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Book Review: The Silent Dead by Graham Smith

Caitlyn Lynch

Dec 3, 2018
2 min

Book Review: The Silent Dead by Graham Smith

First in a new series featuring DC Beth Young, a female detective joining Cumbria’s FMIT (Force Major Incident Team) The Silent Dead follows Beth and her team in their race against time to catch a brutal and disturbed killer before he strikes again. Beth is an interesting character; a model in her teens, her passion for justice drove her to join the police, but she was still in her training period when an off-duty incident saw her left with deep facial scars, ‘ruining’ her be

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Book Review: The Good, The Bad, And The Duke by Janna MacGregor

Caitlyn Lynch

Nov 28, 2018
2 min

Book Review: The Good, The Bad, And The Duke by Janna MacGregor

It can be quite a tall order to redeem a character who was a heel in an earlier book in the series - you have to make sure you don’t go overboard with the villainy if you want your readers to buy into this character becoming a hero or heroine in their own right. Janna MacGregor pulls it off very well here with Paul, Duke of Southton, a former rake now forced to amend his ways since the deaths of his father and brother landed him a title he never wanted. Lady Daphne Hallworth

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Book Review: Blood In The Snow by Franco Marks

Caitlyn Lynch

Nov 23, 2018
2 min

Book Review: Blood In The Snow by Franco Marks

Translated from the original Italian (beautifully, by the way, there was no hint of awkwardness or non-fluid English grammar) Blood In The Snow lost none of the lyrical quality which transports the reader to the small Italian skiing village high in the Alps where the story is set. Marzio Santoni was born in the mountains and after a stint as a top city detective, has returned to the quiet life. His calm, relaxed world is suddenly upended completely when four young female tour

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Blog Tour and Book Review: Kiss Me At Christmas by Valerie Bowman

Caitlyn Lynch

Nov 1, 2018
2 min

Blog Tour and Book Review: Kiss Me At Christmas by Valerie Bowman

Lady Regina is the beautiful, wealthy, virginal niece of a duke who has almost reached her thirtieth birthday without ever meeting a man she wants to marry. Finally running out of patience, her uncle gives her an ultimatum. Find an eligible suitor to marry before Christmas or enter a marriage of convenience. Problem is, the only man who’s ever caught her eye is definitely not eligible. Daffin Oakleaf is a Bow Street Runner. Marriage is out of the question, but one night? That

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Blog Tour and Book Review: First Earl I See Tonight by Anna Bennett

Caitlyn Lynch

Oct 31, 2018
3 min

Blog Tour and Book Review: First Earl I See Tonight by Anna Bennett

Miss Fiona Hartley is desperate. She has two weeks to come up with an enormous sum of money for a blackmailer or see her beloved sister ruined forever. Frightened to burden her sick father, there seems only one option open to her - marry in haste and to an obliging husband who will let her use a portion of her enormous dowry for her own purposes. The only man she knows who ticks all the boxes is Gray, Earl of Ravenport, well known to be strapped for cash with an enormous, cru

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Book Review: His Garden: Conversations With A Serial Killer by Anne K. Howard

Caitlyn Lynch

Oct 9, 2018
2 min

Book Review: His Garden: Conversations With A Serial Killer by Anne K. Howard

Being Australian, I’m always slightly blown away to discover just how many serial killers America seems to have. Many of them make global news because of the nature of their crimes, or the number of their victims, but there are many more I’ve never heard of. Until I came across this book, William Devin Howell was one of those. Yet, in a period of just nine months in 2003, Howell murdered seven people and buried their bodies in shallow graves within literal shouting distance o

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Book Review: A Whole New Ball Game by Lauren K McKellar

Caitlyn Lynch

Oct 7, 2018
2 min

Book Review: A Whole New Ball Game by Lauren K McKellar

I loved the first few books in the Women of WAR series, about female players of Aussie Rules football, and this is a terrific addition to the series. This is my second Lauren K. McKellar book too, and damn it… she made me ugly cry again! Zoe is a pediatric nurse at a ‘care home’, which is basically a hospice where ill children coming from remote areas stay when receiving outpatient hospital treatment. A major side character is a young patient with cancer, and, spoiler, this i

