A Good Person – Kirsten King Lillian and Henry have been enjoying each other’s company, especially in bed. Even though Lillian’s best friend calls it “situationship,” Lillian is determined to lock Henry down—and she has a plan. She’ll be the best, most accommodating version of herself until he…

The First Time I Saw Him – Laura Dave (Hannah Hall #2) Laura Dave continues Hannah Hall’s pulse-pounding journey in the riveting and deeply moving sequel to the #1 New York Times bestselling blockbuster The Last Thing He Told Me. Five years after her husband Owen disappeared, Hannah and her…

The Last Thing He Told Me – Laura Dave (Hannah Hall #1) IT WAS THE LAST THING HE TOLD PROTECT HER Before Owen Michaels disappears, he manages to smuggle a note to his new wife, protect her . Hannah knows exactly who Owen needs her to protect - his teenage daughter, Bailey, who lost her mother…

Forget You Saw Her – Noelle W Ihli (Ask For Andrea #0.5) A missing girl. A frantic mother. A desperate search. Across the country, notes taped to restroom stalls read, “On a date that isn’t going well? Ask for Andrea at the bar. We’ll make sure you get home safe.” But Andrea—the girl behind the…

The Death Bed – Chris Bridges She’s not there to save her friend. She’s there to silence her. When nurse Laura arrives at her old best friend’s death bed, it’s not out of compassion – it’s out of fear. Her enigmatic friend Sadie is dying, and with her last breath, she might destroy everything.…

What Lies in the Woods – Kate Alice Marshall They were eleven when they sent a killer to prison. They were heroes . . . but they were liars. Naomi Shaw used to believe in magic. Twenty-two years ago, she and her two best friends, Cassidy and Olivia, spent the summer roaming the woods, imagining a…

What Kind of Paradise – Janelle Brown The first thing you have to understand is that my father was my entire world. Growing up in an isolated cabin in Montana in the mid-1990s, Jane knows only the world that she and her father live the woodstove that heats their home, the vegetable garden where…

How to Destroy Your Husband – Jess Kitching Cassie Edwards swore she’d never fall in love… then she met Jamie. He changed everything, and Cassie’s never been happier. But with less than one month to go to her wedding, Cassie discovers Jamie is cheating on her with his colleague. Blinded by rage,…

All Her Fault – Andrea Mara ONE MISSING BOY. Marissa Irvine arrives at 14 Tudor Grove, expecting to pick up her young son Milo from his first playdate with a boy at his new school. But the woman who answers the door isn't a mother she recognises. She isn't the nanny. She doesn't have Milo. And so…

The Unspeakable Acts of Zina Pavlou – Elani Kyriacou THEY HAVE TOLD SO MANY LIES ABOUT ME. London, 1954. Zina Pavlou, a Cypriot grandmother, waits quietly in the custody of the Metropolitan police. She can't speak their language, but she understands what their wary looks mean: she has been accused…

Finders Keepers – Natalie Barelli Dear Diary. Today I'm going to kill her. Love, Rose. When Rose discovers her troubled past splashed across the pages of a bestselling book, she knows her carefully constructed life is about to unravel. The author, Emily Harper, claims the story is fiction, but…

Nesting – Roisin O’Donnell On a bright spring afternoon, Ciara Fay makes a split-second decision that will change everything. Grabbing an armful of clothes off the clothesline, she straps her two young daughters into her car and drives away. Head spinning, all she knows for certain is that home is…

Haven’t Killed In Years – Amy K Green No one is supposed to know harmless office worker Gwen Tanner is the vanished daughter of serial killer Abel Haggerty. But a low profile and a new name aren’t going to cut it when an obsessive new killer starts targeting her, in this lively and propulsive…

Cross My Heart – Megan Collins She has his dead wife’s heart; the one she wants is his. The author of The Family Plot brings her signature prose to a twisty novel about a heart transplant patient who becomes romantically obsessed with her donor’s husband. Rosie Lachlan wants nothing more than to…

59 Minutes – Holly Seddon If you knew you had fifty-nine minutes until everything and everyone you love would be lost forever, what would you do with that time? It's an ordinary evening. People are coming home from work, cooking dinner for their children, cuddling on sofas with their lovers. And…

Meredith, Alone – Claire Alexander Meredith Maggs has everything a person needs. A best friend in Sadie.A beloved cat in Fred.Jigsaws to fill the time.Recipes to perfect.Even a weekly visit from the Tesco delivery guy. So what if she hasn't left the house in 1,214 days? That her memories are…

✍️🩸🏝️The Pledge by Sarah Yarwood-Lovett… A Book Blog Tour Review!!! ✍️🩸🏝️ crazedredheadblog.wordpress.com/2026/03/24/%...

