‘Turn A Blind Eye’ Blog Tour

I’m taking part in this blog tour on the 15th, but it starts on Saturday.

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Book details here. I am definitely looking forward to reading and reviewing this one. I need to get my arse in gear and settle down with it, but I’m a bit distracted by the ‘Bobiverse’ right now.

Blurb
A dead girl.
A wall of silence.
DI Maya Rahman is running out of time.
A headmistress is found strangled in an East London school, her death the result of a brutal and ritualistic act of violence. Found at the scene is a single piece of card, written upon which is an ancient Buddhist precept:

I shall abstain from taking the ungiven.

At first, DI Maya Rahman can’t help but hope this is a tragic but isolated murder. Then, the second body is found.

Faced with a community steeped in secrets and prejudice, Maya must untangle the cryptic messages left at the crime scenes to solve the deadly riddle behind the murders before the killer takes another victim.

Turn a Blind Eye is the first book in a brand-new series set in East London and starring DI Maya Rahman.

Review: ‘The Horse’s Arse’, by Laura Gascoigne

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Published By: Clink Street Publishing

Publication Date: 4th April 2017

I.S.B.N.: 978-1911110873

Format: Paperback

Price: £8.99

 

 

 

 

 

 

Blurb

Patrick Phelan is an ageing artist who has never made it big but who somehow manages to live on air in a North London suburb.

When not running art classes for amateurs, Patrick wrestles in the shed at the bottom of his garden with his life’s work: a series of visionary canvases of The Seven Seals.

When his wheeler-dealer son Marty turns up with a commission from a rich client for some copies of paintings by modern masters, Phelan reluctantly agrees; it means money for his ex-wife Moira. However the deal with Marty is, typically, not what it seems.

What follows is a complex chain of events involving fakery, fraud, kidnapping, murder, the Russian Mafia and a cast of dubious art world characters. A contemporary spin on Joyce Cary’s classic satire The Horse’s Mouth, The Horse’s Arse by Laura Gascoigne is a crime thriller-cum-comic-fable that poses the serious question: where does art go from here?

Purchase from Amazon UK – https://www.amazon.co.uk/Horses-Arse-Laura-Gascoigne-ebook/dp/B01MUZXN8G/

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Spring Reads!

Next week I’ll be taking part in the Clink Street Spring Reads blog tour. I’m looking forward to reviewing the books for you. I’m reading the first of three books now.

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Technically, the nephew is reading one of the books for me, because it’s aimed at his age group, but I’ll be writing the review based on his comments. He has a wobbly if I make him write the reviews. I’d planned to read and review it myself, but then I realised I was being a bit ambitious, especially with everything going on at the moment. Sometimes, you have to share the burden.

Pendle Fire Blog Blitz

I’ll be reviewing this book at the beginning of April, and I’m looking forward to reading it. Sarah Hardy organised the blog tour and I want to thank her for the opportunity to take part.

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Pendle Fire blurb

Social worker Johnny Malkin is battling a crippling workload and a hostile local community. That’s on a good day: things are about to get a whole lot worse.

Two fourteen-year-old girls are found wandering Aitken Wood on the slopes of Pendle Hill, claiming to have been raped by a gang of men. With no female social workers available, Johnny is assigned to their case. But what, at first, looks like yet another incident of child exploitation takes a sinister turn when the girls start speaking of a forthcoming apocalypse.

When Johnny interviews one of the girls, Jenna Dunham, her story starts to unravel. His investigation draws him into a tight-knit village community in the shadow of Pendle Hill, where whispers of witchcraft and child abuse go back to the Middle Ages.

One name recurs: The Hobbledy Man. Is he responsible for the outbreaks of violence sweeping across the country?

Is he more than just myth?

Author Bio:

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Paul Southern was born in the 1960s to itinerant parents who moved from city to city. He lived in Liverpool, Belfast, London and Leeds, then escaped to university, where he nearly died of a brain haemorrhage. After an unexpected recovery, he co-formed an underground indie group (Sexus). Made immediate plans to become rich and famous, but ended up in Manchester. Shared a house with mice, cockroaches, and slugs; shared the street with criminals. Five years later, hit the big time with a Warners record deal. Concerts at Shepherd’s Bush Empire, Melody Maker front cover, Smash Hits Single of the Week, Radio 1 and EastEnders. Mixed with the really rich and famous. Then mixed with lawyers. Ended up back in Manchester, broke. He got a PhD in English (he is the world’s leading authority on Tennyson’s stage plays!), then wrote his first novel, The Craze, based on his experiences of the Muslim community. He has three other published books and has written for ITV. He was shortlisted for a CWA Dagger award in 2002 and received positive reviews from national and international press, including The Guardian, Arena, Radio 4, Ladsmag, and Kirkus, amongst many others.

