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Blog Tour: The Chemical Code – Fiona Erskine

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Racing towards the dark heart of Brazil, explosives expert Jaq Silver has one goal – vengeance. When her enemies take what she treasures most, she resolves to make them pay. Unsure who to trust, alert to hidden agendas, Jaq is hunting solo. As summer temperatures rise, the web of danger and corruption tightens around her. What is in the mysterious box, Jaq has inherited from her grandmother? Can Jaq be sure she is chasing down the right target? And who is pursuing her?

An exhilarating tour around Brazil from the gold mines of Goiás to the glorious beaches of Rio, THE CHEMICAL CODE combines non-stop explosive action and Bond-style villainy with the scientific know-how that makes the Chemical Detective series so unique.

FIONA ERSKINE is a professional engineer based in Teesside, although her work has taken her around the globe. As a female engineer, she has often been the lone representative of her gender in board meetings, cargo ships and night-time factories, and her fiction offers a fascinating insight into this traditionally male world. She is the author of The Chemical Detective, The Chemical Reaction and The Chemical Cocktail, all published by Point Blank. The Chemical Detective was shortlisted for the Specsavers Debut Crime Novel Award and The Chemical Reaction was shortlisted for the Staunch Prize in 2020.

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My thoughts: Jaq Silver has inherited a gold mine somewhere deep in the Brazilian rainforest, only she’s not interested, but plenty of other people are. She just wants to find her son, given away and adopted at birth. He’s out here somewhere but the people chasing her will stop at nothing to get the mining rights and keep her away, they’ll destroy and kill in order to stop her.

On her trail is federal police officer Gracà Nunes, she’s new to the job but has good instincts, and something tells her Jaq is a woman to watch out for. As the women’s paths lead them to the same place, but from different angles, bodies pile up and they both face danger. But can Jaq outwit her enemies and find her son? Will Gracà catch up with her and get to keep her job by solving the big case?

There are subplots involving bank managers and environmental scientists, stolen moments with kitesurfers and daring ocean rescues. It’s all very high adrenaline stuff, Jaq’s a bit of an action hero as well as a clever engineer, but not necessarily a great detective. As she zigzags across Brazil searching for her son, doing the odd spot of actual work and plotting revenge, other things rumble on in the background and she seems to be connected to it all.

Intelligent and drawing on real events for inspiration, this will hook you and suck you into its fast paced tangled web of corruption, crime and crazed colonels.

*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in the blog tour but all opinions remain my own.

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Blog Tour: The Bigamist – Rona Halsall

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‘I’m sorry, Sam’s not available,’ says the woman who answers my husband’s phone. I can’t place her voice, so I politely ask who she is. Her answer sends my world spinning out of control: ‘I’m his wife.’

I know I want to marry Sam the moment I meet him. After I lost my beloved mother so suddenly, this charming, softly spoken architect with his deep-brown eyes is just the fresh start I’ve been searching for.

I’m delighted to be expecting our first child before we’ve even had a chance to plan a honeymoon. I want our family to work so I try to ignore his long work trips. I turn a blind eye to the private calls he takes and I listen to his excuses about why the money keeps disappearing from my bank account. After all, he has no idea what I’ve been doing in our house whilst he’s away or how I really made that money.

Then I find out Sam’s got more to hide than I ever imagined was possible. Because my husband is leading a double life. He’s already married to someone else.

But what Sam doesn’t know is that he’s not the only person keeping secrets.

And he has no idea how far I’ll go to protect myself…

A totally unputdownable, twisty, will-leave-you-gasping story of marriage, guilt and lies. If you love Lisa Jewell, Gillian Flynn and Paula Hawkins, you will not be able to sleep until you’ve finished every last page of The Bigamist.

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Rona is the bestselling author of psychological thrillers published by Bookouture. She loves to turn domestic storylines on their head to keep her readers guessing what the heck is going on.

