New Book - The Ink Black Heart - Cormoran Strike 6 - by Robert Galbraith (Pages 1 - 196)

 

First Published: August 30, 2022

This sixth instalment of the Cormoran Strike series starts in a bar at the Ritz where Cormoran and Robin are celebrating her thirtieth birthday.

New Book - The Curfew by T.M. Logan (Pages 1 - 189)

 

First Published: March 17, 2022

Dr Andy Body is the narrator in this novel. He lives with his wife, Laura, and their children, 16-year-old Connor and 12-year-old Harriet, in Nottingham. One night Andy is waiting for Connor to return home after a night out. He gets up and walks to the boy's room and is relieved to see him in bed.

New Book - Agatha Christie: A very Elusive Woman by Lucy Worsley (Pages 1 - 21)

 

First Published: September 8, 2022

This is a biography of Agatha Christie. The book starts by explaining that Agatha Christie was raised in Torquay, Devon, and the house where she grew up and was so vital in her life was called Ashfield. She lived there from her birth until the time of her marriage, and intermittently thereafter. She reluctantly sold it in 1940; in 1962 it was demolished and replaced with a small estate of houses. 

The Hotel Nantucket by Elin Hildebrand (Pages 1 - 38)

 

First Published: June 14, 2022

The Hotel Nantucket has been closed for decades, but now Xavier Darling, a billionaire from London, has bought it and had it refurbished and redecorated. 

New Book - The Last Supper - Lara Stone 2 - by Tasmina Perry (Pages 1 - 22)

 

First Published:  January 1, 2022

On this occasion Lara travels to northern Sweden to a resort that receive guests for a special dinner cooked by famous chef, Viggo Widlund. 

New Book - The Last Party - DC Morgan 1 - by Clare McIntosh (Pages 1 - 82)

 

First Published: 2022

Cwen Coed is a village in North Wales near the Mirror Lake. Across this lake, there is The Shore, a resort for holidaymakers. This area is on the border between England and Wales.

New Book - At the Tablel by Claire Powell (Pages 1 - 34)

 

First Published:  March 29, 2022

Nicole has organised lunch in a restaurant to celebrate Mother's Day. 

New Book - The Maid - Molly the Maid 1 - by Nisa Prose (Pages 1 - 21)

 

                                                                          

First Published: January 4, 2022

Molly Maid  is twenty-five and works in the Regency Grand Hotel. 

New Book - Dead Rich by G.W.Shaw (Pages 1 - 18)

 

First Published: 2022

Mihaela works as a cleaner in Paris. 

New Book - Stay Buried - DI Lockyer 1 - by Kate Webb (Pages 1 - 30)

 First Published: 2022

DI Lockyer is in charge of the cold cases alongside Constable Gemma Broad. 

New Book - Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez (Pages 1 - 69)

 

First Published: 2022

The novel opens in 2016 in Montgomery. 

New Book - Bleeding Heart Yard - Harbinder Kaur 3 - by Elly Griffiths (Pages 1 - 70)

 

First Published: 2022

Now Harbinder is a Detective Inspector after passing her exames, and her post is in London. So now she lives there, sharing a flat with two other women. This is progress in her job, but she misses her family.

New Book - Homecoming by Isabel Ashdown (Pages 1 - 54)

 

First Published: 2022

The novel starts in present time. The neighbours of the Starlings celebrate their first-year anniversary when they first started living in the suburb. Then we learn that there is someone missing, and it seems that the unnamed person has been killed.

New Book - The Clockwork Girl by Anna Mazzola (Pages 1 - 47)

First Published: 2022

It is 1750 in Paris. Madeleine Chastel is a young woman whose mother owns a brothel which she started when Madeleine's father died. 

Dear Little Corpses - Josephine Tey 10 - by Nicola Upson

  First Published: 2022

This was a great but heartbreaking novel.

New Book - Truly Madly by Stephen Galloway (Pages 1 - 36)

First Published: 2022

This is a non-fiction book about the relationship between Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh.

New Book - Mrs Stein Solves a Crime - Victorian San Francisco Mysteries - by M. Louisa Locke (Pages 1 - 58)

 First Published: 2022

Mrs Stein receives the visit of Joanna Fiske, who wants to see Mr Stein. 

New Book - Fatal Witness - DCI Erika Foster 7 - by Robert Bryndza (Pages 1 - 56)

 First Published: 2022

This is a new novel in a series that I love. 

New Book - The Miford Secret - Mitford Murders 6 - by Jessica Fellowes (Pages 1 - 7)

First Published: 2022
 

This new instalment starts in April 1941. 

New Book - The Bullet That Missed - Thursday Murder Club 3 - by Richard Osman (Pages 1 - 97)

 First Published: 2022

In this new book Joyce and the others get together to look into the death of a journalist, Bethany Waites.