Endless night by Richard Laymon

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Endless Night is a terrifying journey into evil from horror master, Richard Laymon. Perfect for fans of Stephen King and Dean Koontz.
‘This author knows how to sock it to the reader’ – The Times
Jody Fargo is sweet sixteen but tougher than she looks – she has to be. She’s sleeping over at a friend’s when the killers break in. They slaughter the family but Jody escapes, rescuing twelve-year-old Andy on the way…
Simon Quirt doesn’t seem the kind of fellow who would rape and murder in the dead of night. But, together with his friends, that’s just what he does. Now Simon is alone. His task is to track down the only eyewitnesses to the massacre and dispose of them. Simon just can’t wait to get his hands on Jody…
So this was my very first book by Richard and I’m quite happy to say it wont be my last one either. I had never heard of Richard’s books before but someone in lovers of horror group suggested to try with one of Richard’s books and this one was on offer as I’m a person that if i never heard of an author i would go for the sample first then buy the book first on my kindle and I’m quite happy to say i did enjoy it all the way through and have gone onto buying some of his other books as well. 
This book was written just how i like it from the murderer’s point of view and the victim’s view as well. its not one that goes round the houses its straight to the point and explains all what is happening and why they are doing what they do. I find the writing from Jody’s view good and it really grabs you and makes you want to go and help her and Andy to get away from Simon. Love the gruesomeness of the book and how they would dispose of the bodies and how they would change themselves so nobody would notice them especially if some victims got away from them and how they would target anyone and everyone it didn’t matter who they went for and where they went for them. I found Simon interesting and how he would record everything he did just so if anyone found the tapes and that then they would understand why and how it all started. And how he was the one who the others would boss around and make him feel that he shouldn’t be in the gang. 
This book is a big 5 stars for me and i would give me pleasure to recommend this book to everyone who ask what to read next. I’m not going to say to much on this book now but just go give it a read and enjoy it as much as i did 

The Fear by C.L Taylor

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When Lou Wandsworth ran away to France with her teacher Mike Hughes, she thought he was the love of her life. But Mike wasn’t what he seemed and he left her life in pieces.
Now 32, Lou discovers that he is involved with teenager Chloe Meadows. Determined to make sure history doesn’t repeat itself, she returns home to confront him for the damage he’s caused.
But Mike is a predator of the worst kind, and as Lou tries to bring him to justice, it’s clear that she could once again become his prey…

I have always enjoyed C.L Taylor’s books and she never seems to disappoint me. This one keeps you grabbed from the very first page all the way to the last page. You sit there thinking ooh shes going to get her comeuppance for what he did to her and how he shouldn’t had led her on he should’ve known better really. I like how she writes her stories and how its not got massive words in that you don’t have to stop and look the meaning of the word up as you cant remember what it means.

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When Lou was a teenager she feel for a bloke who has the worst kind of ideas in his head and so when they decide to run away to France does Lou realise how bad he is and tries every way to get help but mike is always on step a head of her after seem like a long time things started to go the way she wanted and with her having now got away from him and is getting on with her own she forgets about until she sees him doing the same to a lass as he did to her at 13 years old. She cant believe she has come up with this plan but speaking to Chloe the young lass doesn’t believe Lou as Chloe is so much in love with mike she believes everything mike says. So when this plan come into her head she was worried that she wouldn’t go through with it and would she get away with it.
The ending shocked me and I’m hoping we are going to get some more about it in a different story of hers I’m not going to say to much as then I would give to much away for you guys but this is one book I would recommend to you guys its hard going but worth it in the end.

The Rave By Nicky Black

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It’s 1989, the second Summer of Love, and Tommy Collins is doing what he does best: organising all-night raves on a shoestring, and playing a game of cat and mouse with the police. But Detective Chief Inspector Peach is closing in on him, and his dreams of a better life are beginning to slip through his fingers.

