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You turn your back for a minute. And now your son is in terrible danger …

Louise is struggling to cope.  As a busy working mum, she often has to leave her eight-year-old son Archie at her sister Alice’s flat.

Alice and Louise used to be close.  But there’s a lot they don’t know about each other now – like the bottle of vodka Louise hides in her handbag, Alice’s handsome new friend and the odd behaviour of her next-door neighbour.

Archie is a curious little boy. He likes to play on his own at his auntie’s flat until one day when he sees something he shouldn’t. Now he has a secret of his own.  One he can’t tell his mum. One that could put him and his family in terrible danger.

The most gripping psychological thriller you’ll read this year from the top five bestselling author K.L.Slater.  Perfect for fans of The Girl on the Train and Gone Girl.

About Author:

After years of trying to get published and never getting further than the slush pile, I went back to university at the age of 40 where I studied for an English & Creative Writing degree followed by an MA in Creative Writing.

Although I also worked full-time during the five years I studied at university, the courses gave me the time and space to try different writing and increased my confidence and belief in my writing. Before I graduated from my MA, I had secured representation with my agent, Clare Wallace, at the Darley Anderson Literacy, TV and Film Agency and had my first book deal.

My first adult psychological thriller for Bookouture is called ‘Safe with Me’ and it actually started life as my dissertation on my English & Creative Writing degree.

The creepy voice of Anna came to me strong and insistent . . . she wanted to be written, she wouldn’t go away.

I live in Nottingham with my husband, Mac. Between us we have three grown-up kids; my daughter, Francesca and Mac’s sons Nathan and Jake.

I also write multi-award winning YA fiction under the name Kim S

• Genre:  Suspense, Thriller
• Expected publication: July 27th 2018
• Publisher: Bookouture
• Pages:  331

My Review:

I would like to thank Netgalley, Bookouture and The Fiction Café Review for an advance copy of The Secret.

This is the first of KL Slater books I have read and it won’t be the last, it’ s written very well and comprehensively. Well, there’s more than one secret here – and not one of them was anything I expected.

This was a good psychological thriller with many twists and turns and secrets.  The story revolves around two sisters Louise and Alice.  They both have secrets and are determined not to let the other learn them.  Louise is picture perfect while Alice is a nervous wreck due to a previous incident which has changed her life (both physical and mental) for the worse.    Until one day her sister dropped of her son Archie for her to watch.  Alice formed a bond with Archie which and which she was starting to venture out into the public.  I love the bond between these two.

I couldn’t wait to see if I could guess the secret, but every time I thought I had, nope it would give me another twist.

Heart-stirring from start to finish!  

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The rules are simple.

At eleven years old, Morgan Sheppard solved the murder of a teacher when everyone else believed it to be a suicide. The publicity surrounding the case laid the foundation for his reputation as a modern-day Sherlock Holmes. He parlayed that fame into a gig as TV’s “resident detective,” solving the more typical tawdry daytime talk show mysteries like “Who is the father?” and “Is he cheating?”

Until, that is, Sheppard wakes up handcuffed to a bed in an unfamiliar hotel room. Around him, five strangers are slowly waking up, as well. Soon they discover a corpse in the bathtub and Sheppard is challenged to put his deductive skills to the test. One of the people in the room is the killer. He has three hours to solve the murder. If he doesn’t find the killer, they all will die.

An ingenious, page-turning debut, Chris McGeorge’s Guess Whomatches the high-wire plotting of classic “locked room” mysteries into the unstoppable pacing of the modern-day thriller.

About Author:

Chris McGeorge has an MA in Creative Writing (Crime / Thriller) from City University London where he wrote his first crime novel Dead Room for this thesis. He constantly told stories from a young age, whether they took the form of comics, short stories or scripts.

He is a lover of Golden Age crime, like Christie and Conan Doyle, leading his crime stories to be a mix of the old and the contemporary. He likes weird and wonderful plots, with plenty of intrigue and twists.

His often coherent ramblings about everything pop culture can be found on his blog Festival of Blood and occasionally he produces the Sarcasmicast podcast with a group of friends.

• Paperback:  416 pages
• Publisher:  Orion (3 May 2018)
• Genre:  Thrillers, Mystery, Crime

My Review:

I would like to thank Netgalley and Orion Publishing Group for an advance copy of Guess Who.

Guess Who tells the tale of a former child detective, Morgan Sheppard, who wakes up in a locked hotel room with five strangers and the dead body of his former psychiatrist.

I was so intrigued by the premise, but the delivery fell a little flat for me. I was bored at times and could not connect with any of the characters. At times it was slow and seemed to drag on and on.

I am giving this 4 stars, I will continue to look for more from this author.

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The Dream Virgin A young comic book entrepreneur wins a Startup contest to work on her dream venture at a innovative business incubator in the Oregon Alps, but when a homicidal maniac escapes from the state prison mental ward, the teen’s sponsored summer gets ambushed by a madman she must confront and destroy. Elfri Fleming travels to public libraries in the southwest with her ex-cop grandfather to teach kids the power of lucid dreaming. A converted school bus called the Dreamland Express, fifty-nine issues of her Dream Zoo comics, pure talent and calculated ambition helped the professional dreamer create a mobile enterprise with a loyal following who question why there have been no new comics for way too long. Why did Elfri stop drawing Dream Zoo and start a new comic book series that she keeps hidden? How in one whirlwind summer did the Texas tomboy adapt to a tourist town with a futuristic boardwalk of trend-setting shops and lakeside intrigue? What made her move into a guarded estate to help a mute boy, then fight to the death to save him from the killer who abused him eight years before? Ventures Nest is a fun and freaky high-risk thriller where the payoff of good and evil will blow the minds and capture the hearts of popular fiction fans!

