An Oxford Revenge- Faith Martin(writing as Maxine Barry)- Romantic suspense  

“REVENGE ISN'T ALWAYS AS SWEET AS YOU THINK-HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO FOR

REVENGE?”

Davina Grainger, a famous poet has arrived in Oxford. She has one person that she is

focussed on, the person she feels is responsible for her brothers suicide- Dr Gareth

Lacey. She is determined to destroy him as he destroyed her brother.  On meeting him

she finds he isn’t what she imagined him to be at all- in fact she is rather drawn to him

in a romantic way. Meanwhile some undergraduates are preparing an end of term

play. Alicia is writing it despite adversity from her famous professional critic brother

and Jared is directing. They too are romantically linked. Alicia’s brother however has

his eye on someone else for Alicia- the leading man whose father just happens to be

an Earl. Two stories, two romances. One woman out for revenge with a plan up her

sleeve to discredit Gareth. I enjoyed this. There is the wonderful writing that is

Faith’s style, a good plot line (or two) and some likeable characters.

A different read and a very enjoyable one.

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AN UTTERLY GRIPPING PAGE-TURNER FULL OF SUSPENSE AND ROMANCE

Faith Martin is the author of the beloved Hillary Greene series. Her books have sold more than 2 million copies. Now discover her writing as Maxine Barry.

Please note this book was first published as “MOTH TO THE FLAME.”

HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO FOR REVENGE?

Davina Granger wants revenge. She blames Dr Gareth Lacey for her brother’s suicide. When she gets a fellowship at his Oxford college, she finally has her chance to punish him. But her plan never included falling in love with him.

But is he really as guilty as she thinks?

Alicia Norman is a student at the same college. She’s excited to leave her sheltered, privileged existence for college life and a chance of love and adventure. But her brother and his friends will do anything to stop her from being with someone they think isn’t posh enough. Including murder?

HOW FAR WILL THEY GO?

Revenge isn’t always as sweet as you think. And romance can play havoc with the best-laid plans.

WHAT READERS SAY ABOUT TWO-MILLION-SELLING FAITH MARTIN WRITING AS MAXINE BARRY
“Perfect romance and mystery!” M. Adlington

“A great read and a fast paced romantic adventure.” Laura T.

“An enjoyable book. Romance with a little intrigue too.” Alexandra

“Totally loved it.” Yona

“When you reach the end you will wish there was still more.” Reader

MAXINE BARRY BOOKS
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2: AN OXFORD REVENGE

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Faith Martin was born in Oxford, and has spent all her life within twenty miles of the university city, even working at Somerville College for five years before turning to writing full-time. The author of the popular DI Hillary Greene novels, she also writes more classic-style 'whodunits' under the pen name Joyce Cato, but began her writing career as Maxine Barry, winning an award for penning romance novels! A popular writer for over 25 years, she has had nearly 50 novels published so far. Her hobbies include walking her now ageing dog, wildlife-watching, reading and (reluctantly) gardening.   Links Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100019047572005 Twitter: @faithmartin_nov

Me Too- Patricia Dixon- Psychological thriller

Billie is making connections with her past in the form of Stan, her ex partner. For a

while now Billie has been living in Greece. Whilst she was away working, Stan had a

new grirlfriend Kelly who accused him of rape and he is now serving six years inside

Strageways having been found guilty. He vehemently denies the charge and wants

to get back on track. His true love is Billie and when she goes to visit him he gets the

boost he needs to get through his sentence. He has hired a private detective to try

and find out more for an appeal. Billie has a secret, a surprise for Stan something that

will hopefully make him even more determined to see things through. Billie goes to

see Aiden, the private detective and ends up almost back in her old role of being a

detective. Ooooh boy! One of those where you know something is just around the

corner but not which way the cookie is going to crumble. This is partly based on a

true story, the author forward tells us that although shrouded in fiction the premise

is true and this is dedicated to all victims, something that gave me a shudder when

I read the author forward (there is nothing too descriptive in the book to upset

anyone). I liked Billie and her determination and felt for her angst in playing her part. 

