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Book Review: The Lies We Tell by Debra Webb

Caitlyn Lynch

Sep 23, 2019
2 min

Book Review: The Lies We Tell by Debra Webb

I’m gonna start off this review by saying that I haaaaate cliffhangers with a burning passion. And if that’s you too, then you should absolutely not read this book until the series is complete, because otherwise you’ll be very annoyed and frustrated. There’s an obvious overriding series arc with a ‘big bad’ who doesn’t even make an appearance in this book, but is constantly on the mind of (and manipulating from afar) the characters we’re following. There’s a character who is

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Blog Tour and Book Review: Save Your Breath by Melinda Leigh

Caitlyn Lynch

Sep 21, 2019
4 min

Blog Tour and Book Review: Save Your Breath by Melinda Leigh

I'm excited to bring you on a blog tour with review for Save Your Breath by Melinda Leigh! Below my review, you'll find a fascinating interview with the author and a link to a Rafflecopter giveaway, so don't forget to go all the way down to the end of the post! My review: I really enjoy the Morgan Dane books, but be warned; this is not the place to jump into the series. Start at the beginning and read through, because by the time you get to this book, the sixth in the series,

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Book Review: Forget Me Not by Claire Allan

Caitlyn Lynch

Aug 7, 2019
2 min

Book Review: Forget Me Not by Claire Allan

Elizabeth, a kindly grandmother, is out walking her dog early one summer morning when she makes a shocking and gruesome discovery - the body of a young woman, savagely mutilated and on the verge of death, dumped on the side of the road. Whispering just two words ‘warn them’ before expiring, the message haunts Elizabeth, leaving her unable to rest until she can work out just who she needs to warn, and about what. The narration alternates in first person between Elizabeth and R

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Caitlyn Lynch

Jul 14, 2019
2 min

Book Review: Dark Storm by Karen Harper

The premise for Dark Storm is really interesting, with a couple of unique plot elements focusing on suspended animation, and yet somehow this romantic suspense fails completely at being either romantic or suspenseful. Instead, it’s bloated with characters - about 12 were introduced in the first 5 or so pages, leaving me utterly boggled - and has clunky PoV switches around characters who aren’t actually the focus of the story. Neither Darcy, the woman kidnapped at the beginnin

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Book Review: A Merciful Promise by Kendra Elliot

Caitlyn Lynch

Jul 13, 2019
1 min

Book Review: A Merciful Promise by Kendra Elliot

The sixth and final book in the Mercy Fitzpatrick series, A Merciful Promise sees Mercy go undercover in a militia group when the ATF need some help in a hurry. Their agent is due to go in the following day and has come down with shingles, and Mercy is the only agent in the FBI or ATF who fits the bill physically. Her ‘be prepared’ philosophy makes it a no-brainer; she can think on her feet and fit in with the militia members almost seamlessly. With Mercy completely out of co

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Book Review: Secrets Never Die by Melinda Leigh

Caitlyn Lynch

Mar 20, 2019
2 min

Book Review: Secrets Never Die by Melinda Leigh

Criminal defence attorney Morgan Dane and her fiance PI Lance Kruger return in Secrets Never Die, a story that begins with a sixteen-year-old boy walking in on his stepfather’s murder and then having to run for his life. The why of the murder and the where is the boy occupy Morgan and Lance throughout the story as they follow leads which seem to make no sense until long-buried secrets are dragged into the light. There are some nice slices of family life woven in, with appeara

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Book Review: A Version of the Truth by B.P. Walter

Caitlyn Lynch

Feb 11, 2019
3 min

Book Review: A Version of the Truth by B.P. Walter

Following dual timelines, this dark and twisty tale explores the way our wishes colour what we see. In 2019, Julianne is married to James and living a wealthy, comfortable life in exclusive Knightsbridge when her teenage son brings her something disturbing he’s found on the shared family drive, something which will rock the foundations of everything Julianne thinks she knows about her life. The timeline in 1990 follows Holly, an English student in her first term at Oxford Uni

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Caitlyn Lynch

Feb 8, 2019
2 min

Book Review: Remember Me by D.E. White

Fifteen years ago, eight teenagers went into the woods outside their small Welsh village to drink, take a few pills and have a good time. Seven came out, carrying a terrible secret. Fast forward to today and Ava Cole is living a good life; a detective with the LAPD, she returns to Aberdyth when she gets the news that her ex-husband is dying. But it seems the past is coming back to haunt her, beginning with a series of terrifying texts and building up to a chilling climax. I w

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Book Review: River Bodies by Karen Katchur

Caitlyn Lynch

Jan 21, 2019
2 min

Book Review: River Bodies by Karen Katchur

The Delaware River is almost a character itself in this novel from Karen Katchur, with Katchur’s beautiful prose bringing the scenic area on the river’s banks to life as she explores characters in a small Pennsylvania town dominated by a biker gang. Anyone who’s watched Sons Of Anarchy can probably guess which direction the plot is headed in, but it’s how it gets there which is really interesting, viewed through the eyes of veterinarian Becca Kingsley, who left her small home

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Book Review: A Merciful Fate by Kendra Elliot

Caitlyn Lynch

Jan 16, 2019
1 min

Book Review: A Merciful Fate by Kendra Elliot

How well do you really know someone? That’s a question posed more than once in this intriguing thriller by Kendra Elliot, fifth in the Mercy Kilpatrick series about an FBI agent in Bend, Oregon. Raised by a family of off-the-grid survivalists, Mercy’s instincts die hard, but when you’ve known someone for a decade or more as a pillar of the community, it’s unimaginable they could be involved in a major crime. When an ancient skeleton is found in a crumbling shack, one of the g

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Book Review: In The Barren Ground by Loreth Anne White

Caitlyn Lynch

Jan 12, 2019
2 min

Book Review: In The Barren Ground by Loreth Anne White

Loreth Anne White may just be my favorite writer of crime thrillers at the moment. Her Angie Pallorino series is quite rightly one of Amazon’s best-sellers, but before Angie, there was Mountie cop Tana Larsson. Twin Rivers, population 320, is the kind of town where secrets go to die. In the Barrens, a vast Canadian wilderness bordering the Arctic Circle, Tana Larsson doesn’t mind the cold or the endless winter nights. She’s got a secret of her own to keep. The mauling deaths

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Book Review: The Collector by Fiona Cummins

Caitlyn Lynch

Dec 21, 2018
2 min

Book Review: The Collector by Fiona Cummins

The second of a pair of books (the first one is Rattle) about a deranged serial killer who calls himself The Collector, this one picks up apparently right after the first leaves off. First thing I have to say is that I haven’t read Rattle, but I do think you can get away with reading this one as a standalone as everything is well covered without infodumping and Fiona Cummins does a fantastic job of deep-diving into character psyches. The Collector is obsessed with the physica

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Caitlyn Lynch

Nov 25, 2018
1 min

Book Review: Past Tense by Lee Child

I have to be honest and say that although Jack Reacher is one of my favourite fictional characters, the last few adventures haven't quite lived up to the earliest ones, and The Midnight Line really fell flat, for me, especially the ending. So it was more in hope than anticipation that I picked up Past Tense... and boy, was I pleasantly surprised. Past Tense is, in my opinion, the best Reacher book since Worth Dying For, which is my favourite Reacher book ever. It's right up t

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Book Review: Don't Let Me In by Phil Kurthausen

Caitlyn Lynch

Oct 22, 2018
2 min

Book Review: Don't Let Me In by Phil Kurthausen

A former TV presenter, Sarah Kelly became agoraphobic after an attack in her own home. Creating a new career as the presenter of a true crime podcast, she has built quite a following as she looks into the murder conviction of a young man she believes is innocent. Unfortunately, because the accused is a Muslim, hate trolls have come out in force. For the most part, Sarah takes the online invective with the ‘all attention is good’ attitude, but when one troll threatens her son,

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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: The Sunday Girl by Pip Drysdale

Caitlyn Lynch

Sep 5, 2018
2 min

Book Review: The Sunday Girl by Pip Drysdale

To the external viewer, Taylor has the perfect life. Pretty, smart, with a good job in real estate research, she even has the perfect boyfriend, investment banker Angus. Except, Taylor just found out Angus is cheating on her. On the eve of their ski holiday. And when she dumped him, the last thing she expected was for him to go on the holiday with the Other Woman… right after uploading a sex tape he convinced her to make, to the internet. I have to say, I’d have started think

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Book Review: A Merciful Silence by Kendra Elliot

Caitlyn Lynch

Jul 9, 2018
2 min

Book Review: A Merciful Silence by Kendra Elliot

Having read and reviewed A Merciful Silence back in January and thoroughly enjoyed it, I jumped at the chance to read this next book in the series. This time around, past and present collide for FBI agent Mercy Kilpatrick when five skeletons are found with injuries identical to those seen in cases of murdered families two decades ago. The crimes were so brutal nobody could ever forget, but the perpetrator was caught… wasn’t he? The only survivor remembers nothing of that nigh

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Book Review: The Nowhere Child by Christian White

Caitlyn Lynch

Jun 30, 2018
1 min

Book Review: The Nowhere Child by Christian White

What would you do if you discovered your entire life was a lie? That's the question Kim Leamy has to face when she's approached by a man suggesting she might actually be Sammy Went, a little girl who went missing twenty-eight years ago in Manson, Kentucky. Journeying from her home in Australia to the US in a pilgrimage to discover the truth, Kim discovers sometimes, some secrets are better not uncovered. Chapters in the story alternate between past and present, or Now and The

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Caitlyn Lynch

Jun 16, 2018
2 min

The Lullaby Girl by Loreth Anne White

On probation from her job after the takedown of a serial killer went bad, Detective Angie Pallorino turns her attention to the cold case which most haunts her… her own. Found in an ‘angel’s cradle’ as a wounded, mute four-year-old, the resurgence of buried memories sends her on a quest to dig into her own past and find out what happened to not just her, but the red-haired girl in a pink dress who haunts her dreams, waking and sleeping. With her lover James Maddocks still on t

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Book Review: The Drowned Girls by Loreth Anne White

Caitlyn Lynch

Jun 14, 2018
2 min

Book Review: The Drowned Girls by Loreth Anne White

Detective Angie Pallorino knows she’s not the easiest person in the world to deal with. She also knows she’d damn good at her job, in the sex crimes unit of Victoria, Canada’s city police force. The discovery of a mutilated, near-dead young woman in a graveyard bearing striking similarities to an old case sees Angie seconded to Homicide, where to her horror she has to work under the new boss, James Maddocks… a man with whom she had an anonymous sexual encounter just a couple

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