Read The World – Seven Stones – Vénus Khoury-Ghata (Lebanon)

Country 66 Lebanon - “Her one regret will be that she will not have solved the mystery of why the moon waxes and wanes in the course of the month while the sun remains unchanged”.

A Life made of Lava by Lissa Del

Blurb from goodreads, please scroll down for my review. Evie Danvers has three beautiful, if slightly out of control, children; a stray cat named Dr. Moxley and a best friend who drinks unapologetically at 9 a.m. Evie also has stage four bone cancer and a gallows sense of humour that drives her husband, Nick, demented....

The Best Boomerville Hotel by Caroline James

blurb from goodreads.com please scroll down for my review 'Britain's answer to the best Marigold Hotel' Let the shenanigans begin at the Best Boomerville Hotel … Jo Docherty and Hattie Contaldo have a vision – a holiday retreat in the heart of the Lake District exclusively for guests of ‘a certain age’ wishing to stimulate...

Only the Innocent (DCI Tom Douglas #1) by Rachel Abbot

Blurb from goodreads.com When philanthropist Hugo Fletcher’s dead body is discovered tied to a bed in his London home, Chief Inspector Tom Douglas determines right away that he’s hunting a female killer. Though Fletcher made countless enemies through his work with Eastern European prostitutes, the crime scene reeks of sex and revenge. This murder was...

The Silence Between Breaths by Cath Staincliffe

Blurb from goodreads, please scroll down for my review. Eight people, one deadly secret. Passengers boarding the 10:35 train from Manchester, Piccadilly to London, Euston are bound for work, assignations, reunions, holidays or new starts, with no idea that their journey is about to be brutally curtailed. Holly has just landed her dream job, which...

Second Captive by Maggie James

Blurb from goodreads.com, please scroll down for my review. Stockholm syndrome: the psychological tendency of a hostage to bond with his or her captor. What happens when you love the man you should hate? Beth Sutton is eighteen years old when Dominic Perdue abducts her. Held prisoner in a basement, she’s dependent upon him for...

Keep Quiet by Lisa Scottoline

blurb from goodreads.com, please scroll down for my review. New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award winning author Lisa Scottoline is loved by millions of readers for her suspenseful novels about family and justice. Scottoline delivers once again with Keep Quiet, an emotionally gripping and complex story about one man’s split-second decision to protect his...

Suffer by E.E. Borton

Blurb from goodreads.com, please scroll down for my review. Kate Freeman opened the front door of her vacation villa to see a Florida State Trooper standing on the porch. A few moments later, 50,000 paralyzing volts shot through her body. Her world went dark after her head impacted the tile floor. She woke unable to...

Into The Darkest Corner by Elizabeth Haynes

Blurb from goodreads.com, please scroll down for my review. When young, pretty Catherine Bailey meets Lee Brightman, she can't believe her luck. Gorgeous, charismatic, and a bit mysterious, Lee seems almost too perfect to be true. But what begins as flattering attention and spontaneous, passionate sex transforms into raging jealousy, and Catherine soon discovers that...

Special Book Review – Daughter by Jane Shemilt

This is a special review of Daughter, from my online bookclub When a teenage girl goes missing her mother discovers she doesn't know her daughter as well as she thought in Jane Shemilt's haunting debut novel, Daughter. THE NIGHT OF THE DISAPEARANCE She used to tell me everything. They have a picture. It'll help. But...

A Patriots Act by Kenneth G Eade

Brent Marks, whom most know from Predatory Kill, is called upon to seek justice for an innocent client held prisoner in Guantanamo Bay When a naturalized American citizen turns up missing in Iraq, Brent Marks fights the Goliath U.S. government with its own Constitution. Santa Barbara accountant Ahmed Khury responds to the plea of his...

The Wronged Sons by John Marrs

Blurb from goodreads.com, please scroll down for my review. What would you do if the person you loved suddenly vanished into thin air? Catherine’s cosy life as a housewife and mum-of-three is quickly thrown into disarray when husband Simon disappears without explanation. She is convinced he hasn’t left by choice as confusion and spiraling debts...

