Miranda- Stewart Giles-crime/psychological

Miranda is a serial killer by her own admittance. She is in a secure unit. We learn of her

story from her side and from that of the police at the time of her killing spree. A man is

found by the river possibly the victim of a hit and run. A woman has been killed near a

pub and it looks like her boyfriend could be to blame. Three people have supposedly

jumped from a block of flats at the same time, one being an elderly woman with a

terminal diagnosis. DI Keene has her work cut out with more murders than they have

ever had to deal with and she has that gut feeling that they are somehow connected.

As yet she is not sure how, but her tenacity just won’t let this one go. I really enjoyed

this and took to the characters- even Miranda and felt sorry for how she was treated

by Dr French. The pages turned easily and I wanted the book to be longer, if that

makes sense , I was enjoying it so much whilst wanting things to be put right.

A crime book with a psychological perspective, something that little bit different.

You just get the feeling that something isn’t quite right but can’t put your finger

on it. A very interesting read that left me thinking and with a smile- I think!

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Miranda: A stand-alone psychological thriller by Stewart Giles

‘My name is Miranda. I’ll be twenty-eight-years old soon, and I’m a serial murderer.’

‘I might just kill again!’

From #1 bestseller Stewart Giles comes a completely stand-alone psychological thriller that you don’t want to miss.

Miranda is a unique read, the best book yet by Stewart Giles.  Sentenced to life in a secure hospital for the murder of 12 people Miranda tells her story.

In the meantime, the reader is transported back to the time of the murders as we follow DI Keene and her team along the many twists, turns and dead ends as they try to find the murderer of several unrelated victims.

This is an edge-of-your-seat, adrenaline pumping read that will have you turning the pages all the way to the totally unexpected ending.

Buckle up this is a bumpy ride

The location

Dunford is a fictional town in South West England. 

Crowfield is a high security hospital wing attached side of Bowton prison in Otherly, North Yorkshire (also fictional).

What readers are saying about Miranda:

‘Love this book, so different from normal crime books and had me hooked from the very first page.’  – Black Books Blog

‘Wow, Stewart Giles has really pulled it out of the bag this time. This is an awesome read from an author who has really stepped outside the box’ – Books ‘n’ All

‘I was fortunate enough to be able to read this book a week or so. It is AMAZING. Very different, absolutely riveting. A must read for fans of crime fiction with a difference’ – Sandra Brown

ALSO BY STEWART GILES

DS JASON SMITH SERIES

Book 0.5    -       Phobia

Book 1       -       Smith

Book 2       -       Boomerang

Book 3       -       Ladybird

Book 4       -       Occam’s Razor

Book 5       -       Harlequin

Book 6       -       Selene

Book 7       -       Horsemen

Book 8       -       Unworthy

DC HARRIET TAYLOR SERIES

Book 1       -       The Beekeeper

Book 2       -       The Perfect Murder

Book 3       -       The Backpacker

DS JASON SMITH & DC HARRIET TAYLOR SERIES

Book 1       -       The Enigma

Stewart Giles – Author Bio

After reading English at 3 Universities and graduating from none of them, I set off travelling around the world with my wife, Ann, finally settling in South Africa, where we still live. After Ann dropped a rather large speaker on my head I came up with the idea for a detective series. DS Jason Smith was born. Smith, the first in the series was finished a few months later. 3 years and 8 DS Smith books later, Joffe Books wondered if I would be interested in working with them. As a self-published author, I agreed. However, we decided on a new series - the DC Harriet Taylor Cornwall series. The Beekeeper hit the shelves and hit the number one spot in Australia. The second in the series, The Perfect Murder did just as well. The third in the series, The Backpacker I have self-published and there are plenty more to come. Unworthy, the ninth Smith instalment was followed by a totally new start to a series – a collaboration between the Smith and Harriet thrillers. Entitled The Enigma, it brings together the broody, enigmatic Jason Smith and the more level-headed Harriet Taylor. Miranda is something totally different. A stand-alone psychological thriller, it is a real departure from anything else I’ve written before. A new Smith/Harriet book is in the pipeline as is the 10^th Smith instalment.

Goodreads:  https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44350395-miranda

Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07PG8VTS8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1552319604&sr=8-1&keywords=miranda+stewart+giles

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No-one Ever has sex at a Wedding- Tracy Bloom- rom com

Braindead. Who on earth would you ever call that? Braindead is really Craig who is a

very loveable character however I could totally see by 4 chapters in why he had been

given this name many years before. I haven’t read the others in the series and so

didn’t know the background to this but I don’t believe it marred it in any way.

