Where Roses Fade (Lydmouth Crime Series 5) by Andrew Taylor #TuesdayBookBlog

When Mattie Harris’s body is found drowned in the river, everyone in Lydmouth knows something is wrong. Mattie wasn’t a swimmer – it can’t have been a simple accident. She was drunk on the last night of her life – could she have fallen in? Or was she pushed? Mattie was a waitress, of no

The Suffocating Night: The Lydmouth Crime Series Book 4 by Andrew Taylor #FridayReads #BookReview

The Korean war rumbles in the background throughout this novel as a reporter is found murdered at the Bathurst Arms, squatters are evicted from a military camp and there are new developments in the three-year-old hunt for a missing teenager. And in spite of all that’s going on, Jill Francis, a local journalist, and DI

The Lover of the Grave (The Lydmouth Crime Series -3) by Andrew Taylor #FridayReads #BookReview

After the coldest night of the year, they find the man’s body. He is dangling from the Hanging Tree on the outskirts of a village near Lydmouth, with his trousers round his ankles. Is it suicide, murder, or accidental death resulting from some bizarre sexual practice? Journalist Jill Francis and Detective Inspector Thornhill become involved

British Bulldog: A Mirabelle Bevan Mystery by Sara Sheridan #BookReview

  1954, Brighton, London and Paris When Mirabelle receives a bequest from a lately deceased wartime acquaintance she is mystified – she hardly knew the man but it is not long before she realises that he certainly knew her. She is drawn back to re-examine her memories of WWII and is shocked to find that