Accidents of Marriage by Randy Susan Meyers

Blurb from goodreads.com, please scroll down for my review. Accidents of Marriage explores a topic rarely shown in fiction: the destruction left in the wake of spouse’s verbal fury. Ben never meant to hurt Maddy. He never imagined his recklessness would lead to tragedy. Maddy is a social worker trying to balance her career and...

The Third Wife by Lisa Jewell

Blurb from goodreads.com, please scroll down for my review. In the early hours of an April morning, Maya stumbles into the path of an oncoming bus. A tragic accident? Or suicide? Her grief-stricken husband, Adrian, is determined to find out. Maya had a job she enjoyed; she had friends. They'd been in love. She even...

Secret Son by Laila Lalami

Blurb from goodreads.com, please scroll down for my review. Raised by his mother in a one-room house in the slums of Casablanca, Youssef El Mekki has always had big dreams of living another life in another world. Suddenly his dreams are within reach when he discovers that his father—whom he’d been led to believe was...

Someone To Watch Over Me by Madeleine Reiss

blurb from goodreads.com, please scroll down for my review. A haunting and compelling debut novel that will appeal to readers who loved Sister by Rosamund Lupton and Before I Go to Sleep by SJ Watson. She closed her eyes and he was gone - who is watching him now? When Carrie’s five-year old son, Charlie,...

The Somali Doctrine by James Grenton

blurb from goodreads.com, please scroll down for my review. A lone man lies disfigured and dying by the roadside in the arid plains of northern Somalia... Thousands of refugees are found massacred in a camp next to the Ethiopian border... A convoy vanishes on its way to distribute food aid... Rumours circulate that Somali militia...

The Shadow Year by Hannah Richell

Blurb from goodreads.com, please scroll down for my review. On a sultry summer’s day in 1980, five friends stumble upon an abandoned lakeside cottage hidden deep in the English countryside. For Kat and her friends, it offers an escape; a chance to drop out for a while, with lazy summer days by the lake and...

The Sleeper by Emily Barr

Blurb from goodreads.com, please scroll down for my review. Lara Finch is living a lie. Everyone thinks she has a happy life in Cornwall, married to the devoted Sam, but in fact she is desperately bored. When she is offered a new job that involves commuting to London by sleeper train, she meets Guy and...

Eeny Meeny by MJ Arlidge

Blurb from goodreads.com, please scroll down for my review. They were going to spend the rest of their lives together. Soul mates. But when a young couple wakes up alone together, disoriented and trapped, they are yet to grasp the true horror of their situation. They have no food, no water. Instead there is a...

The Dinner by Herman Koch

Blurb from goodreads.com, please scroll down for my review. A summer's evening in Amsterdam and two couples meet at a fashionable restaurant. Between mouthfuls of food and over the delicate scraping of cutlery, the conversation remains a gentle hum of politeness - the banality of work, the triviality of holidays. But the empty words hide...

Special book review – One Plus One by JoJo Moyes

blurb from goodreads.com, please scroll down for the reviews of the book club. One single mom. One chaotic family. One quirky stranger. One irresistible love story from the New York Times bestselling author of Me Before You American audiences have fallen in love with Jojo Moyes. Ever since she debuted stateside, she has captivated readers...

Mother, Mother by Koren Zailckas

blurb from goodreads.com, please scroll down for my review. Josephine Hurst has her family under control. With two beautiful daughters, a brilliantly intelligent son, a tech-guru of a husband and a historical landmark home, her life is picture perfect. She has everything she wants; all she has to do is keep it that way. But...

The Accident by C.L. Taylor

blurb from goodreads.com , please scroll down for my review. The person you trust most may only be telling you half the story … Fast-paced, suspenseful, this is a book with more twists than a helter-skelter that will keep you reading late into the night. Perfect for fans of Before I Go to Sleep and...