She has been a bit of a nomad during her adult life, moving around the north of England, before settling in Snowdonia, North Wales where she brought up her family while working as a business mentor. She now lives on the Isle of Man with her little nutter of a Border Collie, Maid. You’ll find all the places she’s lived in her stories!

She is an outdoorsy person and loves stomping up a mountain, walking the coastal paths and exploring the wonderful glens and beaches on the Island while she’s plotting her next book. She has three children and two stepchildren who are all grown up and leading varied and interesting lives, which provides plenty of material for new stories.

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My thoughts: no one in this story is really who they seem, Sam, Faith and Emma are all carrying secrets, some much darker and more twisted than others. In a way they all deserve each other, they’re not nice people.

Marrying Sam is a pretty intentional thing to do, considering what Emma’s hiding but Sam isn’t to be trusted and neither is his sister Faith. They’ve got a past no one would be proud of.

As they try to keep everything hidden, events start to overtake them and things begin to surface, there’s some suspect paperwork in Sam’s office, paintings that belong to Emma show up in one of his client’s homes, Emma’s phone is full of things she can’t let anyone see and Faith is always popping round uninvited.

Things go from bad to worse very quickly and now they all need to work out their end game and how to evade the police, who’ve started asking questions. But who will survive the deadly game they’re all playing and what will the cost be? Gripping and full of sudden twists and turns, this is a clever thriller with deadly consequences.

*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in the blog tour but all opinions remain my own

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Blog Tour: Good Girls Die Last – Natali Simmons

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Today, nothing is going right for Em. And it’s about to get much worse. Heartbroken by a recent split, with her 30th birthday looming, she loses her job and her home in the same morning because of two swaggering, dishonest men – the boss who sexually harassed her and the flatmate sleeping with her behind his fiancée’s back. But all Em can think about is catching a flight to attend her sister’s wedding and see her dying mother. With a record-breaking heatwave, and a serial killer making the streets unsafe, London is completely gridlocked. Em’s life has always been full of men getting their own way, and today the scorched city teems with them standing between her and home. As Em’s troubled past returns to haunt her, she refuses to let them win. Her defiance leads to shocking consequences that soon spiral wildly out of control. In a world where men don’t listen, and girls have no voice, one woman can change everything. Today, no one will be staying silent.

As the daughter of a Spanish immigrant, Natali J Simmonds has lived all over the world. GOOD GIRLS DIE LAST is her first thriller after writing fantasy novels. When not writing, she is the Head of Community and Editorial Commissions at Jericho Writers and lectures at Raindance Film School and The University of The Hague. Follow Natali on Twitter: @NJSimmondsbooks #SaveEm /#GoodGirlsDieLast

My thoughts: this was an interesting read, inspired partly by the murder of Sarah Everard and the reactions that followed, both on social media and in the streets, the thought of a heatwave so profound that bus and tube drivers walk away from their jobs, leaving the city to grind to a halt, and the many, many aggressions that women deal with day in day out, it fizzles with barely repressed rage and frustration.

Em has had the worst day, fired, then made homeless by her obnoxious flatmate, she’s walking across town to get to City Airport to catch a flight home to Spain in time for her sister’s wedding. A serial killer is targeting women and the police seem unable to stop him.

She meets Rose, another woman walking across town and they have a rather eventful time dealing with creeps and idiots. They’re tired and fed up and it doesn’t seem to matter what they do, it’s relentless.

After her day takes several more terrible turns, Em finally snaps and does something. Something that could destroy the fragile life she’s barely holding onto. The events snowball beyond her control and suddenly she’s a figurehead, a movement. As the temperature slowly melts the tarmac, what could happen next?

Tense, angry and rightfully so, this is a clever and intriguing book, in a world where men have the power, all it takes is one woman.

*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in the blog tour but all opinions remain my own.