DCI Peach finds it all a nuisance, a waste of his force’s time, until he finds his teenage daughter unconscious at one of Tommy’s raves. Then the chase becomes personal, and his need to make Tommy pay becomes an obsession.

Set in Newcastle upon Tyne, The Rave is a fast-paced, gritty portrayal of life on the edges of society at the end of a decade that changed Britain forever.

This book can be read as a stand-alone from The Prodigal.
This was my first book by Nicky and I loved it as it got me back into reading as I was really struggling to find another book to read and I saw everyone raving about this one and had to give it ago and I love how I didn’t need to read the first one in the series which is called the prodigal as it doesn’t have anything from the first book in it.
What drawn me to this book was the way it was written and the story concept really does grab you from the first page. Tommy loves his family and would do anything for them. But he also loves his raves he puts on and hopes one day they would earn enough to get out of the horrible flat they are in. With the police on his back wanting to lock him away for them he turns to the one person his wife doesn’t like and has nothing to do with her uncle as he is one nasty piece of work. Paul smart is one bloke who no one messes with and one bloke the police cant catch.
I’m not going to say to much of this book as I wouldn’t want to spoil it for anyone else but I would say this though you would be crazy not to give this book a read another 5 star read from me today

The dead ex by Jane Corry


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‘Compulsive, edgy and fabulous twists!’ B A Paris
Few writers can match Jane Corry’ Cara Hunter
HE CHEATED. HE LIED… HE DIED.
Vicki’s husband David once promised to love her in sickness and in health. But after a brutal attack left her suffering with epilepsy, he ran away with his mistress.
So when Vicki gets a call one day to say that he’s missing, her first thought is ‘good riddance’. But then the police find evidence suggesting that David is dead. And they think Vicki had something to do with it.
What really happened on the night of David’s disappearance?
And how can Vicki prove her innocence, when she’s not even sure of it herself?
For anyone who loved The Couple Next Door, Lisa Jewell’s Then She Was Gone and Cara Hunter’s Close To Home, this book has everything you need for the perfect summer read – gripping twists and turns, brilliant characters and a story you can’t put down.
So what can I say about this book apart from it being absolutely amazing book to read. To being an ex prison governor to being a prisoner herself for something Vicki says she didn’t do or did she do it. 
Vicki has always pushed to do her best in everything she set out to do so when she told her dad that she wanted to be a prison guard she didn’t expect his reaction to it. But despite his reaction she pursued her career path and made it to be a prison guard. But when she got made to a prison governor that when things change for Vicki.
When Zelda darlings mum was arrested when she was just a little girl and she had to go from foster home to foster home she couldn’t wait to get her mum back but she wasn’t expecting her mum to be like she was. And the hate her mum had for Vicki and why she wanted to be in court to see what the verdict was. 
Vicki had it all an good looking husband David and a job she loved with a baby on the way. Until one fatal day an accident happened at Vicki’s place of work that made her lose her job, her husband and her baby and she thought it was down to the one woman who had it in for her in the prison and had actually got her sentence increased. So when Vicki is visited by the police to say her ex husband is missing then she starts to wonder whats happened and why are they asking her these questions when she hadn’t seen David for months. Tanya his new wife must have answers and she wanted to go and see if she could get Tanya to answer them but with Vicki being epileptic she had to be careful in going far and if the police thought she had been involved in David’s disappearance then she would have a hard job remembering what she been doing a her medication effects her memories. 
I’m not going to say anymore on this book as if I do I might give to much away and I don’t want to spoil it for others but I would say it is worth a read another 5 star read for me 

Cruel to be kind by Cathy Glass.

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Cruel To Be Kind is the true story of Max, aged 6. He is fostered by Cathy while his mother is in hospital with complications from type 2 diabetes.
Fostering Max gets off to a bad start when his mother, Caz, complains and threatens Cathy even before Max has moved in. Cathy and her family are shocked when they first meet Max. But his social worker isn’t the only one in denial; his whole family are too.


