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Book Description: Four hikers enter the mountains. Only two return. But is it tragedy? Or treachery? When sisters Cat and Ginny travel with their husbands to the idyllic Swiss Alps for a hiking holiday, it’s not just a chance to take in the stunning scenery. It’s an opportunity to reconnect with each other after years… Continue reading The Hike by Susi Holliday @SJIHolliday @RandomTTours @AmazonPub
Book Description: Anne Frank. Primo Levi. Oskar Schindler . . . Rudolf Vrba.In April 1944 nineteen-year-old Rudolf Vrba and fellow inmate Fred Wetzler became the first Jews ever to break out of Auschwitz. Under electrified fences and past armed watchtowers, evading thousands of SS men and slavering dogs, they trekked across marshlands, mountains and rivers… Continue reading The Escape Artist by Jonathan Freedland
Book Description: A young woman escapes abandonment, poverty, and crime—but making it in the music world can’t protect her from her past, in this intoxicating thriller.It’s 1984 and sixteen-year-old Catherine Day’s mother has deserted her in their Glasgow home. Alone and desperate for money, Catherine is soon ensnared by local criminals. But that’s not the… Continue reading Any Day Now by Gordon J. Brown @RedDogTweets @GoJaBrown
Book Description: The huge Sunday Times number one bestselling inspirational memoir from rugby league legend Rob Burrow on his extraordinary career and his battle with motor neurone disease.‘A pocket rocket of a player and a giant of a character . . . He is one in a million and his story is truly inspirational’ – Clare Balding‘I’m not giving in until my last… Continue reading Too Many Reasons To Live by Rob Burrows
Book Description: What you don’t know can hurt you. Thirty years ago Anthony Mailer was a seven-year-old boy trapped in Dr Galbraith’s basement. Now he’s a journalist, a husband and a father. But no matter how far he’s come, at times he’s still that scared little boy. In order to save his marriage, he has… Continue reading The Father (The Galbraith Series Book 3) by John Nicholl @BoldwoodBooks @rararesources @nicholl06
Book Description: From NY Times best selling author of the Justice series, M A Comley, who has sold over 4 million copies worldwide.A killer with a horrific agenda is at large …DI Sara Ramsey is called to a crime scene where a man’s body has been nailed to a fence. She also discovers the killer… Continue reading Time To Kill (DI Sara Ramsey Book 17) by M.A. Comley @ComleyMel
Book Description: In this exhilarating thriller from four million copy bestselling author Mark Edwards, Aidan’s spent years looking for his sister. Will he ever find her? Two years ago, on a trip to Seattle to visit her brother Aidan, fifteen-year-old Scarlett vanished into thin air. After years of false leads and dead ends, Aidan has… Continue reading No Place to Run by Mark Edwards @mredwards
Bloody Scotland established itself as the leading Scottish International Crime Writing Festival in 2012 with acclaimed writers Lin Anderson and Alex Gray at the helm, then joined by Craig Robertson and Gordon Brown. Based in Stirling, Bloody Scotland has brought hundreds of crime writers new and established to the stage with always enthusiastic attendees who… Continue reading Bloody Scotland Blog Tour – Spotlight with Jo Spain @SpainJoanne @BloodyScotland
Book Description: From the Sunday Times bestseller comes a warm, tender and utterly hilarious story about love and betrayal ‘The feeling you get when you read a Milly Johnson book should be bottled and made available on the NHS’ Debbie JohnsonLove can sting. Or make you fly ... Romance writer and single mum Stevie Honeywell has only weeks to go to her… Continue reading The Birds & the Bees by Milly Johnson @millyjohnson
Book Description: Serial killers never retire. They just go on hiatus. The urge to kill is always there, bubbling below the surface. Billy and Charlie thought their killing days were behind them. They used to be prolific life-takers, but old age finally caught up with them. Now they are ending their days in a dismal… Continue reading Killing Time by Stephen Leather @stephenleather
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