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Blog Tour: You Can’t See Me – Eva Björg Ægisdóttir, translated by Victoria Cribb

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The wealthy, powerful Snæberg clan has gathered for a family reunion at a futuristic hotel set amongst the dark lava flows of Iceland’s remote Snæfellsnes peninsula. Petra Snæberg, a successful interior designer, is anxious about the event, and her troubled teenage daughter, Lea, whose socialmedia presence has attracted the wrong kind of followers. Ageing carpenter Tryggvi is an outsider, only tolerated because he’s the boyfriend of Petra’s aunt, but he’s struggling to avoid alcohol because he knows what happens when he drinks … Humble hotel employee, Irma, is excited to meet this rich and famous family and observe them at close quarters … perhaps too close… As the weather deteriorates and the alcohol flows, one of the guests disappears, and it becomes clear that there is a prowler lurking in the dark. But is the real danger inside … within the family itself?

Born in Akranes in 1988, Eva Björg Ægisdóttir studied for an MSc in globalisation in Norway before returning to Iceland to write her first novel. Combining writing with work as a stewardess and caring for her children, Eva finished her debut thriller The Creak on the Stairs, which was published in 2018. It became a bestseller in Iceland, going on to win the Blackbird Award. Published in English by Orenda Books in 2020, it became a digital number-one betseller in three countries, was shortlisted for the Capital Crime/Amazon Publishing Awards in two categories and won the CWA John Creasey Dagger in 2021. Girls Who Lie, the second book in the Forbidden Iceland series was shortlisted for the Petrona Award and the CWA Crime in Translation Dagger, and Night Shadows followed suit. With over 200,000 copies sold in English alone, Eva has become one of Iceland’s – and crimefiction’s – most highly regarded authors. She lives in Reyjavik with her husband and three children.

My thoughts: family reunions never end well, all those very different people linked only by blood or marriage, in one place, in this case a remote Icelandic hotel, with lots of booze. Recipe for disaster. Secrets bubble up, people are revealed to be more something other than they seem, old resentments flourish and nobody has a nice time. Except maybe the oblivious patriarch, although the heartburn and indigestion he’s due won’t be pleasant.

There’s a member of hotel staff with a secret connection to the family, a years old secret comes to light, an unhappy teenager, a miserable mother who won’t stop picking on her adult daughter. You can tell they don’t have these gatherings too often, better if they don’t speak at all in some cases.

Then there’s the dead body, the possibly missing girl and the police, summoned to the hotel to investigate. With all the suspects handily in one place, it shouldn’t take them long to sort out.

Moving back and forth between the police investigation and the weekend that proceeded it, we get a long hard look at the family, at their messy relationships, resentments and all the awkward moments you could want, as long as they’re not your relatives.

As a prequel to the Arkanes set Forbidden Iceland series, it’s only in the final moments the connection is made, this is much more about the wealthy Snæberg family and their chaos than it is about the police or the town. It works quite happily as a standalone, although I do recommend the rest of the series too.

*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in the blog tour but all opinions remain my own.

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Blog Tour: Evil at Alardyce House – Heather Atkinson

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The history of the Alardyce family is fraught with scandal and intrigue.
But after her eldest son Robert leaves the country, finally Amy Alardyce can enjoy some peace.
Robert is wanted by the police for some unspeakable crimes, and his family hope he has run far enough and never looks back.
A decade after his disappearance, Robert has forged a successful life for himself, making his fortune from the diamond and gold mines of Africa. But when he sees a death notice in the newspaper, the call to go home to Scotland grows ever louder.
At Alardyce House, there are big changes too, and the fragile peace the family have enjoyed for so long is feeling more fragile than ever. And as the past comes back to haunt Amy and her children, will she have to finally accept that the curse of the Alardcye family can never be outrun…
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Heather Atkinson is the author of over fifty books – predominantly in the crime fiction genre.
Although Lancashire born and bred she now lives with her family, including twin teenage daughters, on the beautiful west coast of Scotland. Her gangland series for Boldwood, set on the fictional Gallowburn estate in Glasgow begins with the title Blood Brothers.

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My thoughts: eventually Robert had to come home. Twelve years after fleeing to South America and then to South Africa, he returns to Scotland. To the Alardyce estate and to the scene of his terrible crimes. But things have changed. His younger siblings are no longer children, awed and delighted by him, his wife wants a divorce and his daughter doesn’t know him. Even his mother Amy is no longer always on his side.

He must show that he has changed, redeemed himself, is no longer a monster. But can he before tragedy sweeps the Alardyce family once more?

This series has some shocking moments and this book is no different, there’s some really sad ones too as some characters reach the end of their lives and the family mourns. Robert expects to walk all over the family, but finds that he’s no longer able to sway everyone.

Amy’s long and difficult life is coming to a close and she is prepared, as long as the sinister ghost of Matthew isn’t there to claim her for his afterlife. Can she do battle with him a final time?

There’s a few endings but also beginnings as the younger generation, raised without so much violence and tragedy, but with love and kindness, come to the fore. They could change the destiny of the Alardyce family for ever. I’ve really enjoyed this series and I’m glad so many loose ends are tied up.

*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in the blog tour but all opinions remain my own.

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Blog Tour: Lose Me In The Shadows – Jo Brenner

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Welcome to the tour for the dark and spicy sequel in Jo Brenner’s Bad Heroes series, Lose Me in the Shadows. Read on for more details!

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Lose Me in the Shadows (Bad Heroes #2)

Publication Date: July 6th, 2023

Genre: Why Choose/ Dark Romance/ Navy Seals

She thought it was over.

Kara believed she was free.

Free to erase the brand left on her heart by the three men who thought they could own her. But when an enemy from her past reappears in her present, she’s forced to reckon with who she was—and who she’s become. The dark fire lit inside her by the men she left behind may be Kara’s only weapon against a predator intent on breaking her.

They’ve only just begun.

Conor, Micah, and Luke’s entire worldview has been shattered—by the woman they swore they’d never let go. After Kara’s betrayal, the ex-Navy SEALs decide they don’t believe in second chances…even for her. But when they learn their runaway girl’s life is on the line, the men will stop at nothing to get her back. She’s theirs—and only theirs.

And no one touches what belongs to them and lives.

Lose Me in the Shadows is the second book in the Bad Heroes trilogy, a dark Navy SEAL second chance romance series. Although book two ends in a cliffhanger, the trilogy will end in an HEA. The heroine never has to choose between heroes for her HEA, and the heroes choose her and each other.

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You Can Follow Me

Publication Date: February 28, 2023

Genre: Dark Romance/ Why Choose
For her it was a fling.

After her reputation blows up in New York, Kara takes off for parts unknown, determined to live life one thrill to the next. When a chance encounter with a Navy SEAL leads to the best sex of her life, the promise that it could be something more sends her running.
For them it’s an obsession.

Sexy, brilliant, and lethal, Conor, Micah, and Luke have been best friends since they first joined the SEALS. Until Conor meets a daring redhead and their two-night stand becomes a dangerous obsession. Micah and Luke hatch a plan to convince Conor to move on—but after meeting Kara themselves, all bets are off.

When the three men capture her, she’s forced to confront her feelings—and their anger. But Kara refuses to be anyone’s captive. Though they may dominate her body, she’s determined they’ll never have her heart.

You Can Follow Me is a dark Navy SEAL second chance romance that ends on a cliffhanger. The heroine never has to choose between heroes for her HEA, and the heroes choose her and each other.

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A lover of dogs, mountain adventures, and HGTV, Jo Brenner writes romances that are little bit twisted, a lotta bit sexy—and always have an HEA.

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Blog Tour: Rum Affair – Dorothy Dunnett

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Tina Rossi, the world’s leading coloratura soprano has travelled to Edinburgh, ostensibly to sing in the Festival, but in reality to meet her lover, top scientist Kenneth Holmes. But instead of finding Kenneth at their rendezvous, she discovers an unknown corpse. Enter Johnson Johnson, a famous but enigmatic portrait painter, whose yacht Dolly is about to sail in a race to the Hebrides where Holmes was conducting his top-secret research. Soon Tina and Johnson are sailing the high seas together to investigate his disappearance, but as the Dolly nears Rum, the race becomes one for life rather than prize money…

Dorothy Dunnett (1923-2001) gained an international reputation as a writer of historical fiction. She later turned to crime writing with the acclaimed Dolly books, aka the Johnson Johnson series. She was a trustee of the National Library of Scotland, and a board member of the Edinburgh International Book Festival. In 1992 she was awarded an OBE for her services to literature. A leading light in the Scottish arts world and a renaissance woman, Dunnett was also a professional portrait painter and exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy on many occasions.

My thoughts: Johnson Johnson and his beloved yacht Dolly are back. This time they’re in a race around the Scottish Hebrides. On board is opera singer Tina Rossi and her slimy manager. Ostensibly on holiday, Tina is trying to track down her absentee lover, Dr Kenneth Holmes, a government scientist. He might be on the isle of Rum, but she’s not sure.

Along the way Tina will have to avoid the clutches of a amorous yacht owner, learn to help sail Dolly, keep a lot of secrets to herself and pose for one of Johnson’s famous and brilliant portraits. But what else is the painter, and possible spy, up to? Who is he, and his team, watching on this adventure around the Scottish coast?

All sorts of capers ensue, some of the other racers aren’t exactly as they appear either, and there’s islands to visit, a five grand bet to win and a submarine blows up. Great fun.

This series is very enjoyable and I am delighted it’s all being reprinted, as I’d never come across Dorothy Dunnett (perfect name for a crime writer too) before.

*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in the blog tour but all opinions remain my own.

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Blog Tour: The Greatest Love Story Ever Told – Suzy K Quinn

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YOU WILL CRY WHEN YOU READ THIS!
The funniest, happiest, saddest, happiest romantic comedy you will ever read. With a small twist!
What’s the ‘small’ twist? You’ll have to read it to find out. But let’s just say, you’ve never read anything like this before.
WARNING: Be prepared for many happy tears. And a lot of laughter.
READ THE REVIEWS to see why readers love this book.
For fans of: Jojo Moyes, Cecelia Ahern, Sophie Kinsella and Nick Spalding
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Suzy K Quinn writes edgy romantic comedy and has sold over 1 million books worldwide.
She is a bestseller in the UK, US and Germany and has plans for total world domination with literary love bombs in the near future. So watch this space. Then go read one of her books.
Suzy lives in Wivenhoe, Essex, with her husband Demi and two daughters. She is a twin, an incompetent parent of two and now fully decaffeinated. Her twin sister, Cate Quinn, is also a bestseller author.
Suzy loves her readers and is ALWAYS happy to chat on social media. You can find her @suzykquinn on most social media channels. Throw her an emoji ball, she is friendly. xx

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My thoughts: the blurb above doesn’t lie, I laughed out loud, i cried and I even shouted “No!” at one point. The cat was very confused. This is honestly a very charming story about love and about learning to be a better person.

The relationship between the main narrator, Callum, and Michael, who he’s telling his story to, is interesting. Callum might be younger but he knows a lot about life already, but isn’t precocious with it. Michael has struggled to fit in and to be around other people, but through listening to Callum, and by becoming his friend, he starts to open up and find a better version of himself trapped inside.

I don’t want to give away anything so I’m just going to say, I got more emotionally invested in the life cycles of four tadpoles than I thought possible, and you should read this book.

*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in the blog tour but all opinions remain my own.

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Blog Tour: Voices of the Dead – Ambrose Parry

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EDINBURGH, 1853.
In a city of science, discovery can be deadly . . .

In a time of unprecedented scientific innovation, the public’s appetite for wonder has seen a resurgence of interest in mesmerism, spiritualism and other unexplained phenomena.

Dr Will Raven is wary of the shadowlands that lie between progress and quackery, but Sarah Fisher can’t afford to be so picky. Frustrated in her medical ambitions, she sees opportunity in a new therapeutic field not already closed off to women.

