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Huge thanks to Boldwood Books, Rachel's Random Resources and Netfgalley for the opportunity to read and review this fab book for the Missing For Good Blog Tour  ​ The Blurb ​ Is she alive, or is she missing for good...? When the estranged daughter of Scotland's premier art dealer goes missing, Private Investigator Hanlon is hired to find out where Aurora is. But what she thinks will be a relatively straightforward job, soon turns dangerous. The missing girl has a troubled past but what made Aurora suddenly pack her bags and disappear? Hanlon has her work cut out for her. The stakes are rising and she needs to get to the bottom of the case before someone else is attacked. And is Aurora still alive, or is she missing for good? A gripping new case for feisty female Private Investigator, Hanlon. Perfect for fans of Angela Marsons, Robert Bryndza and Lisa Regan. Purchase Link  -  https://amzn.to/3hbLh1x My Review Missing For Good is the second in the Hanlon series of b...

Here on The Crime Warp we are delighted to offer you the chance to read a Sneaky Peek from  Façade, a psychological suspense novel by Helen Matthews. Huge thanks to Rachel's Random Resources and Helen  for inviting us to participate in this blog tour. But before you get your Sneaky Peek of Facade, here's the blurb Façade A drowned child. Estranged sisters. A once-perfect home. Silence echoes louder than truth. When seventeen-year-old Rachel’s baby brother drowns and her older sister, Imogen, escapes to live abroad with Simon, her musician boyfriend, Rachel must face the family’s grief and disintegration alone. Twenty years later, Rachel is a successful businesswoman, with a daughter of her own, supporting her parents and their elegant Georgian home, The Old Rectory, that shackles them to the past.  Simon’s sudden death in Ibiza brings Imogen back, impoverished and resentful. Her family owes her, and she will stop at nothing to reclaim what she believes is rightly her...

Thanks to Orion Books for asking me to be part of The Unwanted Dead Blog tour. I love books by crime authors who study human nature, not through a filter of wishful thinking, but with an eye to the struggle between survival and being the kind of person we’d like to be. With the protagonist Eddie Giral, a French police detective who fought and was damaged in the many ways WWI spat out its survivors, Chris Lloyd has created a fascinating character, whose interest in life has been reduced to simply seeing justice done for four murdered men, even when the world he knows is falling down around him. The Germans have taken Paris, most of the inhabitants have fled, leaving mostly the poor and the elderly behind, and Eddie has to find a way of doing his job under the heavy hand of the occupation. For us post war generations in the West, at least the more privileged among us, we‘ve never had to compromise our beliefs or integrity to survive. Eddie and his fellow Parisians faced such decisi...

Don't you just love a book birthday? The thought of a new novel spreading its wings and flying through the ether to land in the book shops or slap bang onto your Kindle -  Nothing Beats it, does it?  So It's happy Book Birthday to The  Merry Month of Murder by Nicola Slade published by  Dark Stroke (Crooked Cat Books) What can I say - I love the title - every month is a Merry Month of Murder here on The Crime Warp and so I'm chuffed to bits to be part of this Spotlight Birthday Tour! So What is Merry Month of Murder all about? Here's the Blurb It was teatime on Tuesday, and nobody had died yet… May 1918 In a world where the men are at war and the women keep the home fires burning, Christabel Fyttleton is faced with domestic crises involving lodgers, rationing, maypole dancers and Kaiser Bill (don’t ask!) – as well as her most daunting challenge ever. Not only that! There’s a sudden death – again – as though she hasn’t enough to c...

Available here I read the first Zara Kaleel book, Take It Back, by Kia Abdullah last year and loved it and have been desperate to read Truth Be Told. Let me just state here, right now, that the wait has been well worth it. I can assure you, you will not be disappointed with this novel. Here's the blurb ARE YOU READY TO START THIS CONVERSATION? Kamran Hadid feels invincible. He attends Hampton school, an elite all-boys boarding school in London, he comes from a wealthy family, and he has a place at Oxford next year. The world is at his feet. And then a night of revelry leads to a drunken encounter and he must ask himself a horrific question. With the help of assault counsellor, Zara Kaleel, Kamran reports the incident in the hopes that will be the end of it. But it’s only the beginning… My Thoughts Hats off to Abdullah, for she really addresses topics that are often taboo in society and what's more important is that she addresses them in a nuanced , intellige...

Available here I just love Eddie Flynn, despite being a relative latecomer to the series. Over the past few months I've caught up on all the Flynn novels and the only thing left to do now is to tell Steve Cavanagh to step away from the Guinness and get behind his writing desk.  Here's the blurb for Fifty Fifty Two sisters on trial for murder. They accuse each other. Who do YOU believe? '911 what's your emergency?' 'My dad's dead. My sister  Sofia  killed him. She's still in the house. Please send help.' 'My dad's dead. My sister  Alexandra  killed him. She's still in the house. Please send help.' One of them is a liar and a killer. But which one? My Thoughts First up, what a cunning premise for a mystery - I'm so jealous - wish I'd thought that concept up. Well as usual , Flynn is a brilliant character, whose street wise knowledge , sardonic amusement and personal issues  make him a dream to read. He's jus...