Before I Go To Sleep by S J Watson

blurb from goodreads.com, please scroll down for my review.  As I sleep, my mind will erase everything I did today. I will wake up tomorrow as I did this morning. Thinking I'm still a child. Thinking I have a whole lifetime of choice ahead of me ...' Memories define us. So what if you lost...

Can Anybody Help Me? By Sinéad Crowley

blurb from goodreads. com, please scroll down for my review. It was crazy really, she had never met the woman, had no idea of her real name but she thought of her as a friend. Or, at least, the closest thing she had to a friend in Dublin.Struggling with a new baby, Yvonne turns to...

Before you die by Samantha Hayes

blurb from goodreads.com please scroll down for my review.  The gripping new psychological suspense novel from the author of Until You're Mine. Oh God, please don't let me die.It has taken nearly two years for the Warwickshire village of Radcote to put a spate of teenage suicides behind it.Then a young man is killed in a freak...

The Thieves Of Heaven (Michael St. Pierre #1) by Richard Doetsch

Blurb from goodreads.com, please scroll down for my review. The most closely Guarded treasure on Earth. An explosive ancient secret. A breakneck journey into the heart of the Vatican. In a small, heavily fortified room just north of the Sistine Chapel, a master thief is about to strike. All he needs is an instant–to steal the...

The Medea Complex by Rachel Florence Roberts

Blurb from goodreads.com, please scroll down for my review ****BASED ON A TRUE STORY*** 1885. Anne Stanbury - Committed to a lunatic asylum, having been deemed insane and therefore unfit to stand trial for the crime of which she is indicted. But is all as it seems? Edgar Stanbury - the grieving husband and father...

Special Book Review – The Husband´s Secret by Liane Moriarty

This was the choice for my online book club this month, blurb from goodreads.com Please scroll down for the reviews from the members. From the author of the critically acclaimed What Alice Forgot comes a breakout new novel about the secrets husbands and wives keep from each other. My Darling Cecilia If you're reading this, then I've died...

The Accounting by William Lashner

blurb from goodreads.com please scroll down for my review. Jon Willing was just a teenager when he and his pals Augie and Ben stole a fortune in drug money. Brazen with youth and stoned out of their gourds, they thought they had the perfect plan for getting away with it. They were wrong. Twenty-five years...

Defending Jacob by William Landay

blurb from goodreads.com, please scroll down for my review. Andy Barber has been an assistant district attorney in his suburban Massachusetts county for more than twenty years. He is respected in his community, tenacious in the courtroom, and happy at home with his wife, Laurie, and son, Jacob. But when a shocking crime shatters their...

Brother by Jim Murray

blurb from goodreads.com, please scroll down for my review. Dominic blames his brother, Spencer, for bringing ruin to their childhood home. He saw his baby brother as a malign force that provoked their parents to conflict and bitterness. Only once in their childhood did the brothers nearly reconcile, and that was when Spencer defended Dominic...

Sycamore Row by John Grisham

Blurb from goodreads.com, sroll down for my review John Grisham takes you back to where it all began . . . John Grisham's A Time to Kill is one of the most popular novels of our time. Now we return to that famous courthouse in Clanton as Jake Brigance once again finds himself embroiled in...

Entitlement (An Angela Masters detective novel) by Mike Worley

blurb from goodreads.com, scroll down for my review. A young woman is reported missing. Her car has been abandoned on a major highway and the interior is in disarray. However, there is no evidence that a crime has occurred and adults are free to ‘disappear’ if they choose. Still, Detective Angela Masters’ believes the woman...

Barely a Spark by Donna McNicol

Blurb from goodreads.com, please scroll down for my review. Police Sergeant Jim Sanders has been appointed the Acting Police Chief while his boss takes a vacation in Montana. Jim thinks two weeks will be a breeze, crime isn't a big thing in the small town of Bradford, Pennsylvania. Was it an accident? Maybe suicide? Or...

