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The Broken River by Chris Hammer
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#BookReview: The Broken River by Chris Hammer @Wildfirebks @headlinepg #TheBrokenRiver #BookTwitter #booktwt #BookX #BookSky #damppebbles
“BURIED GOLD, OLD BONES. WHAT SECRETS LURK IN THE DEPTHS? A body has been discovered on the riverbanks of The Valley, a remote community in the hills of New South Wales. The gold mine at the …
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#BookReview: The Last Dance by Mark Billingham @littlebrown.bsky.social #TheLastDance #damppebbles
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#BookReview: The Last Dance by Mark Billingham @BooksSphere #TheLastDance #BookTwitter #booktwt #BookX #damppebbles
“Meet Detective Miller: unique, unconventional, and criminally underestimated… He’s a detective, a dancer, he has no respect for authority ­- and he’s the best hope Blackpoo…
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November 14, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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#BookReview: Bone White by Ronald Malfi @canelobooks.bsky.social #BoneWhite #damppebbles
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#BookReview: Bone White by Ronald Malfi @canelo_co #BoneWhite #damppebbles
“A landscape of frozen darkness. The scrape of bone on bone. Paul Gallo saw the report on the news: a mass murderer leading police to his victims’ graves, in remote Dread’s Hand, Alaska. It’s…
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November 14, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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#BookReview: The Last Thing to Burn by Will Dean @hodderbooks.bsky.social #TheLastThingtoBurn #damppebbles
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#BookReview: The Last Thing to Burn by Will Dean @HodderBooks #TheLastThingtoBurn #damppebbles
“He is her husband. She is his captive. Her husband calls her Jane. That is not her name. She lives in a small farm cottage, surrounded by vast, open fields. Everywhere she looks, there is sp…
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November 13, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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#BookReview: The Anniversary by Laura Marshall @littlebrown.bsky.social #TheAnniversary #damppebbles
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#BookReview: The Anniversary by Laura Marshall @BooksSphere #TheAnniversary #damppebbles
“They thought the killer had no motive. But these murders are not what they seem . . . On 15th June 1994, Travis Green – husband, father, upstanding citizen – walked through the s…
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November 13, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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#BookReview: The God of the Woods by Liz Moore @harpercollins.bsky.social #TheGodoftheWoods #damppebbles
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#BookReview: The God of the Woods by Liz Moore @BoroughPress #20BooksofSummer2025 #BookTwitter #booktwt #BookX #BookSky #damppebbles
“AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER AN AMAZON BEST BOOK OF 2024 WINNER OF GOODREADS MYSTERY & THRILLER BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 When their thirteen-year-old daughter Barbara goes missing at summer …
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November 13, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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#BookReview: Chasing Shadows by Robert Bryndza #RavenStreetPublishing #ChasingShadows #damppebbles
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#BookReview: Chasing Shadows by Robert Bryndza #RavenStreetPublishing #20BooksofSummer2025 #BookTwitter #booktwt #BookX #BookSky #damppebbles
“In a world of lies. . . The truth hides in the shadows In a deadly game of cat and mouse, Detective Erika Foster confronts her greatest nemesis—where the lines of justice blur and secrets un…
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November 13, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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#BookReview: We Live Here Now by Sarah Pinborough @orionbooks.bsky.social #WeLiveHereNow #damppebbles
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#BookReview: We Live Here Now by Sarah Pinborough @orionbooks #WeLiveHereNow #20BooksofSummer2025 #BookTwitter #booktwt #BookX #BookSky #damppebbles
“If their new home doesn’t break them, their secrets will… When Emily wakes from a coma following an accident that nearly kills her, she finds herself agreeing to move from London…
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November 13, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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#BookReview: The Countdown Killer by Sam Holland @harpercollins.bsky.social #TheCountdownKiller #damppebbles
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#BookReview: The Countdown Killer by Sam Holland @Hemlock_Press #TheCountdownKiller #BookTwitter #booktwt #BookX #BookSky #damppebbles
“He’s tracking people down one by one And you’re next on the list… A MAN MURDERED, LIVE ON CAMERA When a DVD is delivered in the dead of night, DCI Cara Elliott hits play on a hor…
