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ShortBookandScribes #BlogTour #Extract from Nick by Michael Farris Smith

Posted on 2nd March 2021 By Nicola

Welcome to my stop on the blog tour for Nick by Michael Farris Smith. I’m sharing the foreword from the book with you today. My […]

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ShortBookandScribes #BlogTour #Extract from A Beautiful Spy by Rachel Hore

Posted on 1st March 2021 By Nicola

It’s my stop on the blog tour for A Beautiful Spy by Rachel Hore. I love this author’s books and I’m looking forward to reading […]

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ShortBookandScribes #BlogTour #Extract from The Shadowy Third by Julia Parry

Posted on 26th February 2021 By Nicola

It’s my stop on the blog tour for The Shadowy Third by Julia Parry and I’m delighted to have an extract from chapter 1 to […]

Blog Tour, Extracts

ShortBookandScribes #BlogTour #Extract from You, Me and the Sea by Elizabeth Haynes

Posted on 9th February 2021 By Nicola

Welcome to my stop on the blog tour for You, Me and the Sea by Elizabeth Haynes. I have an extract to share with you […]

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ShortBookandScribes #BlogTour #Extract from Set My Heart to Five by Simon Stephenson

Posted on 9th February 2021 By Nicola

Welcome to my stop on the blog tour for Set My Heart to Five by Simon Stephenson. I have an extract from the book to […]

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ShortBookandScribes #BlogTour #Extract from Ruthless Women by Melanie Blake

Posted on 8th February 2021 By Nicola

Welcome to my stop on the blog tour for Ruthless Women by Melanie Blake. It sounds like a fantastic read and I have an extract […]

Blog Tour, Extracts

ShortBookandScribes #BlogTour #Extract from Who Is Vera Kelly by Rosalie Knecht #VeraKelly

Posted on 20th January 2021 By Nicola

It’s my stop on the blog tour for Who Is Vera Kelly by Rosalie Knecht and I have a tantalising extract to share with you. […]

Blog Tour, Extracts

ShortBookandScribes #Extract and #Giveaway – Shiver by Allie Reynolds

Posted on 9th December 2020 By Nicola

On Monday I shared my review of this fabulous chilly thriller and promised an extract and giveaway today, so here it is! You can read […]

Extracts, Giveaways

ShortBookandScribes #Extracts – Whetting Your Appetite for One By One by Ruth Ware!

Posted on 10th November 2020 By Nicola

As you might have heard (unless you’ve been under a rock somewhere), Ruth Ware has a new book out this week. Highly anticipated by me […]

Extracts

ShortBookandScribes #BlogTour #Extract from Someday in Paris by Olivia Lara

Posted on 11th September 2020 By Nicola

Welcome to my stop on the blog tour for Someday in Paris by Olivia Lara. I have an extract to share with you today. My […]

Blog Tour, Extracts

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New review: The Lamplighters by Emma Stoned. Publi

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It's paperback #publicationday for #Liar by Lesley Pearse today and so I'm resharing my review from last year.
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Full disclosure: I am a huge Lesley Pearse fan so it’s pretty much a given I will love her books (and this is book 28!). I found Liar to be a real page-turning read.
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Our protagonist is Amelia White who lives on her own in her bedsit in London. It’s 1970, flower power is done with, and Amelia is concentrating on her job at a newspaper. She wants to be a reporter but at the moment she’s only tasked with selling advertising space. However, her working life is about to take an unexpected turn when she discovers the body of a dead woman and because it was her discovery she is allowed to write about it for the paper.
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This is only the start for Amelia, though, as she finds herself in all sorts of difficult situations. If at times she seemed a little too good to be true, and if she did seem to get into rather too many of those difficult situations, it didn’t alter my enjoyment because this is such an engrossing story that I found myself completely immersed in.
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Pearse is a consummate storyteller, weaving together the sensational and the ordinary to create a really great domestic noir/murder mystery. Amelia is such a likeable heroine and I so wanted her to escape her past and make a new life for herself. She turns amateur detective, delving into her own investigations into who killed the woman. This steps up a gear when the killer strikes again. The ending was not a total surprise as I’d started to get an inkling as to who it might be but not until much later on in the story and after the author had already led me down a different path. It was a really cleverly executed denouement.
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Once again Lesley Pearse has written a fabulous tale which had me hooked from page one. Liar is a delight to read, full of her customary compassion and warmth.
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#LIARbook #LoveLesley

New review: Love Letters of Kings and Queens, edit

New review: The Split by Laura Kay. Published by Q

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New review: Call Me Mummy by Tina Baker. Published

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ShortBookandScribes #BookReview - The Sanatorium by Sarah Pearse
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ShortBookandScribes #BookReview - A Net for Small Fishes by Lucy Jago
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