Elly Griffiths’ Brighton Mysteries: The Early Cases: Books 1 to 3 #TuesdayBookBlog

As an ardent fan of the Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries by Elly Griffiths I was slightly reluctant to start reading this series which she has set in Brighton in the early 1950s. The setting and the time appealed to me, but would these new characters meet my expectations? I decided to plunge in with a

Wilde by Eloise Williams #FridayReads #BookReview

Being different can be dangerous. Wilde is afraid strange things are happening around her. Are the birds following her? Is she flying in her sleep? Moving to live with her aunt seems to make it all worse. Wilde is desperate to fit in at her new school, but things keep getting stranger. In a fierce

This Much Huxley Knows by Gail Aldwin #TuesdayBookBlog #RBRT

I’m seven years old and I’ve never had a best mate. Trouble is, no one gets my jokes. And Breaks-it isn’t helping. Ha! You get it, don’t you? Brexit means everyone’s falling out and breaking up. Huxley is growing up in the suburbs of London at a time of community tensions. To make matters worse,

Desire & Deceit (The Victorian Detectives Book 9) by Carol Hedges #TuesdayBookBlog

It is 1868, and the body of a young man has gone missing from the police mortuary at Scotland Yard, an event that has never happened before. Who was the mysterious corpse, and why was he spirited away in the night? These are the questions baffling Detective Inspector Stride and Detective Sergeant Cully as they