Murder in the Caribbean by Robert Thorogood
This is to buy with the book token you could buy your nearest and dearest for Chrimbo as it isn’t out til 27th December.
A bit of sunshine, and why not as the glorious golden leaves of this autumn are biting the dust as DI Richard Poole and his team set about cracking another murder after a boat explodes in the harbour. Who did it, and why leave a ruby behind at the scene of the crime? As events unfold it becomes clear that one can’t outrun the past. I love a good sunny romp, but there is enough of a dark side not to be cloying. A treat, quite frankly.
Published by HQ £7.99/ebook £2.99/audio £12.99
A Daughter’s Gift by Maggie Hope.
When Elizabeth and her four siblings are orphaned, she and her brother are sent to a children’s home; their younger sisters into foster care. Maggie is determined to make a better life for her and her brother and all seems to be more or less on track,e even when she starts work as a nurse, but does she jeopardise it all when she falls for a wounded officer? Marriage to one so far above her is out of the question and her behaviour must be above reproach if she is to retain her job. Even more stress awaits as her sister is adopted by an abusive farmer. How is Maggie to solve all these dilemmas?
A page turner of a novel set in Catherine Cookson country. Give it a try.
Ebury Press £6.99
The Christmas Sisters by the ever popular Sarah Morgan
This is one of those warm optimistic novels which is just right for Christmas, with a cracking jacket, though there are problems in abundance as Suzanne McBride’s three daughters return for the festivities in the Scottish Highlands. But as so often at these reunions things from the past bubble to the surface…
A warm rich story to read by the fireside, with a box of chocolates and a glass or two of wine. Enjoy.
HQ Harper Collins £7.99
Forget my Name by J.S. Monroe
On quite a different pathway, this thriller from the bestselling author of Find Me- which Frost also enjoyed – sometimes from behind the sofa it must be said.
Munroe cranks up the tension as ‘she’ arrives in Heathrow after a difficult week at work. All her ID has been stolen. OK, report the theft then, but how, when she can’t remember her own name? Ah, but she can summon up her address.
But when she arrives, Tony and Laura, a young couple live there. She says it’s her home. They say they have never met her before. Who is lying?
This is the sort of nightmare we are pleased to wake from, and find ourselves still in bed. But what do you do when it’s not that sort of a nightmare. Bite your nails and read Forget my Name, or give it to someone in plain brown wrapping paper (as we’re being told to do this year) and let them sweat it out, and tell you the end.
Head of Zeus pb £18.99
Milly Adams latest series is The Waterway Girls – pub: Arrow