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
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
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
Woohoo! I’m so excited to be taking part in Caroline Mitchell’s THE PERFECT MOTHER blog tour today! Huge thanks to Sarah from Book on the Bright Side Publicity for the invite and Thomas & Mercer via Netgalley for the ARC. Continue reading She thought they wanted her baby. But they won’t stop there. #ThePerfectMother #Review @nholten40 @Caroline_writes @BOTBSPublicity @AmazonPub
Thrilled to be taking part in Dylan Young’s THE OPERATION blog tour today! Huge thanks to the fabulous Sarah Hardy of Book on the Bright Side Publicity for the invite and ARC. A bit about this book and the author Continue reading If your life was on the line, how far would you go? #TheOperation #Review @nholten40 @dyoungwrites @BOTBSPublicity @Bloodhoundbook
Let the nail-biting commence! I am so excited to share the NEW COVER for book 2 in the #DCMaggieJamieson series – Dead Wrong which is out as an ebook on March 14th and May 14th in paperback – available for Continue reading #BookNews #NewCover #Netgalley – DEAD WRONG @nholten40 @0neMoreChapter @BOTBSPublicity
WHO DO YOU TRUST IN A WORLD BUILT ON LIES… Rebecca Dawson lives a life that many women want – married to wealthy, handsome businessman Jamie and new mum to beautiful daughter, Ella, she thinks nothing can burst her bubble. Continue reading Is Jamie gas-lighting Rebecca into thinking she is going mad, in a bid to cover up his own sordid lies? #MINE #Review @nholten40 @CaseyKelleher
Anyone who knows me will know that I am not really one for following rules when it comes to blogging – are there rules? Who knows? Who cares! Rather than choosing a specific number of top reads, I’ve put together Continue reading What were my top crime reads of 2019? #CrimeBookJunkie #TopReads #2019 @nholten40
THERE’S A FINE LINE BETWEEN INNOCENCE AND GUILT. AN EVEN FINER LINE BETWEEN JUSTICE AND REVENGE. Data scientist Laura prefers the company of her books to the real world – let alone that cesspit online. But when her best friend Continue reading THERE’S A FINE LINE BETWEEN INNOCENCE AND GUILT… #StayMadSweetheart #TimesUp #Review @nholten40 @hkist @RedDogTweets
Our last autumn of innocence. Star-spangled nights. Mist-wreathed woodland. A twisted shape watching coldly from the shadows. Industrial Lancashire, 1974. The kids in the coal-mining town of Ashburn love the waning of the year. Fancy dress and scary stories for Continue reading This year someone is killing the children of Ashburn…Or should that be SOMETHING? #SeasonOfMist #Novella #Review @nholten40 @paulfinchauthor
My debut novel Dead Inside was published by One More Chapter/Harper Collins UK this year (edited: 2019) – it tells the story of Lucy Sherwood, a Probation Officer who works with domestic abusers in a multi agency team by day, Continue reading Abusive relationships – My Journey #BehindClosedDoors #DeadInside #DomesticAbuse @nholten40 @0neMoreChapter_ @KillerReads @fictionpubteam @the_cwa @thrillerwriters