The House by Sebastiana Randone

Blurb from goodreads.com, please scroll down for my review. The House is an adult fairy tale, time travel romance mystery. Clad only in a torn night-dress, a woman finds herself, late one afternoon, in an ancient forest. How she arrived there remains a mystery, both to her and the reader. Finally a frightful looking house...

Yellow Crocus by Laila Ibrahim

blurb from goodreads.com please scroll down for my review. Mattie was never truly mine. That knowledge must have filled me as quickly and surely as the milk from her breasts. Although my family ‘owned’ her, although she occupied the center of my universe, her deepest affections lay elsewhere. So along with the comfort of her...

City of Veils by Zoe Ferraris

Blurb from goodreads.com please scroll down for my review. The body of a young woman is discovered on the grimy sands of Jeddah beach; soon afterwards, a strong-minded American woman finds herself alone and afraid in the most repressive city on earth when her husband suddenly disappears. Investigating police officer Osama Ibrahim, forensic scientist Katya...

BoX by Lucas Heath

The BoX: Would you survive the experiment? Twenty seven people each one in a small white cube all in isolation, all confused about what is going on, as they have idea how they got there. They are forced to endure various deadly tests to learn about the human nature, some will survive and some won´t....

Review – Pyotr Ilyich by Adin Dalton

Blurb from Goodreads.com, please scroll down for my review. Saint Petersburg, 1893. In the dimly lit salon of a private house, the composer Tchaikovsky watches as an illegal jury considers his alleged crimes of licentious behavior. He hastily agrees to abide by their orders to swallow poison rather than face allegations in the official courts,...

The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul ( A Cup of Friendship) by Deborah Rodriguez

The blurb from goodreads.com, scroll down for my review. After hard luck and heartbreak, Sunny finally finds a place to call home—in the middle of an Afghanistan war zone. There, the thirty-eight-year-old serves up her American hospitality to the expats who patronize her coffee shop, including a British journalist, a “danger pay” consultant, and a...

11 Pearls of Wisdom: Various Messages II by Stephan Attia

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; 1 edition (June 11, 2013) This is a very interesting spiritual, non fiction book, a short book with only 58 pages with 11 chapters each one a different story but at then end they are all the same: do the right thing in life. They are nicely written very clear...

The Bridge by Kay Bratt

Blurb from goodreads.com, scroll down for my review.In present day China, an old woman's house sits opposite an ancient bridge. Not just any bridge--but a special one because it has always been known as The Lucky Bridge. In olden days it was said that to walk over it during a marriage ceremony, or at the...

Visits – John Phelps

The Blurb from goodreads.com, scroll down for my review. Tony Lansing has just killed a young woman. He’d never killed anyone before even though he’d met plenty of people who deserved it. He just never had the nerve. For sixty years, it had always been easier to turn the other cheek; to turn tail and...

When Pigs Flu….. by Jake McKenzie

Summary from goodreads.com, scroll down for my review. Based on an actual event --the inadvertent shipping of pathogenic H2N2 strains world-wide, this thriller is the suspenseful tale of missing samples falling into the wrong hands. Despite her best efforts, heroine, SGT Maria Alvarez, USMC, is thwarted by all too common government bungling that dooms her...

Johnny Vegas – The Death of Innocence by T. L. Huston

Info from Goodreads.com scroll down for my review, beware it may contain spoilers. When the gates of hell are breached, and evil men evade the halls of justice, the Organization calls on Johnny Vegas. Johnny delivers a savage brand of poetic justice that is swift, painful, and biblical in its application. Devoted to what he...

Disempowered – Pamela Beasley

A very powerful and emotional novel based on a true story. Written in the first person. There are some strong characters. The first few chapters covering Pam´s background were a little slow (but still interesting and also they were required to understand the novel) and maybe could have been shortened, once you got passed this...

Sarah and Liam by Nadene Seiters

Sarah and Liam by Nadene Seiters kindle edition, english Subject: fiction, I give it 2 ½ stars. Summary: Sarah has just escaped from an arranged marriage in which she was abused, she is in bad shape after escaping and when she meets Liam and from here onwards they strike up a relationship. In just a...