The one author who always grabs me and keeps me hooked always through and is one who knows how to write a good book. Cathy and her family have taken in foster children and help them through whatever situations they have been through.

When Cathy is asked to look after Max as his mother is in hospital and his sisters left him home alone she didn’t expect to see a boy who is only 6 so overweight she cant help wondering how his family let him get the size he is. But when the boys mother rings Cathy up tells her to give max whatever he wants and not to hurt her boy and was really abrupt with her she got a glimpse off whats to come while she has max.

When Cathy met Caz at the hospital she didn’t get the warm welcome she had hoped she would get from Caz and her daughters and could understand why max was so overweight that she wouldn’t be able to help max unless Caz agreed with it.

Once Caz is home things change for Cathy and Caz they seem to build bridges and as soon as max is home they keep in touch with them and then when Cathy finds out that Caz has passed away she wonders what has happened to max. But after a while Cathy and her family have got on with her live until Cathy receives a letter off max which takes her by surprise even more when he comes to visit her and tells her what hes been up to since he left her.

Another 5 star read from me I would recommend Cathy books to everyone they wouldn’t be  disappointed

Widows by Linda La Plante

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The groundbreaking thriller from the Queen of Crime Drama and the basis for Steve McQueen’s upcoming major motion picture. WIDOWS is a fast-paced heist thriller with an all female cast you won’t forget
Facing life alone, they turned to crime together

A security van heist goes disastrously wrong and three women are left widowed.

When Dolly Rawlins discovers her gang boss husband’s plans for the failed hijack, an idea starts to form . . .

Could she and the other wives finish the job their husbands started?

As the women rehearse the raid, it becomes clear that someone else must have been involved.

But only three bodies were found in the wreckage.

Who was the fourth man?

And where is he now?

So this was my first book by this author and I’m happy to say I thoroughly enjoyed it. But one disappointment was that I guessed halfway through some of it but it didn’t spoil the story I was hoping that it would end differently but not the way it did.
I love Lynda’s style of writing and how she grabs you from the very first page of the book and wants you leaving more and more. She has made it difficult in me choosing another book to read so I have had to go back to an author I know I love and would grab me from first the first page.
I bought this book as I had seen it on my local supermarket on the shelf and it was the cover what caught my eye but I left off buying it for a couple of weeks as we all now that saying I don’t need anymore books as my tbr piles are overflowing but to cheer myself up after being told I needed to have a crown fitted I got my partner to take me back to the supermarket to buy this book and I’m so glad I did. This is one book I cant wait to see the film for it as I would like to see it for real life.

When three widows decide to take on the very last jobs that there husbands was doing before it all went wrong. Dolly was sure they could do it but Shirley and Linda was worried dolly had other plans for the money if they did pull it off and wondered if this was a set up for them and dolly would run off with the money. With the plans not going the way she wanted dolly realised there must’ve been a fourth man and now they had a job in finding who and how they would find someone to take the fourth position that’s when Linda found Bella and brought her along. So with four people would they pull this raid off and run away with the millions from hoist or would they get caught for doing one of Harry’s hoist.

ANOTHER 5 STAR READ FROM ME DEFIANTLY WOULD RECOMMEND THIS.

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The Betrayer By Kimberley Chambers

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If you can’t trust your family…
A family at war. A mother who comes out fighting…
Maureen Hutton’s life has never been easy. Married to an alcoholic and stuck on a council estate in East London, she scrimps and saves to bring up her three children alone.
Murder, the underworld, drug addiction – over four decades, Maureen sticks by her blood through thick and thin. But then the unforgivable happens. Maureen is told a terrible secret which threatens to rip her family apart. She can’t say anything. She is too frightened of causing a bloodbath.
The only thing Maureen can do is to get rid of the betrayer, before it is too late.

