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Huge thanks to Rachel's Random Resources for inviting me onto Val Penny's The First Cut blog tour. I am absolutely delighted to be hosting a guest post from Val. But first to get you in the mood. Here's a little more about The First Cut Blurb The First Cut (DS Jane Renwick #1) It’s hard to escape a brutal past… A vicious serial killer is on the loose. Victims include an academic and notable members of Edinburgh’s high society.  When Detective Sergeant Jane Renwick learns through DNA that a member of her family could be the killer, she is banished to the sidelines of the case and forced to look on impotently as the hunt for the killer ramps up.  Frustrated, she decides to conduct her own investigations.  Has someone from her estranged birth family returned to haunt her? And where will the killer strike next?  It’s a race against time… This fast-paced, gripping police procedural is set in Edinburgh and Glasgow, Scotland. It is the first in the new series...

Huge thanks to Rachel's Random Resources for arranging this tour and inviting The Crime Warp to host a guest post from Beth Merwood on Memories of Writing. But first, here's the blurb. The Five Things blurb For nine-year-old Wendy, the summer of 1969 will never be forgotten. Local kids have always told stories about the eerie wood on the outskirts of the village, and Wendy knows for sure that some of them are true. Now the school holidays have started and she's going to the wood again with Anna and Sam, but they soon become convinced that someone is trying to frighten them off. When a terrible event rocks the coastal community, the young friends can't help thinking there must be a connection between the incident, the tales they’ve heard, and the strange happenings they’ve begun to witness. As glimpses of a darker world threaten their carefree existence, they feel compelled to   search out th...

Delighted to be hosting a fascinating guest post from Maltese Steel author Stuart Field about why he writes thriller novels...  Thanks so much to the author and to Rachel's Random Resources for inviting me onto this tour.  Maltese Steel Blurb A woman is found dead on the island of Gozo. The cops say she fell from the Azure Window tourist spot, but her father thinks otherwise. CIA Section Chief Foster needs help to prove it was murder, so he turns to the only person he knows can get the job done: John Steel. The Hive, securely seated under the US Embassy on the island of Malta, is an operation that monitors all passage from North Africa and the Middle East into Europe and the US. A platform that requires the latest in technology and facial recognition. In seven days, that software will be updated. In two days, all hell will break loose. And the clock is ticking for an attack on American soil. Together with the beautiful Sammara Malk of Mossad, can Steel find out who killed Lucy...

Thanks so much to Rachel's Random Resources for inviting me onto the Willow Weeps Blog Tour. I am delighted to share a guest post by the author.  Willow Weeps  is the latest novel by Louise Worthington, a psychological suspense with heart. Willow Weeps Blurb A secret is a lie in the making. A divorcee and his young daughter. The promise of a new life - together as a family in a flash apartment in a historic building. A fresh start – or the key to a nightmare? Who will Willow believe – a young offender, or the love of her life? Willow is about to embark on a new chapter in her life by moving in with her partner and his daughter, but not all is as perfect as it seems. Coping with the grief from her sister dying in a house fire when they were children, Willow believes that her sister can communicate with her from beyond the grave. Various inexplicable incidents occur, with warnings of people or places. Could these be a coincidence, or is Willow misinterpreting things with her sup...

Thanks to Rachel's Random Resources and Polly Mordant for inviting me onto the Blog Tour for When Angels Fear. I am delighted to host an author guest post . But first here's a little bit about When Angels Fear ... The Blurb She runs from a terrifying past, to a village with problems of its own   Exhausted, desperately seeking sanctuary, Emma arrives at the pretty English village of Flammark.  But she cannot rest. A strange sleeping sickness stalks the village and a young woman has disappeared. Why won't the police investigate? As events unfold, Emma becomes embattled yet again, compelled to fight for her life against a deadly curse linked to a past about which she had no knowledge. She is the only one able to vanquish the evil but doing so will entail confronting an horrific and all-too-familiar enemy. The question is, will she be strong enough? Purchase Link - http://getbook.at/WhenAngelsFear Guest Post from the author  WHAT LIES BENEATH THE CREATION OF W...

Huge thanks to Rachel's Random Resources and the authors for allowing me to share in their Blog Tour and for providing such a fascinating article. Nighthawks Blurb When art, money and power collide... A Mafia boss addicted to beautiful art. A Catholic priest who knows too much. A modern-day Jay Gatsby. And a woman on the run. Disgraced London detective Stephen Connor is given an ultimatum: take a transfer to Rome or kiss his career goodbye. With his love life in tatters and his confidence at an all-time low, can Stephen find the world's most valuable painting before it disappears forever? Purchase Link https://books2read.com/u/4NXA1W Guest Blog post written by Alison Ripley Cubitt for The Crime Warp    Destination Nighthawks: London, Rome, Boston              We didn’t make a conscious decision that the novel would start and end in the same location, but this was the way it ended up. As many of our stori...

It gives me great pleasure to welcome Dave Sivers's DCI Lizzie Archer to the dock. let's see how well she fares under pressure when grilled on The Crime Warp ...  Available here Tell us a little about DCI Lizzie Archer’s background Lizzie grew up in London. Her dad was a police officer, which she supposed influenced her own decision to join the police. She rose to the rank of DI and was identified as a potential high flyer at the Met until an arrest that went wrong left her facially disfigured, wrecking her self-confidence and her personal life, and stalling her career. She transferred to Thames Valley and Buckinghamshire’s Aylesbury Vale hoping to rebuild in what she expected to be a bit of a sleepy hollow. It hasn’t quite worked out that way. The Fields of Wheat moment… What is the most rebellious thing   Lizzie   has ever done? She’s not an especially rebellious type, but has more than once carried on pursuing a line of enquiry her boss has expressly...