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November 12, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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#BookReview: The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones @titanbooks.bsky.social #TheBuffaloHunterHunter #damppebbles
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#BookReview: The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones @TitanBooks #TheBuffaloHunterHunter #BookTwitter #booktwt #BookX #BookSky #damppebbles
“A chilling historical horror set in the American west in 1912 following a Lutheran priest who transcribes the life of a vampire who haunts the fields of the Blackfeet reservation looking for…
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November 12, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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#BookReview: The Gathering by C.J. Tudor @penguinbooks.bsky.social #TheGathering #damppebbles
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#BookReview: The Gathering by C.J. Tudor @PenguinUKBooks #TheGathering #BookTwitter #booktwt #BookX #BookSky #damppebbles
“WELCOME TO DEADHART. ALASKA. POPULATION 673. LIVING. A boy is found with his throat ripped out, the blood drained from his body. It’s not the first such killing, and the town knows who to bl…
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November 12, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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#BookReview: Our Last Wild Days by Anna Bailey @doubledayuk.bsky.social #OurLastWildDays #damppebbles
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#BookReview: Our Last Wild Days by Anna Bailey @DoubledayUK #OurLastWildDays #BookTwitter #booktwt #BookX #BookSky #damppebbles
“‘There’s nothing like it. The way the world gets real quiet when a gator’s nearby…And then the water, suddenly boiling as that black head surfaces and the ancient reptile erupts …
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November 12, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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#BookReview: Senseless by Ronald Malfi @titanbooks.bsky.social #Senseless #damppebbles
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#BookReview: Senseless by Ronald Malfi @TitanBooks #Senseless #BookTwitter #booktwt #BookX #BookSky #damppebbles
“What do you see…? When the mutilated body of a young woman is discovered in the desert on the outskirts of Los Angeles, the detective assigned to the case can’t deny the similari…
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November 12, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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#BookReview: All the Colours of the Dark by Chris Whitaker @orionbooks.bsky.social #AllTheColoursOfTheDark #damppebbles
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#BookReview: All the Colours of the Dark by Chris Whitaker @orionbooks #AllTheColoursOfTheDark #BookTwitter #booktwt #BookX #BookSky #damppebbles
“A sweeping coming-of-age tale, an epic love story and a searing thriller, all unfolding on a vast canvas. There is a moment when childhood ends. For Joseph ‘Patch’ Macauley and S…
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November 11, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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#BookReview: The Grapevine by Kate Kemp @orionbooks.bsky.social #TheGrapevine #damppebbles
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#BlogTour | #BookReview: The Grapevine by Kate Kemp @Phoenix_Bks @Tr4cyF3nt0n #TheGrapevine #YouHeardItHereFirst #BookTwitter #booktwt #BookX #BookSky #damppebbles
“Australia, 1979. It’s the height of summer and on a quiet suburban cul-de-sac a housewife is scrubbing the yellow and white chequered tiles of her bathroom floor. But all is not as it …
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November 11, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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#BookReview: I Was a Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones @titanbooks.bsky.social #IWasATeenageSlasher #damppebbles
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#BookReview: I Was a Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones @TitanBooks #IWasATeenageSlasher #BookTwitter #booktwt #BookX #BookSky #damppebbles
“1989, Lamesa, Texas. A community driven by oil and cotton – a town where everyone knows everyone else’s business. Tolly Driver, seventeen, a good kid with more potential than applicati…
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November 11, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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#BookReview: The Puppet Master by Sam Holland @harpercollins.bsky.social #ThePuppetMaster #damppebbles
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#BookReview: The Puppet Master by Sam Holland @Hemlock_Press @HarperFiction #ThePuppetMaster #BookTwitter #booktwt #BookX #damppebbles
“He watches your every move We’ve all experienced it. That creeping sensation of eyes on your back, the faint echo of footsteps following yours. He controls you Across the country, a madman i…
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November 11, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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#BookReview: Silent Victim by Caroline Mitchell #ThomasandMercer #SilentVictim #damppebbles
