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Lucy and Adele meet at secondary school but their lives are worlds apart: Lucy’s family are rich, Adele’s are not. Their friendship endures until one day a tragic accident occurs which Adele helped to cause. Lucy promises to keep quiet, hence the book’s title The Friendship Pact, but the girls drift apart due to the […]

Based on a true story from the 1900s, the suspicious death of Grace Mae Brown, and subsequent execution of Chester Gillette for her murder, is brought up to date with a spoooooky ghost story. The author Heidi Sprouse cleverly weaves the real life documents into a narrative fiction. The characters’ motivations and emotion are brought […]

  After reading several (excellent!) thrillers in a row, it was time for a change of pace and a summer feel-good read! Elle travels to France in search of her birth mother who left her with her father aged just 1 week old. The only clue she has is a postcard wtith a cafe and […]

  The worst fear for a parent is for their child to go missing, with no idea if they are alive or dead. The worst fear for a single parent is that the child’s other parent snatches them. Megan found the courage to leave her manipulative and abusive husband Greg and tried to keep things […]

  This is the 4th Tara Thorpe book from author Clare Chase. Previously a journalist and now a police officer, Tara and her colleagues are called in to investigate the murder of Cambridge student Julie. The victim’s personal and political background must be investigated for potential motives for her death. During the investigation, police discover […]