Finding Grace – Loretta Rothschild 'Shocking, stylish, elegant, and twisting. A truly stunning debut' Chris Whitaker, NYT bestselling author of All the Colours of the Dark'One of the best books I've read this year' Jodi Picoult SHE THOUGHT IT WAS FATE. I KNEW IT WASN'T. Honor's life is nearly…

More Or Less Maddy – Lisa Genova Maddy Banks is just like any other stressed-out freshman at NYU. Between schoolwork, exams, navigating life in the city, and a recent breakup, it's normal to be feeling overwhelmed. It doesn't help that she's always felt like the odd one out in her picture-perfect…

Theo of Golden – Allen Levi 'For anything to be truly good, there must be love in it. Nothing is what it's supposed to be if love is not at the core.' One morning, a stranger arrives in the town of Golden. No one knows who he is or where he came from… His name is Theo and he's arrived there by…

Fruit Fly – Josh Silver 'This is an incredible book ... tough and raw and merciless but funny and kind at the same time.' Russell T. Davies, writer of It's a Sin A BBC must-read book of 2026 - 'Sharp, dark and humorous, it's a real nailbiter.' Anyone can write a bestseller. Here’s how. GO GAY It’s…

Dear Debbie – Freida McFadden Sometimes, enough is enough… Debbie Mullen is losing it. For years, she has compiled all of her best advice into her column, Dear Debbie, where the wives of New England come for sympathy and neighborly advice. Through her work, Debbie has heard from countless women…

Who Is Maud Dixon? – Alexandra Andrews Celebrated, bestselling, elusive...who is Maud Dixon?Florence Darrow wants to be a writer. Correction: Florence Darrow IS going to be a writer.  Fired from her first job in publishing, she jumps at the chance to be assistant to the celebrated Maud Dixon, the…

Half His Age – Jennette McCurdy From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of I’m Glad My Mom Died comes a sad, funny, thrilling novel about sex, consumerism, class, desire, loneliness, the internet, rage, intimacy, power, and the (oftentimes misguided) lengths we’ll go to in order to get what…

The Echo Wife – Sarah Gailey I’m embarrassed, still, by how long it took me to notice. Everything was right there in the open, right there in front of me, but it still took me so long to see the person I had married. It took me so long to hate him. Martine is a genetically cloned replica made from…

Connie – Charlotte Duckworth They know she killed them. They've just never known why. Connie Cross was a trusted pharmacy assistant when she was arrested for the gruesome murders of at least seven strangers. Now, she's serving a whole-life order for the shocking crimes she refuses to explain.…

Three Reasons for Revenge – Dervla McTiernan Someone’s been watching. Someone’s been waiting. Alexis Turner walks into the police station to report an assault. By the end of the day, she is nowhere to be found. Soon after she disappears, three identical packages arrive at three very different a…

My Friends – Fredrik Backman #1 New York Times bestselling author Fredrik Backman returns with an unforgettably funny, deeply moving tale of four teenagers whose friendship creates a bond so powerful that it changes a complete stranger’s life twenty-five years later. Most people don’t even notice…

Head Cases – John McMahon (Head Cases #1) Head Cases follows an enigmatic group of FBI agents as they hunt down a murderer seeking his own justice in this electrifying—and commercial—series debut. FBI Agent Gardner Camden is an analytical genius with an affinity for puzzles. He also has a blind…

56 Days – Catherine Ryan Howard No one knew they were together. Now one of them is dead. 56 DAYS AGOCiara and Oliver meet in a Dublin supermarket queue, just as COVID-19 begins creeping across Ireland. A spark. A chance. A distraction-from everything they're trying to outrun. 35 DAYS AGOWith…

The Better Mother – Jennifer Van De Kleut A woman ends up pregnant after a casual fling, but the father's girlfriend has much more sinister intentions in this plot-driven suspense debut. A modern spin on Fatal Attraction meets The Hand that Rocks the Cradle, perfect for fans of The Last Mrs.…

Blog Tour – Dead Heat – Sabine Durrant Former journalist Matt Grimshaw’s life is at a low ebb. He’s been ‘let go’ by the paper where he’s worked for years, and his relationship with his long-term girlfriend has come unstuck. So when an invitation arrives from his two closest friends, Celia and…

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A Quickie with…. Vaseem Khan I am thrilled to have a quickie with my lovely, super busy, super talented mate Vaseem Khan. Vaseem Khan is a British writer, author of the Baby Ganesh Detective Agency novels – a series of crime novels set in India–featuring retired Mumbai police Inspector Ashwin…

Chris Carter: Genesis portable-magic.com/2026/02/02/c...

