Books transport us to other worlds, this we know. But Jennifer Chase’s The Fragile Ones (Book #5 of Detective Katie Scott series) took me on a rollercoaster ride and managed to creep me out – I had to read it in one go to see how it ended. The Fragile Ones “Please Mommy, can Tessa and I go play on the swing by the creek?” the little girl begs, pushing a blonde curl from her eyes. “We’ll stay together, and we promise to be safe.” Hours later, their mother waits anxiously for her darling girls to arrive home with a list of reasons why they are…

Let bestselling author Lindsey Hutchinson take you back in time to the Victorian Black Country, for The Hat Girl From Silver Street, a tale of love, hardship and fighting against the odds to succeed. Life is tough for Ella Bancroft. After her father, Thomas, is wheelchair-bound by an accident at the tube works, the responsibility for keeping a roof over their head falls to Ella. Ella’s mother died when she was ten, and her sister Sally lives with her no-good, work-shy husband Eddy, so is no help at all.  If she and her father are to keep the bailiffs from the door,…

I enjoyed Their Silent Graves, Book #7 of the Carla Kovach’s Detective Gina Harte series. So it was without hesitation that I decided to read and review I The Broken Ones, Book #8 in the series. The Broken Ones Amber applies a dash of red lipstick and checks herself out in the mirror before heading out on a date. ‘Don’t wait up!’ she calls to her housemates as she leaves. But Amber never returns home that night. Amber Slater is never seen again. The last person to see Amber was her housemate. He remembers everything she was wearing that night.…