This week I have managed to read four books, two ARC’s and two off my bookshelf, I felt a real sense of achievement as I actually read two books that have been patiently sat on my book shelf, only another 400+ books to go 😂. I’m hoping to read more books from my book shelf this year at least 1-2 a month, well that’s the plan!
Snatched From Home by Graham Smith
Book description
Middle-class parents Victoria and Nicholas Foulkes are distraught when their children are kidnapped against Nicholas’ gambling debts. Penniless and desperate the couple turn to crime as a way to raise the ransom.
Hot on their heels is recently bereaved DI Harry Evans and his Major Crimes team. Evans is fighting against enforced retirement and his replacement – DI John Campbell – is foisted upon him along with other cases. If he must leave the police then he wants one last big case before he goes.
In a race against time Victoria and Nicholas must evade the police while continuing to add to the ransom fund. If they don’t pay up on time the kidnappers have threatened to amputate their children’s limbs with an oxy-acetylene torch.
Can they save their children before time runs out?
Tattletale by Sarah J Naughton
Book description
The perfect brother. The perfect fiancee. The perfect revenge.
A thriller you won’t be able to predict.
One day changes Jody’s life forever.
She has shut herself down, haunted by her memories and unable to trust anyone. But then she meets Abe, the perfect stranger next door and suddenly life seems full of possibility and hope.
One day changes Mags’s life forever.
After years of estrangement from her family, Mags receives a shocking phone call. Her brother Abe is in hospital and no-one knows what happened to him. She meets his fiancé Jody, and gradually pieces together the ruins of the life she left behind. But the pieces don’t quite seem to fit…
The Girl Before JP Delaney
Book description
Enter the world of One Folgate Street and discover perfection . . . but can you pay the price?
Jane stumbles on the rental opportunity of a lifetime: the chance to live in a beautiful ultra-minimalist house designed by an enigmatic architect, on condition she abides by a long list of exacting rules.
After moving in, she discovers that a previous tenant, Emma, met a mysterious death there – and starts to wonder if her own story will be a re-run of the girl before.
As twist after twist catches the reader off guard, Emma’s past and Jane’s present become inexorably entwined in this tense, page-turning portrayal of psychological obsession.
The Mountain In her Shoe by Louise Beech
Book description
A missing boy. A missing book. A missing husband. A woman who must find them all to find herself.
On the night Bernadette finally has the courage to tell her domineering husband that she’s leaving, he doesn’t come home. Neither does Conor, the little boy she’s befriended for the past five years. Also missing is his lifebook, the only thing that holds the answers. With the help of Conor’s foster mum, Bernadette must face her own past, her husband’s secrets and a future she never dared imagine in order to find them all.
ARC’s I received this week
I managed to stay away from NetGalley for two Whole weeks and then had an epic fail when Bookouture put Blink by K L Slater up for review, but how could I resist? But then I have read and reviewed two of my NetGalley books and it’s now in single figures with 84% feedback, a record in itself for me!
Last week on The Book Review Café
https://thebookreviewcafe.com/2017/01/06/run-by-mandasue-heller-bookreview/
https://thebookreviewcafe.com/2017/01/05/topfivethursday-with-bookblogger-emma-mitchell/
https://thebookreviewcafe.com/2017/01/04/the-marriage-lie-by-kimberley-belle-bookreview/
https://thebookreviewcafe.com/2017/01/03/dear-charlie-by-n-d-gomes-review-nd_gomes-hqstories/
https://thebookreviewcafe.com/2017/01/02/the-fallen-by-michael-wood/
Next week on The Book Review Café
Review for Snatched From Home
Review for The Mountain In My Shoe
#TopFiveThursday
News from the book review café
The eagle eyed among you may have noticed my blog has a brand new look. Purely by accident I happened to be looking at changing theme but pressed the wrong button and changed it! Unfortunately it looked awful and as I couldn’t remember the name of the theme I had, so I had to go with one I knew would keep all my content. Now I’m getting use to it I ❤ it, what do you think hit or a miss?
The book review café 
Loving the new look even if the change was originally accidental 😊 I also stayed well away from NG until I had to request The Good People by Hannah Kent 😏
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I managed to staw away from Netgalley and then I saw everyone reading Blink…… I’M WEAK!
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Good luck with your NG ban, I’m fairly good at staying away until I see what everyone else has been approved for. New look is great. I’d like to change mine so might spur me on! Happy reading
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I try not to even look at NetGalley as I always see so many books I want to read, and before I know it I’m back up in double figures. Good luck if you decide to change theme x
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I think the new theme is catching Lorraine! I love the colors, they go well with your picture. You’re doing much better on Netgalley than I am! I need to get my approval up to 80% and leave it there. I was doing good not requesting and then felt I had to have Say Nothing by Brad Parks😬
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Thanks Renee for the lovely comments re blog, I’m determined to try and keep away from NetGalley unfortunately Bookouture are my downfall 😂😂 and they have some of my favourite authors that I just can’t resist x
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Love the new theme – nice and clean looking and I like the pink-but-not-too-pink thing! Single figures on NetGalley is super-impressive – well done! :0
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I have already failed my NG ban haha.. I would have been fine if I had not taken a quick look. But that is how it always starts. Oh well. Your site is looking good 😉 ❤
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