SYNOPSIS

Paris, 1750.

In the midst of an icy winter, as birds fall frozen from the sky, chambermaid Madeleine Chastel arrives at the home of the city’s celebrated clockmaker and his clever, unworldly daughter. 

Madeleine is hiding a dark past, and a dangerous purpose: to discover the truth of the clockmaker’s experiments and record his every move, in exchange for her own chance of freedom.

For as children quietly vanish from the Parisian streets, rumours are swirling that the clockmaker’s intricate mechanical creations, bejewelled birds and silver spiders, are more than they seem.

And soon Madeleine fears that she has stumbled upon an even greater conspiracy. One which might reach to the very heart of Versailles…

A intoxicating story of obsession, illusion and the price of freedom.

MY REVIEW

A creepy, gothic, engrossing historical fiction masterpiece! And I’m glad I loved it so much as I preordered the beautiful Waterstones special edition before I read my advance copy.

I was completely immersed in the life of Madeline, the sights, sounds and pretty disgusting smells of Paris during the 18th century and the reign of King Louis XV.

The story is written from the points of view of three ladies from very different backgrounds.

The main narrator is Madeleine, a young prostitute who’s madam is her actual cruel money focussed mother. Madeline is told she must undertake an undercover mission to pretend to be a maid to enable her spy on a talenttted clockmaker and automata maker, Dr Reinhart. Rumours are circulating that he is undertaking unnatural experiments and the police want to know exactly what he is doing. Is he actually doing the unthinkable and taking his knowledge of automatons so far as to try to reanimate the dead?

The second narrator is Veronique, Dr Reinhart’s daughter. Recently returned home from her depressing years being schooled at a convent. Veronique, at her fathers behest, has been studying the human body and organs. She is desperate to become his apprentice.

The third narrator is Jeanne, Madame de Pompadour, the King’s mistress. She feels her useful time is coming to an end as the King tires of her and she is desperate to stay in the court. She needs to find a way to protect her place despite people within the Palace trying to remove her.

Three ladies whose lives, though highly unlikely, become intertwined.

From the gutters of the backstreets of Paris to the Palace and the King himself, this is an extraordinary imagined story based around many true facts, of the fascination of automata at the time and how far the creators go to make their designs as lifelike as possible. 

Thank you to Orion books for my advance copy of the book via NetGalley and my spot on the blog tour. 

translated by Philip Roughton

SYNOPSIS

A portrait of an artist trapped by convention and expectations but longing for the chaos that can set her free.

Growing up on a farm in early twentieth-century rural Iceland, Karitas Jónsdóttir, one of six siblings, yearns for a new life. An artist, Karitas has a powerful calling and is determined to never let go of her true being, one unsuited for the conventional. But she is powerless against the fateful turns of real life and all its expectations of women. Pulled back time and again by design and by chance to the Icelandic countryside―as dutiful daughter, loving mother, and fisherman’s wife―she struggles to thrive, to be what she was meant to be.

Spanning decades and set against a breathtaking historical canvas, Karitas Untitled, an award-winning classic of Icelandic literature, is a complex and immersive portrait of an artist’s conflict with love, family, nature, and a country unaccustomed to an untraditional woman―but most of all, with herself and the creative instincts she has no choice but to follow.

MY REVIEW

I enjoyed this book so much. 

Completely immersive I felt as if I was there in Iceland with Karitas. Vivid descriptions of the land, sea and glaciers. Descriptions of how life was in the remote parts of Iceland. How they cooked, cleaned, what they ate (blood pudding being just one staple!) and they lived a simple but physically demanding life. 

The book is split into three sections, the initial section beginning in 1915 and the final section ending in 1939, and follows the lives of Karitas and her 5 siblings who are living with their mother. Their father died whilst out fishing. Their mother has a difficult life bringing up her 6 children with very little money. Working the land and then knitting clothes to sell to raise money. 

Schooling is difficult to come by but the mother wants her children to have an education so travels north by boat on a very difficult passage, arriving to find she has no accommodation so has to live in the attic of a fish warehouse. The girls find work doing menial jobs such as laundry and cleaning fish which makes painful hands, but they don’t complain. Then the strong willed Karitas manages to find them a small house. 

Then a life changing meeting happens for Karitas when she is summoned to the home of a wealth female artist Madam Eugenía. It is virtually unheard of for a woman to be an artist in those times.

