From the Book Elf

House of Twisted Shadows by J.H.Mann House of Twisted Shadows by J. H. Mann  is published by Dark Spider Books. My thanks to J.H. Mann for sending me an arc copy to review and to Rachel's Random Resources for inviting me onto the book tour. About the story A HOUSE ON THE EDGE A DAUGHTER DRIVEN TO OBSESSION A FORBIDDEN LOVE Winter 1962 . Amelia Tremayne has spent the past ten years in London trying to forget the lonely clifftop house where her father was killed. Tyler House was built shortly before the Second World War on Cornwall’s stormy coast by a wealthy German outsider. Its most unsettling feature is a vast glass dome that bends the light, casting twisted, elongated shadows across the walls. Amelia’s father, Douglas Tremayne, a noted historian, was researching a controversial book about Tyler House’s Nazi origins - and its links to powerful figures in the local community. As Amelia begins to uncover the truth about her father’s death, she is pulled into a web of buried secrets ...

Consider The Ravens  by Cressida Downing Consider The Ravens by Cressida Downing  was published on 16th July by No Exit Press. My thanks to the author and publisher for sending me a copy to review and to  Random Things Resources for inviting me onto the book tour. About The Book Lindisfarne in 1494 is a holy island of secrets. The scribe Linnet is running from her criminal past and seeking sanctuary in the island of her childhood. She’s friendless in the monastery, the monks resentful of a woman scribe, and her only company is Tom the fisherman and a child, Isabelle – watchful, clever and unlikeable – with her partly tamed raven Pol. The monastery bursar Oswyn threatens to expose Linnet’s past but she isn’t the only one with secrets to hide. Intent upon uncovering the monks’ misdeeds is the fanatic inspector, sent by the new Bishop of Durham to write a report on the monastery. When Oswyn is found drowned, Linnet suspects the death is not accidental. After another death, L...

From The Shadows by G.R Halliday From The Shadows by G.R. Halliday  is soon to be  an ITV series "The Dark". My thanks to the author and publisher  for sending me a copy to review and to  Random Things Tours for inviting me to take part on the tour. Synopsis Sixteen-year-old Robert arrives home late. Without a word to his dad, he goes up to his bedroom. Robert is never seen alive again. The discovery of a body on the coast of the Scottish Highlands, plunges Detective Inspector Monica Kennedy into a murder investigation, that won’t begin and end with one death. As paranoia rises and secrets are forced into the light, the local community becomes aware that there is a serial killer in their midst. Meanwhile, seventeen-year-old Nichol Morgan has been missing for days, sending a last, enigmatic text message to his social worker Michael Bach, who can’t quite shake the suspicion that something is terribly wrong. Soon DI Monica Kennedy finds herself entangled with a cunning ...

  Three Summers  by Karen Swan My thanks to the author and publisher for sending me a copy of Three Summers to review and to  Random Things Resources for inviting me onto the tour. Synopsis Set against the sun-drenched shores of Puglia in the late 1950s and early 1960s, this sweeping, atmospheric story follows three childhood friends whose lives become irrevocably entwined by love, jealousy, and a tragedy that will reverberate for years to come. At the heart of the novel is Rafaella Parisi, an unassuming yet magnetic young woman who spends ten long months each year waiting for the noble Franchetti family to return to their grand summer villa – and most of all, for their son Cosimo. Though she is dating her gentle childhood neighbour, Fon Giannelli, Rafa’s heart belongs elsewhere. As passions ignite and tensions rise, one devastating night changes the course of their lives forever. Told across the span of three unforgettable summers, Three Summers is a deeply evocative tal...