Braindead and Abby are getting married. Ben is the best man and his pregnant wife

Katy is the honorary mother of the groom as Craig lost his mother many years before

hand. The plot centres around various weddings and a speech that goes spectacularly

wrong. I would recommend this read for anyone of that age where weddings are a

plenty and young family are around. For the rest of us, I really got rather bored at

Katy “being 4 months pregnant and having to negotiate her way out of a chair” - at

4 months whilst others are running and swimming etc?? Ok so that’s my one small

 moan over. The rest of it was a fun, lighthearted read that left me with a smile.

I did like Braindead, despite everything he came across as a thoroughly nice bloke.

Think four wedding and a funeral without the last bit-although if someone’s

speech’s continue that could be the next in the series!

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Reflected Destinies - Florence Keeling- Science fiction romance/time travel - Price promo HALF PRICE!!

Reflected Destinies
Laura is happy and content, she has a new boyfriend and loves her job teaching primary school pupils in London.  But when she inherits a rundown house from a stranger on her 30th birthday, memories of her prom night come flooding back, memories of a scary encounter and an antique mirror in the very same house.

Laura visits the house with all its secrets and as she unravels the clues she reveals the biggest secret of all: her own destiny.  But how can you change the future if it’s already written in the past?

Purchase Link – http://mybook.to/reflecteddestinies

To celebrate Mother’s Day, Reflected Destinies will be half price from 29th March to 1st April.

About Florence Keeling
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Florence Keeling adopted for her pen-name her Great Grandmother's name, chosen because of the shared birthday of April Fool's Day.  She is married with two teenage chidren.  Born and raised in Coventry, England she now lives just outside in Nuneaton.  Reflected Destinies is her first novel.

Florence Keeling also writes for children under the name of Lily Mae Walters.

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A GIFT FOR DYING MJ Arlidge- Crime

Oh wow! A book that draws you in from the very beginning and the” gift” that keeps

on giving so to speak!

A man is murdered, in fact more than. His body is brutally taken apart. Two young

gang members are picked up quickly afterwards in the mans car however it is just their

bad luck that the body was in the trunk. Kassie has been having visions. Always just

slightly the wrong side of the tracks at 15, she often misses school and has drugs to

help her through. On a shoplifting spree she bumps into a man and when she looks

into his eyes it disturbs her so much she knows she has to do something about it

and warn him of his impending doom. Adam is a forensic psychologist attached to

the police department as well as his own practice and is soon to be a father. When

Adam agrees to treat Kassie , can he believe her visions or is she hiding something

more, much more? I found myself wanting to turn the pages faster and faster whilst

at the same time not wanting this to end. This is stunningly written. Nothing too gory

but enough to give you a clear picture of scenes and characters and short chapters

keep the pave flowing nicely along.

A slightly dark and chilling read with a hint of supernatural.One brilliant read.

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Whatever happened to Betsy Blake -David M Lyons -Psychological thriller

Wow! Sit back and prepare for the ride! One of my books of the year. Gordon is in

hospital and may only have a few hours left to live. He is having an operation at

3 pm and the doctors have given him a fifty:fifty chance of survival.

Lenny is a private investigator who just about makes enough to keep his family's

head above water, mostly by doing simple insurance jobs.

In all the years doing this he has never had that one big, urgent case that could make

him. Seventeen years ago Betsy Blake was playing on a wall whilst her father nearby

talked to a friend. She disappeared and was never seen again. The police closed their

case, presuming she was dead after nothing had been found other than some DNA

in a car which somehow showed she was no longer alive. Gordon has never given up

on his daughter returning and now in what may be his last hours he needs answers

and quickly. Lenny’s agency is the nearest one to the hospital and so he employs

him to find whatever he can in the five hours he has left. Gordon is convinced that

one of two men took her and so begins Lenny’s first real big case. We get chapters

from three different perspectives. Lenny and Gordon who of course interact and

occasional ones of Betsy with a timeline of how far back she is describing of how

she is being looked after.

I took to Lenny. He had a simplicity about him that was endearing. OK he was after

the reward but he also had Gordon’s best interest at heart. Gordon you felt for being

in such a predicament but he had had seventeen years to do this. The Nurse Elaine

doing her utmost to try and keep Gordon’s heart suitable for surgery whilst all the

time the search is ongoing. I won’t give anything away other than to say prepare

for the unexpected. I should have seen that coming!!

Clever, brilliant, gripping. 5* all the way.

