Mary Picken
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Into The Dark by Orjan Karlsson translated by Ian Giles (The Arctic Mysteries #2) @orjankarlsson @ioagiles @orendabooks @RandomTTours

Source: Review copyPublication: 15 January 2026 from Orenda BooksPP: 373ISBN-13: 978-1917764056 In Norway's far north, something unspeakable is surfacing… When a…
Into The Dark by Orjan Karlsson translated by Ian Giles (The Arctic Mysteries #2) @orjankarlsson @ioagiles @orendabooks @RandomTTours
Source: Review copyPublication: 15 January 2026 from Orenda BooksPP: 373ISBN-13: 978-1917764056 In Norway's far north, something unspeakable is surfacing… When a mutilated body rises from the icy waters off the jetty in Kjerringøy, it shocks the quiet coastal village – and stirs something darker beneath. Not long after, a young woman is found dead in a drab Bodø apartment.
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January 12, 2026 at 8:27 PM
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January 12, 2026 at 8:25 PM
#BookReview – The Sister Switch by Charlotte Butterfield #TheSisterSwitch

Synopsis: "Two sisters. One Bet. And a lifetime of secrets uncovered...Morning TV's favourite twin sisters, Alice and Edie, may share the… from @nickimags.bsky.social
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January 12, 2026 at 8:23 PM
Today on the blog I am sharing my review of Into The Dark, book two in the Arctic Mysteries series by Ørjan Karlsson, translated by ian Giles

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January 12, 2026 at 8:22 PM
#BookReview

#ThePayoutGame by Robert Craven
contemporary Irish crime series featuring Garda Inspector P.J. Crowe
Gambling, high-stakes and murder all combine in this exciting storyline

✨OUT Jan 24th

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Irish/Cork Book Reviewer/Blogger 💙 📚☘️ FeedSpot Top 25 Irish Book Blog https://linktr.ee/maireadhearne Dig. Mkting/PA for writingIE/Murder One International Crime Festival (Views my own)
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January 12, 2026 at 8:20 PM
Into The Dark by Orjan Karlsson translated by Ian Giles (The Arctic Mysteries #2) @orjankarlsson @ioagiles @orendabooks @RandomTTours

Source: Review copyPublication: 15 January 2026 from Orenda BooksPP: 373ISBN-13: 978-1917764056 In Norway's far north, something unspeakable is surfacing… When a…
Into The Dark by Orjan Karlsson translated by Ian Giles (The Arctic Mysteries #2) @orjankarlsson @ioagiles @orendabooks @RandomTTours
Source: Review copyPublication: 15 January 2026 from Orenda BooksPP: 373ISBN-13: 978-1917764056 In Norway's far north, something unspeakable is surfacing… When a mutilated body rises from the icy waters off the jetty in Kjerringøy, it shocks the quiet coastal village – and stirs something darker beneath. Not long after, a young woman is found dead in a drab Bodø apartment.
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January 12, 2026 at 2:10 PM
A Death in Glasgow by Eva Macrae @centurybooksuk @lynnemcewanwriter.bsky.social

Source: Review copyPublication: 8 January 2026 from CenturyPP: 336ISBN-13: 978-1529946918 She bought a return ticket. She never came back… When Holly Campbell’s body is found on the train tracks at Glasgow Central,…
A Death in Glasgow by Eva Macrae @centurybooksuk @lynnemcewanwriter.bsky.social
Source: Review copyPublication: 8 January 2026 from CenturyPP: 336ISBN-13: 978-1529946918 She bought a return ticket. She never came back… When Holly Campbell’s body is found on the train tracks at Glasgow Central, police quickly rule it a suicide. She’d had a troubled past. She’d tried before. But Sergeant May Mackay can’t let one detail go. If Holly never wanted to come home, why did she buy a return ticket?
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January 12, 2026 at 7:00 AM
Blackwater by Sarah Sultoon @SultoonSarah @OrendaBooks @RandomTTours

Source: Review copyPublication: 4 December 2025 from Orenda BooksPP: 276ISBN-13:978-1916788985 My thanks to Orenda Books for an advance copy for review They feared the machines. They should have feared the people… London,…
Blackwater by Sarah Sultoon @SultoonSarah @OrendaBooks @RandomTTours
Source: Review copyPublication: 4 December 2025 from Orenda BooksPP: 276ISBN-13:978-1916788985 My thanks to Orenda Books for an advance copy for review They feared the machines. They should have feared the people… London, Christmas 1999. The world is on edge. With the new millennium just days away, fears of the Millennium Bug are spiralling – warnings of computer failures, market crashes, even global catastrophe.
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December 18, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Revenge of Odessa by Frederick Forsyth and Tony Kent

