The Ouroboros Lock
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Before his disappearance, the mad locksmith Avery Guissant completed his masterpiece—an...
Human Croquet
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Once it had been the great forest of Lythe. And here, in the beginning, lived the Fairfaxes,...
You Were Gone
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She says she's my wife. Either she's a liar - or I am. A woman walks into a police station. ...
The Cabin (The Cold Case Quartet #2)
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If you loved Wallander, meet Wisting - your next Scandi crime obsession . . . 15 years ago,...
The Saint of Lost Things
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Lindy Morris is stuck. She lives in rural Ireland, banished to a lonely bungalow by her Granda...
Literary Fiction Rural Life Ireland Trigger warning: domestic abuse
ClareR (5726 KP) rated Mirrorland in Books
Apr 3, 2021
The narrator is completely unreliable, mainly because she appears to have blocked out a huge part of her life.
Cat returns, reluctantly, to Edinburgh from California, because her sister has gone missing on her sailing boat. Cat seems unsurprised that her sister should have a boat - she and her sister spent hours as children playing in Mirrorland, pretending to be pirates, sailing the Seven Seas. But her disappearance is unexpected.
Has El been murdered? If so, by whom? Who is sending Cat on a treasure hunt and leaving written messages for her? Who is sending emails? Is El’s husband, Ross, implicated in her disappearance? And what DID happen to Cat and El when they were children?
This is such a delicious, rub-your-hands-together-with-evil-glee kind of book.
There are some pretty shocking subjects covered in this novel, so if you don’t like reading about abuse of any kind, this may not be for you. However, I was glued to it. I’m trying to think of some synonyms of ‘loved’ (I realise that i completely overuse this word when I talk about books), so: adored, enjoyed greatly, was besotted with, couldn’t get enough of. Well. You get the gist. It’s just well worth the read!
Many thanks to The Pigeonhole and to Carole Johnstone for joining in with the chat in the margins!
Emanuela Orlandi and Ettore Majorana: Two Italian Mysteries Resolved?
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Discover the captivating true stories of Emanuela Orlandi and Ettore Majorana in this compelling...
Suswatibasu (1701 KP) rated Force of Nature in Books
Mar 17, 2018
Four of the women who went with her all have motives to want to see her gone, so Falks attempts to understand what secrets she may have had about them.
The story, as described, felt underwhelming even though I appreciate the straightforward simplicity of Harper's writing. There is no massive conspiracy similar to the first but it may have lacked too much in this instance.
What Happened to Monday (2017)
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Disappearing Object Phenomenon: An Investigation
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Have you ever had your car keys or television remote control inexplicably vanish from under your...