The Crime Warp

Thanks to Penguin Random House and Netgalley for giving me the opportunity to read this book. It resonated with me from the very first page... but before I say anything else here's a little more about the book. The Blurb A gripping thriller featuring an ordinary woman who will stop at nothing to find the missing people that the rest of the world has forgotten. Frankie Elkin  is an average middle-aged woman with more regrets than belongings who spends her life doing what no one else will: searching for missing people the world has stopped looking for. When the police have given up, when the public no longer remembers, when the media has never paid attention, Frankie starts looking. A new case brings Frankie to Mattapan, a Boston neighborhood with a rough reputation. She is searching for Angelique Badeau, a Haitian teenager who vanished from her high school months earlier. Resistance from the Boston PD and the victim's wary family tells Frankie she's on her own. And she soon ...

Huge thanks to Boldwood Books and Rachel's Random Resources for inviting me onto this tour. Not only did the cover have me hooked from the beginning, but so did the blurb ...  The Blurb  Family – might be the death of you… The Glass family business is crime, and they’re good at what they do. Vengeance took Luke Glass behind bars – but now he's free and he's never going back. Luke wants out of the gangster life – all he has to do is convince his family to let him go. His brother holds the reins of the South London underworld in his brutal hands - nobody tells Danny Glass no and expects to live - not even DCI Oliver Stanford, bent copper and one of the Met's rising stars. The way Danny sees it, his younger brother and sister Nina owe him everything. The price he demands is loyalty, and a war with their arch enemy gives him the leverage he needs to tie Luke to the family once more. Luke can't see a way out, until Danny commits a crime so terrible it can't be forgiv...

Huge thanks to Boldwood books and Rachel's Random Resources for inviting me to be part of this tour.  A while back I reviewed Missing for Good , which is the second in the second in the new Hanlon series. I loved it so much that I practically bit Rachel's hand off to be part of this tour. The main reason was that Missing For Good had left me with a thirst to find out more about Hanlon (the woman with no first name) and these books take us back to when Hanlon was a serving police officer and there are four in the series. Now everyone that knows me, knows I love a good binge read ... sooooo ... binge read is exactly what I did. I was so captured by this series and the characters that I barely paused to eat.  The first DI Hanlon book is The Stolen Child and here's the blurb... The Stolen Child Meet DI Hanlon.  A woman with a habit of breaking the rules and a fierce loyalty to the few people she respects. Her boss, Corrigan.  Looks like a street copper promoted ...

Something a wee bit different on The Crime Warp today.  It is with great pleasure I review Lizzie Chantrees Networking for Writers and a huge thanks to Rachel's Random Resources for inviting me onto this blog tour. The Blurb Networking for Writers Are you swamped with book marketing and looking for a way to find new sales? Learn simple and effective networking techniques, to grow your readership and connect with other authors and book lovers, today! Whether you are a new or experienced writer, self-published or traditionally published, this book will show you how to grow your readership and author network, through some of the most powerful of all marketing tools - word of mouth and recommendation.  This book will show you: How networking can help you sell more books. Why author branding is important. How networking hours work. Specific Facebook groups for writers How to utilise social media to grow your readership. How not to waste valuable writing time. How to make our m...

I have waited sooooo long for my Ash Henderson and Dr Alice MacDonald fix .... I'm quite giddy to share my thoughts on The Coffinmaker's  Graveyard but it's here and I am excited to share my review with you. But first .... here's the blurb The Coffinmaker's Graveyard Blurb Available here A village on the edge… As a massive storm batters the Scottish coast, Gordon Smith’s home is falling into the North Sea. But the  crumbling headland has revealed what he’s got buried in his garden: human remains. A house full of secrets… With the storm still raging, it’s too dangerous to retrieve the bodies and waves are devouring the evidence. Which means no one knows how many people Smith’s already killed and how many more he’ll kill if he can’t be found and stopped. An investigator with nothing to lose… The media are baying for blood, the top brass are after a scapegoat, and ex-Detective Inspector Ash Henderson is done playing nice. He’s got a killer to catch, and God help anyone...

I'm delighted to have a guest  post from Bethany A. Tucker on The Crime Warp today as part of a Blog Blitz for her book Editing for Structure: Tips, Tricks, and Checklists to Get You from Start to Finish. For all you authors published or unpublished this book might be the answer to all your  problems. Here's the Blurb, followed by Bethany's guest post.Thanks also to Rachel's Random Resources for organising this Blog Blitz The Blurb Editing Your Novel's Structure:  Tips, Tricks, and Checklists to Get You From Start to Finish Before it’s time to check for commas and iron out passive voice, fiction writers need to know that their story is strong. Are your beta readers not finishing? Do they have multiple, conflicting complaints? When you ask them questions about how they experience your story, do they give lukewarm responses? Or have you not even asked anyone to read your story, wondering if it’s ready? If any of the above is true, you may need to refine the struc...