loopyloulaura

My very own website!!! Yikes!

book reviews

Water’s Edge, by Gregg Olsen

  A body on a beach is the new case for Detective Megan Carpenter. It soon becomes clear that there is a serial killer on the loose… I absolutely loved the first book featuring Megan and this second book in the series Water’s Edge was an enjoyable police thriller but didn’t pack quite the same […]

What Only We Know, by Catherine Hokin

  TRIGGER WARNING: What Only We Know deals with the Holocaust and suicide In 1930s Berlin, Liese’s life at her parents’ fashion house is thrown into turmoil as the Nazis start their process of eradicating the Jews. First their business then their lives are in danger. In the 1970s and 80s, Karen Cartwright struggles to […]

Buried Angels, by Patricia Gibney

    TRIGGER WARNING: some of the murders in this book involve children and may be upsetting. A family murdered twenty years ago, a skull found behind a plaster wall, body parts found on a train line. There is no shortage of bodies at the start of the latest novel featuring Detective Lottie Parker, and […]

The Bride, by Wendy Clarke

      Alice Solomon has lost her mum, her job and her fiance. But now she has the chance to reconnect with her childhood best friend Joanna who invites her to London to meet her fiance. But when Alices arrives, Mark informs her that Joanna has gone missing… Most of the plot is delivered […]

Her Darkest Hour, by Sharon Maas

  TRIGGER WARNING: this book is set during the second World War and contains upsetting details of Nazi atrocities Alsace has been overrun by the Nazis and its occupants are being forced to adopt German names and forbidden to speak French. Her Darkest Hour is the tale of the war experiences of the Gaultier and […]