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No Oil Painting by Genevieve Marenghi

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No Oil Painting by Genevieve Marenghi No Oil Painting by Genevieve Marenghi was published by Burton Mayers. My thanks to the author and publisher for sending me a review copy and to  Rachel's Random Resources for inviting me onto the tour. Synopsis A respectable septuagenarian steals a valuable painting and later tries to return it, with a little help from her friends. Bored National Trust volunteer, Maureen, steals an obscure still life as a giant up-yours to all those who’ve discounted her. The novice fine art thief is rumbled by some fellow room guides, but snitches get stitches, camaraderie wins out and instead of grassing her up, they decide to help. Often written off as an insipid old fart, Maureen has a darker side, challenging ingrained ideas of how senior citizens should behave. Her new set of friends make her feel alive again. No longer quite so invisible, can this unlikely pensioner gang return the now infamous painting without being caught by the Feds? I wrote this afte...
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The Fracture by Morgan Cry

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The Fracture by Morgan Cry The Fracture by Morgan Cry  was published on 4th November by Severn House. My thanks to the author and the publisher for sending me a copy to review and to  Random Things Tours for inviting me onto the tour. Synopsis Ex-police officer Blake Glover’s past threatens to catch up with him and destroy his small town life in this second instalment of the Blake Glover Crime series by Bloody Scotland co-founder Gordon Brown writing as Morgan Cry. Ex-police constable and now taxi driver Blake Glover thought retiring to his ho metown of Fraserburgh would be calm – until, while attending a local funeral service, he notices something disturbing: did the sturdy expensive coffin split as it was lowered into the grave? How could this be possible? Is there a cruel scheme taking place? As if this wasn’t enough, one of Blake’s customers from the night before has gone missing and Blake is the last person to have seen him alive. To make matters even worse, Blake is ...
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The Man Next Door by E.M. Scott

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 The Man Next Door by E.M. Scott The Man Next Door by E.M. Scott  is published by Bedford Square Publishers. My thanks to the author and publisher for sending me a copy to review and to  Random Things Tours for inviting me onto the tour. Synopsis Retired police detective inspector Thomas Maitland has rented a house in Cornwall; he's going to paint his way to recovery from the experiences of the spring. A local woman with an intriguingly expensive collection of modern art wants to put on a show of his work. But Maitland's next door neighbour, also his landlord, is unsettling, and when he finds his benefactor dead at the bottom of her garden, Thomas Maitland feels death casting its net over him again. My Thoughts This is a fascinating read from cover to cover . A read in which you will find yourself questioning and re-questioning what is happening and more importantly, in my case, who exactly is The Man Next Door referring to , because believe you me it  changes....
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The Wee Small Hours by Rosa Temple

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The Wee Small Hours  by Rosa Temple The Wee Small Hours by Rosa Temple was published by Island Dream Books.  My thanks to the author and publisher  for sending me a copy to review and to  Random Things Resources for inviting me onto the tour. Synopsis A cosy small-town romance about sleepless nights, unexpected friendships, and finding love when you least expect it. Annie Lambert hasn’t slept properly in years. Her remedy? Moonlit walks through her quiet Herefordshire town, where secrets linger and stories whisper in the shadows. When her mother returns to Australia, Annie inherits the crumbling family home—and a place in the Monday Afternoon Knitters Circle, a trio of spirited seventy-somethings determined to fix her life stitch by stitch. Suddenly, Annie’s small-town world is anything but quiet. A homeless man and his loyal dog become her closest confidants. A charming ex-footballer arrives as a new client. And her rugged builder seems to have more than bricks on h...
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Watch Your Back by Emma Christie

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Watch Your Back  by Emma Christie Watch Your Back by Emma Christie was published on 23rs October by  Mountain Leopard Press. My thanks to the author and the publisher for sending me a copy to review and to  Random Things Resources for inviting me onto the tour. Synopsis Your Past Is Right Behind You Jo has always kept her head down and surrounded herself with strangers who know nothing about her mum's murder. But fifteen years after the killing she receives a box of unopened letters addressed to her - sent from the prison. But before she can read them, they're stolen, and soon Jo realises that someone must have a terrible secret to hide. Determined to protect her new life from the violence of her past, she embarks on a mission to find out the truth. But can Jo find the sender, before they find her ? My Thoughts  Gosh, what a dark powerful read this was . No matter which way you look at it ,this is a sinister and at times gut wrenching book. As you turn the pa...
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The Corpse Bell by Ian McFadyen

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The Corpse Bell  by Ian McFadyen The Corpse Bell by Ian McFadyen was published on 15th September 2025. My thanks to Ian for sending me a copy to review and to  Rachel's Random Resources for inviting me onto the tour. Synopsis   The last thing Penny Carmichael expected when she joined the local bellringing group was for her debut to be thwarted by the discovery of a body just yards from the belfry door. As her husband and his loyal team painstakingly sift through the evidence and delve deep into the dead man's past, it's clear that solving Peter Mackenzie's murder may prove a challenge, even for someone with DCI Carmichael's renowned detective prowess. What was a man who'd lived for decades in North London doing in Moulton Bank?  Was his chequered past a factor? And what about the other members of Penny's bellringing group. Did any of them have a reason to do Peter harm?  As the case unfolds, DCI Carmicheal and his trusty team seek answers to a complex puzzle...
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