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#BlogTour | #BookReview: Silent Victim by Caroline Mitchell (@Caroline_writes) #ThomasandMercer @midaspr #SilentVictim
“Emma’s darkest secrets are buried in the past. But the truth can’t stay hidden for long. Emma is a loving wife, a devoted mother…and an involuntary killer. For years she’s been hiding the de…
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November 11, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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#BookReview: The Good Daughter by Karin Slaughter @harpercollins.bsky.social #TheGoodDaughter #damppebbles
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#BookReview: The Good Daughter by Karin Slaughter @HarperCollinsUK @fictionpubteam #TheGoodDaughter #damppebbles
“The Good Daughter will have you hooked from the first page to the last, and will stay with you long after you have finished reading! One ran. One stayed. But who is…the good daughter? Twenty…
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November 10, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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#BookReview: The Guest List by Lucy Foley @harpercollins.bsky.social #TheGuestList #damppebbles
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#BookReview: The Guest List by Lucy Foley @fictionpubteam @harpercollinsuk #TheGuestList #damppebbles
“On an island off the windswept Irish coast, guests gather for the wedding of the year – the marriage of Jules Keegan and Will Slater. Old friends. Past grudges. Happy families. Hidden jealou…
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November 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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#BookReview: The Curator by M.W. Craven @littlebrown.bsky.social @TheCrimeVault #TheCurator #damppebbles
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#BookReview: The Curator by M.W. Craven @LittleBrownUK @TheCrimeVault #TheCurator #WashingtonPoe #damppebbles
“It’s Christmas and a serial killer is leaving displayed body parts all over Cumbria. A strange message is left at each scene: #BSC6 Called in to investigate, the National Crime Agency&…
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November 10, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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#BookReview: The Betrayals by Fiona Neill @penguinbooks.bsky.social #TheBetrayals #damppebbles
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#BookReview: The Betrayals by Fiona Neill @PenguinUKBooks #TheBetrayals #20booksofsummer20 #damppebbles
“None of them would forget that week on the wild Norfolk coast. Best friends Rosie and Lisa’s families had always been inseparable. But that summer, Lisa had an affair with Rosie’…
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November 10, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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#BookReview: Blood Lines by Angela Marsons @bookouture.bsky.social #BloodLines #damppebbles
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#BookReview: Blood Lines by Angela Marsons @bookouture #BloodLines #DetectiveKimStone #20booksofsummer20 #damppebbles
“How do you catch a killer who leaves no trace? A victim killed with a single, precise stab to the heart appears at first glance to be a robbery gone wrong. A caring, upstanding social worker…
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November 10, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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#BookReview: Stolen Children by Michael Wood @harpercollins.bsky.social #StolenChildren #damppebbles
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#BookReview: Stolen Children (DCI Matilda Darke #6) by Michael Wood @0neMoreChapter_ #StolenChildren #DCIMatildaDarke #damppebbles
“Some cases won’t die. A young boy walks into a police station in France. He claims to be Carl Meagan – a missing child from Sheffield whose name is still whispered as a warning to kids who s…
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November 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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#BookReview: Little Girl Lost by Carol Wyer @bookouture.bsky.social #LittleGirlLost #damppebbles
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#BookReview: Little Girl Lost by Carol Wyer @bookouture #LittleGirlLost #damppebbles
“Her breath rose and fell in fearful gasps but it was too late. She could already see what she dreaded most. The back seat was empty. Her little girl was gone. Abigail lives the perfect life …
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November 9, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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#BookReview: The Mayfly by James Hazel @zaffrebooks.bsky.social #TheMayfly #damppebbles
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#BookReview: The Mayfly by James Hazel @ZaffreBooks #CharliePriest #TheMayfly #damppebbles
“A mutilated body discovered in the woods.A murderous plan conceived in the past.A reckoning seventy years in the making . . . When lawyer Charlie Priest is attacked in his own home by a man …
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November 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM