Sunday 1 December 2019

November Book Round-Up

Here's what I've been reading in November:



*I will make you Pay by Teresa Driscoll - Journo, Alice Henderson receives an unpleasant anonymous phone call an hangs up dismissing it as a crank call. However the next again Wednesday something happens which seems to be connected to the phone call.

Who wants her to suffer? The police aren't much use and her boyfriend Tom insists on hiring a private investigator to look out for her on a Wednesday. Her stalker seems to want to target those dear to her - her ailing mother and only sister.

She's working on a local story involving a campaign to tear down a block of flats which is riddled with damp - it seems like everyone is over the moon that the campaign has been successful.

There's a story running alongside about a small boy who lives with his much loved gran. Initially I couldn't connect where this tied into the story but it's very cleverly interwoven and a real part of the overall story.

We find out a little about Alice's past which makes for surprising and unpleasant reading - is her stalker from that part of her past? It's a fast paced read which had me questioning everything and that twist, wow, I never saw that coming for a moment. A brilliant read which I so recommend.



*Safe House by Jo Jakeman - Charlie has bought a run-down house in a remote Cornish village. She's starting again with a new name and appearance. Nobody apart from one person knows who she really is and where she is.

She's not long out of prison for providing a false alibi for her controlling partner, Lee Fisher, a man she believed was the love of her life and not capable of what they said he did.

She's there to start afresh and begins to make friends but feels someone is always watching her. It spooks her (and me!) out. She makes friends with her elderly neighbour who lives next door and a gaggle of women around her age. Life is good. 

But who is out to make her pay? I read this story in a day. I thought it was absolutely fantastic and seriously creepy. Highly recommend.



*I Dare you by Sam Carrington - The story opens in sleepy Mapledon in 1989 when two young girls are playing a game of (what I knew it as, of knock, knock, run away). Of course, local weirdo, Billy Crawley, or "Creepy Crawley" as he's known is the chosen one the local kids torment.

It's told in the past and the present and is super twisty, un-put-downable and for me it was always just one more chapter...that twist, I never for one minute saw it coming..

One day when out playing Anna's (or Bella as she was known then) friend goes missing. Precious moments are lost and her body has never been found. Billy Crawley was the prime suspect and he went down for 30 years.

It's nearing the 30th anniversary and Anna's mother telephones her begging her to come home as there has been some strange happenings. There's also an inquisitive journo with links to the village poking her nose in. Anna who has not set foot in the village since that time has no desire to return.. 

It's a tale of intrigue with a healthy dose of meddling and was Billy really to blame? Highly recommend!



*The Temple House Vanishing by Rachel Donohue - this isn't published until next year so I'll share my review then. It's absolutely un-put-down-able with interesting characters and storylines. I loved it.


*The Dilemma by B A Paris - WOW I just loved this twisty read! Again, it's not published until next year so I'll share my review in my January book round-up. It's brilliant.


*The Child on Platform One by Gill Thompson - I just devoured this incredible read in two sittings. Absolutely wonderful. I'm taking part in the blog tour on the 3rd so catch my review then.

What have you been reading this month?

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