Top Ten Books of 2025 Another year, another chance to look back at the books I've read or listened to. Some I've loved, some have made me cry, some have made me question my own sanity and some I've wanted to insist EVERYONE reads immediately. According to Goodreads I'm on track to meet my own…

Dear Darling – Ella King He is going to prove he loved me. I am going to prove he ruined me. For those who loved My Dark Vanessa and Three Women, DEAR DARLING is a bold, beautiful and unflinching story about the crossed borders of desire – and one woman’s path to retribution. Lauren Tan has waited…

#Review: Life Begins at the Cornish Cottage by Kim Nash @KimTheBookworm @BoldwoodBooks @Tr4cyF3nt0n #blogtour #newrelease #BoldwoodBloggers #romance #RespectRomFic #SandpiperShores #LifeBeginsattheCornishCottage beinganne.com/2025/12/revi...

A Quickie with….. Araminta Hall It's Friday, which means it's time for Series 2, episode 3 of A Quickie with..... and this week the lovely Araminta Hall is chatting about her new book. Araminta lives by the sea in Brighton, on the south coast of England, with her husband and three children who…

📕Hunting Evil by Chris Carter 📕 I could not put this book down. Folter is evil personified, & be warned there are some truly graphic descriptions of the distorted cruelties he metes out. On to book 11! Review t.ly/xQpTa #BookSky💙📚 #blogathon @tracyfenton.bsky.social

The #CompulsiveReaders #ChrisCarter #Blogathon organised by @tracyfenton.bsky.social reaches book 10 in the #RobertHunter series. #HuntingEvil sees Hunter face to face with Lucien who has escaped from prison. Published by @simonschusteruk.bsky.social peterturnsthepage.wordpress.com/2025/12/08/h...

I'm excited to be taking part in the #CoverReveal of #138MainStreet from @gavin-bell.bsky.social, @simonschusteruk.bsky.social and @tracyfenton.bsky.social Published 3/5/26, this cat-and-mouse thriller sounds amazing. More details on my blog. Reading For Leisure Blog: tinyurl.com/2955y4ua

🌚🕰️🌚Night by Night by Jack Jordan…. A Blogathon Tour Review!!! 🌚🕰️🌚 crazedredheadblog.wordpress.com/2025/12/08/%...

Adrift – Will Dean Three of them adrift on the narrowboat.Mother, son, and wickedness. Peggy Jenkins and her teenage son, Samson, live on a remote stretch of canal in the Midlands. She is a writer and he is a schoolboy. Together, they battle against the hardness and manipulation of the man they…

A Quickie with….. Clare Mackintosh Welcome back to Series 2, episode 2 of A Quickie with.... This week I had the pleasure of chatting to Clare Mackintosh, the author of one of my "all time favourite" psychological thrillers I Let You Go. Here's a brief recap of Clare's biography: With more than…

Her Many Faces - Nicci Cloke Blogtour www.compulsivereaders.com/her-many-fac...

Her Many Faces – Nicci Cloke Blogtour Daughter, client, lover. Monster. Victim. You were a sweet girl. You were the prettiest girl I’d ever seen. You were a bomb going off in my life. You were a challenge. You were the story of a lifetime. When four wealthy and influential members are poisoned at…

A Quickie with..... John Marrs www.compulsivereaders.com/a-quickie-wi...

A Quickie with….. John Marrs It's time to restart one of my favourite features on Compulsive Readers which I started in 2018. So, welcome back to "A Quickie with.." where I will be chatting to some of my favourite authors about their latest books and some other random stuff. It's only right to…

The Names – Florence Knapp It is 1987, and in the aftermath of a great storm, Cora sets out with her nine-year-old daughter to register the birth of her son. Her husband intends for her to follow a long-standing family tradition and call the baby after him. But when faced with the decision, Cora…