Review: Five Voices - Tamara Moss - September 2026 I’ll admit it: I’m a sucker for a good “who did it?” and the moment I read the blurb for Five Voices, I knew I’d be settling in for a binge. If you’ve ever lost a weekend to Karen McManus or Sara Shepard (guilty on both counts, they’re two of my all-time favourites), then pop the kettle on, because this one belongs on your shelf. Picture this: five friends, one hugely popular podcast, and a board game table where the debates get a little too heated. Rosie, William, Simone, Zac and Ocean make up the Five Voices, and then one night, an hour after a blazing argument during recording, William is found dead. Just like that, there are four suspects and every one of them is swearing they’re innocent. What really hooked me was Rosie. She’s determined to find out who killed William, her best friend, or so she believed. Rosie wears the rosiest of rose-coloured glasses when it comes to him, and I found myself wanting to gently tap her on the sh...

Book Spotlight: Keep Her Close - Brian O'Rourke - May 2026 This little town seems perfect. Until you start digging… When twelve-year-old Sienna Voss vanishes without trace, three women are pulled into the desperate search for the missing girl. Sienna's mother, Roxanne, will tear up this quiet creek-side town to find her daughter. She felt at home here, trusted her neighbors but has one of them done something unspeakable? Chief of Police Tamsin Drake needs to find Sienna quickly. And not just because she’s a good cop. She’s beginning to suspect the girl’s disappearance is connected to a dark secret she thought she’d buried years ago. Cam-girl Cleo Monroe has a hunch she knows who took Sienna and why. If she’s right, that information could buy her a ticket to a better life. As the search parties fan out and the clock runs down, the three women inexorably close in on the horrifying truth. A truth that only one of them will survive. Keep Her Close,  the chilling psychol...

Review: The Blue Hour - Paula Hawkins - October 2024 There's something deeply unsettling about isolation - the kind that comes with living on an island cut off from the mainland for half of every day. Paula Hawkins understands this instinctively, and in The Blue Hour, she's crafted a novel that exists in contradictions, much like the tidal island of Eris itself. This book was a weird one for me. It moved with the patience of a slow tide, each page deliberate and atmospheric, yet somehow I found myself racing through it. Perhaps it's because Hawkins creates such exquisite tension that even stillness feels urgent. The narrative operates in that liminal space between contemporary fiction and historical mystery . Grace lives on Eris now, solitary and content among the tides, but the island is haunted by the ghost of Vanessa, the famous artist who once called it home, and by her husband who vanished twenty years ago under mysterious circumstances. The premise is deceptively si...

Book Spotlight : Deceiver on The Levels - David Hodges - September 2025 If you love your thrillers gritty, fast-paced, and packed with emotional punch, then it’s time to meet Detective Inspector Kate Hamblin—one of the most compelling leads in British crime fiction today. In this chilling installment, Kate returns to her old stomping ground at Highbridge CID, freshly promoted and thrown straight into the deep end. Fourteen-year-old Tammy Robinson is missing. She was supposed to be revising with her best friend—but instead, she was secretly meeting someone she called “Gerry,” a mystery man from an online chatroom. When a body turns up in the woods, the tension skyrockets. It’s not Tammy. Which means the clock is still ticking—and the killer isn’t done yet. Written by a former police officer, this series crackles with authenticity. You feel the urgency in every scene, the weight of Kate’s decisions, and the heartbreak of families waiting for answers. Kate herself is a brilliant mix of ...

Open to Death Sophie Mattis (A DI Rena Hunt Mystery, #1) Publication date: September 16th 2025 Genres: Adult, Mystery, Romance In the picturesque town of Rucklesby, peace is shattered when a young woman is found brutally murdered in her home. Detective Inspector Serena “Rena” Hunt is called to the scene, still haunted by her last case and questioning her instincts. The victim, Sicily Avery—a wife and mother—has been stabbed through the heart with chilling precision. When another woman is killed in the same way, Rena realises a calculated murderer is on the loose, leaving cryptic notes on the victims as part of a twisted agenda. With the body count rising, Rena and her team race to stop the killer before they strike again. Tensions mount with the arrival of new forensic pathologist Dr. Lucas Mann—bringing both friction and unexpected chemistry—as they work together to outwit a murderer who always seems one step ahead. Open to Death intricately combines themes of murder, betr...