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Book Review: The Case of the Golden State Killer by Michael Morford and Michael Ferguson

Caitlyn Lynch

Sep 18, 2018
2 min

Book Review: The Case of the Golden State Killer by Michael Morford and Michael Ferguson

The authors of this book are the hosts of an extremely popular podcast called Criminology, which delves in great depth into some major unsolved crimes. Their first season focussed on the Zodiac Killer and the second, which forms the basis for this book, on the Golden State Killer. If you haven’t heard of the Golden State Killer, you wouldn’t be alone. Despite devouring many true crime books in my time, this was a new name to me. Reading this book, I was fascinated to discover

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Book Review: Burning Ridge by Margaret Mizushima

Caitlyn Lynch

Sep 13, 2018
2 min

Book Review: Burning Ridge by Margaret Mizushima

This is the fourth in the Timber Creek K-9 series featuring Mattie Cobb and her K-9 partner Robo, but you absolutely don’t need to have read the others to dive right in here. While references are made to events which were obviously detailed in past books, there is little which seems to outright affect the plot of this one, apart from Mattie already having a relationship with Cole, the local vet. It’s Cole who, when out on a trail ride with his daughters, makes a grisly discov

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Book Review: A Necessary Murder by M.J. Tija

Caitlyn Lynch

Sep 3, 2018
2 min

Book Review: A Necessary Murder by M.J. Tija

I wanted to like this a lot more than I did, because the heroine is that rare creature in a historical fiction book; a person of colour. Heloise Chancey is a half-Chinese, high-class courtesan in Victorian London, living with her maid/mother Amah Li Leen and occasionally solving crimes. This is the second book in a series about Heloise, and I’m not sure how much backstory we missed in the first, but despite much of the book being told in the first person from Heloise’s point

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Non-Fiction Friday Book Review: 2k to 10k by Rachel Aaron

Caitlyn Lynch

Aug 31, 2018
2 min

Non-Fiction Friday Book Review: 2k to 10k by Rachel Aaron

Full title: 2,000 to 10,000: How to Write Faster, Write Better, and Write More of What You Love. Universal purchase link here. Rachel Aaron is a professional full-time author of fantasy and science fiction. A few years ago, she did some analysis and self-examination of her writing habits and techniques and managed to successfully apply some theories to take her writing from 2,000 words a day to 10,000 words a day. Rachel first published most of the information in this book as

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Book Review: The Heiress He's Been Waiting For by Kaitlin O'Riley

Caitlyn Lynch

Aug 31, 2018
2 min

Book Review: The Heiress He's Been Waiting For by Kaitlin O'Riley

Sara Fleming is a poor little rich girl. An ultra-wealthy American heiress, her parents have whisked her away from New York and off to London to prevent her engagement to a man they consider unsuitable. Sara, of course, thinks it's the end of the world. She even contemplates jumping off the ship to drown ‘because then they'd be sorry!’ in the ultimate bratty gesture. Despite Sara being spoilt, naive and more than a bit of a brat, I felt sorry for her. Nobody would dignify her

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Caitlyn Lynch

Aug 28, 2018
2 min

Book Review & GIVEAWAY: The Duke With The Dragon Tattoo by Kerrigan Byrne

UNIVERSAL PURCHASE LINK Clever alliteration aside, the title is just a touch misleading. While the dragon tattoo is both real and an integral part of the story, this Victorian romp is less high society and Almack’s and more pirates and treasure hunts. Which is actually a lot more fun, but not really what I was expecting. The Rook is the most notorious pirate on the high seas. So when he turns up at Lorelai’s undesired wedding and kills both her groom and her abusive brother b

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Book Review: Perfect Silence by Helen Fields

