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Aussie author Caroline Overington is an award-winning investigative journalist, so I knew I'd enjoy her story of a celebrity's missing toddler. The Ones You Trust reveals the ins and outs of publicity vs police.
4★Link to my review
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I was so excited to read and review this book, after just finishing watching "Killing Eve"
A thrilling duel between Villanelle, an elite female assassin, and Eve Polastri, the MI6 agent who is tasked with hunting her down.
In a hotel room in Venice, where she's just completed a routine assassination, Villanelle receives a late-night call.
Eve Polastri has discovered that a senior MI5 officer is in the pay of the Twelve, and is about to debrief him. As Eve interrogates her subject, desperately trying to fit the pieces of the puzzle together, Villanelle moves in for the kill.
The duel between the two women intensifies, as does their mutual obsession, and when the action moves from the high passes of the Tyrol to the heart of Russia, Eve finally begins to unwrap the enigma of her adversary's true identity.
What do I love about this book and the series, especially in the books.
It is two things, the enormous humour that is added to these books especially Villanelle, a reckless but very interesting assassin and of course Eve, not your typical M16 agent,in fact you cannot get further away from an agent, but it works.
The book speeds a long at a great pace, with great action, great pace, some violence, some laugh out loud moments, and as we get to end some great twists and surprises.
The great relationship/obsession between the two main characters is so well done.
A great book, really fun to read.
About to start
Murder in the Dark by Simon R. Green after finishing
Her Final Confession by Lisa Regan. My spoiler free review can be found at https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... and on my blog sandysbookaday.wordpress.com https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/...
Just finished
Murder in the Dark by Simon R. Green a quick but rewarding and entertaining read. My spoiler free review can be found at https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review for
A Suspicion of Silver, the latest episode in this excellent historical mystery series by P.F. Chisholm 5★https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
You all may be interested in these :https://www.goodreads.com/review/show..., The Suspect
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... The Hiding Place
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... The Lost Man
Just finished
The Memory by Lucy Dawson. My spoiler free review can be found at https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...Next read:
For Better and Worse by Margot Hunt
Watcher in the Woods by Kelley Armstrong#4 in this series, a murder mystery set in a hidden town in the Yukon. I'm definitely going to be seeking out book #1.
review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Gregg Hurwitz's Hellbent is the third in the Orphan X (Nowhere Man) series. This is my favourite so far.
4.5★ Link to my review
This is a very engaging murder mystery set in a gated community
Dirty Little Secrets by Jo Spain 5★review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Finding Grace by K.L. Slater is a well written psychological thriller centred around a missing child but also hidden secrets from the past.review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review of The New Iberia Blues by James Lee Burke. At first it may seem like I hated it but...
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
In the process of catching up on my TBR list. Here's one I got approved for quite awhile back and just got around to reading & reviewing Cold in July
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I really enjoyed
The Parisians by Marius Gabriel. My spoiler free review can be found at https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... and on my sandysbookaday.wordpress.com page https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/...
About to start
Believe In Me by Susan Lewis after finishing a five-star read
The Suspect by Fiona Barton. My spoiler free review can be found at https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... and https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/...
Another brilliant novel in the Kim Stone series by Angela Marsons
Dead Memoriesreview: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Little Darlings by Melanie GoldingDo you like dark, scary fairy tales? Stories where the twists shock you and leave you breathless? Read Little Darlings. This is a modern take on ages old fairy tales that were more frightening than enlightening.
Lauren Tranter is a brand new mother of identical twin boys. She has a rather rough delivery and finds herself stuck in the hospital recovering. One night shortly after the babies have been born, she awakens to a nightmare. An ragged woman in in the cubby next to hers. The woman wants to trade a baby for one of Lauren’s. Lauren locks herself in the bathroom and calls for assistance. No one else has seen or heard anything, so they assume Lauren has had an episode from all the exhaustion.
