No one knew they were together. Now one of them is dead. 56 DAYS AGOCiara and Oliver meet in a Dublin supermarket queue, just as COVID-19 begins creeping across Ireland….
The Better Mother – Jennifer Van De Kleut
A woman ends up pregnant after a casual fling, but the father’s girlfriend has much more sinister intentions in this plot-driven suspense debut. A modern spin on Fatal Attraction meets The Hand that…
Blog Tour – Dead Heat – Sabine Durrant
Former journalist Matt Grimshaw’s life is at a low ebb. He’s been ‘let go’ by the paper where he’s worked for years, and his relationship with his long-term girlfriend has…
A Quickie with…. Vaseem Khan
I am thrilled to have a quickie with my lovely, super busy, super talented mate Vaseem Khan. Vaseem Khan is a British writer, author of the Baby Ganesh Detective Agency…
Top Ten Books of 2025
Another year, another chance to look back at the books I’ve read or listened to. Some I’ve loved, some have made me cry, some have made me question my own…
Dear Darling – Ella King
He is going to prove he loved me. I am going to prove he ruined me. For those who loved My Dark Vanessa and Three Women, DEAR DARLING is a bold, beautiful and unflinching…
A Quickie with….. Araminta Hall
It’s Friday, which means it’s time for Series 2, episode 3 of A Quickie with….. and this week the lovely Araminta Hall is chatting about her new book. Araminta lives…
Adrift – Will Dean
Three of them adrift on the narrowboat.Mother, son, and wickedness. Peggy Jenkins and her teenage son, Samson, live on a remote stretch of canal in the Midlands. She is a…
A Quickie with….. Clare Mackintosh
Welcome back to Series 2, episode 2 of A Quickie with…. This week I had the pleasure of chatting to Clare Mackintosh, the author of one of my “all time…
A Quickie with….. John Marrs
It’s time to restart one of my favourite features on Compulsive Readers which I started in 2018. So, welcome back to “A Quickie with..” where I will be chatting to…