A scholarship kid with straight As and massive potential, Evie Gordon always thought she was special, that she’d be someone.

But after graduating from an elite university, she finds herself drowning in debt and working as a private tutor to the children of Los Angeles’s super-rich.

Everything changes when Evie arrives at the Victor family’s lavish mansion for her weekly lesson to discover, not the bored teenager she excepted, but pure carnage: the bloody remains of Mr and Mrs Victor sullying their beautiful back garden, and a woman crying for help from within the walls of the house.

Within moments, Evie and the woman go from bystanders to suspects to fugitives.

Suddenly at the heart of a nation-wide manhunt, Evie finds that her mysterious companion, who refuses to speak, has quickly become the most important person in her upside-down life. Meanwhile, the press runs wild with Evie’s story – anointing her the new Charles Manson, a blood thirsty ninety-nine percenter looking to start a class war.

Evie is – finally and disastrously – someone.

My Thoughts:

I love the cover of this book, it is so bright and vibrant and the plot sounded really good too. Evie has done well in life so far, but after getting into university that is when things really start to hit rock bottom. Evie ends up working at as a private tutor for a wealthy family to get the money rolling in again. But when Evie turns up at the house, she cannot believe what she is seeing, a murder scene. But as Evie is caught up in it all as an innocent bystander the police have questions for her alongside another woman who was looking on. Can the pair make the police understand they had nothing to do with it. It was such a quirky and unusual story but I loved how the story unfolded. It had a murder, a mystery and two powerful women who weren’t going to let anyone tell them what to do. I loved it. Pure genuis.

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As we approach the 50th anniversary of Jimmy Hoffa’s disappearance on that sultry afternoon in July 1975, Lew Paper has crafted a fast-paced historical thriller which raises new questions about the reasons for the abduction. The book commences with a startling premise: What if a private investigator had been hired to trail Hoffa in that summer of 1975 and saw him get in a car with three other men, all of whom the investigator knew from his prior experience with the FBI?

Would that investigator report what he knew to the FBI when he later learned Hoffa had been abducted-knowing the Mafia’s practice of eliminating witnesses to its crimes?

My Thoughts:

This was a very compelling thriller that involves the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa many years ago. It was a story that I knew nothing about until I read this book but I liked how it was set out and caused me to think like how the investigator would. Even though I knew nothing about Jimmy I really found this book worth a read. Everyone says he was killed by members of an organised crime but this book goes into detail on if that was really true. It was a story that I found fascinating to explore unlike anything I have ever read but so interesting and factual. A great read.

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FATE BROKE HER HEART …

It’s been ten years since Lucy Carter Maxwell lost her soulmate. Having hidden from love ever since, she’s stunned to find it pulling at her when she discovers an old, forgotten box of Gabe’s photographs.

Desperate to find the hope she has been searching for, Lucy begins to unravel the secrets that Gabe left behind.

… CAN NEW LOVE SET HER FREE?

The journey leads Lucy to Italy and into the path of Dr. Dax Armstrong. The pain in his sad, intense eyes, matches Lucy’s own – his touch reignites her in a way that no one has since Gabe.

Afraid of these newly awakened parts of herself, Lucy can feel the comfort of her old life tugging at her. But with an earth-shattering secret waiting in the shadows, can Lucy ever embrace love, if she doesn’t embrace the truth?

My Thoughts:

I have to say how stunning the cover for this hardback is. It shimmers and really draws the eye in. This is such an emotional read with Lucy at the helm, many years ago, Lucy lost the love of her life and went through a really tough time so much so many years later not letting herself love again for fear of losing another person. It was a tough read and made me very teary in different parts of the story. I feel as though she is a brave woman and I hope this read helps people maybe going through the same thing that they are not alone. When she goes through a box of Gabe’s stuff, she realises that he had secrets of his own that he hid but Lucy goes on a journey to find out who the real Gabe was. A powerful read.

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Amy, Carole, Lenore and Susan have been best friends since school. Back then they couldn’t wait for the future, for the amazing lives they’d have.

But things haven’t worked out how they expected. Now in their forties, they’re fed up with being taken for granted by their families, being passed over for promotions at work and being told that they’re past their best. And they’re not going to go quietly anymore.

Fuelled by female rage and their charismatic leader Amy, the four embark on a campaign of graffiti in their hometown of Hamilton, scrawling feminist slogans on the walls of local buildings.

But is Hamilton ready for the feminist revolution the Graffiti Girls have in store?

My Thoughts:

This is a story about a group of women who have been friends since they were young. Now they are all older, they are all trying to do something different with their lives. They all need a reset, they all have their reasons for changing their lives and they all could be relatable issues for the reader to connect with. I was not sure what to expect with this book, but it is full of warmth, laughs and most of all the very best of friendship. It captivated me all the way through and I warmed to all of the characters. A great read.

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Eight friends. Eight secrets. One killer.

A group of old friends gather in a peaceful suburban street for a dinner party.

They are expecting a fun evening of wine, food and pleasant company. But then they start to play the game…

It’s about trust and dark secrets – it tests marriage to its limits – and none of them can begin to imagine its consequences.

Because the next day, two guests are dead and the others are trapped in a nightmare…

My Thoughts:

When eight friends get together for a dinner party, everything is going smooth until they start to play a game, Secrets, lies, betrayals all come out in this quirky and gripping thriller. When tragedy strikes the next day, is it all because of the dinner party? it has made me feel conscious of going to a dinner party now as you never know what will happen when people have more to drink than they probably should. It was a readable story but the ending was slow and went on a bit too much. I think the ending let it down.

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Elijah has lived in the Memory Wood for as long as he can remember. It’s the only home he’s ever known.

Elissa has only just arrived. And she’ll do everything she can to escape.

When Elijah stumbles across thirteen-year-old Elissa, in the woods where her abductor is hiding her, he refuses to alert the police. Because in his twelve years, Elijah has never had a proper friend.

And he doesn’t want Elissa to leave.

Besides, Elijah knows how this can end. After all, Elissa isn’t the first girl he’s found inside the Memory Wood.

As her abductor’s behaviour grows more erratic, chess prodigy Elissa realises that outwitting strange, lonely Elijah is her only hope of survival.

My Thoughts:

Elijah comes across a young girl in the woods, where she has been kidnapped. But Elijah wants a friend and to have this new friend he must keep quiet about her. But this is not his first time in this woods, what happened to the girl before this girl? Sam is a new author to me, this was a creepy, tense story. There are plenty of twists and turns throughout, some of them made me jump. It was a very icy and chilling story but a few things did not make sense to me.

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