Source: Review copyPublication: 23 October 2025 from BantamPP: 448ISBN-13: 978-0857506900 My thanks to Penguin Bantam for a review copy The Nazis were never defeated. They were just biding their time... Summer, 2025. A US senator is burned to…
Revenge of Odessa by Frederick Forsyth and Tony Kent
Source: Review copyPublication: 23 October 2025 from BantamPP: 448ISBN-13: 978-0857506900 My thanks to Penguin Bantam for a review copy The Nazis were never defeated. They were just biding their time... Summer, 2025. A US senator is burned to death in his Washington townhouse. Masked gunmen massacre supporters during a football match in Berlin. And an old man is murdered while he sleeps in the dementia ward of a German hospital.
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December 16, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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Here's a look at what I'm (maybe) reading this week. #WWW #TWIB

This Week in Books (26th November, 2025) noveldeelights.com/2025/11/26/t... - via @noveldeelights.bsky.social 💙📚
This Week in Books (26th November, 2025)
Hosted by Lipsy Lost and Found, my Wednesday post gives you a taste of what I’m reading this week. A similar meme is run by Taking on a World of Words.  Molly Gray is not like everyo…
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November 26, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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Today on the blog, Mandie is sharing her review of the brand new Blake Glover thriller from Morgan Cry - The Fracture

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The Fracture by Morgan Cry
Today it is over to Mandie who is sharing her review of The Fracture by Morgan Cry. A big thank you to the publisher, Severn House, for the advance copy via Netgalley. Here's what the book is about: Source: NetgalleyRelease Date: 04 November 2025
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November 27, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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November 27, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Scars of Silence by Johana Gustawsson translated by David Warriner @JoGustawsson @thewarrinerd @OrendaBooks @RandomTTours

Source: Review copyPublication: 20 November 2025 from Orenda BooksPP: 300ISBN-13: 978-1916788923 My thanks to Orenda Books for an advance copy for review Twenty-three years…
Scars of Silence by Johana Gustawsson translated by David Warriner @JoGustawsson @thewarrinerd @OrendaBooks @RandomTTours
Source: Review copyPublication: 20 November 2025 from Orenda BooksPP: 300ISBN-13: 978-1916788923 My thanks to Orenda Books for an advance copy for review Twenty-three years ago, a young woman was murdered on the Swedish island of Lidingö. The island has kept its silence. Until now… As autumn deepens into darkness in Lidingö, on the Stockholm archipelago, the island is plunged into chaos: in the space of a week, two teenaged boys are murdered.
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November 27, 2025 at 7:00 AM
The Nancys and The Case of the Missing Necklace by R. W. R. McDonald @OrendaBooks @RandomTTours

Source: Review copyPublication: 20th November 2025 from Orenda BooksPP: 320ISBN-13: 978-1916788909 My thanks to Orenda Books for an advance copy for review Meet the Nancys… Tippy Chan is eleven years…
The Nancys and The Case of the Missing Necklace by R. W. R. McDonald @OrendaBooks @RandomTTours
Source: Review copyPublication: 20th November 2025 from Orenda BooksPP: 320ISBN-13: 978-1916788909 My thanks to Orenda Books for an advance copy for review Meet the Nancys… Tippy Chan is eleven years old, and she lives in a small town in a very quiet part of New Zealand – the town her Uncle Pike escaped as a teenager, the moment he got a chance.
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November 19, 2025 at 7:00 AM
The Burning Grounds by Abir Mukherjee (Wyndham & Banerjee #6) @radiomukhers @VintageBooks @HarvillSecker

Source: Review copy:Publication: 13 November 2025 from Harvill & SeckerPP: 384ISBN-13:978-1787302785 My thanks to Harvill Secker for a review copy In the Burning Ghats of Calcutta, where the…
The Burning Grounds by Abir Mukherjee (Wyndham & Banerjee #6) @radiomukhers @VintageBooks @HarvillSecker
Source: Review copy:Publication: 13 November 2025 from Harvill & SeckerPP: 384ISBN-13:978-1787302785 My thanks to Harvill Secker for a review copy In the Burning Ghats of Calcutta, where the dead are laid to rest, a man is found murdered, his throat cut from ear to ear. The body is that of a popular patron of the arts, a man who was, by all accounts, beloved by all: so what was the motive for his murder?
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November 17, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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Fun days on the road with the brilliant Antti Tuomainen promoting our books “Black as Death” and “The Winter Job.” Lots of travel, laughs, bookshops, and lovely readers. So many moments to remember! 🖤
#booktour #nordicnoir
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November 12, 2025 at 8:29 AM
The Winter Job by Antti Tuomainen trs by David Hackston @anttituomainen @orendabooks @countertenorist

