Month: March 2020

Page Count 256

 Publication date March 2020/ Publisher Hodder & Stoughton

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Synopsis

In a small town beset by poverty in the Missouri Ozarks two 12-year-old girls are found dead in the park. Their throats have been cut.

Eve Taggert’s daughter was one of them. Desperate with grief, she takes it upon herself to find out the truth about what happened to her little girl.

Eve is no stranger to the dark side of life – having been raised by a hard-edged mother whose parenting lessons she tried hard not to mimic. But with her daughter gone, Eve has no reason to stay soft. And she is going to need her mother’s cruel brand of strength if she’s going to face the truth about her daughter’s death.

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Page Count 384

 Publication date March 2020/ Publisher Titan Books

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Synopsis

Here in this book you’ll find unique twists on the fairy tale conceit of the curse, from the more traditional to the modern – giving us brand new mythologies as well as new approaches to well-loved fables. Some might shock you, some might make you laugh, but they will all impress you with their originality.

by Marie O’Regan, Paul Kane, Angela Slatter, Neil Gaiman, Alison Littlewood, James Brogden, Tim Lebbon, Charlie Jane Anders, Christina Henry, Christopher Golden, Catriona Ward, Lilith Saintcrow, Margo Lanagan, Maura McHugh, Jen Williams, Jane Yolen, Christopher Fowler, M R Carey, Karen Joy Fowler, Adam Stemple, Michael Marshall Smith.

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Page Count 320

 Publication date March 2020/ Publisher Random House

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Synopsis

Someone, or something, is haunting the Titanic. This is the only way to explain the series of misfortunes that have plagued the passengers of the ship from the moment they set sail: mysterious disappearances, sudden deaths. Now suspended in an eerie, unsettling twilight zone during the four days of the liner’s illustrious maiden voyage, a number of the passengers – including millionaires Madeleine Astor and Benjamin Guggenheim, the maid Annie Hebbley and Mark Fletcher – are convinced that something sinister is going on… And then, as the world knows, disaster strikes.

Years later and the world is at war. And a survivor of that fateful night, Annie, is working as a nurse on the sixth voyage of the Titanic’s sister ship, the Britannic, now refitted as a hospital ship. Plagued by the demons of her doomed first and near fatal journey across the Atlantic, Annie comes across an unconscious soldier she recognises while doing her rounds. It is the young man Mark. And she is convinced that he did not – could not – have survived the sinking of the Titanic… Continue reading “Book Review; The Deep – Alma Katsu”

 Publication date March 2020/ Publisher Random House

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The eccentric, infamous and exceedingly wealthy romantic novelist Cassandra Tipp has vanished.

But she has left behind what seems to be a letter. Everyone knows Cassie has twice been accused of murder. Her family have long been convinced of her guilt. Could this be her confession? Or her last will and testament?

It turns out to be not quite what anyone expected. For the letter recounts two extraordinary, darkly disturbing stories.

One is the story of bloody nights and magical gifts, of children lost to the woods, of husbands made from twigs and leaves and sticks and stones . . .

The other is the story of a little girl who was cruelly treated and who grew crooked in the shadows . . .

But which story should we believe? Both stories might be true. Both stories end in murder.

And where is Cassie now? Dead in a ditch, or gone from this world . . . and into another? Continue reading “Book Review; You Let Me In – Camilla Bruce”