Madam Eugenía has seen some of Karitas work and arranges for her to go to The Royal Academy of fine arts in Copenhagen and has guaranteed her room and board for five years.

I won’t go into the storyline in detail but the rest of the book, parts 2 and 3, follow Karitas in later stages of her life through marriage and having children.

The author also weaves in some Icelandic folklore about elf people. 

This was quite a long read but I didn’t want it to end!

About the Author

Kristín Marja Baldursdóttir is one of Iceland’s most acclaimed writers and the internationally bestselling author of numerous novels, including Karitas Untitled, a Nordic Council Literature Prize nominee; Street of the Mothers; Chaos on Canvas; and Seagull’s Laughter, which was adapted for the stage and also into an award-winning film. She received her degree in 1991 from the University of Iceland and has also worked as a teacher and a journalist. Among Kristín Marja’s many honors are the Knight’s Cross of the Icelandic Order of the Falcon for her achievements in writing and her contributions to Icelandic literature, the Jónas Hallgrímsson Prize, and the FjöruverðlaunWomen’s Literature Prize. Kristín Marja lives in Reykjavík.

Philip Roughton is an award-winning translator of many of Iceland’s best-known authors, including Nobel laureate Halldór Laxness, Jón Kalman Stefánsson, Þórarinn Eldjárn, Bergsveinn Birgisson, and Steinunn Sigurðardóttir.

SYNOPSIS

At an elite private school nestled in the Colorado mountains, a tangled web of lies draws together three vastly different women. Natalie, a young office assistant, dreams of having a life like the school moms she deals with every day. Women like Brooke-a gorgeous heiress, ferociously loving mother and serial cheater-and Asha, an overachieving and overprotective mom who suspects her husband of having an affair.

Their fates are bound by their relationships with the handsome, charming assistant athletic director Nicholas, who Natalie loves, Brooke wants and Asha needs. But when two bodies are carried out of the school early one morning, it seems the jealousy between mothers and daughters, rival lovers and the haves and have-nots has shattered the surface of this isolated, affluent town-a town where people will stop at nothing to get what they want.

Set in a world of vast ranches, chalet-style apartments and mountain mansions, The Lying Club is a juicy thriller of revenge, murder and a shocking conspiracy-one in which the victims aren’t who you might think.

MY REVIEW

A dark and gripping psychological thriller set in and around an elite private school in Colorado, with rich kids and pushy parents who will do anything for their children.

The beginning of the book grabs your attention straight away. Two people are carried out of the school. Dead? Alive? Police need to investigate whether this was an accident, aggravated assault or a homicide. (It is American!) 

We don’t know the identity of the two people, but we are taken back six months to catch up on the events which led up to this incident. 

Natalie is a person of interest and is currently being interviewed by the police, and as well as going back over events we follow her police interview as the story progresses. The problem is she can’t seem to remember what happened. 

Natalie recently moved to Colorado to help look after her brother. She found a job working in admin in a private school. 

She is, as some of the mothers are, attracted to the very charming Nick who is the PE teacher and who also does private coaching and mentoring to help get students prepared for top universities.

Natalie can’t believe her luck when they begin a relationship, but he is not quite the charming man he appears to be. He becomes very controlling, obsessing over her weight and what she eats. He gives her drugs to feed her addiction until she can’t function without either uppers, downers or painkillers. Then he dumps her.

The other two female main characters, who are school mums, have personal issues in their lives including spoiled daughters who appear to be going off the rails and mixing with a bad bunch. Then disturbing images of one of the girls are circulated around boys at the school. Sloane was persuaded by her boyfriend to take some of herself, but there are others she did not take. 

I can’t go any further into the plot without spoiling it but it is shocking.

After the initial hook, this is a bit of a slow burner which gets under your skin and the pace quickens as the story unfolds. Once I got to know the characters and got further into it I couldn’t put it down. Kept me up well past my bedtime as I had to know how it ended.

Thank you Quercus Books for my proof copy and spot on the blog tour.

About the Author

ANNIE WARD has a BA in English Literature from UCLA and a MFA in Screenwriting from the American Film Institute. Her first short screenplay, Strange Habit, starring Adam Scott was an official selection of the Sundance Film Festival and the Grand Jury Award winner at the Aspen Film Festival. She has received a Fulbright Scholarship and An Escape to Create Artists residency. She lives in Kansas with her family.

by Murray Bailey

SYNOPSIS

Ash Carter and Bill Wolfe are in Israel hunting a group of British Army deserters known as the Killing Crew. Some people think they were a myth, others believe they were the most hated of British soldiers.

