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.

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.

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.

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.

Source: Review copyPublication: 23 October 2025 from SpherePP: 448ISBN-13: 978-1408734025 My thanks to Laura Sherlock and Sphere for a review copy The truth is buried just beneath the surface . . . When torrential rain causes a landslide on a motorway in Scotland, it reveals a crime scene: someone hid a body in the tarmac eleven years before.

Source: Review copyPublication: 23 October 2025 from ZaffrePP: 384ISBN-13: 978-1804188651 My thanks to Zaffre for an advance copy for review Vaseem Khan’s Quantum of Menace is a bold, entertaining spin-off that takes the James Bond universe and explores the world of Q, the MI5 gadget genius. The story opens with Major Boothroyd being unceremoniously ejected from MI6. BeHe’s hardly begun to adjust to the quiet calm of his hometown, Wickstone-on-Water, before his forced retirement is interrupted by the death of an old friend, Peter Napier.

Source: Review copyPublication: 21 October 2025 from OrionPP: 400ISBN-13:978-1398719064 My thanks to Orion for a review copy Mickey Haller - The Lincoln Lawyer - leaves criminal court behind for his first civil lawsuit. But to him, this is still a murder trial. An AI company's chatbot encouraged a sixteen-year-old boy to kill his ex-girlfriend. Can Haller prove the company knew the dangers of its own creation?

Aftershock by Liz McSkeane (Oct 14th ,Turas Press) is a powerful & dramatic tale, educational in its insights &0 shocking in its storytelling

Hello and a very warm welcome to damppebbles. It’s Tuesday which means it’s time for this week’s Top Ten Tuesday post. I’ve decided to take part in That Artsy Reader Girl&#8…

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to…

Source: Review copyPublication: 25 September 2025 from Fourth EstatePP: 352ISBN-13:978-0008534912 My thanks to Fourth Estate for a review copyIn the inner circle, where can you hide a secret? In this compulsive story of betrayal, old bonds and buried scandals, one British establishment family comes face to face with the consequences of privilege and the true cost of power.

Venetian Vespers by John Banville publishes September 25th with Faber & Faber and is described as 'this autumn’s eeriest novel'.

Source: Review copyPublication: 9 October 2025 from WildfirePP: 496ISBN-13: 978-1035410828 My thanks to Wildfire for a review copy MARTIN SCARSDEN IS ON THE RUN. WILL THE DESERT SAVE HIM - OR BURY HIM?A bomb at his book launch. Gunfire in his hometown. Someone wants journalist Martin Scarsden dead. Fleeing for his life into the outback, he learns that nowhere is safe.

Source: Review copyPublication: 25 September 2025 fromPP: 656ISBN-13: 978-1035074624 My thanks to Pan MacMillan for a review copyIn Cornwall, a man suffers a violent death – and the killer may lurk within the community . . . Amid the beauty of Cornwall’s coastline, the death of a local man shatters the peace with its violence. The body of Michael Lobb is discovered in his family’s tin and pewter workshop, and Detective Inspector Beatrice Hannaford is brought in to investigate.

Source: Review copyPublication: 10th Anniversary Edition 10th October 2025 from Orenda BooksPP: 340ISBN-13: 978-1916788947 My thanks to Orenda Books for an advance copy for review. I am thrilled to be participating in this blog tour. I first fell in love with Ari Thor Arason ten years ago, and revisiting SNOWBLIND is such a joy. In this fabulously beautiful 10th Anniversary edition, in hardback with foil and embossing.

Welcome to WWW Wednesday. This meme was formerly hosted by MizB at A Daily Rhythm and revived by Sam at Taking on a World of Words. Just answer the three questions below and leave a link to your po…

Source: Review copyPublication: 28 August 2025 from PicadorPP: 432ISBN-13: 978-1035046683 My thanks to Picador for a review copy It is one of the biggest trials of the year. Three seventeen-year-old boys are accused of the brutal murder of an elderly teacher on New Year's Eve. Each boy denies it. Each points the finger at the other two.