Captivating The Jane Austen Investigates: The Abbey Mystery by Julia Golding is a YA historical novel. The action follows thirteen year old Jane in the late eighteenth century. Our heroine is well drawn. She is a delightful mixture of curious, clumsy and clever. It is in her nature to seek out the answers to mysteries. […]

The Deepest Pit The Good German Girl by Erica Marie Hogan is a very powerful historical novel that will consume you as you read. The novel is set in 1944 alternating between the voices of an American soldier and a German girl. The reader travels from Omaha beach eastwards and from Berlin to Auschwitz. An […]

The Greatest Gift These Tangled Vines by Julianne MacLean is the most delightful dual timeline novel about love and family. The novel is set in 1986 and 2017 and is seen through the eyes of a mother and her daughter. There have been secrets kept but now it is time to learn the truth about […]

Seeking The Lost Circumvent by S.K. Derban is a contemporary Christian suspense that will intrigue you and keep you guessing. The characters are well drawn and realistic. The setting is exotic in Hawaii moving to Lyon in France. With comprehensive descriptions we can view the scenes in our mind’s eye. We witness that even when […]

Secrets And Lies The Therapist by B.A. Paris is a marvellous contemporary psychological thriller that had me gripped from the start. The novel is written in the present but there are also voices from the ‘past’. I tried to work out whose they were but failed miserably (again!) As a new resident moves into the […]

Secrets And Lies The Wild Girls by Phoebe Morgan is a compulsive psychological suspense that I just could not put down and I read it in just one sitting. The reader is aware from the start that something has happened in the past to destroy a close friendship of four girls. As the novel begins, […]

Unique And Horrifying Remote Sympathy by Catherine Chidgey is a heart wrenching historical tale that looks at the Holocaust in a different way. The book alternates between four voices – the former camp commandant in 1954 looking backwards, his wife in the form of an imaginary diary, a Jewish doctor writing to his daughter in […]

More Than We Can See The Rogue Wave by Paul Nicholas Mason is an exciting supernatural thriller that will entertain and intrigue from the start. Life is more than we can see, hear and touch. Life is a spiritual battle that we do not always understand. Evil seeks to deceive and trick us. We must […]

Love Lives Here Saving Missy by Beth Morrey is a simply beautiful contemporary novel about love and friendship. It made me smile and it made me cry. The leading lady is seventy eight. She has had her family but now she is alone. “Now there was just the echo of it [love] in this ramshackle […]

Action, Adventure, Romance Bent Tree Bride by Denise Weimer is a gripping historical Christian romantic adventure. It has its roots in historical fact, around which Denise Weimer has woven a fabulous story. The novel surrounds the Cherokee and their interactions with the white Americans as well as battles with the Red Sticks. It was refreshing […]