In the newly formed state that’s at war with the Arab nations, hated by Jews and despised by Arabs, the two SIB officers think they face an uncomfortable task.

But when they become targets they realise this is more than just a job. It’s life or death.

MY REVIEW

The Ash Carter Singapore series is one of my favourites, and now the author has written two prequels as part of the new Near-East series, this being the second following Cyprus Kiss. I hope there are many more to come as I’m not ready to hear the last from Ash Carter!

The year is 1948. The setting is Israel. The British army have pulled out of the war end evacuated. The British are now despised and seen by many as the enemy. Ash Carter and Bill Wolfe are military police investigators and have been tasked, with the knowledge and agreement of the Israeli government, with finding a team of British deserters who call themselves The Killing Crew. Some are not convinced this crew exists, although a reporter has written articles about them. They need to speak to him.

The search for the Killing Crew is going to be difficult as they have a list of 81 deserters and they don’t know who amongst that list are the crew they are searching for.

Before he gets involved in the search, Carter shows his good guy side by coming to the aid of a mother in distress, and speaking to her he finds she is an illegal Jewish immigrant. A refugee. Carter provides them with basic food which is being rationed. Then he gets rid of the two Slovak debt collector thugs who are preying on her and many others in her situation. A decision which has repercussions.

The search for the Killing Crew leads Carter and Wolfe to a group called Frank’s Band, having had help locating them from a local informant. Are they the Killing Crew? Who is the person known as ‘The Engineer’ who could be the bomb maker?

There are some shady characters in this book and you don’t know who to trust. Can Carter trust those closest to him?

As well as many twists and turns, there is a huge red herring where I was almost shouting at the pages for Ash and Wolfe to realise the connection only to find later I was wrong!

The author has based this book on some historical facts and real events, and a lot of believable fiction, putting the reader right in the middle of the action.

As with all of the author’s books I have read, I thoroughly enjoyed this action packed fast paced thriller and of course meeting Carter again. Ash Carter is an excellent protagonist and I would highly recommend this series, as well as the Singapore series.

Please read the other blog tour reviews and follow Murray on Twitter. He is currently doing a giveaway for a signed copy if Cyprus Kiss.

Twitter @murraybaileybks

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Murray Bailey Is the author of Amazon bestseller Map of the Dead, the first of the series based on his interest in Egyptology. His main series however is the Ash Carter thrillers, inspired by his father’s experience in the Royal Military Police in Singapore in the early 1950s. Murray is well traveled, having worked in the US, South America and a number of European countries throughout his career as a management consultant. However he also managed to find the time to edit books, contribute to articles and act as a part-time magazine editor. Murray lives on the south coast of England with his family and a dog called Teddy.

Follow Murray on Twitter @MurrayBaileybks

by Tina Baker

Hardback publication day 24th February 2022

by Viper Books

SYNOPSIS

WHEN YOUR MARRIAGE IS THIS BROKEN, YOU MAY NOT MAKE IT OUT ALIVE.

A nightmare jolts Debs awake. She leaves the kids tucked up in their beds and goes downstairs. There’s a man in her kitchen, holding a knife. But it’s not an intruder. This is her husband Marc, the father of her children. A man she no longer recognises.

Once their differences were what drew them together, what turned them on. Him, the ex-army officer from a good family. Her, the fitness instructor who grew up over a pub. But now these differences grate to the point of drawing blood. Marc screams in his sleep. And Debs hardly knows the person she’s become, or why she lets him hurt her.

Neither of them is completely innocent. Neither is totally guilty. Marc is taller, stronger, and more vicious, haunted by a war he can’t forget. But he has no idea what Debs is capable of when her children’s lives are at stake…

MY REVIEW

So happy to be part of the Blog Tour for this
dark, disturbing yet compelling domestic psychological thriller. What a read!

The main storyline is set the night before Christmas Eve, when Debs and Marc’s marriage is at crisis point. They were ill matched right from the word go, but were initially attracted by each other’s differences. Opposites attract? 

Sadly after years of marriage, two young children, an affair and working late nights resentment for each other has built up until it has overflowed. Marc has reached breaking point and Deb finds him in the middle of the night, in their kitchen, holding a knife. What does he plan to do?

The current timeline is broken up as we are taken back to various times in their lives and we find a little more background on each of them. We find out about their disastrous childhoods and bad experiences which have moulded them into the people they are today. Damaged.

We also find out sufficient about supporting characters who are only a small part of the overall story such as the next door neighbour to feel we know them a little. Sometimes flicking back and forth can get confusing but not in this case as I was glued to the story.

Some of the scenes and descriptions of violence are difficult to read but the story would not be so hard hitting without them.

Excellent descriptive writing and well written characters, and I loved Lucy the dog who was in the main scene for the duration of the book to give a tiny amount of light heartedness to the overall dark subject matter.

Would definitely recommend.

Thank you to Viper Books for my spot on the tour.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

About the Author

Tina Baker was brought up in a caravan after her mother, a fairground traveller, fell pregnant by a window cleaner. After leaving the bright lights of Coalville, she came to London and worked as a journalist and broadcaster for thirty years. She’s probably best known as a television critic for the BBC and GMTV. Call Me Mummy is Tina’s first novel.

by Kathy Wang

Due to be published in UK 26/5/22

by Verve Books

SYNOPSIS

In 2006 Julia Lerner is living in Moscow, a recent university graduate in computer science, when she’s recruited by Russia’s largest intelligence agency. By 2018 she’s in Silicon Valley as COO of Tangerine, one of America’s most famous technology companies. In between her executive management (make offers to promising startups, crush them and copy their features if they refuse); self promotion (check out her latest op-ed in the WSJ, on Work/Life Balance 2.0); and work in gender equality (transfer the most annoying females from her team), she funnels intelligence back to the motherland. But now Russia’s asking for more, and Julia’s getting nervous.

Alice Lu is a first generation Chinese American whose parents are delighted she’s working at Tangerine (such a successful company!). Too bad she’s slogging away in the lower echelons, recently dumped, and now sharing her expensive two-bedroom apartment with her cousin Cheri, a perennial “founder’s girlfriend”. One afternoon, while performing a server check, Alice discovers some unusual activity, and now she’s burdened with two powerful but distressing suspicions: Tangerine’s privacy settings aren’t as rigorous as the company claims they are, and the person abusing this loophole might be Julia Lerner herself. 

The closer Alice gets to Julia, the more Julia questions her own loyalties. Russia may have placed her in the Valley, but she’s the one who built her career; isn’t she entitled to protect the lifestyle she’s earned? Part page-turning cat-and-mouse chase, part sharp and hilarious satire, Impostor Syndrome is a shrewdly-observed examination of women in tech, Silicon Valley hubris, and the rarely fulfilled but ever-attractive promise of the American Dream.

MY REVIEW

Leo works at the SPB – state protection bureau, one of Russia’s three intelligence agencies

Julia is recruited by Leo and sent to Silicon Valley as a spy, and told to start up a company until she is required. She starts up Tangerine which provides email services, online chat etc and as COO she builds it into a hugely successful company. She becomes powerful and wealthy.

When Leo gets in touch to tell her she needs to marry and have children to fit in as an American citizen, she marries Charlie who is a successful doctor and has a baby.

Leo then gives her a task which, if she is found out, could mean her losing everything. She is enjoying her new life too much and does not want anything to threaten it, not even the reason she is in America.

When she eventually agrees to access personal user records, via ‘God Mode’ which gives her access to everything, one of the technical staff notices and begins investigating.

I found this to be quite a slow burner. I wasn’t really sure where it was going until about 75% in, then I enjoyed it as the action started happening.

Definitely food for thought about how secure our digital footprint is. 

by Lucy Foley

REVIEW BY TIM

SYNOPSIS

Welcome to No.12 rue des Amants

A beautiful old apartment block, far from the glittering lights of the Eiffel Tower and the bustling banks of the Seine.

Where nothing goes unseen, and everyone has a story to unlock.

The watchful concierge
The scorned lover
The prying journalist
The naïve student
The unwanted guest 

There was a murder here last night.
A mystery lies behind the door of apartment three.

Who holds the key?

REVIEW BY TIM

I have, much to my shame, Lucy’s debut novel gathering dust in my TBR pile with one or two or three other novels. I think that now I may make the effort to look for it.