A truly brilliant read that had my emotions all over the place. Stunning

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Gamble- Anita Waller- Psychological thriller   

Two women working in a bookies get shot by someone entering the premises early

and demanding money however due to the timing it appears to be more about the

women than the money. They are both wives and mothers. The two husbands,

Graham and Kenny decide that they are going to sort it out without the help of the

police who are as keen as they are to find the perpetrator. All they know is that he

or possibly she wore a mask and had a shotgun which was retrieved shortly

afterwards. The two sixteen year old twins of one of the women also decide that

finding their mother's killer is more important than their looming exams. Between

four vigilantes and the police the search is on. When another body and then a

missing boy are added things get rather heated to say the least. Oooh! Anita

has done it again. Draws me into what starts as a read with a bit of a mystery

and then twists and turns until I want to (and try!) to turn faster and faster.

Characters that you easily take to (Tom and Holly) and a plot that weaves its

magic. A read that I devoured so easily. It's a crime/psychological thriller

but nothing to make you feel uneasy, a totally enjoyable captivating

and very clever read.

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The Divide- Stewart Giles-  Horror    

The Divide is a piece of land untouched with good reason for centuries. As it has been passed

down the proviso is that it is not to be touched. The locals know it as the Bad place. Legend

tells that The Divide is between heaven and hell and if disturbed a little girl in a white dress

and macabre form will appear. Those who see and hear her will die. Locals discover that

the latest owner is developing the land and do their best to dissuade him. Five teenagers

are on a walking holiday and become stranded when their car breaks down. They are

taken to the local inn and that's when the little girl begins to appear and things start

to get rather hair-raising. This is the horror novel I have braved(Thanks Stewart!!) and

rather glad I did. I didn;t give me nightmares but did have an eerie feel to it which I

enjoyed. Maybe I am getting braver in my old age! A good plot and likeable characters.

I won’t say too much more as I'm no horror expert , however from a avid readers

point of view this was a solid enjoyable read. Nice one.

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From #1 best-selling author: Stewart Giles comes a bone-chilling horror story that

will keep you up at night. THE DIVIDE – Some things are best left buried. Five teenagers head into Dartmoor’s bleak National Park for a final adventure together before they all go their separate ways after the summer. These lifelong friends have no idea what terrible secrets this place holds. One by one they start to realise something is not quite right about this moor. Something is lurking there – some malevolent and ominously primeval force is buried deep beneath this ground waiting to emerge. The locals know the truth about what lies beneath this land but the five friends are met with a sinister silence everywhere they turn. Then the Divide is split in two. What is unleashed is hell itself and the friends know they need to find a way out before it’s too late. Lured into an ancient forest that appears on no maps, the friends’ fight for survival begins. But who is the little girl in the white dress? With her hideously disfigured face and transfixing voice, why has she suddenly taken a keen interest in these teenagers? The Divide is the chilling tale of five friends’ fight for survival against forces none of them could have imagined. BOOKS 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 Book 9 – Venom Book 10 – Severed Book 11 – Demons Book 12 - Deadeye 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 Book 2 – Dropzone Book 3 – The Raven Girl (coming soon) PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLERS Miranda Mistress

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. In 2014 Ann dropped a rather large speaker on my head and 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 was published and soon hit the number one spot in Australia. The second in the series, The Perfect Murder did just as well. I continued to self-publish the Smith series and Unworthy hit the shelves in 2018 with amazing results. I therefore made the decision to self-publish The Backpacker which is book 3 in the Detective Harriet Taylor series which was published in July 2018. After The Backpacker I had an idea for a totally new start to a series – a collaboration between the Smith and Harriet thrillers and The Enigma was born. 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. This was followed by the sequel Mistress in 2019. The Detective Jason Smith series continues to grow and there are now 13 books including the introduction: Phobia. Book 12: Deadeye will be published in February 2020. Website: www.stewartgiles.com Twitter: @stewartgiles Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/stewart.giles.33

Little Whispers- K.L Slater- psychological thriller           

Another read to put you on the edge of your seat! Janey Markhamhas moved house with her

husband Isaac and son Rowan.Isaac has a new job and he promises not only is this

more money which they desperately need but that he will be able have more family

time- something again that was lacking. We know Janey holds a secret told to her by

her mother the day before she died “which changes everything” but not what it is.