Source: Review copyPublication: 23 October 2025 from Orenda BooksPP: 276ISBN-13: 978-1916788824 My thanks to Orenda Books for a review copy Sofas, secrets and a snowbound road to trouble……
The Winter Job by Antti Tuomainen trs by David Hackston @anttituomainen @orendabooks @countertenorist
Source: Review copyPublication: 23 October 2025 from Orenda BooksPP: 276ISBN-13: 978-1916788824 My thanks to Orenda Books for a review copy Sofas, secrets and a snowbound road to trouble… Helsinki, 1982. Recently divorced postal worker Ilmari Nieminen has promised his daughter a piano for Christmas, but with six days to go – and no money – he’s desperate.
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November 8, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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Now if you were to come to Paris...
But people, these are two of my favourite authors and really lovely people so even if you can't make it, please get to know their books
CAMBRIDGE! We are coming! Come see the wonderful Antti Tuomainen and I this Monday, Nov 10th at 18:30 at Bodies in the Bookshop. Dark Icelandic crime meets funny Finnish thrillers — the north in all its contrasts.
#authorsontour
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November 7, 2025 at 2:11 PM
AYE WRITE: MY PICK OF TWO UNMISSABLE EVENTS FROM AYE WRITE 6-16 NOVEMBER 2025 @AyeWrite @Brownlee_Donald

I’m not a big fan of November: too early to look forward to Christmas, too late to enjoy the autumn air. Thank goodness, then, for Aye Write, which fills ten days of the month with plenty of…
AYE WRITE: MY PICK OF TWO UNMISSABLE EVENTS FROM AYE WRITE 6-16 NOVEMBER 2025 @AyeWrite @Brownlee_Donald
I’m not a big fan of November: too early to look forward to Christmas, too late to enjoy the autumn air. Thank goodness, then, for Aye Write, which fills ten days of the month with plenty of bookish goodness across Glasgow. What a delight it is! There’s something for everyone, from science and nature to biography and fiction. There’s crime fiction (hurrah), literary fiction, romantasy, and everything in between.
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November 3, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Black As Death (An Arora Investigation #5) by Lilja Sigurðardóttir translated by Lorenza Garcia @LiljaWriter @OrendaBooks @liljawriter.bsky.social @orendabooks.bsky.social

Source: Review copyPublication: 23 October 2025 from Orenda BooksPP: 300ISBN-13: ‎ 978-1916788848 My thanks to Orenda Books…
Black As Death (An Arora Investigation #5) by Lilja Sigurðardóttir translated by Lorenza Garcia @LiljaWriter @OrendaBooks @liljawriter.bsky.social @orendabooks.bsky.social
Source: Review copyPublication: 23 October 2025 from Orenda BooksPP: 300ISBN-13: ‎ 978-1916788848 My thanks to Orenda Books for an advance copy for review A final reckoning… With the fate of her missing sister, Ísafold, finally uncovered, Áróra feels a fragile relief as the search that consumed her life draws to a close. But when Ísafold’s boyfriend – the prime suspect in her disappearance – is found dead at the same site where Ísafold’s body was discovered, Áróra’s grip on reality starts to unravel … and the mystery remains far from solved.
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November 2, 2025 at 7:00 AM
The Widow by John Grisham @hodderbooks

Source: Review copyPublication: 21 October from Hodder & StoughtonPP: 416ISBN-13: 978-1399703413 SHE NEEDS A LAWYER. HE NEEDS A PAYDAY. Lawyer Simon Latch is struggling with debt, gambling issues and an impending divorce. But when Eleanor Barnett, an…
The Widow by John Grisham @hodderbooks
Source: Review copyPublication: 21 October from Hodder & StoughtonPP: 416ISBN-13: 978-1399703413 SHE NEEDS A LAWYER. HE NEEDS A PAYDAY. Lawyer Simon Latch is struggling with debt, gambling issues and an impending divorce. But when Eleanor Barnett, an 85-year-old widow, visits his office to secure a new will, it seems his luck has finally changed: she claims she's sitting on a $20 million fortune and no one else knows about it.
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October 31, 2025 at 7:00 AM
This is going to be unmissable!
October 30, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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I’m bringing Icelandic crime to Glasgow. Antti Tuomainen’s bringing Finnish humour. What could possibly go wrong? 🔪😂

🎟️Tickets: glasgowlife.org.uk🎟️#AyeWriter#GlasgowsBookFestivali#bookeventsglasgows#crimefictiontion @orendabooks.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 9:12 AM