The book is set in an Apartment Block in Paris. Jess has travelled to spend time with her brother who she has not seen for sometime. They grew up apart as family tragedy meant they needed to go into the care system so their late childhood and adolescence took different paths. Jess works where ever, most recently in a bar, Ben, her brother, is an investigative journalist. 

The story begins with Jess arriving at the apartment to find Ben not there. He’s not just not there, everything seems to indicate he has vanished, done a runner, fallen off the radar. 

The story is told in the first person by all the protagonists so you learn what happens from each perspective, and little by little the picture unfolds, and it will keep you gripped. I had always fancied living in city apartment like this. Now I am not so sure!

About the Author

Lucy Foley studied English Literature at Durham and UCL universities. She then worked for several years as a fiction editor in the publishing industry – during which time she also wrote her debut, The Book of Lost and Found. Lucy now writes full-time, and is busy travelling (for research, naturally!) and working on her next novel.

Visit her Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/LucyFoleyAuthor and follow her on Twitter @lucyfoleytweets

by Joanne Burn

SYNOPSIS

It is 1665 and the women of Eyam keep many secrets.

Isabel Frith, the village midwife, walks a dangerous line with her herbs and remedies. There are men in the village who speak of witchcraft, and Isabel has a past to hide. So she tells nobody her fears about Wulfric, the pious, reclusive apothecary.

Mae, Wulfric’s youngest daughter, dreads her father’s rage if he discovers what she keeps from him. Like her feelings for Rafe, Isabel’s ward, or that she studies from Wulfric’s forbidden books at night.

But others have secrets too. Secrets darker than any of them could have imagined.

When Mae makes a horrifying discovery, Isabel is the only person she can turn to. But helping Mae will place them both in unspeakable peril.

And meanwhile another danger is on its way from London. One that threatens to engulf them all . . .

Based on the real history of an English village during the Great Plague, The Hemlock Cure is an utterly beguiling tale of fear and ambition, betrayal, self-sacrifice and the unbreakable bond between two women.

MY REVIEW

This book is going to be a bestseller this year. No doubt will win awards too. Order it now and read it immediately so you can join in with the conversations on 10th February when it is released.

This book deserves to be a bestseller this year. Pre order it now and read it immediately when it is released on 10th February.

Where do I start to review such a brilliant book which has been so meticulously researched?

Well, it is set at the time of The Plague. Although a small part of the story moves to London, and we are given a vivid description of life in London during the plague, it is mostly centred on the village of Eyam. This is the village well known for bravely quarantining itself following an outbreak of plague there, in order to prevent the plague spreading. Around a third of the residents died from the plague. 

Most of the secondary characters are based on actual people who lived there at the time, but for artistic licence the author has based the main storyline around fictitious characters. 

Mae is just reaching puberty, but she is having to hide the signs from her father as she knows he will not be happy and she will no doubt be in for another beating if he finds out. She has tried to be the best daughter she can, running the home following the deaths of her mother and sister but he is never happy. Her father is the village’s apothecary and highly regarded but not many know what sort of a man he really is. He has done some terrible things in his life but he is a very strong believer in God, and in his twisted mind he believes he is following God’s signs. Mae was hoping to follow in her father’s footsteps, even trying to teach herself new apothecary skills but she is devastated Em when her father takes on young Sam as his trainee. 

After a particularly nasty beating Mae decided she needs to escape from her father’s clutches but with the doors constantly locked and the key around his neck, then the quarantine of the village because of the plague, her options are few and escape is looking unlikely. 

I was hoping so much that Mae would make it through the plague and away from her father and I have whizzed through the last chapters as I had to know the end. Of course I can’t tell you but you will find out when you read the book.

Go order it now if you are a fan of historical fiction. It really is a must read! And it has a stunning cover!

Thank you so much Millie at Little Brown for sending me a copy of the book to review.

PUBLICATION DATE: 14 April 2022 In Paperback and e-book

PUBLISHER: Hodder and Stoughton

SYNOPSIS

Book Three in bestselling sensation Nicola May’s gorgeous new series – catch up with Book One, WELCOME TO FERRY LANE MARKET, and Book Two, STARRY SKIES IN FERRY LANE MARKET, now!

