Matt Walker had just witnessed the murder of Graham Meadows, his psychopathic brother-in-law; or so he thought.
After all he had been through, what, or who, could he believe anyway?
Eighteen months previous, after meeting the love of his life, Matt had envisaged finally settling down. However, soon after he married Amelia, his life began to spiral out of control; ever since the day she introduced him to The Family.
Yet somehow he managed to escape, free to start over.
But as Matt attempted to get his life back on track, Amelia’s news hit him like a sledgehammer. And to compound the misery, his best friend Lisa asked him to move out, leaving Matt to fend for himself once more.
Undeterred, he found himself in a new apartment, with a gorgeous new neighbour for company. A fresh start was so close, he could almost touch it…
But the family weren’t finished. They’ll never be finished. Read ‘MOTHER’ Now! Part Two of ‘The Family’ Psychological Thriller Trilogy
The fifth book in the Galway Murders series is another gripping thriller.
Three members of the same family are found murdered in a cottage in a remote area of South Connemara. When Detective Sergeant Fiona Madden and her partner detective Garda Sean Tracy view the scene, they learn that there is another family member who is apparently missing. Madden’s superior, DI Horgan, draws the obvious conclusion that the missing son is the murderer.
That theory proves false when the young man is found murdered in similar fashion as his parents and brother. Madden and Tracy struggle to discover the motive for the murders. Their search leads them to a hidden still in the Connemara hills and the possibility that the motive involves drugs and a major organised crime gang in Galway city.
The real motive involves sins committed in the past and has resonances with Madden’s own life.
The sixth in the wonderful series featuring Stella Bled.
London, 1940.
The Battle of Britain rages while Stella Bled sits frustrated on the sidelines. Her husband, Nicky, is unreachable as he risks his life flying in a Spitfire and she has to recover from her mission in France without her beloved Bijou or a single familiar face. Stella isn’t exactly content to rest, but she has no choice until a mysterious set of orders arrives at Castle Caladh. Something isn’t right, but Stella’s eager to return to service and ends up at a meeting in the famous St. Ermin’s Hotel. That meeting will land in the history books, but Stella, clearly, wasn’t supposed to get through it unscathed. Someone wants her out of the SIS and they have the power to pull some very long strings.
As the Blitz begins, Stella juggles two roles. One as a secretary at the newly formed Special Operations Executive and the other as an ordinary volunteer at the Women’s Voluntary Service. The Nazi push to invade England is looming closer and the chatter in the SIS networks is getting louder. All Stella wants to do is get back to her chosen profession and fight the only way she can, but the enemy has other ideas. If it isn’t bombs from the sky, it’s betrayal on the ground. Like England, Stella has almost nothing left to give, but more will be required if she and the nation she loves is to survive some of the darkest days in history.
The second in the new post-apocalyptic series from T.L. Payne. Another page-turner.
Two weeks after an electromagnetic pulse knocked out the power grid, communications, and nearly all transportation, sending that nation back into the Stone Age, Lauren Wallace and the small eastern Tennessee town struggle to survive as the residents of Unicoi hunker behind their newly constructed walls.
Sam Wallace, injured and exhausted from his trek out of Atlanta, finds refuge in Franklin, North Carolina. But trouble comes knocking when the town’s tourist population refuses to go home.
Edited at the end of July 2021, this enjoyable read keeps you turning the pages.
Tom Fulwood, the future Earl of Standish discovers at the age of fifteen that marriage can destroy a man, namely his father. His mother prefers entertaining men in her bedroom, while her husband sits downstairs, unable or unwilling to respond to his wife’s inappropriate behaviour. From that day on Tom vows that no woman will hurt him the way his mother hurt his father. For the next seventeen years, Tom works hard to become one of the most notorious rakes London society has ever seen, successfully keeping all the women of his acquaintance at a distance.
In 1810, twenty-four-year-old Isabelle Crawford had been brought up hearing stories of how much in love her dead parents were and had expected to find similar happiness when she came out in society. Reality was different from what she had imagined though, instead of love, she found fortune hunters and as a result, left London to set up home in Bath. Her two elder brothers had supported her decision, although they would have rather seen their sister married instead of choosing what was seen by the ton as an eccentric decision, a young woman living a single life in Bath with a cousin as chaperone.
A potential marriage between Tom’s sister and Isabelle’s brother throws the couple together and sets in motion a chain of events that will see Tom fighting for his life and Isabelle being kidnapped by the very man that Tom had found in his mother’s bed chamber all those years ago.
Another wonderful and humorous instalment in the Guesthouse on the Green series as Mammy and Moira travel Vietnam.
I love the series and can't wait for book four!
A quick but emotional read - reading about the cruelty to the dog was heartbreaking but this was a lovely tale of the love and healing that animals can bring to our lives.
I would have given five stars but for the missed typos - a few t...
I get the impression that this could be a nice story but I've had to give up after forcing myself to go as far as 15% of the way through. If this novel has ever been near a remotely professional editor then the author was conned.
Chapte...
Another very enjoyable story but with a few niggles, hence the four stars rather than five. Maybe it's because I was tired but the editing issues grated on me more than in the first story and, do people really generally believe that 'ear...
