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  An orphanage in the 1930s harbours dark secrets. In the present day, Sarah Jennings leaves her husband and buys Cedar Hall, former home of the Burroughs family who ran the orphanage next door. Connie Burroughs lives nearby in a care home, haunted by her father’s past and the lies she tells to herself and […]

  I am a bit miffed as I loved Severed, book 10 of the Jason Smith series, my first introduction to this wonderful author and his lead character. Somehow I missed book 11! And based on the impact it has on events in this book Deadeye, it must have been another stunning read! Anyway, back […]

I absolutely loved this book. I kept annoying my husband and children by telling them what was happening! In 2009, 12 strangers begin jury service and get a murder case that goes on for months. When they begin their deliberation, 11 jurors vote gulty but Maya Seale stands firm and asserts her doubts. Gradually, she […]

    In the present day, a personal tragedy send Alba back to her family in Italy where she learns to come to terms with her grief. She befriends an elderly man Massimo and he begins to tell her about his experiences of the Second World War. The narrative is split into three separate timelines: […]

    I was absolutely thrilled to be offered the chance to review Anton du Beke’s new novel Moonlight Over Mayfair. I admit to reading the first chapter in Anton’s voice but soon got over my adoration and enjoyed the book for its own merits. Set in the magnificent Buckingham Hotel in the 1930s, it […]