As we all now I love Kimberley’s books and have always enjoyed them that much that it doesn’t take me long to finish one of her books. And by god shes done it again only taken me a week to read this one. Always makes I hard to choose another book after reading her books and it always takes me a few days to find the next book to grab me.
When Maureen starts to feel ill she realises it only a matter of time before she has to tell her family. She lives for her family its all shes ever wanted and always put them first even before her health.
Maureen has two boys and a daughter but she seems to favour James her youngest lad as he’s the brain box and wants him to go far in his live so when her oldest boy Tommy tries to lead him astray she lays the law down but would she be happy that Tommy involved James in hiding evidence of the lad Tommy killed.
After Tommy come home from prison he had changed he wasn’t the same lad as he was beforehand, he might have grown up but he was still the same lad who wanted the easy life and money in his back pocket. But he was determined not to turn out like his father a alcoholic and didn’t care about his kids and his wife and had left them to it. 
Ethel was Tommy seniors mother and she was one of them woman who could get away with anything even the cops couldn’t get her for all the five finger discounts she did. But she has always been there for Maureen and been her rock when times got hard. Even when her kids grew up she was always there to clean up after them and guide them in the right direction. Even when Tommy did the unthinkable thing he could do to anyone let alone his brothers wife. 
This book is another 5 stars for me I know I give a load of 5 star reviews but the books deserve them 

All is not forgotten by wendy walker

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“An assured, powerful novel that blends suspense and rich family drama…it is, in a word, unforgettable.” –William Landay, author of DEFENDING JACOB
Wendy Walker’s All Is Not Forgotten begins in the small, affluent town of Fairview, Connecticut, where everything seems picture perfect.
Until one night when young Jenny Kramer is attacked at a local party. In the hours immediately after, she is given a controversial drug to medically erase her memory of the violent assault. But, in the weeks and months that follow, as she heals from her physical wounds, and with no factual recall of the attack, Jenny struggles with her raging emotional memory. Her father, Tom, becomes obsessed with his inability to find her attacker and seek justice while her mother, Charlotte, struggles to pretend this horrific event did not touch her carefully constructed world.
As Tom and Charlotte seek help for their daughter, the fault lines within their marriage and their close-knit community emerge from the shadows where they have been hidden for years, and the relentless quest to find the monster who invaded their town – or perhaps lives among them – drive this psychological thriller to a shocking and unexpected conclusion.


I was given this book by a friend from slimming world and she said its a good book but took her ages to read this one as she felt she had missed some of the story as it normally takes her a week to finish a book and this one took her a month to read it but is one to persevere as the ending is something you need to read.

Could you read a book that is so graphic and heart breaking that you want to scream at the parents ‘why did you do that for’. Then this is the book for you. Would you do what Jenny’s parent’s did for her after her ordeal or would you get her the help she actually needs. Everyone deals with each situation differently we now this but would you do the same.

Jenny is at a party when she runs out upset cos the lad she likes is with another girl. Little did she now that the worst thing was to happen to her. After her ordeal her parents agree with the doctors to give her medication to help her forget what happened. But Jenny knows something is wrong and is now struggling on how to deal with it and cant understand what and she wonders why her parents are always upset. After Jenny tries to end her life they have to decide what to do.

Could a psychologist help recover her memory or would that cause to much pain for her. Would this help the police catch this monster?
Would it help all her family to come to terms with it themselves?
Would Jenny ever be able to life a normal life afterwards?
But if she new the truth behind the monster maybe she would see that she wasn’t suppose to be there or was she?

