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Clark Hayden is a graduate student trying to help his mother navigate through the loss of his father while she continues to live in their house near Washington DC. With his mother’s diminishing mental capacity becoming the norm, Clark expects a certain amount of craziness as he heads home for the holidays. What he couldn’t possibly anticipate, though, is that he would find himself catapulted into the middle of a terrorist operation. As the holiday festivities reach a crescendo, a terrorist cell – which happens to be across the street – is activated. Suddenly Clark is discovering things he never knew about deadly chemicals, secret government operations, suspiciously missing neighbors, and the intentions of a gorgeous IRS auditor. Clark’s quiet suburban neighborhood is about to become one of the most deadly places on the planet, and it’s up to Clark to prevent the loss of hundreds of thousands of innocent lives in the nation’s capital.
Come Away with Me by Sara MacDonald
Jenny and Ruth were fast friends growing up in Cornwall but when Ruth’s parents suddenly decided to move to Canada when the girls were eighteen they lost touch. Fast forward a decade and a chance encounter on a train throws the two women together again, and it’s not long before they realise that their lives [...]
The Cupid Effect by Dorothy Koomson
I was looking for something light hearted to read yesterday and since my options are pretty limited at the moment since the majority of my To Be Read books have been packed ready for our move I decided that The Cupid Effect was probably a good bet, especially as I thoroughly enjoyed Goodnight Beautiful the [...]
Cuban Heels by Emily Barr
It’s been a while since I read anything of Emily’s and I had forgotten how much I enjoyed her books. Emily is a travel writer by day and her stories always whisk you off somewhere exotic, this time you won’t be surprised to hear that the main action takes place in Cuba. The tale is [...]
Dangerous Waters by Anne Allen
I’ve just spent a lovely day experiencing life on the island of Guernsey through the eyes of Jeanne le Page in Dangerous Waters. Jeanne comes back to the island where she spent her childhood after the breakdown of her relationship and the death of her grandma. She left at the age of 16 after witnessing [...]
The Distance Between Us by Maggie O’Farrell
Having just experienced Jacquelyn Mitchard’s clunky effort of jumping between characters and their history I breathed a sigh of relief when I picked up The Distance Between Us and discovered quite quickly that Maggie is master if this skill. Events unfold in parallel as Jake experiences a tragic crowd crush in Hong Kong that leaves [...]
Still Summer by Jacquelyn Mitchard
Still Summer
It’s been a while since I read anything by Jacquelyn and I couldn’t remember what kind of books she wrote, turns out Still Summer is some sort of chick lit meets family drama meets thriller – only problem being in trying to be all of those things it didn’t quite gel together properly.
In short this is a book about four women who charter a boat to sail around the Caribbean to spend some quality time together and catch up on old times. Throw in a last minute illness which means one woman can’t go and a teenage daughter is taken along instead, a rusty can opener, a couple of tragic accidents and some modern day pirates and instead of a dream vacation you have a nightmare on the open sea.
Killer Bytes: A Novella of Intrigue by Alan Williams
Killer Bytes: A Novella of Intrigue
Wil Jackson is a tech blogger who spends most of his days holed up in the ‘shed’ at the bottom of his garden writing articles on the latest and greatest tech gadgets. That is until a man he has recently interviewed finds himself catapulted from his forty-fourth floor office and the Detective Chief Inspector turns up on Wil’s doorstep to ask him about it. Before too long Wil is caught up in a murder investigation and inadvertently lands himself on the killer’s hit list.