Caitlyn Lynch

Aug 26, 2018
2 min

Book Review: Perfect Silence by Helen Fields

Perfect Silence is the fourth book in the DI Callanach series, and full disclaimer; I haven’t read the other three. Luc Callanach is the hero of the title, a French former Interpol officer now working as a detective inspector on the Major Incident Team (MIT) in Edinburgh, Scotland. There are quite a few references to events happening to Luc, his boss Ava and other members of the MIT, but I didn’t find it was necessary to have read previous books to understand what was going o

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Book Review: A Deadly Business by Desiree Holt

Caitlyn Lynch

Aug 23, 2018
2 min

Book Review: A Deadly Business by Desiree Holt

Marissa isn’t who she used to be… literally. Two years ago she was Lauren, accountant to one of the wealthiest (and dirtiest) businessmen in London. Recruited by the CIA from the world of high finance to bring Stefan Maes down, she did her job almost too well - and yet not quite well enough. Maes lost most of his billions, but didn’t go to prison, and now Lauren is top of his hit list. Changing her identity and hiding out under the protection of Vigilance, she’s sent into hid

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Book Review: The Negotiator by Brendan DuBois

Caitlyn Lynch

Aug 11, 2018
2 min

Book Review: The Negotiator by Brendan DuBois

The Negotiator has no name. He's a man you probably wouldn't notice if you saw him in the street… he dresses to blend in. But he has a very particular set of specialized skills, and when a deal goes inexplicably wrong and his assistant is killed, he turns those skills to a single, utterly focused purpose, a mission that will not end until he has what he wants. Revenge. While the Negotiator’s business is decidedly on the shady side - he brokers black market deals, determining

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Book Review: Brave New Earl by Jane Ashford

Caitlyn Lynch

Aug 9, 2018
2 min

Book Review: Brave New Earl by Jane Ashford

Brave New Earl is the first in a new series by Jane Ashford which seems set to follow a group of gentlemen who have all experienced great loss, as they find their happily ever after. Benjamin, Earl of Furness, is still grieving his wife even five years after her death, so much so that he can hardly bear to look at his son Geoffrey since he sees too much of Alice in the boy. Consequently, Geoffrey is allowed to run somewhat wild and barely knows his father. Miss Jean Somerset

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Book Review: What Ales The Earl by Sally MacKenzie

Caitlyn Lynch

Jul 31, 2018
2 min

Book Review: What Ales The Earl by Sally MacKenzie

Harry Graham has to choose a bride, and quickly. He was never supposed to be Earl, but when his brother died in his mid-thirties without siring a son, Harry inherited both the title and the responsibility to ensure the succession. The only problem is that all the ‘suitable’ young ladies he’s meeting in London are utterly uninteresting. None of them compare to Pen, his childhood sweetheart. Encountering Pen again when helping out a friend is quite a surprise… but not as much s

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Book Review: Good Little Girls by Rita Herron

Caitlyn Lynch

Jul 25, 2018
2 min

Book Review: Good Little Girls by Rita Herron

A terrifying psychological thriller with a romance wrapped up at the heart of it, Good Little Girls isn’t a read for the faint-hearted. It tells the story of Tinsley, the only surviving victim of the Skull, a serial killer who liked to keep his victims as sex slaves, in some cases for months, before finally killing them. Tinsley got away thanks to Wyatt, an FBI agent on her case, but the Skull remains at large. Unable to leave her home due to crippling agoraphobia, when stran

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Book Review: The Third Rule by Andrew Barrett

Caitlyn Lynch

Jul 17, 2018
3 min

Book Review: The Third Rule by Andrew Barrett

In a quite near future Britain, a new party has risen to power on a platform of stopping crime. The Rules are simple; break the law in any way, you’re on a Rule One. Three strikes… and you’re out, sent to the newly-built ‘slaughterhouses’ and put to death in a revived capital punishment law. CSI Eddie Collins, reeling in the wake of personal tragedy, is just trying to get back to work and on with his life. Sent to examine the very car which took his son’s life in a hit-and-ru

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