I received a copy of this via netgalley and was saving it for holiday last year, and I’m glad I did. The Gift is the second novel by Louise Jensen. This is the story of Jenna who receives a donor heart after contracting an infection which attacked her own heart. The heart came from a…
Local Girl Missing by Claire Douglas – a review
I was given a copy of this via netgalley. Local Girl Missing begins with Frankie returning to her home town, after the discovery of human remains. It is assumed that the remains belong to her best friend Sophie who disappeared one night when they were both just teenagers. Sophie’s brother had called Frankie and asked…
Children of the revolution
As you all hopefully know, today is World Book Day. In fact it is the 20th anniversary of the day. I can imagine for parent’s the joy of this day is slightly tempered by the need to suddenly create an entire Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory out of an old washing up liquid bottle, an egg box…
My Sister’s Bones by Nuala Ellwood – a review
As readers of this blog will know, one of my favourite things about the festival is the amount of new books you come away with. One of last year’s new discoveries was Nuala Ellwood’s novel My Sister’s Bones. I didn’t realise at the time that she was a York based writer, until I spotted that…
A crime readers blog 