Recent Reads: Date With Danger by Julia Chapman (DDA Book Five)

Date With Danger (Dales Detective Agency Book Five) by Julia ChapmanPanMacmillan, 2019, 432 pgs (Kindle edition). Cattle rustling. A murder. Strangers. Illegal deals. It’s all going on in Bruncliffe. When a cattle auction becomes the scene of a murder, Samson O’Brien and Delilah Metcalfe join forces to uncover a secret sheep-stealing scheme that is threatening the…

Recent Reads: The Book of Formation by Ross Simonini

The Book of Formation by Ross SimoniniMelville House, 2017, 239 pgs. For around two decades, a journalist is given exclusive access to a famous television guru’s adopted son and interviews him in strict confidentiality. Masha is the ward of Mayah Isle, a celebrity personality therapist, who believes in the power of ‘P’: a life-force which…

Recent Reads: The Dark by James Herbert

The Dark by James HerbertPan Books UK, 2012, 1980, 439 pgs. In a quiet suburb lies an empty Victorian house: Beechwood. Unassuming, no one expected it to be the site of a mass suicide – a cult looking to ascend. When Beechwood’s neighbours begin to experience hideous crimes – murder, arson, assaults: all seemingly without…

Recent Reads: The Rapture by Claire McGlasson

The Rapture by Claire McGlassonFaber & Faber, 2019, 352 pgs. Dilys Barltrop is the youngest member of a burgeoning English cult: The Panacea Society. Her mother, dubbed Octavia, is the new female Christ – God’s Daughter. When Dilys introduces another young woman to the group, she finds herself seeing the Society in a new light,…

Recent Reads: The Little Friend by Donna Tartt

The Little Friend by Donna TarttBloomsbury, 2002, Kindle edition 2017, 625 pgs. When Harriet Cleve Dufresnes was a baby, her nine-year-old brother, Robin, was found hanged in their own backyard. After that, her parents split up, and Robin became something of a mythical figure in her childhood. Now Harriet is twelve, she begins to wonder…

Recent Reads: Under Ground by S. L. Grey

Under Ground by S. L. GreyPanMacmillan, 2016, 342 pgs. The Sanctum. Fifty feet below the ground. Hidden in a secret location. Impenetrable. Designed for, and funded by, the rich and nervous. Housing eight luxury condominium apartments across five floors, with levels for amenities such as a rec room, gym, swimming pool, hydroponics, chicken coop, and…

Recent Reads: God and the King (William and Mary Book 3) by Marjorie Bowen

God and the King by Marjorie BowenThe Floating Press, 1911, 2013 (print); Kindle edition by HardPress Classic Book series, 2016 edition. James II has taken the throne in England upon the death of his elder brother, Charles II. His daughter, Mary, is now abroad in the Netherlands with her husband, William of Orange – a man James fears has…

Q&A October 2018: What you readin’? Part 4 (End)

It’s the fourth and final part of the Q&A posts! These fifty-five questions were found on this blog post, which was actually found via a second blog post! So let’s answer finish the list! 37. How often have you returned books to the library unread? Plenty of times. I tend to hoard them until I’ve gotten round to…

Recent Reads: The Most Dangerous Place on Earth by Lindsey Lee Johnson

The Most Dangerous Place on Earth by Lindsey Lee Johnson Hodder UK, USA, 2017, 272 pgs. Tristan Bloch leapt from the Golden Gate Bridge one early morning during middle school. He was victim to a cruel and extended period of cyber-bullying after his love letter to a fellow student was made public. Years later, his death…

Recent Reads: Hide Me Among the Graves by Tim Powers

Hide Me Among the Graves by Tim Powers (Corvus, 2012, 511 pgs) When Christina Rossetti was a young woman, she inherited her father’s coveted – and cursed – pocket statuette. It bore within it the vampiric spirit of her long-dead uncle, author John Polidori, who, when summoned, begins to threaten the lives of those closest to…