Book Review: The Fallen by Maureen Myant

Book Review: The Fallen by Maureen Myant

An errant crisp packet is all that stands between DI Alex Scrimgeour being murdered on his way to work. Who would want Alex dead? Or was it perhaps a case of mistaken identity? If the bullet wasn’t meant for Alex, then who was it meant for and why?

Alex’s journalist daughter, Kate, newly in his life and now happily settled in the same city, is obsessed with finding out more about a spate of apparent teenage suicides in the city. What do the deaths have in common, if anything? And who are the two mysterious ‘friends’ claiming that some of the teenagers were suicidal despite their families believing otherwise?

Despite pressing domestic issues, Kate can’t let the matter go, plunging her into a potentially dangerous situation.

When his would-be killer turns up dead, Alex is forced to look further back into the past to discover what motivated the shooting. Who is behind the vendetta? Can they be stopped before the next attempt is more successful?

 

Review:

This is my first book By Maureen Myant and though I have started this series part way through I quickly worked out what was happening and was able to follow it easily.

What I loved the most about the story through was the two story lines Alex’s and Kate’s so while for example Alex is awaiting results Kate’s story comes into play. Which uses the “spare” timeline up and your not waiting like the police for results! 

Though I must admit when Alex got ill, I was worried he’d been poisoned, but it seems like it was just the flu phew!

I loved the other character’s in this book, the young people just doing what they need to do to survive and how Kate goes out her way to try and help them. Then there’s the character’s in Alex’s storyline and the reason he’s getting shot at which I found to be a really good twist in the tail. Who’s have thought it? No spoilers here I’m afraid. 

An engaging story that kept me turning the pages till the end! 

 

Maureen Myant has a PhD and MLitt in Creative Writing from the University of Glasgow. She is the author of the Glasgow Southside crime series featuring DS Nicholson and DI Scrimgeour. They are published by Hobeck Books. Although they can be read as standalone novels they are best read in sequence. The Confession was published in 2022, followed by The Deception (2023) and The Shame (2024) The fourth in the series, The Fallen, will be published in Autumn 2025. She is currently writing the fifth book. A standalone psychological drama, What Lies Beneath was published by Hobeck Books in November 2024. Maureen is also the author of a historical novel, The Search, which is set in wartime Czechoslovakia, Poland and Germany. A former psychologist, Maureen lives in Glasgow.

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Book Review: I’ll Miss You This Christmas

She’s on a journey towards the perfect Christmas…

Emily feels like her life’s been shattered into tiny pieces and glued back together the wrong way. With her heart still aching after her sister’s sudden death, Emily has stepped in to care for her nine-year-old nephew, Felix. Wanting to focus on Felix, and trying to do the right thing, she ended her two-year relationship with Rory who wasn’t ready to settle down.

But when she takes Felix into London to see the Christmas lights, the two of them end up on a train heading towards the city where Rory lives. The long ride will give her time to reflect on whether she made a mistake letting him go. But as Rory embarks on his own journey at the same time, will their paths cross in time to come together for Christmas?

My Review

Lucy Mitchell’s book is a large creamy hot chocolate drink with cream and all the toppings. It deals with loss, grief and gender roles we believe people should follow.

I loved this book on so many levels. I loved Felix and though he acts like a very confident 9 and a half year old. Lucy’s made sure that he is as vulnerability as any 9 and a half year old would be when he puts his plans into action. I also loved the side characters of his friends as the character tells us what each of his friends thought of the ideas.

I loved how openly Lucy writes Rory’s character he is openly is missing Emily, he’s having one night stands with people who look like Emily and failing. He also becomes blind sided by what he is being told by others in an attempt to hold onto the past.

There are also a range of characters in the book who tell our two main characters along the way what love and loving someone means to them.

Along with misunderstandings, near misses and alot of magic this book is an amazing read leaving me wanting more. I  loved Lucy’s self published debut but I love this one even more.

I would like to thank Bloodhound and Lucy for the chance to read this book in advance. (I’d of read it anyway as Lucy is amazing)

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Winner Takes All – Claris Lam

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Aubri Harlow thinks she’s found her dream vacation after winning a contest to an exclusive island resort for a whole week.

However, her dream quickly turns into a nightmare when her ex-boyfriend Colin, ex-girlfriend Renee, and former university classmate Bastian end upon the same island as fellow contest winners.

Even worse? Colin is found dead barely a day into the vacation. Terrible weather prevents the police from arriving on the island to investigate. To keep herself safe, as well as her other companions, Aubri must find out who the killer is…or risk becoming the next target.

