Mainely Fear (A Goff Langdon Mainely Mystery Book 2) By Matt Cost

4 December , 20204 December , 2020 by Hannah ♥ 0 Leave a Comment

“I want you to find out who is responsible for ruining his life and I want them to pay for it.”
This is the desire of Latricia Jones as she hires Goff Langdon to investigate her son’s arrest for burglary, vandalism, and possibly hate crimes.
Langdon is a laid back, slacker detective, happy with his work, friends, and way of life in the town of Brunswick, Maine. To complement his income in Brunswick’s scarce private detective market, Langdon also owns and operates a mystery bookstore named after his trusted companion, Coffee Dog.
He was on the fast track to success. And then something happened.
Jamal Jones is an eighteen-year-old rising star attending a post-grad prep school in central Maine to bring his grades up so he can play college basketball at the D1 level. Then he is arrested for crimes that his mother knows he committed, but not why. She’s sure someone has put him up to it, the behavior so unlike him as to be unthinkable, especially since Jamal was on the verge of beginning a better life. Latricia wants Langdon to track down those responsible for her son’s sudden turn from grace, and she wants them to pay.

My Thoughts:

This is book two in the Goff Langdon Mainely Mystery series. I have read book one which is called Mainley Power and loved it, this one was just as good maybe even better. We follow Goff trying to work out a mystery about a teenager called Jamal, his mother gets in touch with Goff after her son is arrested, he is guilty but has someone set him up and why? We meet previous characters again, can Goff and his friends find out who has set Jamal up or is there more than meets the eye? I like trying to work out the mystery alongside Goff, I never have come to the right conclusion though, I found it fast paced, I couldn’t turn the pages quick enough and there is the right amount of intrigue too. I look forward to reading book three now to see what mystery Goff has to solve next.

I received an ARC copy of this book for an honest review.

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Since September ( The Bourbon Books 2) By Allison Martine

8 October , 2020 by Hannah ♥ 5 Comments

Most brides dream of planning every last detail of their wedding. Not Olivia Markham. She’d been down the aisle once already and regretted that decision, along with every other judgment call connected with her unfaithful ex.

But she also never planned on falling for Adam Burkhardt, who proposed sooner than anyone could have guessed.So when Adam suggests letting their mothers suss out the particulars for their big day, Olivia agrees, hoping it will assuage their mothers’ trepidation towards their upcoming union.

She even relents to having a bachelorette weekend, for the sake of her friends.Olivia shall endure more nuptial nonsense and play bride once again.They should have eloped.

My Thoughts:

This is book 2 in the Bourbon books series and is just as good as the first. If you haven’t read Dibs you really need to first to get an idea of Adam’s and Olivia’s relationship, in this story we follow them planning their wedding. It reminded me of my husband’s and my wedding day, we didn’t tell anyone that we were going to get married just went on holiday to Canada and came back married. I think a wedding day is about the two people that are getting married and not anyone else. I love the way Adam and Olivia’s feelings and relationship grow through out the book. I am so ready for book 3 to find out what is going to happen next.

I received an ARC copy of this book for an honest review.

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Find Me ( Trust Me Find Me Romantic Suspense Series Book 2)

19 August , 2020 by Hannah ♥ 0 Leave a Comment

What should she have done?
They’d been friends, even kissed once.
The police said he was a murderer. But, they let him go.
Knowing all that, how could she go with him into witness protection?

A few months on, and Claire Williams is still bearing the scars; still chasing the ghost of Sion Edwards, even though he’s dead to her now. Determined to start afresh, and to find the father she’s never known; she takes a big world trip. It’s meant to be the adventure of a lifetime. It will be. But not the way she imagined it.

Is there anywhere safe to hide? Sion Edwards was an undercover agent, a hitman for one of England’s most notorious drugs gangs. And now there’s a price on his head. They’re after his blood and they won’t rest until he’s reeled back in and they have their revenge.

When the big fish slips the hook, it’s time to use live bait.

My Thoughts:

We continue the story here from Nell’s previous novel Trust Me, here the story focuses on Claire, back then something dreadful happened if you want to know what happened read book one first and Claire is still traumatised by it all, she decides to start somewhere new and sets on a mission to find her father, on this adventure she encounters all sorts and I willed for her to be alright. A very dramatic read with a very good ending.

I received an ARC copy of this book for an honest review.

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A Perfect Cornish Christmas By Phillipa Ashley

21 November , 2019 by Hannah ♥ 0 Leave a Comment

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Christmas in Cornwall is just around the corner…

But after last Christmas revealed a shocking family secret, Scarlett’s hardly feeling merry and bright. All she wants this Christmas is to know who her real father is.

So Scarlett heads to the little Cornish town of Porthmellow, where she believes the truth of her birth is hidden. She just didn’t bargain on being drawn into the Christmas festival preparations – or meeting Jude Penberth, whose charm threatens to complicate life further.

Everything will come to a head at Porthmellow’s Christmas Festival … But can Scarlett have the perfect Christmas this year, or are there more surprises on the way?

My Thoughts:

Who doesn’t like a festive read at this time of the year, here we see Scarlett getting drawn into Christmas festivities in Portmellow. It sounds such a lovely place to visit and meet some of the charming characters that live there. This is the second book in the series and i am really looking forward to the third book. This one felt as though I was coming home.