Janey soon finds the shiny new house isn’t anywhere near as glamorous as others in

the road and the yummy mummies have their own clique. Isaacs hours are getting

longer and longer. Is this all work? We have the occasional chapters about a girl

being taken and then held against her will when en route to a friend. Janey gets

in with the clique but in doing so alienates a lady she was getting friendly with

as the clique says she is delusional. I quite liked Janey but had that suspicion

about her. There is that wonderful air of tension and the wanting to turn and

turn and turn to find out more. A very clever premise and one that threw me

- just as I like! Twists and turns are abundant to keep you on your toes!

Another brilliant read that kept me hooked from K.L Slater and I look forward

to the next one.

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Twinkle Twinkle Little Lies- Rob Ashman-Crime            

Malice and Pieterson are back! This time they have a cold case to investigate. A body who

has laid there for around ten years leads to a trail of intrigue. Meanwhile Twinkle helps

run an outreach project and a cafe at her local church for local boys not to be targeted

by local drug gangs and to keep them on the straight and narrow. Little does anyone know

this is a cover for her drugs operation running county lines. She is thinking of expanding

to the next parish and things are falling in line nicely when a rival gang wants in and she

calls them out on it. Malice, as ever, is in trouble with his ex about presents he keeps

buying for their daughter. Pieterson is getting some unwanted attention from someone

she put in court when she worked in undercover obs. The case fell through but they

suspect that she was instrumental in planting evidence, something she denies. I really

enjoy this series. (it will stand alone but why miss out on another excellent read?)

There is a magical quality not only of Rob’s writing but of Malice and Pieterson.

Malice is the rebel, the maverick.  Pieterson (usually) his balancing arm. Both

tenacious in their work with a smile thrown in and characters you can’t help

but like.A brilliant read and I very much look forward to the next one. 

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Book Description:

Twinkle twinkle, little lies,

How I see them in your eyes …

DS Khenan Malice believes his troubles are behind him. But it’s never that simple. This time … it’s personal. 

Detective Kelly Pietersen has decided anti-corruption is not for her. But her previous life hunts her down, sending her world spiralling out of control.

Twinkle is a pillar of the community and an ambassador for the church. She is also a woman for whom lying is a way of life, wrapping those around her in a complex web of deceit. To her it’s a deadly game.

Their paths cross when a decomposed body is discovered.

The past and the present collide with shattering consequences, leaving the three of them fighting for survival.  

Author Bio:

Rob is married to Karen with two grown up daughters. He is originally from South Wales and after moving around with work settled in North Lincolnshire where he’s spent the last twenty-two years.

Like all good welsh valley boys Rob worked for the National Coal Board after leaving school at sixteen and went to University at the tender age of twenty-three when the pit closures began to bite. Since then he’s worked in a variety of manufacturing and consulting roles both in the UK and abroad.

It took Rob twenty-four years to write his first book. He only became serious about writing it when his dad got cancer. It was an aggressive illness and Rob gave up work for three months to look after him and his mum. Writing Those That Remain became his coping mechanism. After he wrote the book his family encouraged him to continue, so not being one for half measures, Rob got himself made redundant, went self-employed so he could devote more time to writing and four years later the Mechanic Trilogy was the result. 

Rob published Those That Remain, In Your Name and Pay the Penance with Bloodhound Books and has since written the DI Rosalind Kray series. These are Faceless, This Little Piggy, Suspended Retribution and Jaded which are also published by Bloodhound.

His latest work sees the introduction of a new set of characters – DS Khenan Malice and DC Kelly Pietersen. The first book in the series is titled Killing Pretties and the second is Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Lies. Both books will be published this year.

When he is not writing, Rob is a frustrated chef with a liking for beer and prosecco, and is known for occasional outbreaks of dancing.

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Twitter: @RobAshmanAuthor

Ash Mountain- Helen Fitzgerald- Native American Literature

"Single-mother Fran returns to her sleepy hometown to care for her dying 

father when a devastating bush fire breaks out. A heartbreaking disaster-noir 

thriller from the bestselling author of The Cry."

