Huge thanks to Rachel's Random Resources for inviting me onto Val Penny's The First Cut blog tour. I am absolutely delighted to be hosting a guest post from Val. But first to get you in the mood. Here's a little more about The First Cut Blurb The First Cut (DS Jane Renwick #1) It’s hard to escape a brutal past… A vicious serial killer is on the loose. Victims include an academic and notable members of Edinburgh’s high society.  When Detective Sergeant Jane Renwick learns through DNA that a member of her family could be the killer, she is banished to the sidelines of the case an ..read more

What a delight to be chatting to the delightful Joel Hames author of The Lies I Tell. Thanks so much to Spellbound books and Zooloos Book Tours for the invite to the Blog Tour with a wonderful Q&A.  But First, here's the blurb ... Blurb  SHE’S WATCHING YOU, BUT WHO’S WATCHING HER? From the bestselling author of Dead North, a tense, claustrophobic psychological thriller perfect for fans of Lucy Foley, Claire McGowan and Clare Mackintosh. Meet Polly. Meet Emily. Meet Belinda. They're all me. My name is Lisa and I’m an identity thief. If I’m not inside your system stealing y ..read more

 Chuffed to bits to have been invited  by Zooloo's Book Tours to this tour for the NHS charities short story anthology  The C Word, published by Spellbound Books. Book Blurb  100% of all royalties from The C Word will be donated to NHS Together Charities. So, what do writers do during Lockdown? They create murder, mystery, death and destruction of course! The C Word is a collection of short stories collated during the COVID-19 pandemic to raise money for NHS Charities Together. A plethora of wonderful stories created by a wide variety of writers, each with their own uni ..read more

  Huge thanks to Zooloo's book tours for inviting me to host this extract from cosy crime novel Let Sleeping Murder Lie by my friend  Carmen Radtke. It's great to be kicking off this blog tour. Hope you enjoy this sneaky peek... Blurb Let Sleeping Murder Lie  American Eve Holdsworth is living her quintessential English dream in a picturesque village in the countryside. Meeting an attractive stranger adds to the appeal. But Ben Dryden is a pariah in Eve’s new neighbourhood, since his wife was murdered five years ago, and he was the only suspect. Eve, who is absolutely sure some ..read more

Huge thanks to Spellbound Books and Zooloo's Book Tours for inviting me on the Blog tour and to Kevin McManus for answering all my questions. Tell us a bit about your current book release The story is set in Western Ireland in the fictional town of Port Ard. The year is 2007, the height of the Irish property boom. The town is awash with building workers from Eastern Europe. Corrupt politicians and business entrepreneurs are making a tidy sum from their endeavours. Against this backdrop a Polish woman working for a successful estate agent is murdered. Her boyfriend who is the chief suspect ha ..read more

 Huge thanks to Zooloo's book tours for inviting me to take part in the Mind Guerrilla Tour.    Book Blurb When a high-end escort is discovered murdered in her plush waterside apartment, so begins the hunt for a serial killer known as The Crucifier due to the unusual slaying and positioning of his victims. In parallel there remains the need to locate a dangerous and elusive doomsday cult. DCI William Chamberlain and DI Judd Stone have an acute thirst for justice on both accounts. Stone is an ex-football hooligan turned cop. Riddled with guilt and anger, he is used to getting r ..read more

Huge thanks to Rachel's Random Resources for arranging this tour and inviting The Crime Warp to host a guest post from Beth Merwood on Memories of Writing. But first, here's the blurb. The Five Things blurb For nine-year-oldWendy, the summer of 1969 will never be forgotten. Local kids have always told stories about the eerie wood on the outskirts of the village, and Wendy knows for sure that some of them are true. Now the school holidays have started and she's going to the wood again with Anna and Sam, but they soon become convinced tha ..read more

Thanks to Rachel's Random Resources for inviting me onto the Death In The Lake Blog Tour  Death on the Lake Three youngsters, out for a good time. Vodka and the wrong sort of Coke. What could possibly go wrong? When a young woman, Summer Raine, is found drowned, apparently accidentally, after an afternoon spent drinking on a boat on Ullswater, DCI Jude Satterthwaite is deeply concerned — more so when his boss refuses to let him investigate the matter any further to avoid compromising a fraud case. But a sinister shadow lingers over the dale and one accidental death is followed by ano ..read more

Huge thanks to Zooloos book for the invite to host a Q&A for The Reckoning Blog Tour. First up, here's the blurb The Reckoning Blurb THE FIGHT IS NOT OVER. A NEW NEMESIS HAS AWOKEN. Sinister visions of an evil entity with looming yellow eyes haunt Silver’s dreams, threatening to destroy the new world she and her friends have created. The terrifying omens push Silver to experiment with her abilities, but awaken a burgeoning thirst for more power. As Silver walks a fine line between good and evil, her friends become wary of her intimidating abilities. She finds understanding in a sympathe ..read more

Delighted to have the chance to review Dead Ground because I love Poe and Tilly so much.  Dead Ground Blurb Available here Detective Sergeant Washington Poe is in court, fighting eviction from his beloved and isolated croft, when he is summoned to a backstreet brothel in Carlisle where a man has been beaten to death with a baseball bat. Poe is confused - he hunts serial killers and this appears to be a straightforward murder-by-pimp - but his attendance was requested personally, by the kind of people who prefer to remain in the shadows. As Poe and the socially awkward program ..read more