This book was so fun and so heavy in nostalgia that it made me long for the 90s. It has that old-style feel to it, think ‘Stranger Things’ or ‘Stand by Me’ – a group of five friends and a summer that ended in tragedy but with an original modern spin. Our protagonist Adeline is […]
Review of ‘Scapegoat’ by Adam Howe & James Newman
March 29, 1987… For metalheads Mike Rawson, Lonnie Deveroux, and Pork Chop, an RV road trip to Wrestlemania III becomes a one-way ticket to hell. This is literally the most fun book I’ve read for ages. Mike, Lonnie, and Pork Chop embark on a road trip accompanied by Cindi the bar girl. It starts to […]
Review of ‘Blood for Blood’ by Victoria Selman
I LOVED this book. I like to be gripped from the first page and since this one literally starts with a bang and you are straight into the action. The story starts with a rush hour explosion in central London, which is so well portrayed by Selman that I actually flinched while reading. Ziba MacKenzie, […]
Female-led crime series: Charlie Fox – Interview with author Zoë Sharp
I’ve been interviewing authors who write female-led crime series, and starting us off is Zoë Sharp who writes the Charlie (Charlotte) Fox series. Niki Mackay: Did you consciously decide to write a female-led series? Zoë Sharp: Thanks so much for inviting me onto the blog, Niki! Did I consciously decide to write a female-led series? […]
Writing about dysfunctional families
I’m really loving the messages, tweets and emails I’m getting in response to ‘I, Witness’. It’s totally terrifying putting a book out there but when people read it, and connect with it, it’s very satisfying. A lot of the messages have mentioned the dysfunctional family themes and I’ve been asked about it at a couple […]
Review of ‘Dancing on the Grave’ by Zoë Sharp
A sniper with a mission… a young cop with nothing to lose… a CSI with everything to prove… a teenage girl with a terrifying obsession… There’s a killer on the loose in the Lake District, and the calm of an English summer is shattered. For newly qualified crime-scene investigator, Grace McColl, it’s both the start […]