On a fine Avenue of grand houses, big cars and electronic gates, lies a neglected urban wasteland. It is nearly midnight, very cold and yet in this dark place of long grass and tall trees, were cats hunt and foxes shriek, a girl is waiting. When Saffrye Maddox was ten, something terrible happened to her … More The Invisible Girl by Lisa Jewell

Elodie is beautiful. Elodie is smart. Elodie is troubled. Elodie is dead. Sylvie hasn’t been back to her crumbled French family home in years. Not since the death of her eldest daughter. Every corner of the house feels haunted by her memory. Memories that she has tried to forget. But as the temperature rises and … More The Heatwave by Kate Riordan

I board the plane, Anxiety subsides. I will never take this for granted again. Over the waves I hear the reminiscent tune. What could be more perfect than the lovely month of June. Saunter to the pool and take it all in. To not take mental photographs would be an awful sin. Dip in your … More Granted

New House. Fresh Start. Same Husband. Karen has packed up her life and is making a move from London to an idyllic country cottage which her husband has painstakingly renovated for her. A fresh start will make everything right, and in escaping London they are escaping their past or so they thought. But something is … More The Move by Felicity Everett

Dannie seems like she has it all. The job, the New York City life and apartment to boot, the love of her life by her side and her best friend, always there for her but when she wakes up in another life, five years in to the future everything changes. She puts off her wedding, … More In Five Years by Rebecca Serle

Published by Hodder and Stoughton on 31st March 2020. I was given an early advanced reading copy of this book in return for an honest review. In a small town beset on poverty in Missouri, two 12 year old girls are found murdered in the park with their throats cut. Eve Taggarts daughter is one … More The Familiar Dark by Amy Engel

Alice is stifled, bored, and misunderstood. So when she meets wealthy and handsome American, Bennett Van Cleve, she is quickly swept off her feet. Marrying him and moving to America seems like a great adventure – but life as a newlywed in stuffy Baileyville, Kentucky, is not at all what she hoped for. Until, that … More The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes

Adunni, a fourteen year old Nigerian girl is removed from school by her skint father following the death of her mother and is sold to be a third wife to an old man. When something awful happens she must flee the only village she has ever known alone and soon lands herself in a position, … More The Girl with the Louding voice by Abi Daré

Power. Jealousy. Desire When Louisa arrives at Temple House, an elite Catholic boarding school she quickly finds herself drawn to sophisticated fellow pupil Victoria and their young bohemian art teacher Mr Lavelle. They find each other great distractions from the repressive routine of the nuns. Until one day Louisa and Mr Lavelle vanish without a … More The Temple House Vanishing by Rachel Donohue

In a large house in Londons fashionable Chelsea a baby is awake in her cot. She is well cared for and happy. Three bodies are decomposing on the kitchen floor. They have been dead for several days. Who has been looking after the baby. Thank you very much to Century publishers for this book which … More The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell