Just a girl and her books
INHUMAN RESOURCES | Pierre Lemaitre 11.06.2018 | Quercus USA Rating: 3/5 stars Alain Delambre lost his job four years ago. He is a fifty-seven-year-old former HR Executive, who now finds himself stuck in the world of unemployment. These days the only job offers he is receiving are for low-level, manual labor positions, which are far … Continue reading Book Review: Inhuman Resources
EXCERPT: DELIVER ME BY KAREN COLE QUERCUS PUBLISHING, November 1, 2018 Welcome to my stop on the blog blast tour for DELIVER ME by Karen Cole! When the awesome folks over at Quercus Publishing reached out to me about being a stop on the tour for this book, I jumped at the chance. Keep reading … Continue reading Blog Tour: Excerpt: Deliver Me by Karen Cole
Q&A: VALENTINA GIAMBANCO, AUTHOR OF SWEET AFTER DEATH QUERCUS USA, AUGUST 7, 2018 Welcome to my stop on the blog tour for Valentina Giambanco's latest novel Sweet After Death! This is the 4th book in Giambanco's Alice Madison series. Keep reading for a synopsis of the book and a Q&A with the author herself! ABOUT … Continue reading Blog Tour: Author Q&A: Valentina Giambanco, Sweet After Death
THE NIGHT VISITOR | Lucy Atkins 07.03.2018 | Quercus USA Rating: 4.5/5 stars Professor Olivia Sweetman is a historian living a life she never could have imagined she would call her own. She has a successful career as a TV presenter, is a mother to three children, and has a husband whose talent is just … Continue reading Book Review: The Night Visitor
CAN YOU HEAR ME? | Elena Varvello 06.05.2018 | Quercus USA Rating: 3/5 stars In 1978 the Northern Italian city of Ponte is deteriorating. Once a busier area, the local factory has closed down, leaving many residents scrambling to find new jobs or down and out on their luck. Elia Furenti’s father, Ettore, is one … Continue reading Book Review: Can You Hear Me?
THE AWKWARD SQUAD | Sophie Henaff 04.03.2018 | Quercus USA Rating 4/5 stars Anne Capestan has been suspended from her police duties for firing one too many bullets at the bad guys in her cases. Now that her suspension is wrapping up, she has been called to HQ to learn what will happen to … Continue reading Book Review: The Awkward Squad
I’LL KEEP YOU SAFE | Peter May 03.06.2018 | Quercus USA Rating: 3/5 stars Niamh and Ruairidh MacFarlane are the co-owners of a popular Scottish textiles company known as Ranish Tweed. The couple is in the midst of promoting their brand in Paris when Niamh receives an anonymous email telling her that Ruairidh is having … Continue reading Book Review: I’ll Keep You Safe
BLOOD WEDDING | Pierre Lemaitre 07.07.2016 | Quercus, MacLehose Press (imprint) Rating: 5/5 stars Sophie Duguet is living a picturesque life. She has a successful career and a happy marriage. Sophie thought it was just a case of her becoming absentminded when she first started forgetting where she placed things or parked her car. These … Continue reading Book Review: Blood Wedding
THE FIREMAKER | Peter May 01.09.2018 (first published 1999) | Quercus USA Rating: 4/5 stars A corpse is found burning in a highly travelled park in Beijing, leaving the man that used to be alive completely unrecognizable. Detective Li Yan has recently been promoted and assigned to the case on his first day. Before he … Continue reading Book Review: The Firemaker
CLOSE TO ME | Amanda Reynolds 12.05.2017 | Quercus USA Rating: 4/5 stars Jo Harding wakes up on the way to the hospital in an ambulance. Everyone around her is telling her she fell down the stairs. The last thing Jo can remember is taking her son, Fin, to university with her husband, Rob. The … Continue reading Book Review: Close to Me
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