Links:

www.paulsouthern.org

https://www.facebook.com/paulsouthernauthor/

 https://twitter.com/psouthernauthor

Review: ‘How to write & publish a bestselling book’, by Richard McMunn

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Published By: How2Become Ltd 

Publication Date: 26th February 2018

Format: Paperback

I.S.B.N.: 9781912370115

Price: £9.99 

 

 

 

 

 

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‘We Were The Salt Of The Sea’ Blog Tour

I’m taking part in this blog tour from Orenda on the 22nd. There is a whole month of book reviews and blog posts for you to enjoy however, so do take a look.

I am very much looking forward to reading and reviewing this novel. You may have seen my excitement on Twitter about it, I love the premise and the book quality is fantastic. I love the cover and texture.

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I will be in London tomorrow for a few hours, to see ‘Hamilton’ the musical. I am looking forward to it, and no bloody blizzard is going to stop me! I will try to give you a post-musical review. I’m taking my new tablet with me (got a new phone contract last week to decrease the monthly cost – it came with a tablet upgrade!) and it has soooo much more memory that I’ve been able to get all my apps on it, including WordPress. Also, my train reading will be I Know Where You Live, by Pat Young, which I’m reviewing on Saturday, you may have seen the blog tour poster?

Bye, for now, I have a jacket spud in the micro and I need my tea.

Blogblitz: ‘I Know Where You Live’

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I’m taking part in the blog blitz for Pat Young’s new novel, I Know Where You Live. The tour organiser, Sarah Hardy, very kindly sent me a ebook file for the book in return for an honest review, and on the 3rd that is what you shall get. The blurb and author bio are below if you are interested.

Blurb

Penny believes she’s being watched. Yet no one should know where she lives.

Penny seizes the chance of a new life for her family when her husband is offered a job in Europe.

At the airport they meet charming Sophie, fluent in French and looking for work as an au pair.

Penny, struggling to cope in France, offers Sophie a job and she soon becomes an important part of the family’s life. But Sophie is hiding something.

Then Penny’s toddler son, Ethan, is abducted and an international hunt for the child begins.
The police beg Penny and her husband to take part in a television appeal but the couple refuse. Unknown to the police, Penny and Seth have new identities and are determined to lay low and protect them. But it may be too late for that.

Who has taken Ethan and why?

Are the couple’s true identities linked to the abduction?

And who has been watching them?

To save her son Penny may have to put her own life on the line.

Author Bio:

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Pat Young grew up in the south west of Scotland where she still lives, sometimes. She often goes to the other extreme, the south west of France, in search of sunlight.

Pat never expected to be a writer. Then she found a discarded book with a wad of cash tucked in the flyleaf. ‘What if something awful happened to the person who lost this book?’ she thought, and she was off.

Pat knew nothing of writing, but she knew a thing or two about books, having studied English, French and German at Glasgow University. A passion for languages led to a career she loved and then a successful part-time business that allowed her some free-time, at last.

Pat had plans, none of which included sitting at her desk from daybreak till dusk. But some days she has to. Because there’s a story to be told. And when it’s done, she can go out to play. On zip-wires and abseil ropes, or just the tennis court.

Pat writes psychological thrillers. Her debut novel Till the Dust Settles, has been awarded the Scottish Association of Writers’ Constable Stag trophy. Following publication in July
2017 Pat was delighted to be chosen as an ‘emerging talent’ for Crime in the Spotlight and read from Till the Dust Settles to an audience at Bloody Scotland – another dream come true.

Published by Bloodhound Books, I Know Where You Live is the much-anticipated sequel to Pat’s gripping and unmissable debut thriller, Till the Dust Settles. It too is a psychological thriller with a skilfully told story that makes for an enjoyable stand alone read. It will hook you from the start.

Links:

Twitter – @py321_young