Category Archives: Bookouture

“Aunt Ivy’s Cottage” by Kristin Harper – Book Review

Posted on August 25, 2021 by Fictionophile

Zoey is thirty-eight years old and has recently lost her job as a librarian. Unwisely placed trust in her former boyfriend has resulted in some financial setbacks as well. With one of her elderly aunts now dead, she returns to … Continue reading →

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“The Boatman’s Wife” by Noëlle Harrison – Book Review

Posted on March 27, 2021 by Fictionophile

Secrets. We all have them, yet some are more consequential than others. When young Lily Fitzgerald is widowed at the tender age of twenty-four, she discovers that her beloved husband has been harboring a serious secret indeed. 2017 – Lily … Continue reading →

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“The Silent House” by Laura Elliot – Book Review

Posted on February 6, 2021 by Fictionophile

“Imagination is gifted to the young. How can we blame then when adults turn it into a tinderbox?” Sophy Kingston is the mother of two daughters. Her marriage just broke up due to her husband’s gambling addiction. They have had … Continue reading →

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“The House at Magpie Cove” by Kennedy Kerr – Book Review

Posted on January 6, 2021 by Fictionophile

Mara Hughes has recently separated from her wealthy lawyer husband. She is in her early thirties and is the mother of nine-year old twins. Her husband Gideon was unfaithful, and has decided to move his new woman into Mara’s family … Continue reading →

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“Deadly Cry” by Angela Marsons – Book Review

Posted on January 1, 2021 by Fictionophile

D.I. Kim Stone – An acerbic, brusque, and driven young woman who works as a Detective Inspector for the West Midlands Police, the second largest police force in the country. She is socially inept, and has been known to break … Continue reading →

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“The Invitation” by Rachel Abbott – Book Review

Posted on July 10, 2020 by Fictionophile

Lucas Jarrett is handsome, powerful, and very wealthy. He has always been a ‘leader’ and his friends want to stay within his charismatic orbit. Since they were all in their early teens the group have been ‘friends’.  Now, as adults … Continue reading →

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“Killing Mind” by Angela Marsons – Book Review

Posted on June 1, 2020 by Fictionophile

D.I. Kim Stone – An acerbic, brusque, and driven young woman who works as a Detective Inspector for the West Midlands Police, the second largest police force in the country. She is socially inept, and has been known to break … Continue reading →

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“The Fortune Teller’s Promise” by Kelly Heard – Book Review

Posted on May 29, 2020 by Fictionophile

Also published under the title “Before You Go“ “Predictions and nightmares, Dell often said, have exactly as much power as we give them and no more.” The story flips back and forth between 1990 and 1991 with some back references … Continue reading →

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“The Garden of Lost Memories” by Ruby Hummingbird – Book Review

Posted on April 3, 2020 by Fictionophile

Sixty-two year old Elsie Maple is living a small, solitary, insular life.  Alone in the house for the past twenty-eight years, she has become a creature of habit, ritual, and routine. She has become so set in her ways that … Continue reading →

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“Child’s Play” by Angela Marsons – Book Review

Posted on March 15, 2020 by Fictionophile

Despite my best efforts last year, I didn’t quite finish the D.I. Kim Stone series as I had hoped. This is the 11th novel in the series, I SHOULD have read and reviewed it in November 2019 and I’m only … Continue reading →

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“Dead Memories” by Angela Marsons – Book Review #MarsonsOfTheMonth

Posted on January 5, 2020 by Fictionophile

For some time now I have noticed that the D.I. Kim Stone series has been highly praised by my fellow book bloggers. Therefore, I decided that despite my lengthy TBR, I would read the series in its entirety, one title … Continue reading →

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“Why She Ran” by Geraldine Hogan – Book Review

Posted on December 23, 2019 by Fictionophile

Eleanor Marshall, a troubled teenager witnesses a brutal murder and goes on the run to escape from the confines of Curlew Hall, the facility where she resides with other ‘problem’ teens. The main issue for the police is that not … Continue reading →

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“The Lies We Hide” by S. E. Lynes – Book Review

Posted on December 4, 2019 by Fictionophile

Carol’s story is set mostly in the mid to late 1980s. Desperate, after a final, almost deadly attack from her husband Ted, Carol secrets her two children away and takes them to live in a shelter for abused families. This … Continue reading →

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“Her Sister’s Bones” by Geraldine Hogan – Book Review

Posted on September 16, 2019 by Fictionophile

Twenty-five years ago, while Anna Fairley  was helping her mother peg out clothes on the line, Anna’s baby sister Janey, was taken from her pram in the front garden of their cottage. The case of the missing baby girl was … Continue reading →

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“Dying Truth” by Angela Marsons – Book Review #MarsonsOfTheMonth

Posted on September 5, 2019 by Fictionophile

For some time now I have noticed that the D.I. Kim Stone series has been highly praised by my fellow book bloggers. Therefore, I decided that despite my lengthy TBR, I would read the series in its entirety, one title … Continue reading →

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