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1 December 2023 | Friday · 1:26 PM

The Mystery Guest (Nita Prose) 🥇🔰

Title:
The Mystery Guest
Series:
Molly The Maid
Genre:
Thriller
Publisher:
HarperCollins
Release Date:
Format:
Paper Back
Pages:
336
Source:
Book Forums Book Review Blog 2023

Winner:
Book Of The Year 2023;
Best Character 2023 (Molly Gray);
All Time Best Reads

As the reading year draws to an end, here comes Molly once again, and easily climbs straight up to the best reads of 2023. Nita Prose successfully accomplishes the hardest thing to achieve – following up a runaway hit with an equally enthralling sequel. And not only does this second book maintain the charm & appeal of the first, but it also far outdoes it.

The book begins with an acclaimed mystery author J.D. Grimthorpe dropping dead just ahead of a much-publicized announcement he was due to make in the Regency Grand’s tearoom. And as the book itself keeps reminding you, …

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9 October 2023 | Monday · 5:51 PM

Traitors Gate: William Warwick#6

Traitors Gate
Title:
Traitors Gate
Series:
William Warwick
Genre:
Thriller
Publisher:
HarperCollins
Release Date:
Format:
Kindle
Pages:
376
Source:
BookForums Book Review Blog 2023

Come autumn and rises the anticipation for the new Jeffrey Archer release. Such has been the pattern for the past few years that the William Warwick series has become an inseparable part of the season for me! And so, here I was – all set and waiting with my copy of Traitor’s Gate pre booked well in advance.

My first impressions of the book were pretty clear, this 6th book in the Warwick series promised to be the best. To begin with, we have all the regular characters returning back – William, Beth, Miles Faulkner, Booth Watson, Sir Julian Warwick and last but not the least Christina! It is a pleasure to meet these bunch of people yet again for a fun …

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21 September 2023 | Thursday · 3:31 PM

The Silent Patient : Spoiler Alert!

The Silent Patient | Book Review | Alex Michaelides
Title:
The Silent Patient
Series:
NA
Genre:
Thriller
Publisher:
Orion
Release Date:
Format:
Kindle
Pages:
336
Source:
BookForums Book Review Blog 2023

This is a book I had been wanting to read for long. I had read The Maidens by Alex Michaelides and had loved it. The Silent Patient was his debut novel and a runaway success. Yet I somehow kept pushing it back. Finally I got the chance to devour this scintillating thriller, and all I can say is it is worthy of all the huge success it has seen!

Late as it is to review this book, I’d rather just quickly talk of what I loved about it. Usually I put the spoilers under a clickable head, but here it looks more suitable to talk of them in the open to highlight the highs of this book. So those not wanting to …

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14 September 2023 | Thursday · 4:26 PM

None Of This Is True (Lisa Jewell) 🥉

None Of This Is True | Book Review | Lisa Jewel
Title:
None Of This Is True
Series:
NA
Genre:
Psychological Thriller
Publisher:
Penguin
Release Date:
Format:
Kindle
Pages:
385
Source:
Book Forums Book Review Blog 2023

Winner:
3rd Ranked Book 2023;
Best Negative Character 2023 (Josie Fair)

A scintillating, addictive, dark story. Stunning narration & tantalizing suspense which continues to deceive till the very end. This basically sums up this page turner by Lisa Jewell.

None Of This Is True is about 2 women – Alix & Josie – who share the same birthday. They happen to be celebrating their 45th birthday in the same pub at the same time, where Josie befriends Alix introducing herself to Alix as “I am your birthday twin“. Alix is a popular podcaster and as Josie gets to know about it, she talks Alix into doing a podcast about her. And there on the …

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2 August 2023 | Wednesday · 5:48 PM

Simply Lies (David Baldacci) 🥈

Simply Lies | Book Review | David Baldacci
Title:
Simply Lies
Series:
Mickey Gibson
Genre:
Thriller
Publisher:
Macmillan
Release Date:
Format:
Kindle
Pages:
433
Source:
BookForums Book Review Blog 2023

Winner: 2nd Ranked Book 2023

David Baldacci back with another feast of a read. A new detective series with the introduction of Mickey Gibson, I was so keenly awaiting this book. And dare I say, it surpasses all my expectations and Mickey Gibson is right up there with my other favorite Baldacci character Aloysius Archer.

Mickey Gibson is a single mom of two kids – Darby & Tommy. An ex-cop, she now works for a private investigative agency ProEye. Being a computer nerd, she specializes in hunting down assets of rich delinquents – away from actual crime scene action toying with danger. Her dad himself is an ex-cop.

The story sets rolling with a call she receives from an Arlene …

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28 July 2023 | Friday · 1:27 PM

Silver Nitrate

Title:
Silver Nitrate
Series:
NA
Genre:
Historical Fiction; Horror
Publisher:
Jo Fletcher Books
Release Date:
Format:
Kindle
Pages:
337
Source:
BookForums Book Review Blog 2023

Silver Nitrate is one of those books whose title entices you to pick it. It piqued my curiosity when I first stumbled upon it and I had been waiting to read it.

The main characters of the book are Montserrate – a sound editor at Antares who is struggling with an underpaying job and her childhood friend Tristan Abascal – a mostly forgotten actor/model trying to resurrect his career. The two of them chance upon an unfinished, rare film from decades ago which is supposedly cursed and had brought bad luck to everyone associated with it back then. Upon the earnest pleas of it’s producer, they unwittingly become party to completing & dubbing the remaining of the film in …

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