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The Girl Across The Sea, by Noelle Harrison

1933, Ellen abandons her husband and daughter rather than return to Ireland with them but is haunted by her decision. 1984, recently separated Mairead has always felt unloved by her mother.  Brigid’s cancer diagnosis forces her to reach out to her daughter to beg her to find her birth mother Ellen. The Girl Across The […]

Never Fall For Your Fiancee, by Virginia Heath

1825 and Hugh Standish has been living a lie. He has told his mother he is engaged and now she is on her way from America to meet his non-existent betrothed. A chance encounter in the street with a financially desperate young woman, Minerva Merriwell, gives Hugh the idea to pay her to pretend to […]

A Letter From Pearl Harbor, by Anna Stuart

  1941 Ginny is a pilot in Hawaii but the Japanese are approaching… 2019 Ginny sets a treasure hunt for her granddaughters as her dying wish, trying to repair their fragile relationship while teaching them about her past. A Letter From Pearl Harbor is a dual timeline novel set during the Second World War and […]

Revenge On The Island, by Stewart Giles

DI Liam O’Reilly gets a brick thrown his window with a note attached from a killer he sent to prison fifteen years earlier. Now Patrick Finney, remorseless and relentless, is on the run and looking for revenge… Revenge On The Island is the fifth book to feature Liam and his police team on the island […]

Her Mother’s Cry, by Roberta Gately

ER nurse Jessie Novak who works alongside the police on investigations is thrown into a disturbing new case when a woman falls from a building. Suicide is ruled out as the woman was dead before she left the roof… Her Mother’s Cry is the third book to feature Jessie and I have previously read and […]