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Blog Tour: Hotel Arcadia – Sunny Singh

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A terrorist siege in a luxury hotel. Among the victims, two survivors…

Sam is a war photographer, famous for her hauntingly beautiful pictures of the dead. After a particularly gruelling assignment she has checked into the hotel, hoping to unwind with a few days of solitude.

Abhi, the hotel manager, is desperate to keep the guests safe. He never wanted to be a hero; he just wants to avoid disappointing his father and brother any more than he has already. But when gun-wielding terrorists run amok through the hotel, and five-year-old Billy is found alive under the bodies of his parents, Abhi and Sam know it will take all they have to protect him from the mounting violence. If they make it out alive, none of them will ever be the same.

Published for the first time in paperback, Singh’s explosive thriller has lost none of its topicality, exploring how acts of terrorism are reported by the media and the role of photography in shaping the news. 

 Described as “an intelligent person’s Die Hard,” this gripping story of two unlikely heroes, captures the extraordinary capacity of humans to retain compassion in extreme circumstances. 

 

SUNNY SINGH is a London-based writer, journalist and academic. She is the author of three critically acclaimed novels: Nani’s Book of Suicides, Krishna’s Eyes and Hotel Arcadia, which was first published by Quartet in 2015.  She has written several books of non-fiction and is cofounder of the Jhalak Prize for Book of the Year by a Writer of Colour. Her pioneering study of a study of the Indian superstar Amitabh Bachchan (2017) was published by BFI Bloomsbury Film Stars Series. Her book on Indian cinema titled A Bollywood State of Mind was published in October 2023 by Footnote Press.

 

Sunny Singh on the inspiration for HOTEL ARCADIA:

‘I spent over two decades researching, not only terrorism and terrorists but also photography and its ethics, inspired by brilliant war photographers such as Margaret Bourke-White, Robert Capa and Marie Colvin, and conflicts in Vietnam, Guatemala and Syria, and back in time beyond WWII.

Despite the narrative driver being a terrorist incident, Hotel Arcadia deliberately does not focus on the terrorists. As I went about my research, I realised perpetrators of violence do not interest me, as their motivations, interests and stories are all too often predictable. Instead, I want to portray survivors, and especially those who do not fit our stereotypes of the ‘ideal’ victims.  Sam and Abhi are complex people. They are both vulnerable, damaged and isolated in different yet strangely similar ways. But, brought together by chance and extreme circumstances, they find the courage, resilience and strength they never knew they had.’

My thoughts: told through the perspectives  of two very different people – war photographer Sam and hotel manager Abhi, as they hide from a group of murderous terrorists in the luxury Hotel Arcadia, Sam in her room and Abhi in his office watching on the CCTV. They communicate by phone as Sam sneaks through the corridors to take photos and then to rescue a young boy trapped on another floor. Abhi guiding her with the cameras, monitoring the whereabouts of their hunters, both to keep Sam safe and to let the outside security forces know as they plan their approach.

As the two lost souls make it through the long hours awaiting rescue they bond, leading to Sam making her most daring trip through the corridors. Neither will be the same after this, if they make it safely through.

Intense and utterly gripping, the story rolls between the two characters as they revisit their pasts, Sam thinking about the trips she’s been on, the terrible things she’s seen and feels numb to, her long love affair with David, a man she can never truly have.

Abhi – his family, the complicated relationships he has with his military hero father and soldier brother, his mother a ghostly figure in the background and his lover Dieter, who was also in the hotel when the gunmen arrived and may well now be dead.

The terrifying situation they find themselves in making them odd allies who might otherwise never have confided like this in one another, this bond keeping them both going from one tense moment to the next. 

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

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Blog Tour: Mother of the Bride – Samantha Hayes

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My mother is obsessed with every detail of my wedding – controlling my dress, my ring, my happiness. But when the day finally comes, will she really let me go? Last year, my sister’s fiancé was murdered on his wedding day. And I found my mother’s corsage next to his body…

I’m beaming as I walk down the aisle, but my smile masks a prickling fear, even though this is supposed to be the happiest day of my life.