 

My Review

I’d like to start off by saying I admire anyone who can write a crime thriller as a novella, when here sits and author that writes over 50k before she has a meltdown.

This book follows Aubri Harrlow as she jets off to a holiday that’s she’s recently won as part of a competition only to be greeted by all three of her ex’s Chris (the psycho boyfriend) Renee (the one who got away) and Bastian. (the friend she pretended to date) But how come these three all won the same competition as she did? And why were two of her ex’s arguing over dinner? And don’t forget the dead body the next morning.

I really enjoyed this book, as I sat on my train to Birmingham it was a short read, having just finished a novel. There were plenty of laugh out loud moments, along with some death defying actions in order to search for the truth. Plus, the climatic ending as our heroine comes face to face with a cold bloody killer whose just gone on a mass killing spree.

I can’t wait to read the next in the series and I’m once safe back in the knowledge that a shorter book can pack the same punch as my 80k plus ones.

 

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Engagement To Die For is her second novels, which follows on from Winner Takes All.

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Book Review: A Deeper Song @RebeccaJBradley #ADeeperSong #DIHannahRobbins

A Deeper Song

 

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How do you fight someone you can’t see?

Detective Inspector Hannah Robbins finds herself on the most perilous case of her career when a young man darts in front of her car. He’s covered in someone else’s blood and has no memory of how he got there.

Digging up the man’s past puts Hannah on a collision course with a dangerous stranger who wants history to remain hidden and who will stop at nothing to keep his secret.

Hannah finds herself in the biggest fight of her life.

Is this finally a case too far?

Download A Deeper Song for a heart-stopping read where the stakes couldn’t be higher.

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My Thoughts:

I am a BIG fan of Rebecca Bradley’s work and truth be known she is a large inspiration behind my Nottingham police procedural novels. So, when I had another chance to review her latest book I jumped at the chance! Though this is a DI Hannah Robins novel it’s a little different.

Hannah herself has been kidnapped and her team are tasked in finding her, this story gives the other members of her team a chance to shine. There is a mixture of real-life police work thrown in with fiction and though I know now that this is because Rebecca is a retired police officer, I think anyone new to her work wouldn’t notice.

This novel concentrates a lot on family, the family we have and the family that we choose. We a closer look at Hannah’s family dynamics that I know has been touched on in previous novels it feels more personal in this novel.

Rebecca also brings the character of Aaron more into focus in this novel, showing us how he feels in certain situations even though he has autism. I suspect after reading dead blind and the continued growth of Aaron Rebecca enjoys writing about character’s who have disabilities but still manage to hold down senior positions in the police force.

I am looking forward to the next Hannah novel and hope that I to can portray Nottingham crime and those that protect us as well as Rebecca does.

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She writes the DI Hannah Robbins police procedural series and has also released a standalone novel, Dead Blind, about a cop who acquires prosopagnosia, also known as face blindness.

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Book Review: Rage and Retribution @lomace @rararesources @AccentPress #DISterling4

Book Review: Rage and Retribution @lomace @rararesources @AccentPress #DISterling4

Rage and Retribution

 

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Can two wrongs ever make a right?

A man is found by the side of a canal, comatose and brutally attacked.

It quickly becomes clear that someone is abducting men and subjecting them to horrific acts of torture. After three days they’re released, fighting for their lives and refusing to speak.

A councillor is accused of fraud.

Montague Mason is an upstanding member of the community. That is until he’s publicly accused of stealing the youth centre’s funds – an accusation that threatens to rip through the very heart of the community and expose his best-kept secret. But how far would he go to protect himself?

Two cases. One deadly answer.

As the two cases collide, D.I. Paolo Sterling finds he has more questions than answers. And, when torture escalates to murder, he suddenly finds himself in a race against time to find the killer and put an end to the depravity – once and for all.

 

My Thoughts:

It was great to catch up with DI Sterling and Co since I last read a book in this series.

It took me sometimes to remember where I had left the team when I read Injections of Insanity last year. The more of this book I read I noticed changes in the character’s behaviour and how they had grown and changed since I last caught up with them.

What I like about Lorraine’s books is the DI Sterling is investigating more than one case, though the case that is the central story is kept at the forefront of our minds we also see him deal with other cases that no doubt keep an normal DI busy. While this is all going on the DI also has to deal with issues within his team such as work place bullying and when what one officer sees as a joke another might not.

There also plenty of humour in this book, and at times made me laugh out loud.