Then she was gone by Lisa Jewell


Blurb from amazon.
BESTSELLING PSYCHOLOGICAL SUSPENSE, AND A TOP RICHARD & JUDY SELECTION
OVER 900 5* REVIEWS – this is what readers are saying:
‘Grips to the point of OBSESSION
‘My life STOPPED while I read this book’
‘My heart was THUMPING in my chest’
‘This is EDGE OF YOUR SEAT reading’
‘This book left me BREATHLESS
‘Cancel all plans and BUY THIS BOOK


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She was fifteen, her mother’s golden girl.
She had her whole life ahead of her.
And then, in the blink of an eye, Ellie was gone.
Ten years on, Laurel has never given up hope of finding Ellie. And then she meets a charming and charismatic stranger who sweeps her off her feet.
But what really takes her breath away is when she meets his nine-year-old daughter.
Because his daughter is the image of Ellie.
Now all those unanswered questions that have haunted Laurel come flooding back.

What really happened to Ellie? And who still has secrets to hide?


So when it had been ten years of Ellie disappearance that Laurel had never given up hope that she would have some news one day of her daughter. So could this stranger she’s just met be the answer to what she’s hoping for. 
Laurel has learnt how to cope with Ellie missing even with the split of the marriage with Paul she has learnt how to cope and try her hardest to get on with her life. So in between cleaning her daughters Hanna’s flat and work three days a week just to give her life some meaning. It comes as a shock when she meets Floyd in a cafe and they get talking and find they have thins in common. 
It wasn’t till she met his daughter poppy that it caused her to take deep breaths as poppy looks so much like Ellie and that she has to fight hard not to cry. Floyd then explains that he has two daughters one from a previous relationship she’s called Sara-Jane but likes to be called SJ and then poppy is from another relationship Noelle donnolly which for Laurel gives her a shock as she is sure she has heard that name before.
After a lot of soul searching she found that Noelle use to tutor Ellie before she went missing and is determined to find out why Noelle has not be seen or heard of since dropping poppy off with Floyd.

I loved this book it got me back my mojo of reading again and I thank Lisa for that she certainly knows how to capture your imagination and your heart I was shocked by the ending I wasn’t expecting that myself but I am glad how it ended for laurel and she can finally find peace. 
I will always recommend Lisa’s books to people who are struggling to get back there reading mojo. Its another 5 star book for me and would be in my top favourite books of the year (if I did that of course lol)


5 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟


Missing in Shanghai. By Jean Harrod

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A gripping, fast-paced thriller, set in present-day London and in Shanghai in 1984.
Entrapment, betrayal, and espionage lurk beneath the pages, with an ending you won’t see coming.

Jess Turner is working on the China desk in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. It’s her job to ensure the State visit of the Chinese Premier runs smoothly. But tensions are running high. As work progresses, Jess uncovers shocking, secret events that happened in Shanghai in 1984. A British Ambassador died, and another diplomat, Marianne Henderson, went missing in the city and has never been seen again. Not only that, all evidence Marianne ever existed vanished with her. When Jess starts asking questions, she is warned off. But she is caught up in a chain of events she has no power to control. As she digs in the past to find out what happened to Marianne, Jess finds herself in grave danger.

I was asked directly by Jean if I would like to review her third book seeing as I did a brilliant job reviewing her second book deadly deceit which  I have enjoyed by jean.
My thoughts on this book is it does grab you from the very first page and makes you want to carry on until there is no more pages to read.
How does jean come up with these brilliant stories I don’t know but her writing style is one I cant get enough off. For me this is going to be one of them books what would go on the list of best reads in 2018 (if I did that of course).
So lets get to the story and ill try and not give anything away so jess turner is working in china on the foreign and commonwealth desk and it is her job to see the state visit runs smoothly.
But with the tension running high with the work progresses jess is floored when someone mentioned the previous employer who use to do jess’s job and with nothing on the database of her disappearance jess is determined to find out what has happened to Marianne. Jess is shocked on how its all was hushed up and no trace is found in the foreign office regarding Marianne only that she was the presidents assistant and was the only one around when he was found dead.
I did think I knew who it was halfway through the book and to my delight I was but wasn’t expecting that and who had helped as well this is one book where you don’t have to read the first two books as this one just grabs you from the page all the way to the last and leaving you wanting more all the time.