My husband-to-be, Owen, is everything to me, with his sandy hair and sparkling blue eyes. He keeps telling me it will all be fine. I pray he’s right as I slip a gold band onto his finger with trembling hands.

Please let me be wrong about what my mother did. Please let Owen be safe.

But when the priest asks if anyone objects, I turn to look at my mother. Her eyes are icy beneath the brim of her hat, and she’s staring right at me.

Is my husband’s life in danger? Or is it mine…?

A page-turning, addictive psychological thriller from an Amazon no. 1 bestseller with twists that will have your head spinning until the very end. Fans of The Housemaid, The Family Upstairs and The Perfect Marriage will be absolutely gripped!

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Samantha Hayes grew up in a creative family where her love of writing began as a child. Samantha has written eight thrillers in total, including the bestselling Until You’re Mine. The Independent said “fantastically written and very tense” while Good Housekeeping said “Her believable psychological thrillers are completely gripping.” Samantha’s books are published in 22 languages at the last count.

When not writing, Samantha loves to cook, go to the gym, see friends and drink nice wine. She is also studying for a degree in psychotherapy. She has three grown-up children and lives in Warwickshire.

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My thoughts: Moving back home with her loving fiancè, to live with her impossible, manipulative mother, who might be a murderer, Lizzie and Owen are determined to make the best of a bad situation. Even if Lizzie’s mother insists on organising their wedding herself.

Lizzie harbours plenty of suspicions about her mother, especially as she never really knew what was going on in her parents’ life, her dad’s currently in a psychiatric hospital, her sister avoids their mother and now she’s completely paranoid.

But she thinks she’s right to be. There are a lot of questions about her mum, why she left her job so abruptly, blaming Lizzie, whether she was involved in the tragic death of sister Shelley’s fiancè Rafe on their wedding day a year before, and more.

As she starts to dig into her mother’s history, asking her dad some questions too, and the police are asking a few questions about Rafe’s death again, perhaps she’ll finally get some answers, but it isn’t until her wedding day that the truth will all be revealed…

If you like complicated domestic thrillers, where the characters aren’t asking the right questions and a very dysfunctional family, who could all do with some communication lessons and probably therapy, a lot of secrets and tragedy, then you’ll enjoy this, with its twists and misdirection.

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

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Blog Tour: In The Lives of Puppets – TJ Klune

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In a small home, built into the branches of a tree, live a human named Victor and
three robots. These are a pleasantly sadistic nurse machine, a small vacuum
desperate for love and attention, and a fatherly inventor-android named Giovanni
Lawson. Together they’re a family, hidden and safe.
Then Vic salvages an unfamiliar android labelled ‘HAP’. He learns that Hap and Gio
share a dark past, where they hunted humans. And Hap unwittingly gives away Gio’s location. Before they know it, robots from Gio’s former life arrive – to capture and return the android to his old laboratory in the City of Electric Dreams.
The rest of the unconventional family must travel across an unforgiving and
otherworldly country to rescue Gio from decommissioning. Or worse, reprogramming.
Along the way, Vic must decide if he can handle his feelings for Hap – even if they
come with strings attached.

Inspired by Carlo Collodi’s The Adventures of Pinocchio, In the Lives of Puppets
is a masterful standalone fantasy adventure from the author who brought you The House in the Cerulean Sea and Under the Whispering Door.

Special Paperback Feature: This paperback edition includes the beautifully poignant
short story ‘Reduce! Reuse! Recycle!’ set in the extraordinary world of In the Lives of
Puppets.

TJ Klune is the New York Times and USA
Today bestselling, Lambda Literary Award winning author of Under the Whispering Door, The House in the Cerulean Sea, The
Extraordinaries, Wolfsong and more. Being queer himself, TJ believes it’s important – now more than ever – to have accurate, positive, queer representation in stories.