39-year-old Glanna Pascoe – also known as ‘the Rainbow Painter’ – runs the Hartmouth Gallery in Ferry Lane Market in Cornwall. She is just getting her head and broken heart around being single, childless, and sober when Cupid flies in, shooting arrows all over the place.

Meeting the mysterious and fascinating Isaac Benson, famous local artist, and recluse, allows Glanna’s disillusioned heart and attitude to soften, and she begins to learn more about herself than she ever thought possible. Confused by her growing feelings for Isaac, Glanna throws herself into organising a life-drawing class at her gallery, using both male and female nudes – and setting local tongues wagging.

A theft from her gallery and the return of ex-love Oliver Trueman cause Glanna to wonder if a pot of gold will be appearing at the end of her rainbow. And will it bring her the happiness, she has sought for so long? 

MY REVIEW

Welcome to my 100th Blog Post and for such a gorgeous book both inside and out. Just look at the stunning covers for the three books in this series so far (I’m hoping for many more!)

Aah so happy to have returned to Ferry Lane Market. I just love this setting with its small shops and rich characters. I read this in a day.

Some of the characters from previous books do of course appear, but this story is all about Glanna. Born in the area but left for the excitement of London, only to end up in rehab. Whilst there she meets the love of her life, Oliver, but they want different things out of life so she walks out of the relationship. Now on the brink of her 40th birthday, Glanna has returned to her roots and now runs an art gallery selling, amongst local artists work, her own paintings. She is known as the Rainbow Artist as a rainbow features in every one of her pieces. Although she is loving the gallery, her thoughts keep returning to her lost love and the life she feels she has wasted. It doesn’t help that her mother is disappointed she isn’t in a relationship yet.

Then on a rainy day, on a dangerous cliff, she is rescued by reclusive local artist Isaac Benson and taken into his secret cliff edge painting studio near his house on the cliffs. This is a man Glanna has idolised for many years and she can’t believe her luck to finally meet him. Dare she ask him if he will let her exhibit one of his paintings in her studio?

Will there be romance or will Oliver always be her one true love?

We follow Glanna through some funny and some heartbreaking situations (get the tissues ready).

I just loved her mum and dad – mother is rich and brusque and father is caring and is her estate worker but they never married, although they are secretly besotted with each other. When her dad starts a relationship with a sex mad middle aged woman from the coffee shop her mum realises she really loved him but worries she has lost him.

A fabulous feel good read and I highly recommend the whole series.

Many thanks to Hodder and Stoughton for an advance copy of the book via NetGalley.

Publication date 14 April 2022 

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by

Tove Alsterdal

SYNOPSIS

The case was closed.
Everyone in Ådalen remembers the summer Lina Stavred went missing. At first, the investigation seemed like a dead end: there was no body, no crime scene, no murder weapon.

The records were sealed.
Then a local boy confessed to Lina’s murder. The case opened a wound – one the whole community has spent over two decades trying to heal.

But we know you remember.
Now Lina’s murderer has reappeared, and detective Eira Sjödin must face the spectre of his brutal crime. This is her chance to untangle years of well-kept secrets – but the truth is something Ådalen would rather forget.

MY REVIEW

This novel was named Best Swedish crime novel of the year in Autumn 2020, and won the Glass Key Award for best crime novel from all the Scandinavian countries.

I received an advance proof copy of the book which is due out on  3rd February. Thank you Hannah at Faber books.

Throughout the book the vivid descriptive settings place the reader right in the middle of the action. Set in and around a fairly remote village setting in Sweden. Clean air and space for children to run free. However there have been some serious crimes committed in the area over the years.

An elderly gentleman is found murdered in his shower.

A young girl disappeared presumed dead and Olof, a 14 year old boy, is framed and suspected of her disappearance but insufficient evidence to convict him.

A girl gang raped by a group of boys from outside the area.

Are these crimes connected?

Eira, A young police officer who lived in the area when the girl went missing, is involved in the case of the murder of the elderly man. Whilst investigating she uncovers evidence which could prove Olof was innocent and was coerced into admitting his guilt.

A gripping police procedural thriller which kept me turning the pages. I’m looking forward to reading the next in the series.

About the Author

Tove Alsterdal burst upon the Swedish book scene in 2009 with The Forgotten Dead and is the author of five critically acclaimed stand-alone novels. We Know You Remember was named Swedish Crime Novel of the Year and was shortlisted for the country’s Book of the Year Award.