A friendly space for all mystery, crime & thriller lovers
⭐⭐⭐⭐ Synopsis: Esther Ann Hicks--Essie--is the youngest child on Six for Hicks, a reality television phenomenon. She's grown up in the spotlight, both idolized and despised for her family's fire-and-brimstone brand of faith. When Essie's mother, Celia, discovers that Essie is pregnant, she arranges an emergency meeting with the show's producers: Do they sneak Essie out of …
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So not only do I credit Krystin as the person who introduced me to my favourite podcast, My Favorite Murder, but now I’m also taking inspiration from her True Crime Tuesday posts by posting some of my own favourite true crime stories. Just a little background, true crime has always been a massive interest of …
⭐⭐⭐ Synopsis: When Korede's dinner is interrupted one night by a distress call from her sister, Ayoola, she knows what's expected of her: bleach, rubber gloves, nerves of steel and a strong stomach. This'll be the third boyfriend Ayoola's dispatched in, quote, self-defence and the third mess that her lethal little sibling has left Korede …
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Thank God for other book bloggers, without them my TBR pile might be a manageable size, imagine the horror of that?! This is going back quite a few weeks now but I've compiled a list of a few books that bloggers made me add to my Goodreads shelves! Here they are... Winterwood by Patrick McCabe …
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Books I've read this month I whizzed through 2 books within about 4 days at the beginning of the month and then didn't pick up another book for the entire month! Books read: 2 Pages read: 510 Female authors: 0 Male authors: 2 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Heaven's Crooked Finger by Hank Early A River in Darkness by Masaji Ishikawa ~ Other books …
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Synopsis: Half-Korean, half-Japanese, Masaji Ishikawa has spent his whole life feeling like a man without a country. This feeling only deepened when his family moved from Japan to North Korea when Ishikawa was just thirteen years old, and unwittingly became members of the lowest social caste. His father, himself a Korean national, was lured …
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Recently I've been on an "analyse my Goodreads shelves" roll, so next up in this little series I'm looking at the lowest rated books on my "read" shelf. I really liked looking at the highest and lowest rated books on my TBR, I wanted to do the same for my read books too! Annie did …