My thoughts: this was a slow burn read for me, it took a while to understand the setting and the situation the characters were in. But once I started to understand the life Vic, his friends Nurse Ratched and Rambo (who I loved, if you’re a Wall-E fan, Rambo is Wall-E with a voice) were living in their forest home with Vic’s dad Gio, it’s an enchanting story inspired by Pinocchio, The Wizard of Oz, Top Hat (although my favourite Fred & Ginger film is The Gay Divorcee – it’s pure dancing silliness) and magic. Found family is a huge theme too, as that’s who Vic and Co are, especially when they add Hap to the mix.

After the Authority take Gio away, Vic and his family travel to the City of Electric Dreams to rescue him, and maybe learn a bit about Hap too. They’re kidnapped by the Coachman, who actually isn’t too awful, then have to sneak into the city and find the Blue Fairy.

Much like the original Pinocchio story, this isn’t for children. Bits of it were creepy and scary, and the Blue Fairy is more monstrous than fae.

But it’s message of love, hope and family is strong and together the robots and their boy are able to win against impossible odds and escape to make a new home in the belly of a whale.

Also I need more Nurse Ratched and Rambo stories, I loved them so much, Rambo is the bravest little vacuum cleaner ever and Nurse Ratched is terrifying for all the right reasons – who said robots can’t love to your entrails? They bring so much humour and lightness, much better than Jiminy Cricket.

The short story in the paperback edition – Reduce! Reuse! Recycle! was, if anything, more traumatic and sad. I don’t think the robot utopia is very nice, thank you. Maybe read something cute and fluffy after reading In The Lives of Puppets to recover. But do read it.

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

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Blog Tour: Kookaburras, Cuppas and Kangaroos – S. Bavey

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Fueled by her spirit for adventure and with her £10.00 ticket in hand, Elizabeth Isle leaves 1960s England, determined to see it all, not just Australia and New Zealand, but as much as she can on the
way, too. She surrenders her passport to the Australian government and must find work to support herself on the other side of the world from her family and friends. There can be no going back for two years.

Join this intrepid young woman on the adventure of her lifetime. Share her amazing experiences, discover what exotic animals await, get travel tips and meet her new friends through her letters home and over plenty of cups of tea. Beware – the travel bug might prove infectious!

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Sue Bavey (writing as S. Bavey) a British mother of two teenagers, now living in Franklin, Massachusetts, having moved to the US in 2003. Writing as S. Bavey, she won a gold award from Readers’ Favorite for her grandfather’s biography: Lucky Jack (1894 – 2000), which she wrote during
COVID lockdown. She also has a number of non-fiction stories published in various anthologies.
Kookaburras, Cuppas & Kangaroos is the story of her late mother’s emigration from Yorkshire to Australia in 1960 for three years, told via airmail letters and travel diary entries.
A free prequel to Kookaburras, Cuppas & Kangaroos”, called “A Yorkshire Lass: The Early Years” is available for free download from http://www.suebavey.com.

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My thoughts: compiled from letters and diary entries her mother wrote while living and travelling in Australia as a Ten Pound Pom in the 1960s, Sue Bavey has given us a real treat. Her mother, Liz, had a wonderful time exploring Australia and New Zealand as a young woman.

She takes on various jobs to fund her trip, making friends and visiting relatives, exploring the landscape by train, boat and car, having lots of adventures and documenting it all in photos and letters home to her parents and sister.

I really enjoyed this adventurous young woman’s time Down Under, in a place I’ve never been and probably won’t go (Australia seems to want to kill you via its wildlife, weather and landscape – I don’t think we’d get on) at a time I didn’t experience (far too young).

