Katherine Faulkner Reads From Greenwich Park
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Greenwich Park by Katherine Faulkner is published by Raven Books, out now, HB £12.99| eBook £9.09 | Audio £12.99
Helen has it all… Daniel is the perfect husband. Rory is the perfect brother. Serena is the perfect sister-in-law. And Rachel? Rachel is the perfect nightmare.
When Helen, finally pregnant after years of tragedy, attends her first antenatal class, she is expecting her loving architect husband to arrive soon after, along with her confident, charming brother Rory and his pregnant wife, the effortlessly beautiful Serena.
What she is not expecting is Rachel.
Extroverted, brash, unsettling single mother-to-be Rachel, who just wants to be Helen’s friend. Who just wants to get know Helen and her friends and her family.
The Cut by Chris Brookmyre (Little, Brown, £18.99) Millicent Spark is a world-weary septuagenarian newly released from prison after serving 25 years for murder. She may have her freedom yet feels far from free. Then, just when Millicent is ready to give up on life, she meets Jerome Kelly, a Glasgow film student with a chequered background. The chance sighting of a photograph from 1994 hanging in a hotel corridor sends them down a rabbit hole as the duo uncover startling new information about someone from Millicent s past and shed new light on a life-altering night. The Cut harks back to the razor wit and black humour of Brookmyre s novels All Fun And Games Until Somebody Loses An Eye and Attack Of The Unsinkable Rubber Ducks. Top marks too for the author s encyclopaedic knowledge of cult horror films and obscure death metal bands.
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Greg Fleming reviews The Shape of Darkness, by Laura Purcell
5 Feb, 2021 11:00 PM
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By: Greg Fleming
Reviewed by Greg Fleming Laura Purcell has made a name for herself writing entertaining historical mysteries that are well researched and intricately plotted, without sacrificing a thriller s narrative drive.
Additionally Purcell scatters through her stories period-specific trends and beliefs. An earlier novel, The Corset, explored the practice of phrenology – the erroneous belief popular in the 19th century that a person s entire character could be read in the shape of their skull.
Here, she focuses on another little-remembered practice – making her lead protagonist Agnes Darken a struggling silhouette artist (prior to the advent of photography, silhouette profiles cut from black card were a popular way of recording a person s appearance). The novel also explores the fringe science of mesmerism and forms of spiritualism which were popular
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As we type in these details about the latest crime novels to hit the shelves, Britain is at the eye of storm Christoph, the world faces a pandemic and in America the political seesaw has just tipped back with a jolt. What happens next? Well, one thing’s for sure, we’re going to keep on reading crime novels and our lead book has a biblical title relating to eyes suggesting that vengeance is on the way as British crime author Carol Wyer introduces a new character – DI Kate Young.
We’ll also introduce you to two international debut authors on the form of Femi Kayode and Eloisa Diaz, who are both using crime fiction to shed light on issues in their home countries – Nigeria and Argentina, respectively – in unique ways. Plus, we feature a debut from David Fennell and the latest psychological thriller by Valerie Keogh.