About Samantha Goodwin: Samantha Goodwin has written professionally for her business career as a Chartered Marketing Manager for over a decade before turning her hand to fiction. As an avid crime fiction fan, she regularly participates in the renowned Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival in Harrogate and completed their prestigious Crime Writing Creative Workshop. She also relishes attending literature festivals across the country as well as engaging in numerous online writing … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Samantha Goodwin
Dying for Justice by Pauline Isaksen
She wanted the truth - They wanted her dead Do you love a mind-bending murder mystery? DYING FOR JUSTICE will drive you crazy as you try to work out whodunit. When London lawyer, Julia Ainsworth, is called to defend a sixteen-year-old boy on a murder charge, she is driven to risk everything to discover the truth. But when she becomes the next target, she realizes that the truth could mean justice or death. In a desperate game of cat and mouse, Julia must uncover the political power-base … [Read more...] about Dying for Justice by Pauline Isaksen
Interview with Author – Pauline Isaksen
About Pauline Isaksen: Pauline Isaksen grew up in England but moved to Norway in 1999, where she currently resides. She and her husband, Morten, have four children and seven grandchildren. She enjoys time with her family, tennis, cycling, reading, writing, and photography. This is her first book and she is excited about it. What inspires you to write? I love to discover what is in my mind. I am amazed at the ideas that come to me, and love to find out what is happening to the people in my … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Pauline Isaksen
Is it about that boy? The Shocking Trauma of Aversion Therapy by Jeremy Gavins
Jeremy is a gay boy brought up in a Catholic Household in Yorkshire, UK, where sex and love are taboo subjects. Sex on TV is deemed to be sinful; homosexuality especially so. He feels unloved and fears his parents finding out he is gay. At school in 1970 aged sixteen, he falls in love with Stephen. For Jeremy, Stephen is the most beautiful boy in the world. With Stephen, he finds love and acceptance. In 1972, Jeremy realises their relationship will finish at the end of their final … [Read more...] about Is it about that boy? The Shocking Trauma of Aversion Therapy by Jeremy Gavins
THE SOUND OF CRYING by Nigel Cooper
THE SOUND OF CRYING John and Helen Kramer are an average married couple living in rural Cambridgeshire, until their four-year-old twins, Edward and Jamie, are kidnapped and brutally murdered. Just when it seems that the Kramers can see retribution in court, the killer’s lawyer leaves the judge with no choice but to throw the case out due to two technicalities and a cluster of police procedural errors. The final nail in the Kramer boys’ coffins is the fact that their killer is a local … [Read more...] about THE SOUND OF CRYING by Nigel Cooper
Bargain Book: Dirty English by Ilsa Madden-Mills
Now a Wall Street Journal Best-Seller From New York Times best-selling author Ilsa Madden-Mills comes a new stand alone romance.... A scarred fighter. A girl with rules. One night of unbridled passion. There are three things you need to know about Elizabeth Bennett: she's smart as a whip, always in control, and lives by a set of carefully crafted rules. She's learned the hard way that people you love the most always hurt you in the end. But then she meets Declan Blay, the new … [Read more...] about Bargain Book: Dirty English by Ilsa Madden-Mills
Interview with Author – Alan Porter
About Alan Porter: I was born in Wales in 1967. After a successful career as a composer of theatre and commercial music in the 1990s I began writing in 2003. My first novel - a ghost story for 9-13 year-olds - was published in 2008. I now write dark thrillers for adults; parables for our modern times that deal with subjects as diverse as mental illness ('Run', 2013) and genetic modification ('GM', 2014) and international terrorism ('Sleeper Cell', 2015). I live in rural Worcestershire, … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Alan Porter
Buyer’s Guide: The Kramski Case by J. J. Ward
Targeted Age Group:: All ages Category: Action & Adventure Print book price range: $14.95 eBook price range: $3.99 About The Kramski Case: When someone starts assassinating paparazzi in three countries, MI7 sits up. Apparently, the killer is none other than Dmitri Vassyli Kramski, retired SVR field-operative and former Kremlin protégé. True, the Cold War is long finished, but everyone knows Vladimir Putin is as unhappy for Russia to play second fiddle on the international stage as … [Read more...] about Buyer’s Guide: The Kramski Case by J. J. Ward
Interview with Author – Jessie B Tyson
About Jessie B Tyson: Jessie B Tyson was born at Scalegill Place near Moor Row, a tiny village between the coast and the mountains in N.W. Cumbria, England. In what year? She's a senior and will not divulge that, ladies prerogative but will just say she'll be collecting a pension in a few years (grin.) She was educated in her natal area and moved to Canada in the year 2000. Jessie wrote children's and fantasy stories as a teenager. When she matured she moved on to writing adult stories. She … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Jessie B Tyson
The Governess by Noorilhuda
“You make it seem like the cross was yours to bear, alone, do you really think you are brave? Let me tell you, who the brave one is, it’s each and every member of your family who didn’t slap you silly the first time you went awry, the first time you brushed your children aside for merriment. It’s your children, Mr. Lockwood, they are the courageous ones. Not you, you are nothing but a coward. And all for what? For your own selfish needs and whims, your own desire to be alone and free. Free from … [Read more...] about The Governess by Noorilhuda
Interview with Author – Sean Cameron
About Sean Cameron: Sean Cameron is from Rochester, England and currently lives in Los Angeles, California with his wife and step-daughter. When not laughing at the British weather report, he finds time to write the comedy book series REX & EDDIE MYSTERIES. He likes cycling, dinosaurs, carrot cake, and hiking; although not much hiking happens as he fears being eaten by a mountain lion. He dislikes the news, squash soup, Gordon Ramsey's face, and mountain lions. What inspires you to … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Sean Cameron
The Gardener of Baghdad by Ahmad Ardalan
Adnan leads a weary existence as a bookshop owner in modern-day, war-torn Baghdad, where bombings, corruption and assault are everyday occurrences and the struggle to survive has suffocated the joy out of life for most. But when he begins to clean out his bookshop of forty years to leave his city in search of somewhere safer, he comes across the story of Ali, the Gardener of Baghdad, Adnan rediscovers through a memoir handwritten by the gardener decades ago that beauty, love and hope can still … [Read more...] about The Gardener of Baghdad by Ahmad Ardalan