(there is a video link a the end of the book which is really interesting and explains a few things
about the book and the clues that were along the way)

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David B. Lyons is a former award-winning journalist-turned-author. He is a writer of psychological thrillers, the first of which - Midday - was compared to the writing of Quentin Tarantino by Bookstormer: "For me he is the Tarantino of the book world." Not a bad start to life as an author! He signed a three-book publishing deal with Bloodhound Books at the tail end of 2017.

David grew up in Dublin - the city his novels are set - but currently spends his time between Birmingham in the UK and the Irish capital. He is married to a Brummie, Kerry, and they have one daughter, Lola.

He has also lectured in Creative Writing in colleges and universities in both Ireland and in the UK.

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Fatal Harmony - Kate Rhodes- Crime/psychological

Sit on the edge of your seat and hang on! Adrian Stone is a cold hearted killer. He is also

a musical genius. He claims as Bizet did that one is relate to the other. Nine years ago

he killed three members of his family and was put not a secure mental facility. He is a

narcissist and has severe personality disorder however he is clever and cunning and

can turn people in the blink of an ey, having deceived several psychologists in the past

. Dr Alice Quentin now works for the Met and was instrumental in putting Adrian away.

Stone has faked deafness and on the way to a hospital appointment having turned

one of the guards makes his escape, killing two of the guards and leaving the other

one very nearly dead also. He very quickly begins his killing spree and is leaving

things at the scenes for the team to find. Oh my. Kate knows just how to build tension

very quickly and this runs throughout the book. There is that air of standing on the

brink and then pulling away again, just slightly, that knowledge that something could

be about to happen or the case take on a new turn. I took to Alice and her tenacity.

Not only to find Stone but knowing that he was after her and for not taking a back

seat in an easier position. This is my first Kate Rhodes book- it most certainly

won’;t be my last. This is stunningly written and I didn’t want it to end.

If you like on the edge of your seat thrillers then please have a look at this one.

Stunning doesn't do this justice.

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Fatal Harmony blurb Adrian Stone believes he is a genius. A narcissist, with a psychotic desire to pursue his ambition
to become the world’s most revered pianist, Stone joined London’s Royal College of Music as
a child prodigy, believing his path to fame was secure. But when his parents decided to send
him back to school, he slaughtered them and his older sister in their Richmond home, landing
himself in Rampton’s high security unit. Nine years later Stone escapes with two goals in mind: to kill those who denied his destiny
and pursue his musical ambitions. As bodies start to appear around London Dr Alice Quentin is brought in from the Met’s
Forensic Psychology Unit. But when she realises her name is on Stone’s list of potential
victims, the case becomes personal. Working alongside her boyfriend, DI Don Burns, London’s most successful murder
investigator, Alice must stop Stone to save her own life. Alice realises that there is logic to the music left at each murder scene, and thinks she’s
cracked the case, but little does she know what Stone has in store for his grand finale…

Kate was born in London and tried many jobs before starting to write. She spent time

as a cocktail waitress, a theatre usherette, and more recently as an English teacher

before writing two prize-winning collections of poetry. Her crime novels have been

translated into ten different languages, and have received high acclaim from the press.

The Guardian described her books as ‘beautifully written and expertly plotted, a

masterclass in crime fiction.’ Her Hell Bay series set in the Isles of Scilly has been

optioned for TV.   Kate’s new crime novel, featuring forensic psychologist Alice Quentin, Fatal Harmony,

will be published by Bloodhound Books in March 2019. https://twitter.com/K_RhodesWriter https://katerhodeswriter.com/ https://www.facebook.com/katerhodeswriter/

Stolen Sister- Linda Huber- Family drama/psychological

When the parents of three children are killed in a hotel fire, Maisie takes on the two

older ones whom she was already looking after for the night whilst the parents and

baby, who is only a few days old, had gone to a reunion. A friend also at the hotel

managed to save the baby by catching her when she was thrown to her by the mother

moments before there was a blast which killed both her and her husband. When

Maisie mentions to Vicky, the oldest child about the baby her reaction is “who is

Erin?” as if she isn’t aware of her. Sylvie has really taken to looking after Erin and

as one of the other children requires special care it gives Maisie a hand for Sylvie to

look after Erin for a while until things get more sorted. Sylvie however has her own

plans for her and the baby and leaves her boyfriend in order to put this into action.

Years later and Vicky becomes aware that there may be another child when Maisie

dies and gets Vicky to promise to find her. When she sets things in motion she finds

more than she bargains for. Oh wow! This really captivated me to the point I almost

couldn’t let go. This is so much more than “just” a baby goes missing, in fact, she

doesn’t to some extent- I won’t spoil anything. I took to the characters and found

myself holding my breath at times so vivid was the writing.The tension build

throughout the story and  I wanted to turn faster and faster just wanting things to

turn out right. There is just that special magic about Linda’s writing and this one

has it in spades. Brilliantly written and a cleverly thought out plot.