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https://www.amazon.co.uk/Perfect-Cornish-Christmas-heartwarming-youll-ebook

paperback

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Phillipa-Ashley-Untitled-Book-2

From Inside The House by WD Jackson-Smart

13 July , 20194 July , 2019 by Hannah ♥ 0 Leave a Comment

Two victims. Brutally murdered in their own home. Body parts taken.D.I. Graves is back on the case to face his toughest challenge yet. A case with no motive and no suspect, nothing at all that could explain why someone would kill innocent people in such a way. Then the next victims are discovered.

Another pair of bodies. New body parts taken. Again in their own home. Someone is breaking into houses across the city at night, leaving horror in their wake. It seems to Graves that this could be two serial killers, working together. But how are they choosing their victims? Is any house in London a target? Is anyone safe?

To make matters worse, a journalist is threatening to cause more harm than good with her obsessive push in covering the story to further her career, and someone is targeting Graves personally, seeking revenge against him in relation to an old case.Can Graves keep himself safe long enough to stop the serial killers before they strike again?

My Thoughts:

If your after a creepy, tense and gruesome read this is the one for you. Can D.I Graves work out who the murder is? This is edge of the seat stuff wanting to work out before the D.I who the murder was and why he/she did what they did to the victims. A tense read with a dramatic ending. This is book two in the D.I Graves series.

I received an ARC copy of this book for an honest review.

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https://www.amazon.co.uk/Inside-House-Thriller-British-Hardboiled-ebook

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https://www.amazon.co.uk/Inside-House-D-I-Graves-Thriller/

I Have Never By Camilla Isley (Book 2)

23 October , 2018 by Hannah ♥ 0 Leave a Comment

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Twenty-nine-year-old Blair Walker is a girl with a plan, or more a girl with a list. A list of dos and don’ts to live the perfect life, land a dream career, and marry Mr. Right.

But when Blair loses her job and gets dumped by her boyfriend all in one day, she starts to wonder if she’s had it all wrong. And what better way to find out than experience everything the list forbade?

Never Lie
Never Pick a Fight
Never Make a Scene
Never Make the First Move
Never Make Impulse Decisions
Never Mix Business and Pleasure…

With hilarious consequences, Blair will discover some items are trickier to tick off than she’d thought…

My Thoughts:

After reading the first book in this series I couldn’t wait to read this one. I enjoyed this one even more as there are more laughs along the way. This book can be read as a standalone but I honestly can say you will want to read them all. I found the story line very imaginative and exciting. It definitely cheered me up.

I received an ARC copy of this book for an honest review.

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https://www.amazon.co.uk/Have-Never-Laugh-Romantic-Comedy-ebook

paperback

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Have-Never-Laugh-Romantic-Comedy

It All Falls Down By Sheena Kamal

27 September , 201827 September , 2018 by Hannah ♥ 0 Leave a Comment

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Nora Watts is being hunted . . .

When Nora Watts is approached by a man claiming to know her late father, she is thrown into turmoil. Struggling with the imminent death, from cancer, of her friend and mentor Sebastian Crow, she is unprepared for the memories that this encounter brings back. What happened to her father that made him kill himself and abandon Nora and her sister?

Heading to Detroit to try and find some answers about his life there, Nora expects to discover a reason behind his suicide. Instead, she finds more questions than answers.

But trouble always follows Nora, and it’s found her in Detroit, a city that is as broken as she is.

My Thoughts:

I enjoyed the first book and loved how Nora grew. This story didn’t seem to have as much action as the first book but it was still an enjoyable read. You definitely have to read the first book to understand the characters and to make complete sense of what is going on. This is a thriller with lots of memorable characters and a dog called Whisper.

I received an ARC copy of this book for an honest review.

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https://www.amazon.co.uk/All-Falls-Down-Nora-Watts-ebook/

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https://www.amazon.co.uk/All-Falls-Down-doesnt-always

Blame it on the Moonlight (Michaelmas Bay Book 2) By Emily Harvale

27 February , 2018 by Hannah ♥ 0 Leave a Comment

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We don’t always get what we want. Luna Blake wants a fresh start. Moving in with her uncle will give her that. She also wants to earn a living from her photographs and paintings of the moon. What she doesn’t want is to fall in love because the last time she did that, it broke her heart in two.

Severine Starr wants to spend as little time as possible visiting her family. She wants to get back to her new man and her new life in New York. She simply needs to persuade her teenage daughter, Raven to go with her. But things at home are far from how she left them. Logan Dorset always wanted to open his own restaurant – and now he is. He also wants a woman he can’t have.

A woman he’s been in love with all his life. A woman who’s in love with someone else. He just wants a chance to tell her how he feels. Roggero Tazzeone disappeared from Michaelmas Bay more than fifteen years ago. Now he’s back and he’s trying to make up for his past mistakes. After all this time, he knows exactly what he wants.

But strange things can happen in the moonlight, and what each of them wants may not be as straightforward as they think.

My Thoughts:

I have read all of Emily’s books and they never fail to cheer me up. This book follows on from book one which is called Christmas secrets in Snowflake cove, we follow some of the old characters and we also get to meet new characters along the way too. The story is well written as are all of Emily’s stories and descriptive which makes you feel as though you are there. It makes you want to read the book in a day which I did.

I received an ARC copy of this book for an honest review.

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https://www.amazon.co.uk/Blame-Moonlight-Michaelmas-Bay-Book-ebook

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https://www.amazon.co.uk/Blame-Moonlight-2-Michaelmas-Bay