My only grumble is the use of WPC when referring to a female officer.

Though I had figured out who did it early on in the novel I was shocked by the ending and was left with my mouth hanging open as I read the final pages.

 

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Book Review: Won’t You Save Me? @WendyDranfield @RubyFiction #DeanMatherson #Book3 !!!

Book Review: Won’t You Save Me? @WendyDranfield @RubyFiction  #DeanMatherson #Book3 !!!

Won’t You Save Me?

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Detective Dean Matheson has returned to his hometown to begin his new job and put the traumatic events of his past behind him – but his fresh start won’t last long when the local area is hit by a series of strange disappearances and twisted killings …

A nameless girl badly beaten and dumped in front of the mysterious new church. A shocking murder scene discovered in the apartment over the diner. A child missing without a trace.

These are the crimes Dean Matheson is confronted with in his first week as detective. Are they isolated events, or is something altogether more disturbing happening in Maple Valley now that Dean’s back in town?

My Thoughts:

Just like When The Snow Bleeds I really enjoyed this third in my case second helping of this series!

All my favs are back especially Rocky though he is kind of a side character now though! This book left me wanting a kitten though! and wishing my cat was affectionate! Though she is an old lady…

Though I haven’t read Who Cares If They Die this novel answered a lot of the questions I had about character’s and brought their stories to an satisfactory end. I loved how some of the character’s got their comeuppance (no spoilers here)

I loved the banter between Dean and Eva, but wish they would just get it over with and have sex! We may all moan when two partners get together in a book but the amount of sexual tension I felt in this book is insane! Though this is mostly a credit to Wendy’s writing. Maybe I should get her to help me with my DI.

I flew through this book not wanting to put it down, trying to figure out who was really who and what their intentions were!

There are so many character’s in this book I am looking forward to learning more about and seeing them grow and develop.

Please don’t leave us hanging for to long before the next one, and for goodness sake get Eva and Dean together if not for the sake of Mulder and Scully but for your readers!

 

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Who Cares If They Die and Where the Snow Bleeds are the first two books in the Dean Matheson series, with more on the way. As well as her crime thriller series, Wendy has written a YA crime novel – The Girl Who Died – and she has several short stories published in UK and US anthologies. She has also been shortlisted and longlisted for various competitions, including the Mslexia Novel Competition.

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Book Review: Winter Dark @CallisterAuthor @Bookouture #Winter #BooksOnTour

Book Review: Winter Dark @CallisterAuthor  @Bookouture #Winter #BooksOnTour

Winter Dark

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A girl with wide brown eyes looks into the camera. Below her picture, a clock ticks down. Cold traces the back of my neck, pricks my hairline. I will find you, I whisper.

It has been ten years since Winter – a headstrong loner with a broken past – was pulled off a mountain by special forces with the aim of turning her into the Secret Service’s most effective field agent. Now, she has just two weeks to bring down the head of a formidable criminal organisation, Alek Konstantin, before an innocent girl is murdered by a twisted killer in front of an online audience of millions.

Going deep undercover disguised as a paid assassin – alias Snow White – Winter’s aim is to infiltrate Konstantin’s inner circle. Calculating, charismatic and totally in control, he holds the girl’s fate in his hands. But every time Winter gets close to him, he melts away. He’s like a shadow, and yet he knows things about Winter – dark secrets she’s never told anyone. Who is he, and how can she reach him in time to save the girl?

Then Winter finds the body of a man from her past, stuffed in a dumpster with a bullet through his forehead, and things begin to fall into place. But with the girl’s death growing closer with every tick of the clock, and Winter’s protective shell starting to crack, does she have what it takes to bring down Konstantin before the clock hits zero?

Impossible to put down, Winter Dark is an action-packed and twisty read with a heroine you won’t forget. Perfect for fans of Lee Child, Sandra Brown and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

My Thoughts:

I really enjoyed reading this book and as it says in the “Letter from Alex” section she wanted to write a female Bond and she most certainly has. Alex has written an action packed thriller that is right on par with today’s surveillance age and the world we live in.

One thing I did enjoy about this book is that Winter isn’t bullet proof, she makes mistakes and gets hurt. She is also born to be out in the field and not locked up in a secure location watching footage and trying to hack into someone else’s mainframe. She is a new kind of agent who is tech savvy but also can handle herself when she needs to.

The author has also crafted some great character’s around Winter that though she thinks she is invincible and she doesn’t need anyone they have her back.

Alex has also crafted a likeable criminal mastermind Alek Konstantin, and only Winter knows who he is and what he looks like thanks to her photographic memory. But will be Winter be able to kill him if it came down to it?

