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Archive for January 2023

The Girl in the Photo, by Catherine Hokin

TRIGGER WARNING: anti-Semitism and the Holocaust 1950, Hanni displays her wartime photos and her Jewish husband Freddy recognises a girl in one of the photos as his sister. This gives him hope that she survived the camps so the couple travel to Prague to try to find her. Hanni has been keeping her own past […]

The Family Reunion, by Karen King

Mary gave away her baby when she was a teenager. Now her husband has died and she wants to find the daughter she has never forgotten. She is delighted to find her long lost daughter Cathy but her other children are not so thrilled… The Family Reunion is a family drama and psychological thriller set […]

First Degree Murder, by M.J. Weatherall

TRIGGER WARNING: recreational drug use Matilda Darcy returns to her university course and shared house after the Christmas break. She split up with Dean just before the holidays and is looking to party to heal her broken heart and show him what he is missing. But another student dies during a party game and other […]

Dive, by Jon Barton

Drugs and female corpses are found in the River Thames by the marine police. Frogman David Cade usually passes the bodies on but his new colleague Naomi Harding wants to pursue the deaths. He is convinced to listen to her when his own daughter goes missing… Dive is a murder mystery and detective novel set […]

Murder at the Charity Ball, by Helena Dixon

It’s the lead up of Christmas 1934, but more importantly… Kitty and Matt’s wedding! Kitty’s father Edgar has come over from New York and they reunite at a charity ball. Later that evening the host is found dead and Edgar is the main suspect for murder… Murder at the Charity Ball is the 11th book […]