Fran lives on Ash Mountain with her daughter and son. Each chapter is a different

period of time from the fire to over thirty years before hand- Frans childhood. We

get an understanding of Frans life from this and how she is reacting now. She relives

her childhood memories whilst caring for her frail father. There are dysfunctional

relationships as well as tender moments and often some dark humour along with

an ostrich called Ronnie Corbett. The cover of this book is amazing . The photographer

tells the story of it in the book- a real picture taken during the recent Australian

bushfires. This took me a little while to get into as it is written in a very different

way, mostly from Frans point of view. Once I did, it began to draw me in. The

descriptions are wonderful (the odd one horrific) but enough to give you the

picture and almost smell of bushfire which must be terrifying.  A very different

read and a thought provoking one.

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DATE: 14 MAY 2020 | PAPERBACK ORIGINAL | £8.99 | ORENDA BOOKS ASH MOUNTAIN by Helen Fitzgerald Fran hates her hometown, and she thought she’d escaped. But her father is ill, and needs care. Her relationship is over, and she hates her dead-end job in the city, anyway. She returns home to nurse her dying father, her distant teenage daughter in tow for the weekends. There, in the sleepy town of Ash Mountain, childhood memories prick at her fragile self-esteem, she falls in love for the first time, and her demanding dad tests her patience, all in the unbearable heat of an Australian summer. As past friendships and rivalries are renewed, and new ones forged, Fran’s tumultuous home life is the least of her worries, when old crimes rear their heads and a devastating bushfire ravages the town and all of its inhabitants... Simultaneously a warm, darkly funny portrait of small-town life – and a woman and a land in crisis – and a shocking and truly distressing account of a catastrophic event that changes things forever, Ash Mountain is a heart-breaking slice of domestic noir, and a disturbing disaster thriller that you will never forget... ‘Shocking, gripping and laugh-out-loud hilarious’ Erin Kelly, on Worst Case Scenario AUTHOR BIO TheHelen FitzGerald is the bestselling author of ten adult and young adult thrillers, including The Donor (2011) and The Cry (2013), which was longlisted for the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year, and is now a major drama for BBC1. Her 2019 dark comedy thriller Worst Case Scenario was a Book of the Year in both The Guardian and Daily Telegraph. Helen worked as a criminal justice social worker for over fifteen years. She grew up in Victoria, Australia, and now lives in Glasgow with her husband.

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Reckless by Gemma Rogers- Thriller        

“When sixth former Nicky Stevens sets his sights on her, he begins to reel her in at

a time when she's most vulnerable. Soon Izzy is risking her family, her career and

her life as she finds Nicky wants more than she ever planned to give.”

Izzy and her family have moved house and she has started work as an english teacher

at a secondary school. She soon learns that the last incumbent left in rather a haste

due to a tryst with a pupil. Her husband David hasn’t been so attentive since she had

a miscarriage a while back and she suspects he may be having an affair. When she

starts to get unwanted attention from a sixth former who first crossed her path when

he almost drove her off the road, things get a little complicated to say the least. I

cringed at some of this- that said it is a sensitive subject handled well. My cringing was

at how Izzy threw herself into what could only be described as  a car crash relationship

(every pun intended). She appeared to have little control over what was happening

and pretty much let Nicky take control from the start. Don’t get me wrong- this is well

written and I enjoyed reading it- it's just one of those subjects that may make

some of us squirm. A clever, interesting concept and one to keep you on the edge

of your seat.

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Reckless English teacher Izzy Cole wanted a fresh start. A new town, a new home, a new school. But when sixth former Nicky Stevens sets his sights on her, he begins to reel her in at a time
when she's most vulnerable. Soon Izzy is risking her family, her career and her life as she
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Author Bio – Gemma Rogers was inspired to write gritty thrillers by a traumatic event in her own life
nearly twenty years ago. Stalker was her debut novel and marked the beginning of a new
writing career. Gemma lives in West Sussex with her husband, two daughters and bulldog
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