I really enjoyed the rocky ride and this book undoubtedly provided and look forward to reading future novels from Alex. There is a new secret agent on the scene but this one is female and will quite happily kick your arse.

 

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Book Review: The Quiet Girls @JMHewitt @Bookouture #CarrieFlynn #BooksOnTour

The Quiet Girls

 

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‘Hattie!’ Carrie called, an edge to her voice. ‘Hattie, this isn’t funny, come out now.’ Carrie moved through the woods on shaking legs. She tried calling, shouting, screaming, but everything was quiet. Her little sister was gone.

Detective Carrie Flynn’s sister Hattie was kidnapped when they were both little girls. After the police failed to find the culprit, Carrie swore she would become a detective and solve the case herself. But the face of the man who snatched Hattie is a blank in her memory…

Twenty years later, eleven-year-old Melanie Wilson is reported missing, a quiet child who longs to fit in, just like Hattie… Carrie has to fight off memories of her lost sister to concentrate on the case, but she soon finds grainy black-and-white footage of Melanie boarding a boat and vanishing. She discovers Melanie has been taken to Pomona, a deserted island, almost inaccessible from the city. But who took little Melanie, and why?

Then the police receive a desperate cry for help from another young girl: I gave you his name, told you where to find him, but you did nothing. My blood is on your hands. Carrie traces the call to the same docks where Melanie was last seen. Now she has a second missing child to save.

But the sound of the broken voice has unlocked something in Carrie. The blurred face of her sister’s kidnapper is starting to become clearer…

Carrie is sure the lost girls are in terrible danger – and that there’s a link between her sister’s disappearance and this case. To find Melanie, Carrie must unleash the memories she’s buried for years. And if she uses her own demons to bring Melanie home, can she finally find out what happened to her sister?

This absolutely unputdownable thriller will keep you up all night until you reach the final heart-stopping page! Perfect for fans of Angela Marsons, Val McDermid and Lisa Regan.

My Thoughts:

I can not proclaim to love J M Hewitt anymore than I already do!

Hot of the heels of “The Night Caller” comes her second book with Bookouture “The Quiet Girls” and you are most certainly in for the ride of your life once more.

What if you think the only way to protect your daughter from the evils of the world was to scoop her and her mother up and move to a remote island. Just so you are prepared you ask a friend if his family want to come along to. Your prepared because your friend has a trade and he will be useful on the island. Though after all your careful planning you are in fact leading both your wife and your daughter into further danger and into a trap from the very people you are trying to protect her from.

Mean while back in England Carrie is still haunted by her sister’s disappearance all those years ago.

In this novel we learn more about what happened to Carrie’s sister Hattie and the aftermath that followed. Which at times I found heart breaking and even shed the odd tear.

Carrie is also hot on the case of a mystery phone caller, who is blaming the police for not capturing someone after they were given his name.

There are so many layers in this book and so many character’s stories to follow, though the author writes mainly from the character’s point of view and not those who are investigating the crime I found myself entwined wanting to know how everything pans out.

Ps: My daughter is named Melanie! I never knew it came from the wind in the willows!

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In contrast to the sometimes dark content of her books, she lives in a seaside town in Suffolk with her dog, Marley.

When she was ten years old she’d read all the books she owned, all those on her mother’s bookcase and everything the library had to offer. She decided the only course of action to take was to write her own stories. Thirty years later, she is still writing them.

 

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Book Review: Where The Snow Bleeds @WendyDranfield @RubyFiction @rararesources #DeanMatherson #Book2

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Where The Snow Bleeds

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“You want to know what I’ve learnt after living in Lone Creek all my life? I know the snow bleeds here …”
Former police officer Dean Matheson has been playing it safe since the case that cost him almost everything. But working as a PI doesn’t quite cut it, that is until a British woman walks into his office with a job that Dean can’t resist.

The woman’s daughter, Hannah Walker, and her friend Jodie have gone missing whilst working at a ski resort in Colorado. It’s clear there’s something sinister about the girls’ disappearance, but then why are the local police department being so unhelpful?

So begins Dean’s journey to Lone Creek on the trail of the missing girls – and he’ll soon find out that in Lone Creek, everyone has something to hide …

My Thoughts:

When the snow bleeds starts with the two main character Eva and Dean not forgetting his dog Rocky.

