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Found by Erin Kinsley - Review and Blog Tour

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Found by Erin Kinsley - Review and Blog Tour Today I have the pleasure of being part of another fabulous Random Things Blog Tour. A BBC Radio 2 book club choice, there is plenty to talk about in Found and I hope my thoughts on this twisty new psychological thriller help you decide whether to read it. #Found has just been published by @headlinepg and you can grab a copy right now. My Review Found is the story of every parents’ nightmare – imagine if your child went missing – wouldn’t that be … …the WORST thing that could EVER happen?  Well, it’s happened to Matt and Claire. Their 11 year old son Evan disappears without trace after setting off for a bus, he doesn’t come home from school and the family’s nightmare scenario begins and the reader is about to be with them all the way, experiencing their grief, frustration and anger at a system which leaves the police so overworked that it seems they haven’t the resources to find one small boy.  We watch Mum and Dad’s lives fall apar...

Sleep by C.L. Taylor - Review and Blog Tour #daretosleep

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Sleep by C.L. Taylor I'm happy to have been invited along as part of the Blog Tour to promote the cleverly twisty conundrum of a thriller by C.L. Taylor that is Sleep. You'll see it's quite a huge tour featuring many bloggers throughout April and I'm betting most of them adored this super book that kept me awake half the night. My Review: Sleep is a tense who-dunnit set in a remote hotel on the Scottish Isle of Rum. The book reminded me a little of a recent title I read and reviewed, An Unwanted Guest by Shari Lapena, although I found Sleep just a touch more relatable as the lead character Anna really felt like someone I could socialise with. Both these books are tense thrillers set in remote hotels cut off during a storm, where the guests are a disparate bunch and you don’t know who you can trust. Sleep is written with the usual panache of the author C L Taylor who excels at the twisty, the scary and the psychological punch of narrators you aren’t completely sure can b...