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The Estate by Denzil Meyrick @Lochmonden @TransworldBooks

Intricately plotted, great fun and full of twists, turns and entanglements, The Estate is a rip-roaring thriller with a special sparkle.

Source: Review copyPublication: May 2024 from Bantam PressPP: 400ISBN-13: 978-1787637191 My thanks to Denzil Meyrick and Bantam Press for an advance copy for review Every family has a secret. The mega-rich Pallanders are used to luxury – a castle in the Scottish Highlands, a villa in Tuscany, a billion-dollar fortune and an island in the Caribbean – but their perfect life is about to be…

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You Need Me by Sharon Bairden @sbairden @RedDogTweets

'deep, twisted, dark and it grips the heart in a steel vice' You Need Me by Sharon Bairden @sbairden @RedDogTweets

Source: Review copyPublication: 12 October 2021 from Red Dog PressPP: 276ISBN-13: ‎ 978-1914480249 My thanks to Red Dog Press for an early copy for review ‘Your secret didn’t die with me.’ The mysterious note tucked inside the pages of a recently returned book leaves librarian, Morag McLaughlin, chilled to the bone. She knows it was meant for her. Someone out there knows her darkest secrets…

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In the Blood (D.I.Lukas Mahler #3) by Margaret Kirk @HighlandWriter @orion_crime

In the Blood (D.I.Lukas Mahler #3) by Margaret Kirk @HighlandWriter @orion_crime

Source: Review copyPublication: 29 April 2021 from OrionPP: 336ISBN-13: 978-1409188698 My thanks to Margaret Kirk and the publisher for a review copy Some cases are personal… Tied to a derelict pier on Orkney, the bloated remains of a man bob in the waves, under the shadow of forbidding Sandisquoy House. The locals know him as William Spencer. But DCI Lukas Mahler identifies him as Alex…

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Heart Swarm by Allan Watson @allanwatson12 @caffeinenights @BOTBS

Heart Swarm by Allan Watson @allanwatson12 @caffeinenights @BOTBS

Source: Review copy

Publication: 5 Oct. 2017 from Caffeine Nights Publishing

PP: 256

ISBN-13: 978-1910720813

 It feels like history is repeating itself when out-of-favour detective Will Harlan gets summoned to a crime scene in the village of Brackenbrae after a young girl is found hanging in the woods.

Five years ago Harlan headed up the investigation of an identical murder in the same woods; a…

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