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

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Blog Tour: City on Fire – Graham Bartlett

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After losing her sister to an overdose, Chief Superintendent Jo Howe is desperate to tackle the world of drugs that consumes the shadowy backstreets of Brighton. Operation Eradicate is her response but not everyone sees it as a positive development.

For self-made millionaire Sir Ben Parsons it is a threat to his business – his colossal empire relies on addicts who survive on Respite Pharmaceuticals’ substitute drugs. With connections in the highest levels of government, media and organised crime, Parsons unleashes a brutal counterattack on Howe.

How will she survive being caught in the line of fire?

Graham Bartlett was the chief superintendent of Brighton and Hove police. His first non-fiction book, Death Comes Knocking, was a Sunday Times bestseller, co-written with Peter James. He has since published Bad for Good and Force of Hate starring Chief Superintendent Jo Howe. Bartlett is also a crime writing advisor helping scores of authors and TV writers inject authenticity into their work.

My thoughts: Brighton is in the grip of a drugs epidemic and Chief Super Jo Howe has devised a revolutionary plan to save the users and get them into treatment and get the dealers into prison. But there are those who oppose her scheme and will do anything to stop it.

Inspired by his job as the real life Chief Superintendent of Brighton and Hove, Graham Bartlett lifts the lid on the darker side of the Sussex seaside. This is an action packed, shocking and totally gripping police procedural thriller.

Jo’s whole life teeters at breaking point and the police force is falling apart around her as her enemies dismantle the services and go after officers and their families in order to put a stop to Operation Eradicate and claw back their money and control. 

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

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Blog Tour: The Dubrovnik Book Club – Eva Glyn

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In a tiny bookshop in Dubrovnik’s historic Old Town, a book club begins…


Newly arrived on the sun-drenched shores of Croatia, Claire Thomson’s life is about to change forever when she starts working at a local bookshop. With her cousin Vedran, employee Luna and Karmela, a professor, they form an unlikely book club.
But when their first book club pick – an engrossing cosy crime – inspires them to embark upon an investigation that is close to the group’s heart, they quickly learn the value of keeping their new-found friends close as lives and stories begin to entwine…

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Eva Glyn fell in love with Croatia during her first holiday there in 2019; the incredible scenery, the delicious food, the country’s dramatic twentieth century history all played their part, but most of all
it was the friendliness of the people.
One of these was tour director Darko Barisic, who told an incredible story about growing up in underground shelters during the war in the 1990s, and she knew she had to write a book around his experiences. This became her first Croatian novel, The Olive Grove, and she and Darko have become good friends and he continues to advise her on all aspects of Croatia.
Eva delves into Croatian history and everyday life for her inspiration, and visits the country as often as she can, having uncovered so many stories by talking to local people. Travel in general is her
passion, followed closely by food and wine, which also find their way between her pages.
Although Welsh by birth she now lives in Cornwall with the man she met and fell in love with almost thirty years ago. She also writes as Jane Cable.

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My thoughts: this was a really lovely read, the book club Claire starts in a Dubrovnik bookshop brings a disparate group together and their book choices, friendship and the magic of the bookshop slowly bring them together and allow old wounds to heal and new beginnings to flourish.

Claire has moved to Croatia to stay with her grandmother Fran and her husband, who is slowly succumbing to dementia. She had covid and is still anxious and afraid of crowds and getting sick again. 

The bookshop offers her a chance to start rebuilding her life, make some new friends and live again. She bonds with Luna, her new colleague, who is also trying to build a new life – she’s gay and not out, but she wants to be, even though she’s scared of how her parents will react.

I loved how each member of the book club, even the ones who don’t read the books, get more than they expected from being with each other, and opening up to their friends, dealing with their pasts and working together to save the bookshop when it’s threatened with having to close.

Moving, enjoyable and with a blend of genres, this was a really interesting and gently heartwarming read.

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

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Blog Tour: The Last Resort – T.J. Emerson

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The unputdownable new thriller from the bestselling author of The Perfect Holiday, which will have fans of Lucy Clarke and T M Logan gripped.

