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Nothing Left Behind  by Hannah Brennan Nothing Left Behind by Hannah Brennan was published on 23rd April by Harper Collins. 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 ‘Emergency. Which service do you require?’  ‘He’s trying to burn down my house. He’s going to kill me.’  Anne Evans was a 'nuisance caller'. She would repetitively dial 999 in desperate panic, screaming down the phone that 'he' was going to burn her alive… But after years of false alarms, people stopped listening. Now, as the smoke clears, DCI Liz Field can only watch helplessly as Anne’s charred home collapses, her body still trapped inside. The blaze leaves scant evidence behind, but the more Field's team uncover in the rubble, the more disturbing the case becomes. This wasn't merely arson, it was murder, tailored to the victim’s worst nightmare. Everyone thought Anne was just a paranoid recluse. But i...

The Woman in the Wall by Heidi Amsinck The Woman In The Wall by Heidi Amsinck  Published on 23rd April 2026 by Muswell Press M y 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 A gruesome discovery in a Copenhagen apartment. A desperate author’s dark secret. A stalker who will stop at nothing, to destroy everything…Jensen returns in her most sinister case yet. When human remains turn up behind an apartment wall DI Henrik Jungersen finds himself on the trail of a killer who has been hiding in plain sight. Meanwhile, Jensen should be enjoying maternity leave but life has other plans. Legendary author, Valde Brix, is claiming to be her father. But Brix has an ulterior motive. Then a woman connected to Brix turns up brutally murdered, and Jensen and her teenage apprentice Gustav become embroiled in Henrik’s investigation. It soon becomes chillingly clear that the stalker will stop at nothing....

No More Tomorrows  by Olivia Lockhart and Hal Lambert  No More Tomorrows by Olivia Lockhart and Hal Lambert was published early in 2026. My thanks to Olivia for sending me a copy to review and to  Rachel's Random Things for inviting me onto the tour. Synopsis Two eras. One aching heart. 1917 –   At Cambridge University, American scholar Harry Turchin never expects to lose himself to desire. But Annie Mackenzie—soft-spoken, grieving, and luminous—claims his heart from their very first kiss. Their love is swift, fierce, and intoxicating. Married just days before Harry is sent to war, their passion is ripped apart when the trenches claim everything he knows, and Harry is thrown into a future that should not exist. 1967 –   The free-spirited sixties are alive with rhythm, rebellion, and possibility. Harry awakens to a world he doesn’t recognise—and to Annalise Taylor, as bold and captivating as the era itself. Brilliant, independent, and achingly alive, she rouse...

The Sunken Sailor  by Patricia Moyes The Sunken Sailor by Patricia Moyes was published by Farrago  on 2nd April 2026 and is the second book in The Inspector Tibbett series. My thanks to Farrago for sending me a copy to review and to  Random Things Tours for inviting me onto the tour. Synopsis Inspector Henry Tibbett and his wife, Emmy, are enjoying a holiday on a friend's yacht, lazily sailing from one little English sea-town to the next. It should all be delicious indolence... except that Henry can't stop thinking about death. Well, one death in particular. The death of a local sailor. And he really can't stop thinking about it when it starts looking as though the drowned sailor is somehow connected to the robbery at a nearby manor house. My Thoughts The Sunken Sailor is a Cosy Crime Mystery that was written in the late 1950’s/60’s following on from the likes of Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers whose writings were now in the past. In the Inspector Tibbett series Moyes ...