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Book Review: Five Found Dead by Sulari Gentill
I don’t think I know a writer doing smarter things with crime books at the moment than Sulari Gentill. Her crime ‘meta fiction’ titles are so mind-bending, and I am absolutely loving her clever takes on the genre. Sulari’s latest literary offering, Five Found Dead, gives us her spin on one of our most loved classic crime stories – Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie (with nods also to other much-loved murder train novels like Patricia Highsmith’s Strangers on a Train). I’ve had the pleasure recently of not just reading Five Found Dead but also hearing Sulari speak about it at events – check out my thoughts below…
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Review :: The Survivors :: Jane Harper
Kieran Elliott’s life changed forever on the day a reckless mistake led to devastating consequences. The guilt that still haunts him resurfaces during a visit with his young family to the small coastal community he once called home. Kieran’s parents are struggling in a town where fortunes are forged by the sea. Between them all is his absent brother, Finn. When a body is discovered on the beach, long-held secrets threaten to emerge. A sunken wreck, a missing girl, and questions that have never washed away… News of a new Jane Harper novel on the horizon is one of those things that gives me an actual literal little shiver of…
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Can’t Wait Wednesday :: Deep Water :: Sarah Epstein
Today I’m joining in with a blog meme called “Can’t Wait Wednesday” which is hosted by Tressa at Wishful Endings. As the title suggests, this is a chance for everyone to talk about those books that we just can’t wait to get our hands on. This week I’m featuring upcoming #loveozya novel Deep Water by Sarah Epstein. Henry Weaver is missing.Three months ago, thirteen-year-old Henry disappeared from The Shallows during a violent storm, leaving behind his muddy mountain bike at the train station. Mason Weaver is trapped.While Mason doesn’t know who he is or what he’s capable of, he knows the one thing binding him to this suffocating small…
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Review :: Ninth House :: Leigh Bardugo
I know I wasn’t alone in having Leigh Bardugo’s first adult novel – NINTH HOUSE – on my list of most anticipated book releases this year. There has been A LOT of buzz about it, and I’m pleased to say that – in my opinion at least – it is all absolutely justified! This book absolutely blew me away – it had me completely hooked (and totally creeped out) right from it’s opening chapter. Here’s the synopsis (from Goodreads) Galaxy “Alex” Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale’s freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school early and into a…
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Review :: The Long Call :: Ann Cleeves
I have to confess that I haven’t read very many crime fiction books, and when I have they have mostly been standalone-ish, rather than series. I do, however, enjoy the occasional British mystery/crime tv show so I was happy to have the opportunity to read and review Ann Cleeves’ brand new novel, The Long Call. This is the first book in a new series by Cleeves, the author of Shetland and Vera. In this first instalment of the Two Rivers series we meet Detective Matthew Venn – here’s the blurb from the Macmillan website: In North Devon, where the rivers Taw and Torridge converge and run into the sea, Detective Matthew…
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Review :: The Lost Man :: Jane Harper
Ok, I’m not going to even try to pretend that I wasn’t completely thrilled to find an advance copy of Jane Harper’s new novel The Lost Man in my letter box (thanksPan Macmillian Australia!) – I have been looking forward to this one since it was announced! The Lost Man takes us into the unforgiving landscape of rural Queensland… The man lay still in the centre of a dusty grave under a monstrous sky. Two brothers meet at the border of their vast cattle properties under the unrelenting sun of outback Queensland. They are at the stockman’s grave, a landmark so old, no one can remember who is buried there.…