Things don’t get much better once Lauren goes home. Her friends visit and gift her a very strange book of tales of twins that are both fairy tales and other dark stories. Lauren becomes convinced that she cannot leave her babies for even a second or something sinister will happen. She becomes obsessed with locking herself in her room and not allowing anyone near the babies, nor leaving the house. Everyone around Lauren chalks this up to exhaustion of a new mother, but is it?
No spoilers here. The story is fabulous. I couldn’t put it down (except from exhaustion.) While reading it is hard to discern what is real and what isn’t. Golding puts us into a state of wondering if fairy tales can be real. At no point did I think that the book was dragging or long-winded. I truly enjoyed this journey, even though it’s so unsettling to think about.
Definitely not a read for new moms, but for the rest of us, highly recommended! There were parts of this book that gave me the chills. Loved it.
Believe In Me by Susan Lewis was a lovely read. You can find my spoiler free review at https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... or https://wordpress.com/post/sandysbook...
Stepped out of my genre comfort zone (just slightly) on this one. Glad I did. Enjoyed it.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
This was a really great book. Highly recommend it to fans of irreverent crime fiction that features oddball characters in outlandish situations. The Green Ghetto
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I finished
and loved it! This author has such a talent for setting chilling, atmospheric scenes that become characters on their own! Another Must Read by White! My Review
Storytelling at its best - a new favourite! Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield is mysterious and magic.
5★ Link to my review
Just finished this family drama and apparent suicide -
My Daughter's Secret by Nicole Trope 4★review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Just finished #11 in the excellent Ruth Galloway series,
The Stone Circle by Elly Griffiths. This would have to be my favorite in the series so far. My spoiler free review can be found at https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... and on my webpage https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/...About to begin
The Promise by Teresa Driscoll
I really enjoyed both of these! This clever Czech detective has an appetite and wardrobe and disregard for protocol like Mick Herron's Jackson Lamb without the farts. Loved and understood (!) the Eastern European intrigue.Graham Brack,s first two in the series:
Lying and Dying
4.5★ My review of Lying and DyingSlaughter and Forgetting: Murder and intrigue on the streets of Prague...
4.5★ My review of Slaughter and Forgetting
Loved Lisa Gardner's latest D.D Warren novel,
Never Tellreview: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review for
Golden State by Ben H. Winters, a dystopian novel where you can be jailed for telling a lie.https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
TERRIBLE TERRIBLE TERRIBLE! Why do I keep doing this to myself? Buzz Books 2019: Spring/Summer: Excerpts from Next Season's Best New Titles by LIV Constantine, Karl Marlantes, Moby, J. Ryan Stradal, Ocean Vuong and More is full of previews as awfully tempting as ever. ARGH*#@!
5★ Link to my review
I enjoyed this medical mystery
Eight Lives, a debut novel from Aussie author Susan HurleyReview: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I haven't read this one, but it sounds good and it's a READ NOW on NetGalley. The Stranger Diaries 
https://www.netgalley.com/catalog/boo...
Here is my review for
Little Darlings by Melanie Golding 4★, a psychological thriller with a touch of the supernatural.https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
PattyMacDotComma wrote: "I haven't read this one, but it sounds good and it's a READ NOW on NetGalley. The Stranger Diaries https://www.netgalley.com/catalog/book..."
I have read it and highly recommend it!
Finished an arc of The Unhoneymooners. Loved the Snark, Sizzle, and Pop in this fun read! Just the break I needed!
- My Review It'll give you the warm fuzzy feelings too!
My review for the new Carol Wyer thriller
The Dare, #3 in her Detective Natalie Ward series. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Eighth Sister by Robert Dugoni is a gripping le Carré style cold war thriller topped with a legal drama. review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
A few other books that I have enjoyed this winter.Watcher in the Woods
The Dark Bones
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Secret Child
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Reading
The Last Thing She Told Me by Linda Green after finishing
Between the Lies by Michelle Adams. My spoiler free review can be found at https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... and on my webpage https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/...
Into the River (or Wimmera) shows the dark side of the 1980s for two Aussie schoolboys. Good mystery, but not a comfy cosy one!
4.5★ Link to my review
Lost Roses: disappointing start, but it gets better!
My review:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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