As soon as you first see the house, a former hotel in a picturesque enclave of the Cypriot hills, you know it’s the perfect home for you – with breath-taking views, a refreshing pool, and peace and quiet, away from the rest of the world. A private resort in paradise. A place to recover and grow.
But paradise isn’t cheap, and as the debts mount, you could lose everything you’ve worked so hard for.
Until someone makes you an offer: to keep your home, all you have to do is take a life.
But you could never do that… could you?
You’d die to stay here. But would you kill to?

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Tracey lives in Scotland and writes psychological thrillers. Her short stories have been widely published in anthologies and literary magazines, and her feature writing has appeared in Stella magazine, Woman’s Own and The Sydney Morning Herald. Her first psychological thriller for
Boldwood, The Perfect Holiday, was published in April 2022 and was an Amazon bestseller.

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My thoughts: this is why I am suspicious of any of these wellbeing places that seem a bit too cult-like. There’s always way too much secret tension and no one is completely immune to the lure of the outside world.

When Sofia returns to the place her mother died, now a hugely wealthy and dangerous young woman, she’s there for revenge. She’s not coming back to see the people she once knew but offer them a terrible proposition. If they kill their leader, Quinn, she will give them three million euros and enable them to turn the dilapidated villa into a resort and make it a success.

But is this a price too far? Is murder too much, or will someone do anything for the right place. As Sofia’s offer forces the small cracks between the residents to widen and grow, Quinn starts to unravel and secrets come to light. Can this tiny community stay together or will the money drive them apart?

Tense, creepy and sinister, moving between narrators and timelines, this is a clever and gripping thriller set in the Cyprus hills.

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

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Blog Tour: Murder in Moscow – Kelly Oliver

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Journey into the heart of 20th Century Russia in this fun and funny historical mystery, perfect for fans of Verity Bright and Helena Dixon.

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Will following her heart mean losing her head? It could mean losing her job.
Fiona Figg trails her nemesis Fredrick Fredricks to Moscow. But when she arrives at the grand Metropol Hotel, the bounder has vanished.
After Fiona doesn’t show up for work at the War Office, Kitty Lane raises a red flag and tracks her to Russia. Seeking haven at the British Embassy, Kitty and Fiona become embroiled in a plot to overthrow the Bolshevik government.
But the plot turns deadly when Fiona goes undercover as a governess in the household of Iron Viktor, the Bolsheviks’ Head of Secret Police. And when Viktor turns up dead in his study, Fiona finds herself wanted for murder and on the lam.
Can Fiona and Kitty find the real killer and escape the Kremlin before it’s too late? Or will this dangerous game of Russian roulette be their last?

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Kelly Oliver is the author of three award-winning bestselling mystery series and dozens of nonfiction books.

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My thoughts: we’re back with the intrepid spies Fiona Flagg, Kitty Lane and Poppy the Pekingese. Fiona has taken off to Russia after Frederick Fredericks, which of course turns into disaster in the middle of the First World War. The Bolsheviks have removed the Romanovs from the throne and are planning to withdraw from the war. 

Fiona ends up locked up by the Cheka and then undercover in the home of the boss of the secret police. How does she keep getting into these scrapes? I went to Moscow and didn’t get arrested, OK it was the early 00s not 1917 but still. 

Luckily Kitty, Poppy and Co are on the way, and there’s a plot to foil, with Archie’s safety on the line. Fiona needs to decide whether her heart belongs to the British spy or the dashing German Fredericks.

I really love this series, it’s clever and funny, filled with real people and events, as well as the brilliant Fiona and Kitty. Once again Poppy comes through with her exceptional scent tracking skills and Clifford manages to tell a few of his long winded stories too.

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

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Blog Tour: At the Stroke of Midnight – Jenni Keer

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It’s 1923 and in a decade that promises excitement and liberation, Pearl Glenham and her father are invited to a mysterious country house party on the Dorset coast by a total stranger.

