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Debut Novels
Bleedout Joan Brady
A spellbinding psychological thriller set in a small American town in Illinois. This is very special indeed. It concerns the relationship between a 15-year old committed murderer, David Marion, and his lawyer, Hugh Freyl. After 15 years in jail, Freyl...
My Vintage Summer Jane Elmor
June 2008 Debut of the Month.
Alternating in time between teenage ambition and married boredom, our narrator tells each tale in real-time, building tension and compulsion as she goes. You badly need to know what...
The Last Exile E V Seymour
July 2008 Debut of the Month.
An exciting new author in the mystery thriller market is EV Seymour. This debut novel is action packed page turning stuff. Each chapter wills you on to the next...
Heart-Shaped Box Joe Hill
A pacy and frightening story of revenge from beyond the grave. Ozzie-like rock star Jude, buys a ghost over the internet, and a heap of trouble along with it. What starts as a quirky haunting quickly grows into a terrifying...
Holly Would Dream Karen Quinn
An excellent choice for a fun, madcap summer read. Holly is constantly wishing he life was like that of an old fashioned Hollywood movie star and it isn’t far off that until one day when everything in her life suddenly...
An Offer You Can't Refuse Jill Mansell
Another funny, romantic novel from Jill Mansell to keep you company on the beach this summer. When Lola is offered £10,000 to break up with her boyfriend by his mum she has no intention of taking her up on the...
Castle in the Clouds Monica Janssens
Enter in to the world of Cloisters, the most famous rehab clinic in the land. Follow the lives of several characters as they all come to terms with the things in their lives that have put them in to rehab...
Love and Other Infidelities Helen Townsend
The story of Martin and Susan’s marriage and the friends and relations around them. Each character has their own voice which gives the reader a great perspective on how different people have such different views on the same situation. A...
The Camel Bookmobile Masha Hamilton
An idealistic American girl is swept up in the passion of taking the written word to the African tribes of Kenya, and joins a mobile library scheme. We are introduced to each important character chapter by chapter. Simple stories unfold,...
The Outcast Sadie Jones
Reviewed on Richard & Judy on Wednesday 25 June 2008.
Shortlisted for the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2008.An incredibly moving story about a damaged son returning home from prison determined to make a better life for himself. However,...
Dancing with Eva Alan Judd
A reconstruction of the final days of Hitler’s life in the bunker and of his relationship with Eva Braun, seen through the eyes of two fictional characters, her secretary and a bunker guard, who meet sixty years later and piece...
Trespass Valerie Martin
Trespass is a beautifully written and complex tale of love, jealousy, transgression, forgiveness, identity, and war. Brendan and Chloe Dale are the epitome of upper middle-class America living a very comfortable life in rural upstate New York. All seems well...
Blood Work Michael Connelly
Winner of the Best Novel at the Anthony Awards 1999 and the Macavity Awards 1999.
Another stand alone novel, this is one of Connelly’s best. Terry McCaleb is a retired FBI profiler who has had a recent heart transplant. When the...
The Lincoln Lawyer Michael Connelly
Winner of the Best Novel at the Macavity Awards 2006 and the Shamus Awards 2006.
He’s a well-known, bestselling American author of fast-paced crime but this one is a little out of the norm. It’s a fascinating insight into the workings...
The Overlook Michael Connelly
A highly enjoyable read with a lot of twists and action concerning the murder of a scientist dealing with radioactive materials. Connelly’s established character, Harry Bosch, enters the scene in another beautifully structured crime novel. Interestingly, it was originally published...
The Poet Michael Connelly
Winner of the Best Novel at the Anthony Awards 1997.
Not part of the Harry Bosch series, this is a one of Connellys ‘stand alone’ novels, although he subsequently wrote The Narrows, which is the sequel to this.
Fast paced...
Down River John Hart
Reviewed on Richard & Judy on Wednesday 16 July 2008.
Evocative, gripping and perfectly paced this crime thriller will have you engrossed whether you are on a sun lounger or on your commute to work. In a tight-knit community Adam Chase...
Addition Toni Jordan
Due to be reviewed on Richard & Judy on Wednesday 6 August 2008.
Grace Vandenburg is an attractive, intelligent, witty young woman who also suffers from OCD that makes her count everything in her world. When Seamus Joseph O'Reilly comes in...
East of the Sun Julia Gregson
Reviewed on Richard & Judy on Wednesday 9 July 2008.
This is an utterly captivating story of three young British women in search of freedom and love in 1920s India, but it also provides a wonderful insight into a now vanished...
The Pirate's Daughter Margaret Cezair-thompson
Due to be reviewed on Richard & Judy on Wednesday 23 July 2008.
An adventure-cum-love story well balanced between narrative, description and comment with an intriguing tale bound round the history of Jamaica. It is about the illegitimate daughter of Errol...
Twilight Stephenie Meyer
Deeply seductive and irresistibly compelling, this is an extraordinary
love story that will stay with you long after you’ve finished it. It’s
the first in the Twilight series and is a captivating sage of vampire
romance.
New Moon Stephenie Meyer
The road for Bella and Edward is never going to be a smooth one and
after an incident that puts Bella’s life in danger Edward decides he
must leave her “as if he had never existed”. In the following months
Bella is like...
Wogan's Twelve Terry Wogan
After writing two highly successful autobiographies Terry is back to take us through a year in his life including radio, TV, charity events and the wonderful Eurovision Song Contest. Full of great anecdotes and experiences this is a warm and...
The Last Exile E V Seymour
July 2008 Debut of the Month.
An exciting new author in the mystery thriller market is EV Seymour. This debut novel is action packed page turning stuff. Each chapter wills you on to the next...
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