tyne gay cruising area, Detective Inspector Jack Slade of the Homicide and Major Enquiry Team lands the case. What appears to be a robbery gone wrong takes Continue reading Can Slade uncover the truth before he himself becomes a victim? #DeathRattle #Review #debut @D_Jewell_Author @WildWolfPublish
On Friday Nov 27th you may have heard a high-pitched squeal of excitement – that was me celebrating the ?? Publication Day ?? of debut novelist and #bestest of friends, Sharon Bairden as Sins of the Father was released to Continue reading But someone must pay… #SinsOfTheFather #Review #QueenOfCreepyCrime? @nholten40 @sbairden @RedDogTweets
All murder mysteries follow a simple set of rules. Grant McAllister, an author of crime fiction and professor of mathematics, once sat down and worked them all out. But that was thirty years ago. Now he’s living a life of Continue reading All murder mysteries follow a simple set of rules… #EightDetectives #Review @nholten40 @pavesi_alex @MichaelJBooks
Woohoo! Can I get a #HellYeah?! ?? Absolutely delighted to be #reposting my review and kicking off Graham Smith’s Snatched From Home blog tour today … with a few extra thoughts now that we are FIVE years on! So maybe Continue reading Can they save their children before time runs out? #SnatchedFromHome #Review #RePost @nholten40 @GrahamSmith1972 @RandomTTours @NightsBooks
Happy Publication Day to Rosie Walker and Secrets of a Serial Killer ?? There it is: FEAR. It’s crawling all over her face and in her eyes, like a swarm of insects, and it’s all because of HIM. A serial Continue reading Can Helen unearth the secrets of the killer before it’s too late? #SecretsOfASerialKiller @nholten40 @ciderwithrosie @0neMoreChapter_
Exciting news! Join me in congratulating these fabulous authors for making either the #shortlist for debut authors or the #longlist for the McIlvanney Prize. All amazing – going to be tough to call! SHORTLIST FOR THE BLOODY SCOTLAND DEBUT SCOTTISH Continue reading The Long & Short of it… Lists that is! #DebutScottishCrimeBook2020 and #THEMcILVANNEYPRIZE2020 #pressrelease #BloodyScotland @nholten40 @BloodyScotland
✨?? Oh my friggin days! I’m absolutely OVER-THE-MOON to share the exceptionally dark and oh so delightfully twisted cover of Sharon Bairden’s (aka my #twinnie’s) DEBUT novel #SinsOfTheFather ??✨ EEEEEEEK!!! Some of you may have seen some teaser tweets and Continue reading Someone must pay… #SinsOfTheFather #CoverReveal #Debut @nholten40 @sbairden @RedDogTweets
In the run up to Christmas, a serial killer stalks the streets of Aberdeen . . . On Detective Eve Hunter’s first Monday back at work following enforced leave, she is called to the scene of a gruesome crime. A Continue reading He’ll silence them all – unless she can stop him… #HoldYourTongue #Review @nholten40 @deborah_masson @TransworldBooks
ONE WRONG MOVE A body is found bricked into the walls of a house. From the state of the hands, it’s clear the dead man was buried alive. Soon, the victim is linked to an old missing person’s case and Continue reading One wrong move will ignite the city… #Firewatching #Review @nholten40 @thevoiceofruss @simonschusterUK
If someone was in your house, you’d know … Wouldn’t you? But the Hunter family are deaf, and don’t hear a thing when a shocking crime takes place in the middle of the night. Instead, they wake up to their Continue reading If someone was in your house, you’d know … Wouldn’t you? #TheSilentHouse #Review @nholten40 @Writer_Nell @avonbooksuk
Delighted to be hosting Dugald Bruce-Lockhart’s debut novel THE LIZARD blog tour today! I’ve an excellent extract to whet your whistles, so grab a cuppa and enjoy. Oh wait! Let me tell you a bit about the author and this Continue reading When the body of a missing tourist is found… who is to blame? #TheLizardBook #Extract #Prologue @DBrucelockhart @nholten40 @Brownlee_Donald @MuswellPress
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