Review: You Owe Me A Murder - Eileen Cook - March 2019 One of my favorite mystery YA writers is Eileen Cook and so when I saw she had a new one released I knew I had to read it. Her mysteries are always fascinating to read as the truth is always left up for the readers to decipher what really happened. In You Owe Me a Murder we meet Kim who is seventeen and headed over to the UK as part of a school exchange program. She is hoping for a fresh start as her ex-boyfriend is on the program as well with his new girlfriend. At the airport, Kim meets Nicki, a stranger at the airport who tries to get the "real Kim " personality to evolve. Kim finds herself seated next to Nicki in first class and the pair get talking. Kim tells her all about her ex-boyfriend and a conversation ensues of the "strangers on a train" where they kill each other's partners and get away with it as it's the perfect murder as they cannot be connected to one another or the m...

Review: The Hanging Girl - Eileen Cook - October 2017 This book I have to admit as I was reading it, I had this overwhelming sense of Deja Vu. It's like I don't think I have read it as I had no record of it written down but the whole plot sounded so familiar right down to the fruit store featured later in the book. Skye aka Candi Thorn comes from a family who is supposed psychics, but for Skye, she has never believed or put much stock in that. However, for money, she has done fake readings, and Skye can read others well - a bit like The Mentalist character. When Skye finds her cashflow short, she reluctantly agrees to help "Pluto" with a kidnapping prank. What will happen though when the abduction goes haywire, and someone ends up dead? Skye's job was to feed information like psychic visions to the police. As the police keep searching, can Skye keep up her facade? What happens though when her mother catches on and sees this an...