Review: The Second Honeymoon - McGarvey Black - July 2025 McGarvey Black has crafted a psychological thriller that left me questioning every "romantic" gesture my own partner has ever made. The Second Honeymoon isn't just a book—it's a masterclass in how quickly love can turn sinister when inconvenience enters the equation. The story follows Becca, a woman whose fibromyalgia diagnosis has strained her ten-year marriage to Andre. When he surprises her with an all-expenses-paid cruise for their anniversary, complete with a new outfit, my initial reaction mirrored Becca's delight. The romantic in me swooned at what seemed like the perfect gesture from a devoted husband. How tragically wrong we both were. Andre's true intentions—orchestrating Becca's murder to escape with his girlfriend Lily—hit like a punch to the gut. McGarvey Black's portrayal of a man who views his wife's chronic illness as an unbearable burden rather than a shared challenge resona...

Review: Another Girl Lost - Mary Burton - September 2024 You know that feeling when you're scrolling through your Kindle, completely over romance novels that just aren't hitting the mark anymore? That's exactly where I found myself recently, desperately hunting for something with more edge and suspense. That's when I stumbled across Mary Burton's "Another Girl Lost," and honestly, it had a couple of my absolute favorite thriller tropes right there in the description – I was sold before I even cracked it open. The book kicks off with one of those classic "Ten Years Later" moments that immediately hooks you. Construction workers are renovating a house when they make a grisly discovery: a body hidden in the walls. The remains belong to a young girl who vanished a decade ago, presumed to be another victim of a predator named Tanner. Here's where it gets interesting – Tanner's been dead for ten years, killed by Detective Kevin Dawson during a...

Review: He's Lying About Everything - Robin Mahle - June 2025 Robin Mahle's psychological thriller He's Lying about Everything delivers a compelling premise wrapped in marital deception and small-town secrets, though it occasionally stumbles under the weight of its own ambitions. The story follows Derek, a tenured professor with a notorious reputation for infidelity, whose life unravels when one of his affairs ends in murder. Though cleared as a suspect, the scandal forces Derek, his wife Evie, and their four-year-old son Ben to relocate and start fresh in a new town. Derek secures a position at a local university, and for a moment, it seems the family might finally escape their past. However, their newfound peace shatters when Evie begins receiving threatening notes about Derek's history. The messages suggest that someone knows exactly who they are and what they're running from. Suspicion falls on various newcomers in their lives—suspicious neighbors and even Be...

Review: Her Final Secret - Book #5 Detective Hollie Turner Series - Paul J. Teague - November 2024 You know that feeling when you're mindlessly scrolling through your Kindle library at 11 PM, trying to avoid the mounting TBR pile staring at you accusingly? Yeah, that was me last week. Sometimes the best discoveries happen when you're procrastinating – and that ferris wheel cover practically grabbed me by the eyeballs and demanded attention. Here's the thing about jumping into a series at Book #5: it's either going to work brilliantly or leave you completely lost. Thankfully, Paul J. Teague knows how to write a standalone that doesn't alienate newcomers while still rewarding longtime readers. I had zero background with Detective Hollie Turner, but within chapters I was completely invested in her story. The dual timeline structure absolutely works here. We bounce between 1999 and the present day, watching nineteen-year-old Hollie experience the trauma that shapes he...

Review: Killer Insight - Book #1 Kaitlyn Kruse Series - Karoline Anderson - September 2024 Karoline Anderson's debut novel arrives like a whisper from another life—literally. Detective Kaitlyn Kruse's supernatural ability to access memories from her past lives transforms what could have been a standard police procedural into something genuinely unsettling and original. The premise hooked me immediately: bodies discovered on Seattle's hiking trails. Karoline Anderson wastes no time establishing the stakes, but it's her handling of Kaitlyn's past-life dreams that elevates the material. These aren't convenient plot devices but feel genuinely otherworldly, with previous incarnations of Kaitlyn offering fragmented clues that create more questions than answers. What struck me most was how Karoline Anderson uses the supernatural element to explore themes of identity and pattern recognition.  There's something deeply human about questioning which parts of ourselve...

Review: All Her Little Lies - Becca Day - October 2022 After redundancy left me with unexpected free time and a desperate need for escapism, I found myself gravitating away from my usual romance reads toward something with more bite. Enter Becca Day's All Her Little Lies , a psychological thriller that delivers exactly the kind of dark family drama I was craving during this uncertain chapter of my life. The premise is deliciously twisted: when Alex discovers Hannah's body, her maternal instincts kick into overdrive—not to seek justice, but to protect her son Daniel at all costs. What follows is a masterclass in moral ambiguity as Alex makes the horrifying decision to clean up what she assumes is her son's crime scene and dispose of the body. It's the kind of split-second choice that makes you question what you'd do in her shoes, especially when unemployment has you contemplating your own capacity for desperate measures. Becca Day excels at crafting morally complex...