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Telling Tales - Ann Cleeves

Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope's thrilling second case ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I'm back with the next instalment of Vera and I'm definitely being...

Apr 25, 20212 min read

The first encounter with the formidable Inspector Vera Stanhope ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ After raving about Cleeves' Inspector Vera Stanhope series in a...

Apr 18, 20212 min read

with Hospitality Life UK We all need a little down time every now and then, to take a moment to step back when work and life get hectic...

Apr 13, 20214 min read

"No woman gets left behind" ⭐⭐⭐ I desperately needed some light relief after my last read, which was full of serial murderers and...

Apr 9, 20212 min read

Mallory Towers meets mystery! ⭐⭐⭐⭐ After recently reading The Home for Unwanted Girls by Joanna Goodman I made a promise to read more of...

Mar 29, 20212 min read

"Is the female of our species more deadly than the male?" ⭐⭐⭐ I am so conflicted by this book. I want to rate it higher, but there are a...

Mar 18, 20213 min read

"Standing there... I forgot where I was, what I had gone through, what I had lost." ⭐⭐⭐⭐ I am ashamed to say that this is a book that I...

Mar 7, 20212 min read

The authors and series that never let me down! If I haven't made it abundantly clear by now, crime is my go to genre. I love the tension,...

Feb 28, 20213 min read

"The future isn't a warning my friend, it's a promise...That's the nature of the trap we're caught in." ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Wow. Just wow. I can't...

Feb 17, 20212 min read

So heart breaking you can't believe it's true! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Big thanks goes out to my good friend Gabi in Canada who recommended this book so...

Feb 11, 20212 min read

"...he had assumed the goal of medicine was to keep bodies alive forever, he had never considered the pain of not being able to die." ⭐...

Feb 1, 20213 min read

" A change was upon them; a change was upon it all" ⭐⭐⭐ I can honestly say that this book surprised me. After reading the blurb I didn't...

Jan 25, 20212 min read

"He was still on track. You couldn't stop a train. It would get where it was going" ⭐⭐⭐⭐ The concept of this book I found very...

Jan 8, 20212 min read

Five stars all round! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ After the hellish year 2020 has turned out to be, I am exceedingly happy to be ending with some positives; my...

Dec 31, 20203 min read

History and mystery combined! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ This is the first historical crime fiction I have read in a while, and it has got me wishing I had...

Dec 28, 20202 min read