Raven has enough on his hands as it is. Body parts have been found at Surgeons Hall, and they’re not anatomy specimens. In a city still haunted by the crimes of Burke and Hare, he is tasked with heading off a scandal.

When further human remains are found, Raven is able to identify a prime suspect, and the hunt is on before he kills again. Unfortunately, the individual he seeks happens to be an accomplished actor, a man of a thousand faces and a renowned master of disguise.

With the lines between science and spectacle dangerously blurred, the stage is set for a grand and deadly illusion . . .

Ambrose Parry is the penname for two authors – the internationally bestselling and multi-award-winning Chris Brookmyre and consultant anaesthetist of twenty years’ experience, Dr Marisa Haetzman. Inspired by the gory details Haetzman uncovered during her History of Medicine degree, the couple teamed up to write a series of historical crime thrillers, featuring the darkest of Victorian Edinburgh’s secrets. They are married and live in Scotland. The Way of All Flesh, The Art of Dying and A Corruption of Blood were shortlisted for the McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the Year. A Corruption of Blood was shortlisted for the CWA Historical Dagger in 2022.
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My thoughts: Victorian Edinburgh, seat of learning, home to the odd scandal like bodysnatchers, which make even the most August doctor a bit twitchy when an identified foot turns up in the College of Surgeons. Invited by his friend Henry to help look into this, Will Raven is drawn into a world of illusions, mis direction and mesmerism. Sarah too is attracted to the ideas of an American doctor turned mesmerist, claiming to treat serious conditions with this unusual method. Could this be a way into medicine for her?

The Victorians were fascinated by spiritualists, mesmerists, illusions and magic, magicians were popular and people flocked to theatres to be delighted and amazed. Some of these performers were more genuine than others – stating openly that it was an act, a trick, others swindled the naive and vulnerable. Of course people wanted to hear from their dead loved ones or be relieved from pain.

Will is sceptical of all of this hokum, and thinks there’s more going on here than genuine science. Plus there’s the body parts he keeps finding. Someone is a killer, but who?

His wife is also about to have their second child but he doesn’t seem that interested, and he’s been asked by an old acquaintance for a very particular favour. And there’s another familiar face around, with a new name. Is Sarah in danger?

Blending science and detective work, Will and Henry dig into the murders, chasing red herrings and theories around town, but still find time for their day jobs, just about. Fun and a bit gory, this is another excellent book in this series.

*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in the blog tour but all opinions remain my own.

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Blog Tour: Terminal Black – Colin Garrow

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A stolen identity. A hitman. A bent cop.
Relic Black takes things that don’t belong to him—credit cards, golf clubs, toothbrushes. But when a hitman mistakes him for someone else, Relic lands himself in a difficult situation. With a dead man
on his hands and a guilty conscience, he sets off to save the life of the man whose identity he has stolen. And that’s when the real trouble starts…
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Colin Garrow grew up in a former mining town in Northumberland. He has worked
in a plethora of professions including: taxi driver, antiques dealer, drama facilitator, theatre director and fish processor, and has occasionally masqueraded as a pirate. All Colin’s books are available as eBooks and paperback.
His short stories have appeared in several literary mags, including: SN Review, Flash Fiction Magazine, Word Bohemia, Every Day Fiction, The Grind, A3 Review, 1,000 Words, Inkapture and Scribble Magazine. He currently lives in a humble cottage in North East Scotland where he writes novels, stories, poems and the occasional song.
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My thoughts: stealing someone’s identity doesn’t normally mean a hitman comes calling but for Relic Black, this time it does. Checked into a hotel under someone else’s name, he has to defend himself with whatever he can find – in this case a toothbrush, and then he steals the man’s car, complete with a body in the trunk. And that’s just the start of his problems.

Blackly comic and full of hitmen, con men, thieves and bent coppers, this is a slim volume with a lot going on. If you like your crime dark, violent and messy, you’ll enjoy this.

*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in the blog tour but all opinions remain my own