Dean is hiding from his past, while Eva is just coming back into the police force after losing her husband. These two seemingly different people end up coming together to investigate the disappearance of Hannah Walker and Jodie, who have vanished into thin air. A past police investigation had ruled that they have just upped and left of there own accord, but why is all there stuff still at the lodge if they left of their own accord something isn’t right and the pair begin their own investigation.

Though lodge and it’s location Lone Creek are hiding their own secrets.

I really enjoyed this book, but did get a bit frustrated with the length. This book is very much character driven. So though you get to “the exciting” bits and your only at 78%, this book tells the whole story about both of the main characters and not just all summed up in a epilogue. There are some laugh out loud moments that the girl on the tram discovered as I burst out laughing but I won’t spoil it for you…

I am really looking forward to the next part in this book and cant wait to find out what happens with Eva, Dean and of cause Rocky.

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Who Cares If They Die and Where the Snow Bleeds are the first two books in the Dean Matheson series, with more on the way. As well as her crime thriller series, Wendy has written a YA crime novel – The Girl Who Died – and she has several short stories published in UK and US anthologies. She has also been shortlisted and longlisted for various competitions, including the Mslexia Novel Competition.

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Book Review: The Night Caller @JMHewitt @Bookouture #CarrieFlynn #BooksOnTour

The Night Caller

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Detective Carrie Flynn has spent twenty years searching for her little sister, who was kidnapped and never found. The worst part for Carrie is that she was with Hattie on that hot summer day. Carrie saw her sister’s abductor, but she was just a little girl herself, and remembers nothing. She will never forgive herself for letting Hattie down.

When the chance came to join the police force, Carrie didn’t hesitate. She would solve missing person cases and fight for justice – no more families stuck in limbo, no more grieving mothers, no more sisters growing up alone… But now a serial killer is stalking Carrie’s hometown of Manchester: late at night, people are going missing down at the canal. Six years, a dozen disappearances.

When another victim is taken, Carrie is sure the family is hiding something and she’s determined to find out the secret behind their silence. Why does the mother not want to answer Carrie’s questions? Who is the mysterious girl next door? Carrie knows that to track down the killer, she must find out everything she possibly can about the innocents they have chosen to hunt.

Carrie holds on to one fact: last year, standing by the water, she caught a glimpse of the killer, and the distinctive tattoo on his arm. He slipped through her fingers, but she won’t let it happen again. She’ll never stop searching, for the grieving families, for her belief in justice, and her hope that, one day, something she finds will lead her back to her lost little sister.

Can she finally solve the case that has cast a long shadow over her career and will the demons in her own past help her to catch this deadly killer?

If you love Val McDermid, Robert Dugoni or Angela Marsons you won’t be able to put down this dark and twisty thriller. J.M. Hewitt will keep you guessing until the very last page. 

My Thoughts:

I love J M Hewitt’s books, the first Exclusion Zone was in my top books read in 2016. I am also working my way through the audio book of this I LOVED it so much.

Then followed The Hunger Within it’s review can be found here.

J M Hewitt writes what I would call victim centred books, they don’t come with pages of police procedure like some crime book do. She focuses on the people that the crime has affected.

Someone is pushing people into the canal’s of Manchester, but they are not just pushing anyone they are targeting the homosexual community and also those who are operating in criminal circles.

Though the police have been trying to keep a lid on the drowning our lead detective Carrie Flinn is on to something. She is beginning to think that the pusher is two different people but she is keeping this to herself as she separates the files on her kitchen table. Carrie lives next to the canal and spends most night trying to spot someone.

Carrie has a partner Ben but there seems to be something between these two, whether he is careful of Carrie because of her past, or for some other reason I am sure we will find out in future novels.

While our detectives are trying to find who The Pusher is….

We meet the mother Emma whose son Jordan has disappeared and is thought to have possibly been pushed into the canal. But there is no body… Emma lives next door to Jade and her daughter Nia. There is a very strange set up and relationship between these two.

Through the book this set up is explained to us in a series of flash backs, everyone has their secrets and things that they don’t want the other person to know. Which leads to a complicated web of secrets. Plus what has the nosy neighbour over the road got to do with it all.

I really enjoyed this book and breif introduction to some new characters which we will hopefully follow in future. Now being published with Bookature J M Hewitt is at last being firmly pushed into the lime light she deserves.

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In contrast to the sometimes dark content of her books, she lives in a seaside town in Suffolk with her dog, Marley.

When she was ten years old she’d read all the books she owned, all those on her mother’s bookcase and everything the library had to offer. She decided the only course of action to take was to write her own stories. Thirty years later, she is still writing them.

 

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