Five stars all the way.

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Stolen Sister blurb

What happens when a baby goes missing?

Twenty-two years ago, Erin and Vicky’s parents were killed in an explosion.

Now grown up, Erin and Vicky – who have been separated – are unaware they are siblings. But when Vicky is called to her great-aunt’s deathbed, she learns that she isn’t alone after all.
But where is Erin? Vicky’s search begins…

Elsewhere, Christine has problems of her own. In the first week of her new job, she makes a disturbing discovery, and is struggling to come to terms with impending motherhood.

Vicky is almost ready to give up her search when an old foster mother calls with shocking news.

What links Vicky and Christine?

Will Vicky ever find her sister?

And can Christine’s baby escape the past that befell her mother?




Linda Huber bio
Linda grew up in Glasgow, Scotland, but went to work in Switzerland for a year aged twenty-two, and has lived there ever since. Her day jobs have included working as a physiotherapist in hospitals and schools for handicapped children, and teaching English in a medieval castle. Not to mention several years spent as a full-time mum to two boys, a rescue dog, and a large collection of goldfish and guinea pigs.
Her writing career began in the nineties, when she had over fifty feel-good short stories published in women’s magazines. Several years later, she discovered the love of her writing life – psychological suspense fiction. Her first novel was published in 2013, and was followed by eight others. Under her feel-good pen name Melinda Huber, she has also published a charity collection of romantic short stories and a series of feel-good novellas.
After spending large chunks of the current decade moving house, Linda has now settled in a beautiful flat on the banks of Lake Constance in north-east Switzerland, and is working on another suspense novel.

Links:
Website: https://lindahuber.net/
Amazon Author Page: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Linda-Huber/e/B00CN7BB0Q/
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The Forgotten Secret by Kathleen McGurl- Historical/present day mystery

Set across two timelines in Ireland this tells of the beginning of the struggle for

independence in two very different ways. In 1919  Mary- Ellen goes to work at

the big house where a wealthy English widow lives. She sees her boyfriend on her

day off who lives at Clonamurty farm, and he is a keen fighter for the cause. 100

years later, Clare Farrell  has decided to leave her controlling husband and take up

residence in the house left to her by her uncle. Her husband really doesn’t think

that she will manage and who is going to be there when the postman calls and to

make his tea? Clare begins to embrace her new found freedom and put her talents

to work- some she never knew she had. I’m not normally into historical novels

but this one somehow drew me. Maybe the air of mystery and the likeability of

the two main female characters. I really took to Clare and Ellen (as she liked

to be known). The determination of both of them in very different ways and

the strength of character was admirable. I learnt some history along the way
too- an easy and wonderful way to do it. I really enjoyed reading this.

Something interesting , something different and a wonderful story.

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The Forgotten Secret
A country at war
It’s the summer of 1919 and Ellen O’Brien has her whole life ahead of her. Young, in love and leaving home for her first job, the future seems full of shining possibility. But war is brewing and before long Ellen and everyone around her are swept up by it. As Ireland is torn apart by the turmoil, Ellen finds herself facing the ultimate test of love and loyalty.
And a long-buried secret
A hundred years later and Clare Farrell has inherited a dilapidated old farmhouse in County Meath. Seizing the chance to escape her unhappy marriage she strikes out on her own for the first time, hoping the old building might also provide clues to her family’s shadowy history. As she sets out to put the place – and herself – back to rights, she stumbles across a long-forgotten hiding place, with a clue to a secret that has lain buried for decades.
For fans of Kate Morton and Gill Paul comes an unforgettable novel about two women fighting for independence.









Purchase Links
UK  - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Forgotten-Secret-heartbreaking-gripping-historical-ebook/dp/B07H2PMPR3
US  - https://www.amazon.com/Forgotten-Secret-heartbreaking-gripping-historical-ebook/dp/B07H2PMPR3



Author Bio –
Kathleen McGurl lives near the sea in Bournemouth, UK, with her husband and elderly tabby cat. She has two sons who are now grown-up and have left home. She began her writing career creating short stories, and sold dozens to women’s magazines in the UK and Australia. Then she got side-tracked onto family history research – which led eventually to writing novels with genealogy themes. She has always been fascinated by the past, and the ways in which the past can influence the present, and enjoys exploring these links in her novels.
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