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 in July 2021, this gripping story is full of twists and turns.
You paid the price for wanting what you couldn’t have. Now DNA tests threaten to expose what you spent a lifetime hiding…
As an ambitious young woman in the years following the Second World War, Barbara made some hard choices, decisions changing everything that came after. She had to fight for what she wanted; then the stakes got so much higher.
A continent away, and decades later, Barbara’s daughter hires genealogist Karen Copperfield to make sense of the family’s DNA tests. Nothing about the results ties in with what Barbara’s children believed, and the shock is tearing the family apart. Barbara seems to prefer death to revealing the truth, and Karen soon discovers there is more than one secret she intends to take to her grave.
But when threats start to come from both sides of the Atlantic, it soon becomes clear that Barbara is not the only person who wants the past to stay that way.
DNA Never Lies is the first in a series of novels featuring Karen Copperfield, investigative genealogist. Karen helps people make sense of sometimes dark family secrets revealed by DNA tests as they ask: ‘what happens when nothing you believed is true?’
Edited in July 2021, this is the second in this steamy romance series.
When Colleen visits her sister, Nora, in London, she expects her to be living the high life; just one mad social whirl is how she pictures it.
Instead, she finds Nora sick and living in squalor in a cold and damp flat. And who is the man they call Maggot and what does he want with her sister?
Adam Turner, CEO of Meredith Motors is the best man for his friend, Jeremy, and as such arranges his stag night. Adam has plans for a civilised, pleasant evening with none of the normal high jinks such as schoolboy pranks, drunken antics and definitely no naked women.
Life doesn’t always give you what you want but can often give you what you need.
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...
