Screw You, Dolores Sarah-Kate Lynch Random House, NZ 382 pages Published in 2014 🌟🌟🌟🌟 This comedy-memoir by a New Zealand journalist/novelist, is about the change in mindset that came with turning 50. While claiming to be an approach to finding … Continued
Lost in Time AG Riddle Head of Zeus 416 pages Published on September 1st, 2022 🌟🌟🌟🌟 This is a stand-alone soft sci-fi/murder mystery mash-up, set in the near future. I’d enjoyed one of the author’s previous books p, so was … Continued
Sometimes People Die Simon Stephenson HarperCollins 368 pages Publication: September 1st, 2022 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 This title caught my eye when a GoodReads friend commented in her review that it had too much medicine in it for her – a big plus … Continued
The Night Ship Jess Kidd Canongate books 400 pages Published Aug 4, 2022 🌟🌟🌟🌟 The Night Ship is an evocatively written historical fiction novel, by an author who is new to me, based on the true story of the … Continued
Venus Was Her Name Patricia Dixon Bloodhound Books 330 pages Published on July 18th, 2022 🌟🌟🌟🌟 This was a stand-alone contemporary family drama/suspense novel by a British author who is new to me, but that I have noticed being recommended … Continued
The Cliff House Chris Brookmyre Published July 28, 2022 400 pages 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Dizzy, my head is spinning 🎶- from all the twists! The Cliff House is a stand-alone contemporary suspense novel, which mashes up “And Then There Were None” with … Continued
Open Your Eyes Heather J. Fitt 300 pages Published June 27th, 2022 🌟🌟🌟🌟&1/2 Wow this is quite a debut. Open Your Eyes is a stand-alone suspense novel which explores the scary world of the online incel (involuntary celibate) movement and … Continued
The Vanishing Patient Mairi Chong 200 pages Bloodhound Books Publication – paperback: 20th July, ebook: August 3rd, 2022 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 The Vanishing Patient is the seventh and apparently final book in the Dr Cathy Moreland medical mystery series, set in the … Continued
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Gabrielle Zevin 416 pages Knopf Doubleday Published July 5, 2022 I’m such a literary philistine that I didn’t recognise that the title Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, is from Shakespeare. Shame on me. Didn’t … Continued
The Stranger Times, published January 2021 This Charming Man, published February 2022 Love Will Tear Us Apart, published February 9, 2023 C.K. McDonnell Random House UK Each 320 pages. The Stranger Times a satirical urban fantasy series about the employees … Continued