Her father claims not to have any prior association with Highcliffe House, but upon arrival, it is apparent that he has a shared history with several of the guests, although he won’t admit it.
Belatedly discovering that her father was blackmailed into attending, Pearl’s worries are compounded when their host fails to arrive…

Intimidated by everyone at the party, she escapes to the nearby cove and stumbles upon a mysterious mercury clock hidden in a cave. This strange encounter sets in motion a series of events that will culminate in an horrific house fire, claiming the lives of all the guests, including Pearl herself.

But then Pearl wakes up back in the cave, seemingly destined never to live past midnight. She can repeat the day. But can she change its outcome?

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Jenni Keer is a history graduate who lives in the Suffolk countryside. Her lifelong passion for reading became a passion for writing and she had two contemporary romance novels published in 2019. She
has now embraced her love of the past to write twisty, turny historicals, and The Legacy of Halesham Hall was shortlisted for the Romantic Historical Novel of the Year in 2023.

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My thoughts: this was a really fun, clever and entertaining mystery novel. Forced to relive the same day over and over, Pearl and her new friend Ellery first have fun with this strange new reality and then decide that they need to investigate the disappearance of the house’s owners the Brockhursts and the other guests connection to the couple, though they all deny knowing them.

As Pearl unravels the terrible secrets being kept and attempts to stop having to die every night and reset the timeline, she learns some shocking things, things that change everything she thought she knew.

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

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Blog Tour: Crow Moon – Suzy Aspley

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When the crow moon rises, the darkness is unleashed…


Martha Strangeways is struggling to find purpose in her life, after giving up her career as an investigative reporter when her young twins died in a house fire.
Overwhelmed by guilt and grief, her life changes when she stumbles across the body of a missing teenager – a tragedy that
turns even more sinister when a poem about crows is discovered inked onto his back…


When another teenager goes missing in the remote landscape, Martha is drawn into the investigation, teaming up with DI Derek Summers, as malevolent rumours begin to spread and paranoia grows.
As darkness descends on the village of Strathbran, it soon becomes clear that no one is safe, including Martha…

Originally from the north-east of England, former journalist Suzy Aspley has lived in
Scotland for almost thirty years. She writes crime and short stories, often inspired by the strange things she sees in the landscape around her.

She won Bloody Scotland’s Pitch Perfect in 2019 with the original idea for her debut novel and was shortlisted for the Capital Crime New Voices Award.

In 2020, she was mentored by Jo Dickinson as part of the Hachette future bookshelf initiative. Crow Moon was also longlisted for the Caledonia Novel Award. She’s currently working on the second book in the series, and when she’s not writing, she’s either got her nose buried in a book, or is outside with her dogs dreaming up more dark stories.

She lives in Stirlingshire with her family.

My thoughts: this was so good, creepy, weird, gripping, well written and from an exciting new writer in crime fiction.

When a teenage boy goes missing in the small community of Strathban and his body is found with a verse from an old poem about a witch inked on his body, Martha, a grieving journalist and mother of the dead boy’s best friend, who found the body, is drawn into the investigation.

The Scottish poem is sinister and creepy, embedded in the local landscape and the killer is definitely a local and obsessed with it. Martha suspects the parish priest, who is rather intense and knows all the young people who get dragged into the case, including her son.

There’s a terrible hidden tragedy that comes to light as the case races to it’s end, and there’s more as a fire takes hold of the kirk, and Martha has to confront her own personal losses.

I really liked Martha, she has incredible instincts and even wrapped in grief and pain, she has compassion for others and determination to help, even when DI Summers tells her to back of, but it’s such a personal case, she can’t. She thinks the police have the wrong suspect and that proves to be true.

This book had me absolutely hooked from the start and I cannot wait for the next book, I want to see more of Martha and how her next investigation goes.

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