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Donald “Don” Robert Charles Quine (born September 11, 1938) is an American author, actor, and sports promoter. He is known for his television roles playing Joe Chernak and Stacey Grainger in Peyton Place and The Virginian. Quine also was the president of the Professional Karate Association (PKA) whose Kick of the 80’s weekly fight series on ESPN ran for close to a decade. He wrote American Karate, a book on self-defense, and The Dream Virgin, his first novel in the thriller series called Ventures Nest.

• Paperback:  314 pages
• Publisher:  Gecko Group Books (May 18, 2018)
• Genre:  Thriller

My Review:

I received an ARC copy of this book for an honest review.

Disclaimer straight up: this isn’t something I’d typically pick up and read, and I was given a free copy in exchange for an honest review. This book was wild from start to finish.

Personally, I had trouble getting into the story and the first half wasn’t very interesting to me. But somewhere around the halfway mark it picked up and I was sucked in.  I am giving this book four stars.

The Dream Virgin reads a lot like a movie or TV show (sorta like Stephen King’s Rose Red mini-series), and that’s basically how I read it (in three parts, rather than all at once).

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In this action-packed espionage thriller, two strangers with uncanny similarities are at the center of a dangerous case of mistaken identity.

Venice during Carnevale seems like a dream destination to American police detective Alex Polonia. She is planning to lose herself in the maze of canals and forget about her ex-husband’s conviction for operating a meth lab on Cleveland’s south side.

The legacy of the Bosnian War’s brutal ethnic cleansing has brought journalist Marika Juric to Venice on a single-minded crusade: to gather enough evidence to keep one of the war’s masterminds from becoming Croatia’s next president. And there are those who’ll do anything to stop her.

But these two strangers share more than their unexpected arrivals in the City of Masks. They’re mirror images of each other—down to their hair, their smiles, and the same desperation in their eyes. The resemblance isn’t just uncanny. It’s dangerous.

When the secrets of Alex’s escape rush headlong into Marika’s obsession, the fates of both women become entwined in a vaporous hall of mirrors. Working together is their only way to survive.

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Gregory C. Randall was born in Traverse City, Michigan, raised in Chicago, and now, for more than forty-five years, makes California his home. He is an award winning novelist and thriller writer with eleven books in print and five more in production. In the fall of 2010 his first book in the Sharon O’Mara Chronicles series, LAND SWAP FOR DEATH was published. It was followed by CONTAINERS FOR DEATH, TOULOUSE FOR DEATH, 12TH MAN FOR DEATH, AND DIAMONDS FOR DEATH. In the fall of 2018 look for LIMERICK FOR DEATH. All are published by Windsor Hill Publishing.

His new thriller series features Detective Tony Alfano set in 1933 Chicago. CHICAGO SWING and CHICAGO JAZZ are as noir as it gets. His newest, CHICAGO FIX, will be out int he summer of 2018.

• Series:Alex Polonia Thriller (Book 1)
• Paperback:282 pages
• Publisher:Thomas & Mercer (March 6, 2018)

My Review:

 Great new book full of great character and adventures, first couple of chapters were a little slow but took off after that.   I hope to see more in the future with this series.    First time in reading anything by this author and I must say he kept my interest.  I received an early copy of this book via Netgally and the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

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Close your eyes…and count to ten.

He doesn’t know his name. He doesn’t know his secret.
When Daniel woke up from a coma he had no recollection of the life he lived before. Now, fourteen years later, he’s being forced to remember.

A phone call in the middle of the night demands he return what he stole – but Daniel has no idea what it could be, or who the person on the other end is. He has been given one warning, if he doesn’t find out his family will be murdered.

Rachael needs to protect her son. Trapped with no way out she will do anything to ensure they survive. But sometimes mothers can’t save their children and her only hope is Daniel’s memory.

Perfect for fans of Holly Seddon, Gillian Flynn and BA Paris.

From the best-selling author of Our Little Secret comes a new psychological thriller with a shocking twist.

About Author:

Darren is a ibooks number 1 bestselling author of ‘Our Little Secret’ and theatre practitioner. He lives in Peterborough, England where his days are either behind his laptop writing or in front of a group of actors directing.

His thriller Our Little Secret is due for paperback publication on 5th April 2018 and is currently editing his second novel ‘Close Your Eyes’ which is due for publication 5th May 2018.

Pages:  384

Publisher:  HQ Digital

Published May 5th 2018

Genres:  Mystery, Psychological Thriller

My Review:

Wow.. this book had me hooked very early on and didn’t let go.   Great psychological thriller! I was enthralled by this story from the beginning.  I love reading his books, they keep you thinking and guessing what’s going to happen.  This one a roller coaster. It had me guessing and still not what I was guessing,  and even the ending was not what I had been thinking.  Great Book, I will read his next one.

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